04-12-2011, 05:34 PM
who the fuck wants to be connected to dumb thugs? this isn't THE SOPRANOS. nothing glamorous about that life.
NYPOST
The Battle of the Bonanno family bosses kicked off in Brooklyn Federal Court today.
Former mob boss Joseph "Big Joey" Massino has started testifying against his successor Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano, who’s on trial for ordering the murder of a mob associate.
"He told me that he had him killed," Massino told the jury, describing a conversation about murdered Bonanno associate Randy Pizzolo that the two had in prison while the boss-turned-informant was wearing a wire.
"He said he was a scumbag, a rat, a troublemaker, a bad kid," Massino said of Basciano’s reasons for wanting him dead.
Former mob boss Joseph 'Big Joey' Massino took the stand to testify today.
AP
Former mob boss Joseph "Big Joey" Massino took the stand to testify today.
Randy Pizzolo had been bragging that he was the "only real killer" in the family, prosecutors said.
Pizzolo, a Bonanno crime family associate, was gunned down on an industrial street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 2004. He was shot seven times, with bullets in his lower back, his neck and the back of his head, US Attorney Nicole Argentieri told the jury in her opening remarks.
The jury saw photographs of Pizzolo laying facedown in a puddle of water on the edge of the street. He wore a rhinestone belt buckle with the initials "RP." In his pocket were several rolls of soggy currency - more than $1,000.
Pizzolo was found clutching a cigarette lighter in his right hand. His eyes were still open when the body was found.
"Randy Pizzolo was killed on orders of that man - Vincent Basciano, the former acting boss of the Bonanno crime family," the prosecutor told the jury.
Basciano’s lawyer, George Goltzer, said "The government could not have it more wrong."
"The evidence will show that the order to kill was not given by Vincent Basciano," he said.
vinnie:
NYPOST
The Battle of the Bonanno family bosses kicked off in Brooklyn Federal Court today.
Former mob boss Joseph "Big Joey" Massino has started testifying against his successor Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano, who’s on trial for ordering the murder of a mob associate.
"He told me that he had him killed," Massino told the jury, describing a conversation about murdered Bonanno associate Randy Pizzolo that the two had in prison while the boss-turned-informant was wearing a wire.
"He said he was a scumbag, a rat, a troublemaker, a bad kid," Massino said of Basciano’s reasons for wanting him dead.
Former mob boss Joseph 'Big Joey' Massino took the stand to testify today.
AP
Former mob boss Joseph "Big Joey" Massino took the stand to testify today.
Randy Pizzolo had been bragging that he was the "only real killer" in the family, prosecutors said.
Pizzolo, a Bonanno crime family associate, was gunned down on an industrial street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 2004. He was shot seven times, with bullets in his lower back, his neck and the back of his head, US Attorney Nicole Argentieri told the jury in her opening remarks.
The jury saw photographs of Pizzolo laying facedown in a puddle of water on the edge of the street. He wore a rhinestone belt buckle with the initials "RP." In his pocket were several rolls of soggy currency - more than $1,000.
Pizzolo was found clutching a cigarette lighter in his right hand. His eyes were still open when the body was found.
"Randy Pizzolo was killed on orders of that man - Vincent Basciano, the former acting boss of the Bonanno crime family," the prosecutor told the jury.
Basciano’s lawyer, George Goltzer, said "The government could not have it more wrong."
"The evidence will show that the order to kill was not given by Vincent Basciano," he said.
vinnie: