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• JERSEY’S TE-LIFE TONY SOPRANO: MEET THE DECAVALNTE CRIME FAY‘IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE US?’GAY BOSS, SICILIAN RECS, FBI BUGS. MICHAEL DALY ON THE PRIMORDIAL CREW BEHD HBO’S BELOVED MAFSI.MICHAEL DALYSPECIAL CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 10:30PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 21, 2013 4:45AM EDT BETTMANN/CORBISTHE NIGHTMAR AND PANIC ATTACKS SUFFERED BY TONY SOPRANO AS PLAYED BY JAM GANDOLFI SEEMED THENTIC ENOUGH TO ANYBODY WHO HAD LISTENED TO THE FBI RERDGS OF A REAL-LIFE NEW JERSEY MOB BOSS THE 1960S. SIMONE DECAVALNTE WAS THE BOSS OF THE CRIME FAY THAT BORE HIS NAME AND A FBI BUG RERD HIS EVERY WORD TO HIS SECRETARY WHEN HE ARRIVED AT HIS OFFICE ONE MORNG 1964.“I HAD A TERRIBLE DREAM… ABOUT A BUNCH OF PS!” HE EXCLAIMED, ADDG THAT THE SECRETARY HAD FEATURED . “YOU WERE SCREAMG… YOU HAD PEARLS ON… EVERYTHG WAS SO SCREWED UP… MARY [HIS WIFE] WOKE ME UP…SOMETHG ABOUT PEARLS… I DON’T REMEMBER.”THE BUG ALSO RERD THE THEN-52-YEAR-OLD DECAVALNTE BEG ROBTLY TIMATE WH THE SECRETARY. HER HBAND LLED THE OFFICE AND DECAVALNTE CHATTED WH HIM WHILE PERDILLY MUFFLG THE PHONE AND MUTTERG ENURAGG ENARMENTS TO HER. WHEN THE TRANSCRIPTS WERE UNSEALED URT, BEME APPARENT THAT THE AFFAIR WH SECRETARY WAS JT ONE OF MANY LIAISONS. THE WIFE, MARY DECAVALNTE, REMAED REMARKABLE RTRAED WHEN A REPORTER SHOWED UP AT HER HOME PRCETON TOWNSHIP. SHE OPENED THE ONT DOOR AND SPOKE OVER THE YAPPG OF HER SCHNZER.“IF YOU DON’T MD, I’D RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT ,” SHE SAID. “I DON’T MD YOUR ASKG, BUT I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE MY FEELGS.”UNRBOSS FRANK MAJURI WAS RERD TELLG SIMONE DECAVALNTE THAT HE “SHOULDN’T N AROUND BEE CATENA AND GAMBO DON’T.” MAJURI MEANT GERARDO CATENA OF THE GENOVE FAY AND CARLO GAMBO OF THE FAY OF THAT NAME. THE GENOVE AND THE GAMBO FAI WERE AND ARE AMONG THE FIVE NEW YORK FAI, THE IVY LEAGUE OF THE MAFIA. THEY OPERATE THE REALM MA MYTHIC BY THE GODFATHER AND THEIR BOSS ARE FIGUR OF LEGEND. DECAVALNTE WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BE NSIRED THEIR EQUAL.“THEY DON’T REGNIZE MORE THAN FIVE FAI,” A LAW-ENFORCEMENT EXPERT NOT. “THAT’S .”NEVER MD THAT DECAVALNTE HAD TRANSFORMED A BUNCH OF EVER-WARRG FACTNS TO AN IMMENSELY PROFABLE OPERATN. HE HAD RECENTLY DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF MA MEMBERS AND HE WAS TAKG FULL ADVANTAGE OF HIS NATIVE STATE’S REMARKABLE PROPENSY FOR RPTN AT ALL LEVELS OF ERNMENT.DECAVALNTE N BE HEARD ON THE RERDGS EXPRSG SOME BTERNS WHEN JOE COLOMBO OF THE COLOMBO CRIME FAY WAS APPOTED TO THE LG COMMISSN AT CARLO GAMBO’S URGG. DECAVALNTE HAD HOPED THAT HE HIMSELF MIGHT GET THE HONOR AND MAKE HIS A SIXTH FAY. “[COLOMBO] SS LIKE A BABY NEXT TO CARL [GAMBO] ALL THE TIME,” DECAVALNTE SAID. “HE’LL DO ANYTHG CARL WANTS HIM TO DO.”DECAVALNTE WENT ON TO SAY, “SOMETIM, FRANK, THE MORE THGS YOU SEE, THE MORE DISILLNED YOU BEE. YOU KNOW, HONTY AND HONORABILY, THOSE THGS.”MAJURI REPLIED, “YEAH. IF YOU’RE A REAL HONT GUY, YOU WD UP [A] HUNCHBACK WH HEADACH.”A FEELG THAT HE HAD NOT RECEIVED HIS DUE RPECT MAY HAVE ADD TO DECAVALNTE’S DISLIKE FOR THE NICKNAM “SAM THE PLUMBER” (HE OWNED A HEATG AND PLUMBG PANY) AND THE “CLAW” (HE MA SURE TO LLECT EVERY UR PENNY LOAN SHARKG). HE PREFERRED “THE COUNT.” (HE TOLD PEOPLE HIS FATHER HAD BEEN AN ITALIAN MARQUIS.)WHATEVER THE TTH OF HIS LEAGE, DECAVALNTE DID HAVE A CERTA URTLY TOUCH WHEN HE SETTLED DISPUT OR HELPED A YOUNGER MAFSO THROUGH A ROUGH PATCH HIS MARRIAGE. DECAVALNTE ALWAYS PAID A GOOD PRICE WHEN PERSUADG JUDG AND POLICIANS AND PS TO SELL THEIR SOULS. HE SOUND LIKE ANY WORRIED FATHER WHEN HE ETTED ALOUD ABOUT HIS THREE SONS.BUT, HE ULD TURN STANTLY SAVAGE WHEN HIS THORY WAS CHALLENGED. HE WAS RERD TELLG MAJURI OF GOG WH FELLOW MOBSTER GAETANO “CORKY” VASTOLA TO VIS SOMEONE WHO HAD FAILED TO E FOR A CHAT WHEN SUMMONED.“BA-BOOM! CORKY H HIM,” DECAVALNTE SAID. “I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA FLY THOUGH THE WALL. THEN HE H HIM ANOTHER ONE. HE STARTED HOLLERG. ‘HELP, HELP.’ I TOLD HIM, ‘NOW DO YOU UNRSTAND WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY I WANT TO SEE YOU?’ [HE REPLIED] ‘Y, I’LL DO ANYTHG YOU SAY.’”DECAVALNTE ADD TO MAJURI, “YOU KNOW, I WORK ONE WAY, AND THAT’S THE RIGHT ONE. SAYG A THG AND DOG ARE TWO DIFFERENT THGS.”HE CLARED THAT THIS THG OF OURS AND OUR FRIENDS WERE THE SAME, WHETHER BE AMONG THE FIVE FAI OF NEW YORK OR HIS FAY NEW JERSEY.“COSA NOSTRA IS COSA NOSTRA,” HE CLARED. “AN AMI NOSTRO IS AN AMI NOSTRO.”BEG THAT HE WAS RERD SAYG THIS, DID LTLE TO IMPROVE HIS STATURE ON THE OTHER SI OF THE HUDSON. IT ALSO HELPED SEND HIM TO PRISON. HE RETIRED TO FLORIDA UPON HIS RELEASE.THE NEW BOSS WAS GVANNI “JOHN THE EAGLE” RIGGI. HE LAND PRISON AFTER SEEKG TO CURRY FAVOR WH JOHN GOTTI BY ARRANGG THE MURR OF A FORMER NEWSPAPER EDOR TURNED TOXIC-WASTE DUMPER AND POTENTIAL RMANT. RIGGI’S HOPE TO PUT THE DECAVALNTE FAY “BACK ON THE MAP” WH THE KILLG WAS DASHED WHEN BEME KNOWN THAT WHEN STEALG LICENSE PLAT TO PUT ON A GETAWAY R, ONE OF THE H SQUAD HAD ADVERTENTLY CHOSEN THE PLAT OF A VEHICLE BELONGG TO THE WIFE OF A WELL-KNOWN MOBSTER. THE PLATE NUMBER WAS WRTEN DOWN BY A WNS WHO SAW THE HMAN TOSSG THE GUNS A STREAM.“I’M SORRY, I HOPE EVERYBODY DON’T BLAME ME,” AN RMANT WOULD QUOTE THE HAPLS HMAN SAYG BEFORE HE HIMSELF WAS H.GIAO “JAKE” AMARI BEME THE ACTG BOSS AND THUMBED HIS NOSE AT THE FIVE FAI BY RECG NEW MEMBERS NEW YORK AND OPERATG A SOCIAL CLUB LTLE ITALY. HE WAS THEN SUMMONED TO A S-DOWN WHERE HE AGREED TO WHDRAW. HE SOON AFTER DIED OF STOMACH NCER.RIGGI PLACED THE FAY UNR THE DAY-TO-DAY DIRECTN OF A LG PANEL HEAD BY VASTOLA, WHOSE VAR ACTIVI RANGED OM SHAKG DOWN DICE GAM TO PROMOTG NCERTS BY RAY CHARL AND ARETHA FRANKL. HE ALSO RAN ROULETTE RERDS AND GOLFED ON OCSN WH SAMMY DAVIS, JR.VASTOLA THEN LAND PRISON AND JOHN D’AMATO BEME ACTG BOSS UNTIL THE GIRLIEND HE SHARED WH ANOTHER MOBSTER REVEALED THAT HE WAS BISEXUAL. RIGGI IS SAID TO HAVE GIVEN THE GO-AHEAD OM PRISON FOR A KILLER NAMED ANTHONY CAPO TO DISPATCH D’AMATO.“NOBODY’S GOG TO RPECT IF WE HAVE A GAY HOMOSEXUAL BOSS STG DOWN DISCSG LA COSA NOSTRA BS,” CAPO LATER TTIFIED.THE KILLG WAS ONE OF A LANY OF MURRS AND OTHER CRIM LISTED A RACKETEERG DICTMENT MA POSSIBLE BY AN RMANT WHO HAD BEEN ASSISTG THE FBI FOR A . MORE THAN 30 MEMBERS AND ASSOCIAT OF THE FAY WERE ARRTED. ONE OF THEM CID TO OPERATE AND A DOZEN MORE WERE GRABBED. RIGGI WAS H WH ANOTHER 10 YEARS JT AS HE WAS ABOUT TO BE EED.BY 2005, NEARLY 50 PEOPLE NNECTED WH THE DECAVALNTE FAY WERE BEHD BARS. THE VNTED FIVE FAI WERE FARG EVEN WORSE, TO THE POT OF VIRTUAL EXTCTN. AND THEY WERE NOW FDG THEMSELV OVERSHADOWED BY A TV SHOW ABOUT A NEW JERSEY CRIME FAY MOLED AFTER THE DECAVALNTE FAY.IN FACT, THE SHOW’S REMARKABLE SUCCS ULD BE ATTRIBUTED PART TO NOT BEG THE REALM OF THE GODFATHER AND THE FIVE FAI. THE OPENG SEQUENCE OF THE FIRST EPISO 1999 MA CLEAR THAT THIS WAS NEW JERSEY. AND TONY SOPRANO WAS NOT A MICHAEL CORLEONE. HE WAS A KNOCKAROUND JERSEY GUY RISG TO POWER THE FICTNAL DIMEO FAY, FOUND BY ERLE DIMEO, WHO HAD BEEN SENT TO PRISON JT LIKE SIMONE DECAVALNTE. THE DIMEO FAY HAD THEN BEEN TAKEN OVER BY JACKIE APRILE, WHO DI OF NCER JT LIKE JAKE AMARI. THE MEMBERS CLU VO SPATAFORE, WHO IS KILLED AFTER BE KNOWN HE IS GAY, JT AS JOHN D’AMATO WAS KILLED.BY STEPPG OUTSI MYTH, THE SHOW BROUGHT THE EXPECTATN THAT WOULD BE SOMETHG NEW AND THENTIC. AND THENTIC WAS, ALMOST AS IF THE FBI HAD JT KEPT RERDG AFTER DECAVALNTE’S ATH 1997 AND ON THROUGH AMARI’S ATH AND TO THE PRENT DAY. THE SCENE WHERE THE FBI BREAKS TO TONY’S BASEMENT TO PLANT A BUG WAS SO REALISTIC THAT AN AGENT WHO HAPPENED TO ENUNTER TWO OF THE SHOW’S HEAD WRERS AT THE BUFFALO CLUB SANTA MONI ASKED WHERE THEY GOT THEIR RMATN. THE WRERS JT LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND SAID NOTHG.AROUND THE END OF THE FIRST SEASON, AN ACTUAL FBI ELECTRONIC VICE RRIED BY AN RMANT RERD MEMBERS OF THE DECAVALNTE FAY CHATTG ABOUT THE SHOW AS THEY DROVE TO A S-DOWN.“HEY, WHAT’S THIS F—-G THG, SOPRANOS?” JOSEPH “T EAR” SCLAFANI ASKED. “IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE ?”THE THUGS HAD JT BEEN BEMOANG THE NTUED LACK OF RPECT THEY RECEIVED OM THE FIVE FAI. BUT THAT WAS FOTTEN AS ANTHONY ROTONDO RHAPSODIZED ABOUT THE SOPRANOS. “WHAT CHARACTERS,” ROTONDO SAID. “GREAT ACTG.”AS THE SOPRANOS, THE DECAVALNTE FAY RECED A NEW ARRIVAL OM SICILY. FRANCIS “FRANK” GUARRACI HAILED OM SIMONE DECAVALNTE’S ANCTRAL HOMETOWN OF RIBERA. GUARRACI IS SAID BY THE FBI TO HAVE BEEN DUCTED BY RIGGI PLACE OF THE HMAN WHO SCREWED UP WH THE LICENSE PLAT AND OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN NEXT TO BE MA. GUARRACI ALLEGEDLY ROSE TO ACTG BOSS AS HE NTUED TO WORK AS A FOREMAN WH A LABORER’S UNN. HE HUNG OUT AT THE RIBERA SOCIAL CLUB ELIZABETH, REMAG SO LOW-KEY THAT EVEN SOME MEMBERS OF THE FAY WERE UNAWARE OF HIS ALLEGED POSN. HIS OTHER ADVANTAGE OVER THE MORE HIGH-PROFILE FAI NEW YORK WAS THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT NEW JERSEY IS MORE AGMENTED AND LS ZEALO.IF GUARRACI IS ED AN ACTG BOSS, SEEMS HE IS THE ONLY ONE STILL OUT THERE BEG A GANGSTER A LA THE FICTNAL TONY SOPRANO, AT HOWEVER SMALL A SLE. THE BOSS OF THE FIVE FAI ON THE OTHER SI OF THE HUDSON RIVER WERE BY HIDG AND PRETENDG THEY WERE NOT CHARGE OF ANYTHG WHEN GUARRACI STRO RIGHT TO LENNY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA WASHGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. AUGT 2010 AND ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS TAKG OVER THE BS.“I N THE SHOW,” THE ENSUG DICTMENT QUOT GUARRACI SCREAMG WHEN THE GENERAL MANAGER BALKED AT TURNG OVER THE RECEIPTS.THE DICTMENT REPORTS THAT GUARRACI THEN FIRED THE GENERAL MANAGER.“WHICH DIRECTIVE G.M. IGNORED AND THEN NTUED WORKG,” THE DICTMENT NOT.GUARRACI AND A MAN WHO WOULD BE ARRTED WH HIM BEME MORE SISTENT AND THREATENG.“TWO OF THE RTRANT’S WARS, YOUNG WOMEN THEIR LATE TEENS, BEGAN TO CRY,” THE DICTMENT SAYS. “SEVERAL CTOMERS BEME ALARMED AND EXED THE RTRANT, WHOUT PAYG THEIR BILLS. AT LEAST ONE CTOMER LLED 911 SEEKG POLICE ASSISTANCE.”GUARRACI PLEAD GUILTY AND JANUARY 2012 GOT OFF WH SIX MONTHS OF HOME NFEMENT, FOLLOWED BY FIVE YEARS’ PROBATN. HE IS BELIEVED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO REMA THE BOSS, EVEN THOUGH RIGGI WAS RELEASED NOVEMBER 2012, AFTER 22 YEARS PRISON. HE IS NOW 87.GUARRACI IS 54. HE IS SAID BY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO REMA A BOSS WHO MAY OUTLAST THEM ALL THE FIVE FAI FOR THE SAME REASON THAT HELPED MAKE THE SOPRANOS SUCH A H.JERSEY IS STILL JERSEY.BUT GUARRACI AND DECAVALNTE AND THE OTHERS OF THAT CRIME FAY ARE JT CRIMALS. THE PEOPLE NEW JERSEY WHO ARE REALLY WORTH ADMIRG ARE PEOPLE SUCH AS THE ACTUAL FAY THAT GAVE THE ACTOR WHO SUMMONED THEIR EXAMPLE OF HARD, HONT WORK AS HE SO BRILLIANTLY PLAYED THE FICTNAL GANGSTER TONY SOPRANO.JAM GANDOLFI’S PARENTS ME EMIGRATED OM ITALY TO NEW JERSEY. HIS FATHER, JAM, SR., RECEIVED A PURPLE HEART DURG WORLD WAR II AND WORKED AS A MASON AND THEN AS A HIGH-SCHOOL CTODIAN. HIS MOTHER, SANTA, WORKED AS A HIGH SCHOOL FETERIA CHEF. THEIR REWARD WAS TO SEE THEIR SON ENTER RUTGERS.AFTER LLEGE, THE SON DISVERED HIS LLG. HE BEME A BOSS OF ACTG AS HE PLAYED AN ACTG BOSS. MICHAEL DALY
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JERSEY’S TE-LIFE TONY SOPRANO: MEET THE DECAVALNTE CRIME FAY‘IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE US?’GAY BOSS, SICILIAN RECS, FBI BUGS. MICHAEL DALY ON THE PRIMORDIAL CREW BEHD HBO’S BELOVED MAFSI.MICHAEL DALYSPECIAL CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 11, 2017 10:30PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUN. 21, 2013 4:45AM EDT BETTMANN/CORBISTHE NIGHTMAR AND PANIC ATTACKS SUFFERED BY TONY SOPRANO AS PLAYED BY JAM GANDOLFI SEEMED THENTIC ENOUGH TO ANYBODY WHO HAD LISTENED TO THE FBI RERDGS OF A REAL-LIFE NEW JERSEY MOB BOSS THE 1960S. SIMONE DECAVALNTE WAS THE BOSS OF THE CRIME FAY THAT BORE HIS NAME AND A FBI BUG RERD HIS EVERY WORD TO HIS SECRETARY WHEN HE ARRIVED AT HIS OFFICE ONE MORNG 1964.“I HAD A TERRIBLE DREAM… ABOUT A BUNCH OF PS!” HE EXCLAIMED, ADDG THAT THE SECRETARY HAD FEATURED . “YOU WERE SCREAMG… YOU HAD PEARLS ON… EVERYTHG WAS SO SCREWED UP… MARY [HIS WIFE] WOKE ME UP…SOMETHG ABOUT PEARLS… I DON’T REMEMBER.”THE BUG ALSO RERD THE THEN-52-YEAR-OLD DECAVALNTE BEG ROBTLY TIMATE WH THE SECRETARY. HER HBAND LLED THE OFFICE AND DECAVALNTE CHATTED WH HIM WHILE PERDILLY MUFFLG THE PHONE AND MUTTERG ENURAGG ENARMENTS TO HER. WHEN THE TRANSCRIPTS WERE UNSEALED URT, BEME APPARENT THAT THE AFFAIR WH SECRETARY WAS JT ONE OF MANY LIAISONS. THE WIFE, MARY DECAVALNTE, REMAED REMARKABLE RTRAED WHEN A REPORTER SHOWED UP AT HER HOME PRCETON TOWNSHIP. SHE OPENED THE ONT DOOR AND SPOKE OVER THE YAPPG OF HER SCHNZER.“IF YOU DON’T MD, I’D RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT ,” SHE SAID. “I DON’T MD YOUR ASKG, BUT I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE MY FEELGS.”UNRBOSS FRANK MAJURI WAS RERD TELLG SIMONE DECAVALNTE THAT HE “SHOULDN’T N AROUND BEE CATENA AND GAMBO DON’T.” MAJURI MEANT GERARDO CATENA OF THE GENOVE FAY AND CARLO GAMBO OF THE FAY OF THAT NAME. THE GENOVE AND THE GAMBO FAI WERE AND ARE AMONG THE FIVE NEW YORK FAI, THE IVY LEAGUE OF THE MAFIA. THEY OPERATE THE REALM MA MYTHIC BY THE GODFATHER AND THEIR BOSS ARE FIGUR OF LEGEND. DECAVALNTE WOULD HAVE LOVED TO BE NSIRED THEIR EQUAL.“THEY DON’T REGNIZE MORE THAN FIVE FAI,” A LAW-ENFORCEMENT EXPERT NOT. “THAT’S .”NEVER MD THAT DECAVALNTE HAD TRANSFORMED A BUNCH OF EVER-WARRG FACTNS TO AN IMMENSELY PROFABLE OPERATN. HE HAD RECENTLY DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF MA MEMBERS AND HE WAS TAKG FULL ADVANTAGE OF HIS NATIVE STATE’S REMARKABLE PROPENSY FOR RPTN AT ALL LEVELS OF ERNMENT.DECAVALNTE N BE HEARD ON THE RERDGS EXPRSG SOME BTERNS WHEN JOE COLOMBO OF THE COLOMBO CRIME FAY WAS APPOTED TO THE LG COMMISSN AT CARLO GAMBO’S URGG. DECAVALNTE HAD HOPED THAT HE HIMSELF MIGHT GET THE HONOR AND MAKE HIS A SIXTH FAY. “[COLOMBO] SS LIKE A BABY NEXT TO CARL [GAMBO] ALL THE TIME,” DECAVALNTE SAID. “HE’LL DO ANYTHG CARL WANTS HIM TO DO.”DECAVALNTE WENT ON TO SAY, “SOMETIM, FRANK, THE MORE THGS YOU SEE, THE MORE DISILLNED YOU BEE. YOU KNOW, HONTY AND HONORABILY, THOSE THGS.”MAJURI REPLIED, “YEAH. IF YOU’RE A REAL HONT GUY, YOU WD UP [A] HUNCHBACK WH HEADACH.”A FEELG THAT HE HAD NOT RECEIVED HIS DUE RPECT MAY HAVE ADD TO DECAVALNTE’S DISLIKE FOR THE NICKNAM “SAM THE PLUMBER” (HE OWNED A HEATG AND PLUMBG PANY) AND THE “CLAW” (HE MA SURE TO LLECT EVERY UR PENNY LOAN SHARKG). HE PREFERRED “THE COUNT.” (HE TOLD PEOPLE HIS FATHER HAD BEEN AN ITALIAN MARQUIS.)WHATEVER THE TTH OF HIS LEAGE, DECAVALNTE DID HAVE A CERTA URTLY TOUCH WHEN HE SETTLED DISPUT OR HELPED A YOUNGER MAFSO THROUGH A ROUGH PATCH HIS MARRIAGE. DECAVALNTE ALWAYS PAID A GOOD PRICE WHEN PERSUADG JUDG AND POLICIANS AND PS TO SELL THEIR SOULS. HE SOUND LIKE ANY WORRIED FATHER WHEN HE ETTED ALOUD ABOUT HIS THREE SONS.BUT, HE ULD TURN STANTLY SAVAGE WHEN HIS THORY WAS CHALLENGED. HE WAS RERD TELLG MAJURI OF GOG WH FELLOW MOBSTER GAETANO “CORKY” VASTOLA TO VIS SOMEONE WHO HAD FAILED TO E FOR A CHAT WHEN SUMMONED.“BA-BOOM! CORKY H HIM,” DECAVALNTE SAID. “I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA FLY THOUGH THE WALL. THEN HE H HIM ANOTHER ONE. HE STARTED HOLLERG. ‘HELP, HELP.’ I TOLD HIM, ‘NOW DO YOU UNRSTAND WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY I WANT TO SEE YOU?’ [HE REPLIED] ‘Y, I’LL DO ANYTHG YOU SAY.’”DECAVALNTE ADD TO MAJURI, “YOU KNOW, I WORK ONE WAY, AND THAT’S THE RIGHT ONE. SAYG A THG AND DOG ARE TWO DIFFERENT THGS.”HE CLARED THAT THIS THG OF OURS AND OUR FRIENDS WERE THE SAME, WHETHER BE AMONG THE FIVE FAI OF NEW YORK OR HIS FAY NEW JERSEY.“COSA NOSTRA IS COSA NOSTRA,” HE CLARED. “AN AMI NOSTRO IS AN AMI NOSTRO.”BEG THAT HE WAS RERD SAYG THIS, DID LTLE TO IMPROVE HIS STATURE ON THE OTHER SI OF THE HUDSON. IT ALSO HELPED SEND HIM TO PRISON. HE RETIRED TO FLORIDA UPON HIS RELEASE.THE NEW BOSS WAS GVANNI “JOHN THE EAGLE” RIGGI. HE LAND PRISON AFTER SEEKG TO CURRY FAVOR WH JOHN GOTTI BY ARRANGG THE MURR OF A FORMER NEWSPAPER EDOR TURNED TOXIC-WASTE DUMPER AND POTENTIAL RMANT. RIGGI’S HOPE TO PUT THE DECAVALNTE FAY “BACK ON THE MAP” WH THE KILLG WAS DASHED WHEN BEME KNOWN THAT WHEN STEALG LICENSE PLAT TO PUT ON A GETAWAY R, ONE OF THE H SQUAD HAD ADVERTENTLY CHOSEN THE PLAT OF A VEHICLE BELONGG TO THE WIFE OF A WELL-KNOWN MOBSTER. THE PLATE NUMBER WAS WRTEN DOWN BY A WNS WHO SAW THE HMAN TOSSG THE GUNS A STREAM.“I’M SORRY, I HOPE EVERYBODY DON’T BLAME ME,” AN RMANT WOULD QUOTE THE HAPLS HMAN SAYG BEFORE HE HIMSELF WAS H.GIAO “JAKE” AMARI BEME THE ACTG BOSS AND THUMBED HIS NOSE AT THE FIVE FAI BY RECG NEW MEMBERS NEW YORK AND OPERATG A SOCIAL CLUB LTLE ITALY. HE WAS THEN SUMMONED TO A S-DOWN WHERE HE AGREED TO WHDRAW. HE SOON AFTER DIED OF STOMACH NCER.RIGGI PLACED THE FAY UNR THE DAY-TO-DAY DIRECTN OF A LG PANEL HEAD BY VASTOLA, WHOSE VAR ACTIVI RANGED OM SHAKG DOWN DICE GAM TO PROMOTG NCERTS BY RAY CHARL AND ARETHA FRANKL. HE ALSO RAN ROULETTE RERDS AND GOLFED ON OCSN WH SAMMY DAVIS, JR.VASTOLA THEN LAND PRISON AND JOHN D’AMATO BEME ACTG BOSS UNTIL THE GIRLIEND HE SHARED WH ANOTHER MOBSTER REVEALED THAT HE WAS BISEXUAL. RIGGI IS SAID TO HAVE GIVEN THE GO-AHEAD OM PRISON FOR A KILLER NAMED ANTHONY CAPO TO DISPATCH D’AMATO.“NOBODY’S GOG TO RPECT IF WE HAVE A GAY HOMOSEXUAL BOSS STG DOWN DISCSG LA COSA NOSTRA BS,” CAPO LATER TTIFIED.THE KILLG WAS ONE OF A LANY OF MURRS AND OTHER CRIM LISTED A RACKETEERG DICTMENT MA POSSIBLE BY AN RMANT WHO HAD BEEN ASSISTG THE FBI FOR A . MORE THAN 30 MEMBERS AND ASSOCIAT OF THE FAY WERE ARRTED. ONE OF THEM CID TO OPERATE AND A DOZEN MORE WERE GRABBED. RIGGI WAS H WH ANOTHER 10 YEARS JT AS HE WAS ABOUT TO BE EED.BY 2005, NEARLY 50 PEOPLE NNECTED WH THE DECAVALNTE FAY WERE BEHD BARS. THE VNTED FIVE FAI WERE FARG EVEN WORSE, TO THE POT OF VIRTUAL EXTCTN. AND THEY WERE NOW FDG THEMSELV OVERSHADOWED BY A TV SHOW ABOUT A NEW JERSEY CRIME FAY MOLED AFTER THE DECAVALNTE FAY.IN FACT, THE SHOW’S REMARKABLE SUCCS ULD BE ATTRIBUTED PART TO NOT BEG THE REALM OF THE GODFATHER AND THE FIVE FAI. THE OPENG SEQUENCE OF THE FIRST EPISO 1999 MA CLEAR THAT THIS WAS NEW JERSEY. AND TONY SOPRANO WAS NOT A MICHAEL CORLEONE. HE WAS A KNOCKAROUND JERSEY GUY RISG TO POWER THE FICTNAL DIMEO FAY, FOUND BY ERLE DIMEO, WHO HAD BEEN SENT TO PRISON JT LIKE SIMONE DECAVALNTE. THE DIMEO FAY HAD THEN BEEN TAKEN OVER BY JACKIE APRILE, WHO DI OF NCER JT LIKE JAKE AMARI. THE MEMBERS CLU VO SPATAFORE, WHO IS KILLED AFTER BE KNOWN HE IS GAY, JT AS JOHN D’AMATO WAS KILLED.BY STEPPG OUTSI MYTH, THE SHOW BROUGHT THE EXPECTATN THAT WOULD BE SOMETHG NEW AND THENTIC. AND THENTIC WAS, ALMOST AS IF THE FBI HAD JT KEPT RERDG AFTER DECAVALNTE’S ATH 1997 AND ON THROUGH AMARI’S ATH AND TO THE PRENT DAY. THE SCENE WHERE THE FBI BREAKS TO TONY’S BASEMENT TO PLANT A BUG WAS SO REALISTIC THAT AN AGENT WHO HAPPENED TO ENUNTER TWO OF THE SHOW’S HEAD WRERS AT THE BUFFALO CLUB SANTA MONI ASKED WHERE THEY GOT THEIR RMATN. THE WRERS JT LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND SAID NOTHG.AROUND THE END OF THE FIRST SEASON, AN ACTUAL FBI ELECTRONIC VICE RRIED BY AN RMANT RERD MEMBERS OF THE DECAVALNTE FAY CHATTG ABOUT THE SHOW AS THEY DROVE TO A S-DOWN.“HEY, WHAT’S THIS F—-G THG, SOPRANOS?” JOSEPH “T EAR” SCLAFANI ASKED. “IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE ?”THE THUGS HAD JT BEEN BEMOANG THE NTUED LACK OF RPECT THEY RECEIVED OM THE FIVE FAI. BUT THAT WAS FOTTEN AS ANTHONY ROTONDO RHAPSODIZED ABOUT THE SOPRANOS. “WHAT CHARACTERS,” ROTONDO SAID. “GREAT ACTG.”AS THE SOPRANOS, THE DECAVALNTE FAY RECED A NEW ARRIVAL OM SICILY. FRANCIS “FRANK” GUARRACI HAILED OM SIMONE DECAVALNTE’S ANCTRAL HOMETOWN OF RIBERA. GUARRACI IS SAID BY THE FBI TO HAVE BEEN DUCTED BY RIGGI PLACE OF THE HMAN WHO SCREWED UP WH THE LICENSE PLAT AND OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN NEXT TO BE MA. GUARRACI ALLEGEDLY ROSE TO ACTG BOSS AS HE NTUED TO WORK AS A FOREMAN WH A LABORER’S UNN. HE HUNG OUT AT THE RIBERA SOCIAL CLUB ELIZABETH, REMAG SO LOW-KEY THAT EVEN SOME MEMBERS OF THE FAY WERE UNAWARE OF HIS ALLEGED POSN. HIS OTHER ADVANTAGE OVER THE MORE HIGH-PROFILE FAI NEW YORK WAS THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT NEW JERSEY IS MORE AGMENTED AND LS ZEALO.IF GUARRACI IS ED AN ACTG BOSS, SEEMS HE IS THE ONLY ONE STILL OUT THERE BEG A GANGSTER A LA THE FICTNAL TONY SOPRANO, AT HOWEVER SMALL A SLE. THE BOSS OF THE FIVE FAI ON THE OTHER SI OF THE HUDSON RIVER WERE BY HIDG AND PRETENDG THEY WERE NOT CHARGE OF ANYTHG WHEN GUARRACI STRO RIGHT TO LENNY’S BRICK OVEN PIZZA WASHGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. AUGT 2010 AND ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS TAKG OVER THE BS.“I N THE SHOW,” THE ENSUG DICTMENT QUOT GUARRACI SCREAMG WHEN THE GENERAL MANAGER BALKED AT TURNG OVER THE RECEIPTS.THE DICTMENT REPORTS THAT GUARRACI THEN FIRED THE GENERAL MANAGER.“WHICH DIRECTIVE G.M. IGNORED AND THEN NTUED WORKG,” THE DICTMENT NOT.GUARRACI AND A MAN WHO WOULD BE ARRTED WH HIM BEME MORE SISTENT AND THREATENG.“TWO OF THE RTRANT’S WARS, YOUNG WOMEN THEIR LATE TEENS, BEGAN TO CRY,” THE DICTMENT SAYS. “SEVERAL CTOMERS BEME ALARMED AND EXED THE RTRANT, WHOUT PAYG THEIR BILLS. AT LEAST ONE CTOMER LLED 911 SEEKG POLICE ASSISTANCE.”GUARRACI PLEAD GUILTY AND JANUARY 2012 GOT OFF WH SIX MONTHS OF HOME NFEMENT, FOLLOWED BY FIVE YEARS’ PROBATN. HE IS BELIEVED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO REMA THE BOSS, EVEN THOUGH RIGGI WAS RELEASED NOVEMBER 2012, AFTER 22 YEARS PRISON. HE IS NOW 87.GUARRACI IS 54. HE IS SAID BY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO REMA A BOSS WHO MAY OUTLAST THEM ALL THE FIVE FAI FOR THE SAME REASON THAT HELPED MAKE THE SOPRANOS SUCH A H.JERSEY IS STILL JERSEY.BUT GUARRACI AND DECAVALNTE AND THE OTHERS OF THAT CRIME FAY ARE JT CRIMALS. THE PEOPLE NEW JERSEY WHO ARE REALLY WORTH ADMIRG ARE PEOPLE SUCH AS THE ACTUAL FAY THAT GAVE THE ACTOR WHO SUMMONED THEIR EXAMPLE OF HARD, HONT WORK AS HE SO BRILLIANTLY PLAYED THE FICTNAL GANGSTER TONY SOPRANO.JAM GANDOLFI’S PARENTS ME EMIGRATED OM ITALY TO NEW JERSEY. HIS FATHER, JAM, SR., RECEIVED A PURPLE HEART DURG WORLD WAR II AND WORKED AS A MASON AND THEN AS A HIGH-SCHOOL CTODIAN. HIS MOTHER, SANTA, WORKED AS A HIGH SCHOOL FETERIA CHEF. THEIR REWARD WAS TO SEE THEIR SON ENTER RUTGERS.AFTER LLEGE, THE SON DISVERED HIS LLG. HE BEME A BOSS OF ACTG AS HE PLAYED AN ACTG BOSS. MICHAEL DALY

“Nobody’s gog to rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg La Cosa Nostra bs, ” Capo later killg was one of a lany of murrs and other crim listed a racketeerg dictment ma possible by an rmant who had been assistg the FBI for a . The members clu Vo Spatafore, who is killed after be known he is gay, jt as John D’Amato was steppg outsi myth, the show brought the expectatn that would be somethg new and thentic. The boss of the mafia fay on which the Sopranos seri is believed to be based was executed by one of his own soldiers bee he was gay and they feared that if news got out the fay would be ridiculed by the rt of the unrworld, a Manhattan urt has been told.

"Nobody's gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg La Cosa Nostra bs, " an rmer told the urt on "Johnny Boy" D'Amato, head of the DeCavalnte fay, the biggt the state of New Jersey, was shot ad 1992 after was moured that he was havg relatnships wh other a DeCavalnte soldier, Anthony Capo, heard the tale om D'Amato's girliend he was credibly angry. "She told me John D'Amato and her were gog to sex clubs the cy, swappg partners and John was engagg homosexual activy, " he told the urt. As D'Amato sat the back of the r, Capo turned and shot him twice, and when he ntued to move, twice mafia culture there is a strict taboo agast homosexualy.

If they are gay then they would have to keep credibly quiet. “A gay homosexual boss”.

MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'

Beg gay wasn’t somethg that was acceptable the Mafia. As Capo himself said: “Nobody's gog to rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg La Cosa Nostra bs. Fearg they would be the lghgstock of New York's unrworld, a mafia turnat ttified urt Wednday that he killed his mob boss bee he engaged gay sex.

MOB BOSS 'H' OVER GAY ENUNTERS

"Nobody's gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss stg down discsg La Cosa Nostra bs, " Capo told jurors Manhattan feral urt. The Post reports Capo was shocked and disbelief when D'Amatos' girliend nfsed to him that his boss was gay. "She told me John D'Amato and her were gog to sex clubs the cy, swappg partners and John was engagg homosexual activy, " he said.

Gannasli had read a book about a gay mobster who was an associate of New York’s Gambo crime fay. Gambo associate Vo Arena had survived as a gay mobster the ’80s. There’s a mobster who’s gay and you don’t really see that.

THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE

Though Green sound terted, Gannasli didn’t hear anythg more about until the murr of a gay Jersey mobster splashed across headl. A gay Jersey mobster’s murr ma ‘Sopranos’ wrers rensir. Durg the trial of Jersey mobsters, a DeCavalnte soldier scribed murrg DeCavalnte boss Johnny Boy D’Amato for beg gay.