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Contents 1 Recent additions 2 LINKS 3 The first Italian American mobster to be executed? 4 Confusing!?!?

[edit] Recent additions

This article looks like it's beyond being a stub now, eh? Krupo 06:43, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] LINKS

Does it really need to have a link to things like hand?? Kinda a bit overboard on the links. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.28.229.74 (talk • contribs).

The Feds should have juiced the bastard! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.112.242.121 (talk • contribs).

[edit] The first Italian American mobster to be executed?

[Quote] "a first for a mob boss and for an Italian member of American organized crime. However, that was not to be."

Is it just me reading it wrong. Massino would not have been the first Italian or Italian American in organized crime to be executed would he? Take Louis Capone the Murder, Inc. hitman for example, and Frank Abbandando. --Alexbonaro 13:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

...or the Black Handers such as Rosario Borgio or Rocco Racco. MadMax 10:16, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confusing!?!?

In October of 2004, the FBI began to dig up bodies at an infamous mob graveyard in Queens known as "The Hole". They were looking for the bodies of three capos killed in a Bonanno civil war in the 70's. They also hoped to find the bodies of Gotti victims, including John Favara, who killed John Gotti's son in a terrible accident, as well as Tommy DeSimone, who was murdered for killing a Gotti crew member (as depicted in the film 'Goodfellas'), Alphonse Indelicato (the father of Anthony Indelicato who Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano requested Donnie Brasco kill in the movie of the same name), Giaconne and Trinchera, as well as Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano who was killed following the Donnie Brasco trial (as featured in the film), and who had killed Tommy DeSimone (as depicted in the film 'Goodfellas'), Indelicato (featured in Donnie Brasco), Giaconne and Trinchera. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.182.147.30 (talk • contribs).

Does that mean that Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano killed Tommy Desimone???? User:Dmattt 20:57, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

• The answer to that is the person who wrote it was saying these were "Gotti victims" (most of which weren't unless you count the killers among the buriers), and that Tommy DeSimone was killed by Gotti's people, which the story is he was. So it was just a bad paragraph, badly worded and some of the things mentioned it that I noted below are outlandish.

Giaconne and Trinchera, as well as Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano who was killed following the Donnie Brasco trial (as featured in the film),

How can they hope to find the bodies of Giaccone, Trinchera, and Napolitano when they had already found all three bodies two decades earlier. Giaccone and Trinchera were found in the same lot back in 1981 not long after the murders and Napolitano was found in a bodybag on Staten Island in 1982. Where did this information come from? Pluto or Mars? By the way, in an above paragraph above that ludicrous paragraph it had already said, correctly, that Napolitano had been found with his hands cut off years earlier. I think somebody vandalised that quoted paragraph above that began with "In October of 2004, the FBI began to dig up bodies . . . ."

Also--a small note--Massino didn't tell Vitale, "John set this thing of ours back a hundred years." He actually said, "John set us back one hundred years." Somebody threw in "this thing of ours" to make it sound more official, I suppose. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.182.147.30 (talk • contribs).

• In response to above: Giaccone and Trinchera were NOT found back in 1981 shortly after the murders. Indelicato was, and while the other two were buried in the same lot near his corpse, they were not discovered until information provided by Joseph Massino in 2004 led to the FBI re-excavating the site. This is documented in a number of sources, Anthony DeStefano's "The Last Don" being the most recent. Dugrad 09:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)