The Boston Globe, February 11th, 2008
Reading through that 170-page indictment aimed primarily at the Gambino crime family in New York the other day, it was hard not to feel a twinge of nostalgia. Among the 62 wiseguys and wannabes named were such luminaries as John "Johnny Red Rose" Pisano, Thomas "Tommy Sneakers" Cacciopoli, John "Jackie the Nose" D'Amico, and the deliciously named Anthony "Buckwheat" Giammarino. Now, perhaps there is some loanshark in Cleveland called "Stymie," but I'm guessing Giammarino is the only made guy in America named after a black kid on "The Little Rascals." Despite this talk of the Red Sox having exo...
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