Court papers: Gotti neighbor was dissolved in acid

Yep. Mob violence goes back a long, long way in this country. "Gangs of New York" is based on real events, too.

 

That's because Carlo Gambino installed fear and respect into those that came across him. Gotti was a blood thirsty lunatic, who only got to the top by popping Paul Castellano before Castellano could kill him.

 

Casino for the most part is based on true events as well, including the scene where they beat Joe Pesci's character half to death and dump him and his brother in a cornfield. The real-life guy apparently brought too much heat to Vegas because of stupid s__t he was doing.

 

A question worth asking:

The answer would be a glass barrel, of course. Unless hydrofluoric acid were used, which dissolves glass. Maybe a polyethylene barrel?

Another question: What kind of acid, period? Most industrial acids (even battery acid) would burn you if you didn't wash immediately, but to dissolve you completely would probably take more time than a simple boat trip off Montauk with a chain and a cinder block.

The urban legend force is strong with this one.

 

Yeah. Not saying I'd do, or melt the dude in acid.. but yeah, i'd want to. I didn't know that about myself until I had a kid.

 

I Sammy the Bull's version, a tearful John Gotti told his vengeful crew not to harm the neighbor. So Sammy and another guy went out and disposed of him anyway.

And if you ask the cops, the fact that John Sr. did nothing to prevent John Jr. from getting into the family business was as bad as anything else he'd done to that point.

 

Well, you're dealing with a mobster, so I don't think rules of polite society matter a whole hill of beans.

 

Either you're a chemist, or you're a guy whose child I do not want to hit accidentally with my car.

 

Here is my question: why wouldn't you move?

If I accidentally killed a neighbor kid with my car, I would move within 30 days, even if the kid's dad was just an assistant manager at Target (to say nothing of being a mobster). I don't want to drive past their house every day and re-live my guilt at taking their son. They don't want to have me around as a reminder that their son is gone. So move away and work on some healing.

 

You ever try selling your house with a mob boss living next door?

 

That would be Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, a sociopathic waste of sperm who was sent to Vegas to oversee the Chicago Outfit's casino interests in general and the Stardust specifically.

Vegas was considered an "open city," meaning any of the nation's crime families could set up shop there without retribution. Through much of the 50s to the mid-80s, you had various crime families running skimming operations in casinos such as the Stardust, the Tropicana, the Marina and the Desert Inn.

Under that open city dictum, the violence was supposed to stay out of Vegas because it's bad for business if bodies start turning up on the Strip.

Well, Spilotro being the homicidal sociopath that he was, not long after he arrived, bodies started turning up and stuff started disappearing, since Spilotro started his own burglary ring as an extracurricular activity.

This, naturally, brought increased interest from the Feds, who had started sniffing around on rumors of skimming operations beforehand. By the mid-80s, they had enough evidence to take the case to trial in cases called "Strawman" and "Strawman II."

The result: a lot of mob bosses and their chief underlings in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee were sent away for long stretches. The KC mob was virtually eviscerated.

After sleeping with Lefty Rosenthal/Robert DeNiro's wife and wreaking other forms of havoc in Vegas, Spilotro was summoned back to Chicago, where he and his brother were taken on a one-way ride to that Indiana cornfield, beaten halfway to death, then buried alive.

 

No, no, no, you got that all wrong.

Spilotro was tired of the business and wanted to go legitimate. He has plenty of things lined up and will be just fine. [/Drip]