Gas pipe casso biography of michael
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Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, for the first time, the head of a mob family has granted complete and total tillgång to a journalist. Casso has given New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. This is his shocking story.
From birth, Anthony Casso's mob life was preordained. Michael Casso introduced his young son around South Brooklyn's social clubs, where "men of honor" did business by shaking pinkie-ringed hands—hands equally at home pilfering stolen goods from the Brooklyn docks or gripping the cold steel of a silenced pistol. ung Anthony watched and listened and decided that he would devote his life to crime.
Casso would prove his talent for "earning," concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring into New York vast quantities of c
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Michael Taccetta
American mobster
Michael Taccetta | |
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| Born | Michael Salvatore Taccetta (1947-09-16) September 16, 1947 (age 77) Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Other names | Mad Dog |
| Occupation(s) | Caporegime of the Lucchese crime family Boss of the Jersey Crew |
| Criminal status | Released by NJDOC, 2014 |
| Children | 4 |
| Relatives | Martin "Marty" Taccetta (brother) |
| Allegiance | Lucchese crime family |
| Conviction(s) | Murder, conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, racketeering, loansharking, drug trafficking (1993) |
| Criminal penalty | 25 years' imprisonment (1993) |
Michael Salvatore Taccetta (born September 16, 1947), also known as "Mad Dog," is an American mobster and high-ranking member of the Lucchese crime family, who controlled the family's New Jersey faction in the 1980s.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Taccetta, also known as "Mike T," was born in the Vailsburg neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey on September 16, 1947. This was the same
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