By Fred Pascente, Sam Reaves
Mob Cop details the decline of traditional geared up crime within the usa, and divulges information regarding the internal workings of the Outfit that hasn't ever been publicly published. Fred Pascente’s colorful tales of crooked law enforcement officials and dangerous criminals make his memoir a matchless tell-all.
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He made a fortune. And Poopsie was a good-hearted guy. He was never a kinky guy. But he hung with us. We had a great time. There were always sports. And there were dice games, card games. One time we were playing brisco in the gas station near our house. We had made our own card table; we had a light rigged up. And we looked up and saw one of our friends, a guy named Freddy, in the middle of the street, and there was a black guy with a knife. And they were squaring off to fight. “What the . ” I went running over there, and on the run I hit this guy, badda-bing.
My uncle had a seven-unit apartment building with a grocery store on the first floor. We took one flat, and he gave my mother, out of the goodness of his heart, part of his store, which we turned into a sandwich shop, like a small restaurant. She probably only had four tables. And it thrived—she had good food, my grandmother and she worked there, we worked there as kids, and all the guys used to come hang out there. She’d make spaghetti for you. She always had sauce. And she had at her disposal the grocery store.
They must have got him at close range with a shotgun. Gone. That’s a traumatic thing for a kid. I ran, I told my mother. My mother took me in and locked the door. I’m a kid, but I remember thinking, “What is she locking the door for? It’s over with. ” The article was accompanied by a photo of the victim’s wife and daughter and quoted the wife as saying she and her husband had taken their daughter to a movie on the night of his death. Pellegrino had gone out near midnight to buy cigarettes and had never come back.
