By Dennis N. Griffin
What do you do while the legislation wishes you at the back of bars and the hot York crime households wish you buried? Surviving the Mob is a cautionary story of the cruel truth of a felony, inmate, fugitive, and witness who—so far—has lived to inform the story.
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We stole almost every night, doing drop-offs for neighborhood car shops and junk yards. We filled orders for DeMeo crew members too. ” Testa ran a used-car dealership, Patty Testa’s Motor Car Service, and several of the vehicles they stole for him ended up on his lot with altered Vehicle Identification Numbers. Testa made a lot of money in the car business, both legal and illegal. “But when I got involved with Patty, the DeMeo crew was on its way out. Most of them were already under indictment.
Stripping a car meant we took most of the parts, but the car could still be driven. We usually took the wheels and tires and replaced them with what we called baloney [used] tires, so we could move the car around. Chopping a car meant we took everything; there was nothing left. ” Like good entrepreneurs, Andrew and Anthony invested some of their earnings to expand their business. “We rented garages to dismantle cars and store inventory. For the parts business, we bought work trucks to make deliveries.
After that, Andrew started spending more time with Mikey Y and some other guys in Corozzo’s crew. Even though he wasn’t part of them yet, they did a lot of stealing and some other things. They all made money, some of which went to Nicky. A couple of months later in early 1983, Andrew met Nicky in person. At that time Nicky hadn’t been made an official capo yet. He was an acting capo. Nicky and his friend Leonard DiMaria ran the crew together as co-captains. Andrew already knew Lenny. He’d taken his daughter to the high-school prom and hung around with his nephew.
