Bonanno soldier Daniel (Dirty Danny) Mongelli is one of the few wiseguys to pay for his life of crime instead of squealing to feds.
Bonanno mobsters Daniel (Dirty Danny) Mongelli, and Capo Robert (Little Robert) Lino, are among the few wiseguys who would rather pay penance in prison for a life in the mob, when they could flip to feds, like the battalion of Bonanno rats, and other”made members”of the New York Mafia Families who joined ‘Team America”. Read what Michael Daly, for NY daily news has to say.
Mob families are so infested with rats these days it’s a wonder there isn’t ear-piercing feedback from all the recording devices.
One Colombo captain, Anthony (Big Anthony) Russo, was taped in December pledging to track down a rat and “chop his head off” only to turn into Tiny Tony and start eating cheese the minute he was pinched.
Now, we have a Genovese associate-turned-informant named Joe Barone crying about the FBI dumping him for getting involved in a murder-for-hire case with an NYPD informant.
Rats ratting out rats!
It’s almost enough to make you admire the standup guys, if there are any left.
Guys like Daniel (Dirty Danny) Mongelli and Robert (Little Robert) Lino. Both are 44 – relatively young in the real mobster world.
Both were charged with murder after Bonanno underboss Sal Vitale turned rat, just before Bonanno boss Joe Massino turned rat.
Little Robert stood tall even when facing 27 years because he was what his lawyer terms “a true believer.” Too bad what he truly believes in is a collection of sociopaths.
Lino kept with tradition and steadfastly refused to admit to being in the Mafia even as he pleaded guilty to being a hit man. Read the rest Click here: Mobsters such as ‘Dirty Danny’ and ‘Little Robert’ take their punishment like (made) men
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