By SARA STEWART, Ny Post
Ex-mobster Louis Ferrante thought he was done with criminals when he got out of federal prison. But when he went to apply for a mortgage, he was shocked.
“They’re all lying to me!” he recalls. “I’m going, what are you, kidding me? I worked with the guys who run the New York underworld. You’re not gonna lie to me. And the suit and tie don’t fool me.”
It occurred to him then that his sharp eye for hucksters, along with the other lessons from his days as a member of the Gambino crime family, might translate to the non-underworld.
The result is his new book, “Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman.” In the book, the 42-year-old Long Islander — who left prison in 2003, and has gone legit ever since — lays out the ways the rules of the Mafia can be applied in pursuit of straight-world success, injecting historical parallels and real-life anecdotes along the way read More Click here: The wiseguy way – NYPOST.com
