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(The Daily Beast)   Italian mob boss arrested after posing as pizza maker for 17 years. Leave the gun; take the pepperoni   (thedailybeast.com) divider line
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born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 9:12:43 PM  
If he actually made pizzas for 17 years I don't think he was posing.
 
Brynden Rivers
2023-02-03 12:06:21 AM  

born_yesterday: If he actually made pizzas for 17 years I don't think he was posing.


Yeah, the headline made me think he was running a front. "You wanna order a pizza HERE?! Fuhgeddaboutit!!"
 
magneticmushroom [OhFark]
2023-02-03 12:16:26 AM  
But how was the pie?
 
Fano
2023-02-03 12:18:46 AM  
"But you gat onerat..."
 
Dictatorial_Flair
2023-02-03 12:24:06 AM  

born_yesterday: If he actually made pizzas for 17 years I don't think he was posing.


The fact that he named himself after a famous mobster and openly ran a popular restaurant and it still took them 17 years to arrest him is insane.

He practically called it "Shady Sal's Definitely Not a Mob Front Pizza" and it still took them almost two decades. Epic trolling, I guess.
 
Trocadero
2023-02-03 12:39:08 AM  

Dictatorial_Flair: born_yesterday: If he actually made pizzas for 17 years I don't think he was posing.

The fact that he named himself after a famous mobster and openly ran a popular restaurant and it still took them 17 years to arrest him is insane.

He practically called it "Shady Sal's Definitely Not a Mob Front Pizza" and it still took them almost two decades. Epic trolling, I guess.


Maybe the pizza was that damn good. I'm honestly curious now.
 
guinsu
2023-02-03 12:43:17 AM  
He looks like a stereotype of an Italian American mob boss. Even the smirk.
 
The Third Man [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 12:46:51 AM  
Captured in Saint Etienne?  He's in a bad way now!

You're In A Bad Way - Saint Etienne
Youtube 4szHXagmryo
 
Mad-n-FL
2023-02-03 12:49:47 AM  
I always wanted to see "Moonshiner takes the fifth".
 
MsStatement
2023-02-03 12:54:54 AM  
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MythDragon
2023-02-03 1:00:47 AM  
If you have been making pizzas for 17 years, are you still pretendingto make pizzas? Hell, I'd venture to say if you've been making pizzas for a hour, you're no longer posing as a pizza maker....You're just a pizza maker.
 
mr_fulano
2023-02-03 1:02:04 AM  
Life hint: Stay out of the news.
 
Mr. Shabooboo
2023-02-03 1:03:54 AM  

Trocadero: Dictatorial_Flair: born_yesterday: If he actually made pizzas for 17 years I don't think he was posing.

The fact that he named himself after a famous mobster and openly ran a popular restaurant and it still took them 17 years to arrest him is insane.

He practically called it "Shady Sal's Definitely Not a Mob Front Pizza" and it still took them almost two decades. Epic trolling, I guess.

Maybe the pizza was that damn good. I'm honestly curious now.


They probably didn't deliver, only took cash, were open like 4 hours a day and took an hour to make your
pie....He probably had his mom stirring sauce for hours for the two or three pizzas they might make a day...

Both Goodfellas and Casino show these type of "front" businesses for laundering cash..

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(BTW she steals money from the till while her son is complaining about the Casino skim being skimmed!)
 
backhand.slap.of.reason
2023-02-03 1:22:40 AM  
Ego did him in.
 
The All-Powerful Atheismo
2023-02-03 1:24:47 AM  

born_yesterday: If he actually made pizzas for 17 years I don't think he was posing.


They were just really shiatty pizzas
 
blodyholy
2023-02-03 1:39:23 AM  
Is it typical of made men to be referred to as 'clansmen' on that side of the water?

Seems odd when you say it out loud.
 
whither_apophis [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 1:56:36 AM  
Maybe he's a pizza maker with a side gig with the mob. Why is being a mobster always the first thing people think of?
 
MikeyFuccon
2023-02-03 2:00:21 AM  
First rule of going on the run: keep a low farking profile.
 
Stoneur
2023-02-03 2:07:04 AM  
But, but, but whatabout the cannoli?
 
drxym
2023-02-03 3:41:51 AM  
I wonder how they caught him - a tip off, or due to his appearing online. Wouldn't surprise me if police forces capture images from social media & news sites and run it through facial recognition software looking for hits.
 
ltdanman44
2023-02-03 4:48:22 AM  
Who Make-a This Pizza? | The Sopranos
Youtube kAzHGC8IZck
 
dryknife
2023-02-03 5:45:13 AM  
Was it Chicago style pizza?
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-02-03 7:32:25 AM  
RIP, the long-gone European Restaurant in Boston.
 
heywood-jablome
2023-02-03 8:22:11 AM  
The Simpsons - Sopranos Intro Parody
Youtube DxiE8qIokDE

Marge: But you're just perpetuating a negative Italian-American stereotype. I mean, you could be a pizza man, organ grinder, leaning-tower maker, and did I say pizza man?
Fat Tony: You are listing my broken dreams.
 
pueblonative
2023-02-03 8:26:19 AM  
A hit man for the notorious Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia has been arrested working in a pizzeria in France after nearly 17 years on the run.


Police say the first clue was finding more naked men in closets than at CPAC.
 
WilderKWight
2023-02-03 8:57:49 AM  
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backhand.slap.of.reason
2023-02-03 9:13:49 AM  

drxym: I wonder how they caught him - a tip off, or due to his appearing online. Wouldn't surprise me if police forces capture images from social media & news sites and run it through facial recognition software looking for hits.


It's in the article: He was in the news several times, and his alias was the real name of an old, obscure mobster.  I bet a good portion of people that recognized the old mobster's name also recognized this guy's face.
 
Zafler
2023-02-03 11:02:43 AM  

backhand.slap.of.reason: drxym: I wonder how they caught him - a tip off, or due to his appearing online. Wouldn't surprise me if police forces capture images from social media & news sites and run it through facial recognition software looking for hits.

It's in the article: He was in the news several times, and his alias was the real name of an old, obscure mobster.  I bet a good portion of people that recognized the old mobster's name also recognized this guy's face.


Yeah, the article says it's believed that his dumb alias is what clued the cops in.
 
wiredroach
2023-02-04 11:47:24 AM  

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