Taking Gangster life to sleepy Suffolk part 1: How my wife can now rival Al Capone and John Gotti
MOBSTERS have handed out some intriguing names to their associates. There are the obvious ones like Scarface, which was attached to the most well-known of all the gangsters, Chicago's Al Capone (above, centre, with the Mayor of Havana and another 'pal'), while Bugsy, Machine Gun and Far Tony are others that spring to mind. That last one, a real-life Genovese crime family boss Anthony Salerno, inspired the fictional mobster in The Simpsons. John Gotti's ability to slip through
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Run
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