On this date in 1959, Anthony "Little Augie Pisano" Carfano got rubbed out. Carfano, a Capo in the Genevose (formerly Luciano) crime family, had made the mistake of getting on the bad side of boss Vito Genevose. As if one fatal mistake wasn't enough, rumor has it that Carfano was making a play for Meyer Lansky's gambling action in Cuba. What was he thinking? Two strikes, and he was out. Hey, this ain't baseball, kids. In this kind of hardball, one strike is enough.
Carfano was found dead in his car in Queens, shot twice. Also killed was Janice Drake, a former Miss New Jersey and the wife of comedian Alan Drake. She had made her own fatal mistake: going to dinner with the man who had pissed off two of the country's most dangerous mobsters.
Further Reading:
Wikipedia: Anthony Carfano
Rick Porello's AmericanMafia.com: Colletti & Drake: Women In the Wrong Place At the Wrong Time
truTV: The Tragic Death of Janice Drake
History.com: This Day in History: Little Augie Pisano is murdered
Find a Grave: Janice Drake
4 comments:
Nice car ...
Charlie,
True, but the interior is in need of a scrub down.
You need to post the "review" of that 4th down today at the Bills-Patsies game. Now that was a crime! The guys knees were clearly down ... but the NFL sides with the big markets and Ms. Brady. Geez, we would've scored, made the two and whipped them in overtime ... Now the best we can do is 13-3 ... what a deal.
Sorry, Charlie, I can't review what I didn't see. Not only did I miss that game, I haven't watched an entire football game in over 25 years. Ditto baseball. As a general rule, if my kids aren't playing in a particular sporting event, you can be sure I'm not watching. There are two exceptions: mixed martial arts (I don't really follow the players, but I do enjoy watching the techniques employed) and women's beach volleyball (where I don't give a shit about the technique, but I do follow the players, if you know what I mean).
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