Sorry to hear that. But at least you had him for awhile and I'm sure made his short life better.

@Patty Mock Sounds like it's time for a family road trip.

@Curtis Ray Bizelli Fulton, several times. I knew a professor at Westminster College.

He'd be a better Gaspipe 🤪

@Marina Mia Nick's a serious actor for sure, who's played some great roles. He's almost ruined his career by now though, by appearing in so uninspired or just plain bad movies. Just for the money so he can buy real estate.

Crazy Joe Gallo never laid hands on Mr. Neil. On September 21, 1961, Gambino capo Dellacroce was dining at the Luna Restaurant at 112 Mulberry Street in Lower Manhattan, when he was spotted and violently attacked by Profaci Family Gallo faction enforcers, led by Larry "Big Lollipop" Carna. According to accounts, they kicked and beat Dellacroce inside the restaurant unmercifully, and their assault might have been fatal if several Genovese soldati hadn't come in to eat and stepped in to stop the fight. The beef stemmed from Dellacroce having technically breached "Mafia rules" by siding with and advising Don Profaci's lieutenants in their war, prompting the Gallo crew to retaliate against him directly when the opportunity suddenly presented itself. But Carlo Gambino then sagely chose not to take revenge, as under old time LCN tradition, internal conflicts within a Mafia Family are strictly off-limits to other outside families unless they are formally invited to act as peacemakers. Because his caporegime had breached this protocol by interfering in the ongoing Gallo-Profaci war, Don Carlo withheld any reprisal and used the situation instead to reinforce traditional inter-family boundaries, to enhance his own newly found prominence on the Commission now that Vito Genovese was stuck in prison on narcotics charges, and to keep Dellacroce's independent streak in check by reminding him of his own mortality and position within the borgade in the wake of Albert Anastasia and Tommy Rava's untimely deaths. Yet despite the lack of action from the Gambino family, Mr. Neil's beating did not permanently damage his standing within his own Family, as in 1965, Gambino elevated Dellacroce to official Underboss, a powerful position he then held for several decades until his demise. In December 1961, Profaci loyalists ambushed Big Lollipop Carna while he was buying paint in Brooklyn. A speeding car fired nine shots at him and some fellow Gallo muscle, hitting Carna in the foot. He survived the hit and the conflict, eventually rising through the ranks to become a Colombo captain, maintaining a criminal career that spanned more than 30 years.