Bobby the Jew. The Greaseball. Tommy Sneakers. Little Nicky. Jackie the Nose. One Eye. Johnny Red Rose. These are some of the wiseguy names listed in a racketeering indictment filed today in New York District Court in Brooklyn. & They are members and associates of the Gambino crime family, the second most powerful mafia family in the United States (the most powerful is the Genovese family). & The list of charges is murder, narcotics distribution, robbery, extortion, loansharking and other nasty mafia behavior. &
These boys may be bad, but how about those names? & Good stuff. & Charles Carneglia is known as "Charlie Canig." & Can't you just hear it roll off a Brooklyn-accented tongue? & Joseph Corozzo has a couple of different names, as do many of them, but his are moody in nature. & Corozzo is both "JoJo" (happy, fun, the kind of guy you want to whack a stoolie with) and "Miserable" (which really cuts to the chase). & Who gets the nickname Miserable?
It's a fun list, giving you a little window into a real-life Sopranos world.
