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A big day for gangsters

May 12, 2007 8:48PM PDT

and others

Gangster sons honour their moms

Each and every Mother?s Day until he landed behind bars, mobster Jimmy (The Gent) Burke performed a sacrosanct ritual. Burke, the mastermind behind the US$5.8-million Lufthansa heist immortalized in ?Goodfellas,? dropped a few C-notes on dozens of red roses from a Rockaway Boulevard florist. He then toured the homes of his jailed Luchese crime family pals, providing their mothers with a bouquet and a kiss. He never missed a year, or a mom.

Burke?s gesture was no surprise to his fellow hoodlums: Mother?s Day was the most important Sunday on the organized crime calendar, when homicide took a holiday and racketeering gave way to reminiscing ? often over a plate of mom?s pasta and gravy.


Have a good Mothers Day

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That reminds me....
May 13, 2007 2:16AM PDT

.... that even Hitler had one decent idea... "The People's Car".

I have been amazed at the mobsters talking about "family", though quick to rub out any family member that threatens them, real or perceived.

IOW, get rid of them and keep the "family" free of those who are not totally loyal to their "family values". Sad

Angeline
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Not having lived through those times
May 13, 2007 4:12AM PDT

all I have to go on is what I've read. I thought the gangsters went after each other and left the families alone. That was one of the problems with the current gangs is that they don't care who they kill.

Diana

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Even the gangsters honor their mothers in America?
May 13, 2007 10:31PM PDT

That is really an impressive thing! The Americans must place great value on the idea of motherhood.

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I wouldn't be too impressed...
May 13, 2007 10:44PM PDT

by anything I read in the Canadian press eh.

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back in the day when
May 13, 2007 10:55PM PDT

the real gangs (mafia) not these punks today. the mafia respected familial