If this is a true story Moe didn't really know how to read the room did he. Wouldn't have been a very good bouncer if he can't tell who should be in the club and who shouldn't
Bullshit! When a made man or a Godfather came to a club restaurant bar, everyone knew. Especially the bouncers. Even guess who wasn’t affiliated knew by listening to the whispering. Nice entertaining story though. 😏
The mob genre has been in vogue for quite a while, unfortunately you now have a plethora of opportunists jumping on the bandwagon with their made up crap and their type to speech shit that can't pronounce anything correctly much less punctuate, these arseholes need to come off the internet.
Pardon me for saying so... BUT... Not very insightful for an organized crime investigator...
Not to disrespect what you do, or try to tell you how to do your job...BUT BUT BUT... Let me play Tony Lee (or whatever his name was?) for a minute and offer a nickel's worth of free advice ...
Much like our misguided doorman, one key to survival, in a fiercely competitive dog eat dog environment, is to try to put yourself in the shoes of the principals involved...
Not just that former football player, Gotti too was stuck between a rock and a hard place...
If Gotti had waited in line, after the bouncer put his hand on him, like a good little serf, as you so naively suggested... This too would have been front page news, if not in NYC press, certainly in the underworld where news travels fast... Rivals, in his own inner circle, seeing clear signs of weakness, would have targeted Gotti for elimination...
Let that sink in... cause in the real world, the world some call realpolitik, it's sink or swim, everywhere, all the time...
In other words, once you make your bones, you have a reputation to uphold...Otherwise, you sleep with the fishes...
Capiche?
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Gotti's biggest mistake, and this is what ultimately led to his downfall... was to revel in his own celebrity status, rather than trying to fly beneath the radar... a la Carlos Gambino...
Mob boss Joe Columbo also sought the spotlight, and he was executed, in broad daylight, in front of hundreds of eye witnesses, with TV cameras rolling...
Columbo and Gotti played with fire and got burned...
That's the most salient lesson for those in their 'line' of work...