His father entered the US illegally while working on the crew of a freighter. He had a reading order dyslexia and did poorly in school. Teachers used to call him a slow learner and the school refused to keep him just before he reached Sammy Gravano joined a prominent street gang in Bensonhurst at the age of He worked as a mess hall cook and after two years he was granted an honorable discharge.
Sammy was initially involved in the hijacking, armed robbery but quickly moved into racketeering and loansharking. This mobster became the favorite of Joe Colombo. He committed his first murder-that of Joseph Colucci in After this murder, this mobster won respect and approval from Carmine Persico.
Afterward, he became an associate of Salvatore Aurello and quickly Aurello became his mob mentor. Gravano took a construction job and claimed to leave criminal life around this time. This underboss desperately needed money to pay his legal bills. After this, he quit his construction job and went on a self-described robbing rampage for a year and a half.
Aurello was impressed by his robbery spree and proposed him for membership in the Gambino family. Later, in , Sammy was initiated as a made man. This mobster opened an after-hours club in Bensonhurst, New York. His construction and other business interests earned him a reputation as a good earner within the Gambino organization. To him it was petty. You have taken life by the horns, and came back home.
Families of The Mafia is a totally different direction. My father is who he is, and he is able to tell his story on this show. Like, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? The way that I grew up in the neighbourhoods and the culture I grew up in, the Mob was looked at like Hollywood movie stars.
So, here were people praising them. You go into certain neighbourhoods and these men are like gods, right? They can do no wrong. So I never looked at my father as a bad guy. I never really sat down to try and understand what he was doing when he was outside of our house.
And for me, I try to live my own life with integrity. Of course, he played a pivotal role in liberated Europe from the Nazis. Or is it never okay to kill? Obviously, The Mafia takes that concept to an extreme, but these are philosophical questions that make you stop in your tracks.
KG: Well, the lines get blurred. All those men take an oath to that lifestyle that they understand. They willingly join that. You agree to kill, and you also understand that you can be killed. The way my father described it is, at one time he was a soldier and went to Vietnam and fought for his country, which he believed in. And when he joined the Mob, he became a soldier in Cosa Nostra, and fought for what he believed in. Does that make it right? Killing is never the answer to anything.
KG: There is that old myth of what witness protection really is. They have their story of their experiences within the program and what they went through. I think that sometimes people just want to come out and tell their story for whatever reason. The business was registered with the state in , before the family members were arrested for running the drug ring. Before their arrests in , Gerard Gravano and his father reportedly were at odds with each other. But father and son have mended fences.
You have always been my rock someone I can always count on to be there for me no matter what. Love you to death. By Erin Laviola. Updated Oct 19, at pm. View this post on Instagram. I allow Heavy. Soon after, she got romantically involved with David Seabrook.
It is not known whether he belonged to a mafia family too, but he is known to have worked for Sammy as well and executed some dirty missions for him. Some reports also suggest that David was convicted for attempt to murder when he was 14 years of age. David and Karen had sizzling chemistry and passionate love. They rushed into a committed relationship and got engaged within a few months of dating.
David even fathered a daughter with Karen in , Karina, who is now 21 years old. There they helped Sammy out with his work.
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