A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right.
My family, my children--my mother can hold her head up in any neighborhood in the city when she walks down the streets. In all the Five Boroughs I'm known, fuggedaboudit--I'm known all over the fuckin world. You ask around--ask anybody about 'Lefty' from Mulberry Street....theyll tell ya.
The names Benjamin Ruggiero, but yous can call me "Lefty" or "Lefty Guns" and im a WISEGUY. Been a fuckin wise guy for thirty years and What have I got? NOTHING, even a fuckin dog's got a warm pieace of the sidewalk, an undercover f.b.i. agent screwed me over. "Donnie Brasco" he called himself. foretaboutit, i took him in, treated him like a son, BETTER than my own son too, and what does he do to thank me? he screws me over! ha! Forgetaboutit!
people tell me being in the mob is like being in the army. Bullshit. The army is some guy you don't know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know. in the mob you wack pricks who screw with buisness. simple as that.
...I got cancer of the prick. Yeh you didn't know about that? I'm in the fuckin' record books for that.
We introduce you as a "friend of mine" that means you a "connected" guy....we introduce you as a "friend of ours" that means you a "made" guy.....
Wiseguy never carries his money in a wallet, he carries it in a roll....
I never hear from my boss until he dies, then my whole life gets turned upside down!
A wiseguy never pays for his drinks.
Wiseguys don't work on Mother's Day.If you get "sent for"...95% of the time it means you gonna get whacked and usually its your best friend that does it....
chain of command is
Boss (Head of the Family)
UnderBoss (Street Boss)
Consigliori (Advisor)
Caporegime (Captain)
Soldiers (Enforcers)
Associates (non-members)
-Benjamin 'lefty' Ruggiero
