Fireside With the Underboss - "He Told Chin Gigante To Go F** Himself"

Chin Chigante gets word that one of his own guys is talking bad about him behind his back. Sammy tells us the story of who it was and how Chin took brutal revenge.

Episode Transcript

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So he sent Worried back to killJohnny Digilio. Hey, guys, this

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story is about Ginger Gante, hisGosliah, Bobby Manna, and a real
tough bastard who was in their crew, Johnny Digilio. I knew him.
I met him a couple of times. A real good guy, an ex
fighter, real tough guy with hishands. But he was a tough guy

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all the way around. The FBIused to watch him and monitor him all
the time. He I think hehad a pigeon cool up on the roof.
He hid in the pigeon coup,set up cameras and was filming them
as they were trying to film him. So he would do all kinds of
crazy shit like that. He workedwith guys to beat their cases, do

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all kinds of stunts, rig juries. I mean, he was all around
a tough guy in every way.One time Chin saw him and he had
a baseball hat on a full beardyou're not supposed to have a beard and

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sunglasses, and he was a realrough guy. Chin didn't like the way
he acted. More or less,Chin sent down word to Bobby Manna to
CONSI he was in his crew andtold him to stop fucking around with the

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FBI. Stop doing all this bullshit. You're bringing us heat and shave.
Johnny Digilio told Chin literally not tohis face, but blatantly out so everybody
knew what he said. To gofuck himself. Now, all the stories

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about Chin Gigante, that's the worstguy in the world you could do that
with. And he was the bossof the family. So he sent worried
back to kill Johnny Digilio. JohnnyDigilio, I think got wind of it,

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and he went on the lamb andthey couldn't get him. He loaded
up to get ready to fight back. I went to Atlantic City one day
and I was at a crap tableand there he was, full beard,

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sunglass, baseball cap. I didn'teven recognize him. I never saw him
down that way, that much ofa beard or anything like that. He
says, a kid, what areyou doing? Stop playing fucking craps?
So I turned there, I said, what'd you say? And he says

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me bro Johnny, And my secondglance at him, I know who He
was. Really a great guy,good sense of humor, fun guy.
Somebody canned them to come in obviously, that's what the mafia does. A

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friend made an appointment with him,and the rest of the story you probably
even know without me saying anything.But the only reason I'm going to say
a little bit more is that theyput a guy who was a cop X
cop who hung around with them.I think this is the guy who conned

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him to come in, and theykilled him. They shot him up a
whole bunch of times. They foundhis body. There was a case.
I'm not sure. I don't knowthe guy. I believe his name is
Rikio was his last name. Hegot indicted on the murder and then confessed

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to it that he was the shooter. A lot of people didn't like the
fact about him getting killed period,but being brought in by a cop,
having a cop take part in thismurder really upset them. They didn't like

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it. But dead is dead.There's nothing you could do about it.
You can't change it. Ginger Gantewas ferocious. Nobody was willing to say
something, especially something that would getback to his ears, just what John

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died for. Later on, therewas a lot of stories. I told
the story before about Bobby Manner wasgiven a contract by Chin to kill John
Gotti. I told that story,so I'm not going to tell it again.
So I'm gonna end that story rightthere, but I'm gonna do something

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else. I got a lot ofmessages while I'm doing this that there's that
there's an urn behind me, andasking me who's in it. I never
wanted to talk about it, butI'm gonna tell you what of this.
When I was younger, my grandmotherwas in her eighties, eighty five eighty

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six years old. She was sufferinga lot of pain. She was wheelchair
bound. We would have to takeher upstairs she lived on the second floor,
and then take her out of thewheelchair and carry it down the stairs
and stuff. I really wanted toget her out of this pain. I

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picked her up from the bed,put her in a wheelchair. I brought
her to the head of the stairs, and I threw her down the stairs.
There was no pain. On thefourth bounce, she was out of
pain. So I really felt Idid a good thing for myself, for
her family. But I loved her. I really did. So was it

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a vicious thing. I was justgetting her out of pain. And that's
how behind me in the earth.If you like this story, press like.
If you don't like it, hitthe don't like button twice subscribe And

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we have a fun going for mygrandmother. So every year we put tulips
around her grave. We make itreal nice. You want to send some
money for the old lady, bemy guest Audios. Motherfucker's