Hollywood goodfella: Western New York Mob’s Greatest Hits

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Western New York Mob's Greatest Hits Jan 24th 2013, 14:37 John Cammilleri, 63, of Cornwall Ave., Town of Tonawanda, shot to death outside the Roseland Restaurant on Rhode Island St., the night of May 8, 1974. By Mike Hudson Hit. Clipped. Whacked. Iced. Bumped off, knocked off, burned, done up, popped, put on the spot, rubbed out or sent to sleep with the fishes. Murder as standard operating procedure was once so common among the gangsters of Western New York and elsewhere that they developed more ways of referring to it in their speech than Arabs did of camels in theirs. And for all of those sent to that great clam house in the sky, we salute you. Mob hits are the centerpieces of any book or movie about the life, and we here on the Niagara Frontier are blessed with a bountiful legacy of imaginative, vibrant, and exciting executions that still give us a reason to smile or simply shake our heads over a plate of antipasto or bowl of macaroni and red gravy all these years later. Who can forget, for example, the botched job performed by future don Tony Papalia and Dominic Pugliese on Stefano Magaddino's nemesis and Hamilton, Ont., crime kingpin Rocco Perri one sultry night in August, 1930?  Read Rest Here on Niagra Falls reporter   Media files: af11 John Cammilleri, 63, of Cornwall Ave., Town of Tonawanda, shot to death outside the Roseland Restaurant on Rhode Island St., the night of May 8, 1974.

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