February 11, 2008
Gambino Informant, Supposedly in Witness Protection, Has Saturday Night Staten Island Sushi Dinner
If your actions helped lead to what many called the biggest mob bust in two decades, would you be showing your face in the five boroughs for the Five Families to see? Well, Joseph Vollaro, who is supposed to be in witness protection, seems to live life to its very edge, as the Post reports he "brashly strolled into a Staten Island sushi restaurant Saturday night," picking up take-out.
Vollaro went to Mizu in Tottenville - which happens to be two stores from Vollaro's wife Trisha's restaurant Docks Clam Bar & Pasta House. The Post suspects Vollaro may have wanted to be close to his pregnant-with-twins wife he left behind. Guardian Angels' co-founder Curtis Sliwa's co-worker happened to be at Mizu at the time and recognized the recent cover boy (a bartender also said it was definitely Vollaro). Sliwa, no stranger to the mob after Junior Gotti allegedly tried to have him killed, says:
"This is what you call cogliones.Trisha Vollaro's family told the Daily News she knew nothing of her husband's ties with the mob. When WCBS 2's Ti-Hua Chang tried to get a comment from Trisha Vollaro, "she got upset and sent two large dogs to the door." However, WCBS 2 did hear from an anonymous source that Vollaro "robbed everybody...he never paid anyone." The source did say that Trisha Vollaro would probably be safe but added, "Her f**king husband is a rat bas****.""This is Staten Island - I could swing a dead cat around my head, and every fifth person I would hit is organized crime.
"That's really rubbing it in their [the mob's] faces.
"This is what you call on the streets 'styling and profiling.'"
Image of the original sushi pillow - you too can sleep with the fishes
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This whole thing is reading like a played out mob movie script. I think I know how this story ends too...it will involve an elevator shaft or a fateful turn of the ignition on a cold winter's morning...
I happened to be visiting my parents on SI on the day of the big bust. The streets were surprisingly empty. No double-parked cars, no white teens dressed like 50 Cent roaming the streets. It was really quite pleasant.
Tired, pathetic stereotypes... the whole lot of them.
Leave the gun, take the sushi.
its absurd to pretend that, in 2008, these wives haven't a clue as to where their money comes from. Ok, so (maybe...) they don't know any incriminating particulars, but they are morally complicit nonetheless, esp if they enjoy the material benefits.
witness protection and in SI?
i thought perhaps montana would be a better place for that.
Real men don't eat sushi or quiche.
Those pillows look delicious.
Now I hate to use words like "dego", "goomba", "guinea" or greaseball" to describe some I-talian-Americans. So I'll use instead the word "undesirables" for those who will be put away for a long time thanks to courageous citizens like Mr Vollaro.
@#6 Maybe this is a cunning plan. Having him in Witness Protection on SI is like hiding a needle in a stack of needles. Vollaro looks like every 3rd guy driving an Escalade on SI. Perfect hiding place.
These people are mostly Sicilians, or of Sicilian decent, not Italians.
Note to Sliwa. Plenty of mobsters in all 5 boroughs.
I'm gonna make him a maki he can't refuse.
while a satire, this describes italian-amercans in new york and new jersey, better than i have ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M
#14 - I hate to tell you this, but a lot of the guys in that video look more Irish-American than Italian-American. And in Brooklyn, there's often not much difference between the two.
Believe it or not some of us greaseballs are educated, and we even speak properly.
Example: coglioni is actually the plural of coglione - there is no "s" ending in Italian like there is in English.
Most Italo-Americans also have the balls to do as we please - like the natives.
But in Vollaro's particular case I think his balls may have gotten too big for his velour track suit.
Was he at Tony and Carmela's favorite place? The one they fantasized about during sex? Is there anything I could type that's more unappetizing?
regardless of their actual nationalities, they're making fun of guido's.