You watched the movie. I waited for the signal to pull the trigger. You know the name Russell Bufalino. You saw Joe Pesci play him in The Irishman. You saw him order the hit on Jimmy Hoffa. To the world, he’s cinema history. To The Secret Seven, he was just the guy trying to break…
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COMING SOON: ONE MAN CRIME SPREETHE BOOK “Most of what follows is true… The rest is just how I remember it.” In the dying days of the American Mob, there was a “neutral zone”—Erie, Pennsylvania. It sat about 100 miles from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo. It was a sanctuary city for thieves, hitmen, and safecrackers…
Rogues Gallery Jimmy “JR” Russell: The Mentor “If you’re gonna do it, you’re gonna do it right.” The man who started it all. A legend in Lackawanna and Erie, JR was an original “OG” who spent 27 of his 57 years in prison because he refused to rat. He was a chess master in a…