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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Asphalt & Alleys: The Lay of the Land The Offices, The Battlegrounds, and The Cages. This is the map of “The Life.” The concrete and steel backdrop where it all went down. Erie, Pennsylvania: The Neutral Zone On the surface, it was “quiet little Erie,” just a sleepy waterfront town. But that was the…
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…