How did Mikey Scars get his nickname?

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews Michael DiLeonardo and learns about his early history and how he got his famous nickname, Mikey Scars. Michael DiLeonardo, aka Mikey Scars, was a made man in the Gambino crime family. He was made by the Underboss, Sam the Bull Gravano. On the night that Mikey Scars was inducted into the Family, John Gotti Jr. was also inducted. John Gotti Sr. was now the boss after he had Paul Castellano murdered, so he thought it looked bad if he inducted his own son. I’m not sure who he thought he was fooling by having Gravano conduct this ceremony, but who knows the mind of a mobster? Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here. Please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Well, hey, all you wiretapers out there.
0:03.4	You know, I'm working really hard on that Sammy the Bull script and research about how,
0:10.3	what happened out in Arizona.
0:12.4	I just can't believe that he copped a plea and took that much time on the best I can find
0:20.0	as one or two or like a few minutes on a wiretap. There's more to this story.
0:26.8	Anyhow, I've been working real hard on that. I just want to throw this out there. It's a clip from
0:32.6	my Michael D. Leonardo interview. I don't know, a year or so ago, two years ago, year and a half ago,
0:39.2	I thought it was really interesting where he talks about his youth, his growing up, how he got
0:44.9	his nickname about the Lacostas and how it developed now.
0:51.1	Some people were part of that and a legacy of that and and what he saw in
0:55.6	the neighborhood kind of his uh take on that and i just think it's really interesting view from him
1:02.6	i think it's worth re-showing again or retelling uh putting that back out there any i appreciate all you guys
1:08.6	you know i just got 5,000 subscribers on my YouTube
1:11.2	channel and and the audio is going good so we just we're just going to keep going I have a lot of
1:17.2	people that say hey you should have more subscribers you know I probably have just exactly what I'm
1:21.6	supposed to have success might might go to my head I might get arrogant about this thing. But anyhow, I'm having fun.
1:29.4	That's the main thing is I'm having fun. You know, I had 25 years on the police department. I had
1:34.7	fun the whole time, except maybe a few times every now and then, but mainly it was fun. So thanks like
1:40.6	guys and enjoy Michael D. Leonardo, a real deal mom guy.
1:45.6	My family goes back, I'm Sicilian, and my family goes back a couple hundred years,
1:51.3	being involved in the Mafia, or Kosovo, or another time called Fratna Zella.
1:57.0	They had different terms for what they called each other years ago,
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