Michael DiLeonardo part 2
Gangland Wire
Gary Jenkins
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This is a re-release of an interview I did last year but it must be listened to again or maybe for the first time. I was able to make contact with Mikey Scars DiLeonardo via telephone. This is a the second of a two part re-release of my first interview. Michael is a relocated federal witness in WitSec or Witness Protection. Mikey Scars is a Mafia legacy because his Sicilian-born grandfather, Vincenzo DiLeonardo, was a captain in the Brooklyn faction run by Salvatore D'Aquila who was the boss of bosses at that time.
Mikey Scars
Michael DiLeonardo grew up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn with many other future members of the New York Five Families. He got the nickname of Mikey Scars because a dog took a large chunk out of his check leaving a scar. Michael's father nor his uncles became associated with the Mafia but his brother, Robert DiLeonardo was part of the Colombo crime family until he was murdered on the orders of the Cosa Nostra.
Michael DiLeonardo and the Sammy the Bull Gravano
Michael DiLeonardo knew Sammy the Bull for many years during his life in the Gambino family. he went into the construction business and found that was where Gravano focused most of his attention. Gravano presided over his mob induction ceremony and they both have ended up in the Witness protection. Cammy the Bull has gone outside the program after he took a hit for selling narcotics. He now has a podcast. We learn that Mikey Scars was left twisting in the wind by the Gotti family when he went into prison. They would pick up money from DiLeonardo's business and not take anything to his wife while he was incarcerated. he told them that he would get out one day but nobody seemed to help.
Mickey Scars on Turning Government Witness
Folks, this is one of the most interesting and revealing interviews I have ever done. If you want to get a peek behind the curtain of life in the Cosa Nostra in New York City, listen to Michael DiLeonardo's interview. Mikey Scars describes his grueling decision to abandon every rule and ethic that he held as a made man when he turned witness. He felt the mob left him no choice in this matter after the way the family disrespected him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, all you wiretappers out there, the next two episodes are actually a re-release of one I released last March, |
| 0:08.1 | and it was so long that I decided to cut it up into two parts. Now, I wanted to get it in at the same time as the |
| 0:15.6 | John Panisi show, because they just seem to go together. A little story behind that is I put the John Panisi show video of it up on my YouTube |
| 0:25.3 | and it went crazy, man. |
| 0:26.9 | I was getting all kinds of new subscribers. |
| 0:29.6 | At the same time, I was on Adam Flower Show, Coffee with Kulata, or the Mobblog, I think |
| 0:36.6 | they call it now. and he gave me some |
| 0:39.8 | amping up in the YouTube category particularly and so I decided to try this I put this |
| 0:49.1 | interview of Michael Mikey Scars de Leonardo on YouTube and I just put a still image on it so then I can make it |
| 0:55.4 | into a video. He can't put just an audio up on YouTube. That went crazy also. I tell you what, |
| 1:00.5 | you ought to go in there and look at all the comments and stuff. It's wild, man. It's wild. |
| 1:06.6 | I knew it was a good one at the time, but I was so busy. I didn't pump it up. I didn't do much to promote it. |
| 1:12.8 | COVID-19 had just arrived. |
| 1:14.7 | That was last March. |
| 1:15.9 | So I just recorded it. |
| 1:17.6 | I knew it was good. |
| 1:18.6 | He had some really great information. |
| 1:20.3 | I put it up. |
| 1:21.8 | I think you may want to give it to listen if you haven't listening to it or you want to give |
| 1:25.9 | it a re-listen because this is great this guy he |
| 1:29.5 | tells about the real life of a mafia member and including a graphic description of his induction |
| 1:34.8 | ceremony with john goddy junior who was made at the same time you know and and sammy the bull |
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