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Slack.com slash DHQ. New York, 1970. I'm now a member of the Colombo family. I'm an associate.

On one day I get a message from Shorty, Spiro. Orders come from the top and members carry

these orders out. I get an order one day, car mine, post-to-go in, probably from the

boss himself. When you break the rules, you can die. It was a member of our crew. And

I understood, basically, I was asked to kill. For the first time ever, Sammy the Bull

Gervano tells his story. This is our thing. The Rampers in Benzenhurst, Brooklyn, 1959.

When I was young, early in my life, 13, 14 years old maybe, I'm in a gang. There was different

gangs in those days everywhere. Black gangs, Puerto Rican gangs, you name it. A friend

of mine called me not too long ago and was talking about it. He said, Sammy, you remember

when we went in and we were taking the initiation, you would get beatings, slapped, you fucking

bitch, punched, kicked. I mean, sometimes real good beatings. Your mouth was fucking

swold up and the answer was all the time, we're going to toughen you up. And we were doing

things that wasn't just normal to everyday gangs. We were already carrying guns, arm

robberies, burglaries. We were a little more dangerous than the everyday gang. There

was a lot of people belonging to gangs, not like this gang. This gang was a brutal fucking

gang. When you joined this gang, you felt brutalized. It prepared you for different thing.

New York, 1970. Joe Kaluci. Joe Kaluci was a bricklayer. He was in the crew with us.

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