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Posted: 12:38 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21, 2011
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Awesome Nicknames From New York's Mafia Bust
(Newser) - The FBI pulled off the biggest mob bust in New York history yesterday. Maybe that'll reduce mob crime. Here's hoping. But one thing it will definitely do is acquaint us with some of the weird, straight-out-of-the-movies nicknames New York's mobsters are using. The Village Voicepored over the indictment looking for juicy monikers, and dug up these gems:
Of course, mobsters don't always give themselves these wacky noms-de-guerre. Sometimes it's police or the press, according to Slate. The press may have called John Gotti "Dapper Don," but he was proud of the fact that on the street he had no nickname; if you said "John," everyone knew who you meant.
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