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How can I tell if my grandpa was in the mafia? Have you known older people involved with the mafia?

My grandpa is extremely kind, loving, generous, and loyal. He always teaches me life-lessons and so many amazing things. He is probably the wisest person i've ever met, but he is such a mystery to me. He never talks about his life before he met my grandma, and he is extremely quiet around people and the public. He is greek, and had to change his last name because his greek last name was too long. He's driven Cadillac's his entire life, he dresses extremely nice all the time. He wears suits all the time, but refuses to wear ties or tuxedos. His hair is always extremely nicely groomed, and he has well groomed facial hair. My grandma is the most open person i know, she tells me everything but whenever i ask about my grandpa she is really quiet about it and claims she doesn't really know about his life before they were together. My mom says that she and my uncle have always suspected he was affiliated majorly with the mafia but nobody knows. They know that my grandpa and all of his friends have owned night clubs and bars in L.A, and coincidentally all of them for some reason moved to my hometown state and lived here for the rest of their lives (I feel like they all moved to my state because they had to get out of California for some reason" And after they moved here, they all owned siding companies under a "private contracting and building supply" and the company is completely gone now, but the building they all claimed to work in is still owned by them. but its weird how still my grandpa and all his friends go down to the building and use it as a place to hang out. When my grandpa took me there when i was little, it was really weird... They were always just playing poker or watching golf or horse races on the couches drinking wine. They had a warehouse in the back and that's it. I don't get how they could always work there. Anyway, it was always weird cause my grandpa's best friend always gave me money when i saw him, even when i was like sooooo so little. Like silver and gold coins that are worth SO much more than normal silver dollars and things. My mom tells me stories that when she was a little kid, my grandma was going through a really hard financially and my grandpa "only owned the siding company" but all the sudden he was helping my grandma pay everything and even more, like they were always living the life out loud, and then all the sudden (my mom says she still remembers from when she was really little) my grandma was watching the news and my mom came into the room and my grandma said "thats to bad, well your father had 2 jobs and i guess he only has one for a little while" and my mom didn't get it cause she only knew of the siding company. My mom said that he would leave for the weekend with his friends on a trip to vegas and when he came home, he came with tons of cash, like all in bills too. She said that my grandma and grandpa had a couple huge vases in their room that was filled to the top filled with nothing but hundred-dollar bills. My grandpa and all of his friends smoke a TON whenever I see them. Like cigars and cigarettes all the time. My grandpa used to smoke at least 5 packs a day until he had a heart attack and died for 1 minute, but i guess he survived the heart attack... These are some more signs that make me think my grandpa was in the mafia: All of his friends are either italian, greek, sicilian, etc. All of their first names are like: leo, roy, frankie, daryl, nick, phil Their last names i can't all remember but i know that two of them was pervich, and tanzini They all drive really expensive classy cars especially cadillacs They all are extremely nice and love me, but they can be really quiet too. They always try to teach me about using my head when it comes to partying or business and they are always telling me never to get involved with certain things and stuff. They all look alike & act alike One time my uncle brought home a girl in highschool (she was my uncles age) and my grandpa recodnized her because she had a past of sleeping with his friend phil (that was even 5 years older than my grandpa) old, like he must had been a big shot. And my grandma and grandpa always have vip and connections when they go to las vegas, like they always have free hotel rooms at the wynn and belagio & whatnot. Are these signs of being in the mafia? What do you think? I really care about it and my grandpa doesn't have alot longer on earth. I love him to death because he's amazing, but i want to know more about him... What can i ask him that can give me some more clues? Whenever i ask him about if he was in it he just says " alot of people suspect that about me and leo and the boys, but we were never involved in it." Whats your opinion? What are signs of someone in the mafia? Pleaaaaaaase i amm dyying to know, its sooo interesting to me ;) thankkkks. well not just the mafia... do you think he was involved in shady business? or organized crime.......

Public Comments

1. Everyone is in the Mafia. Just to a different degree. And yeah he probably was.
2. You must be Sicilian to be in the Mafia. So that disqualifies your grandfather immediately. Hate to burst your bubble that your grandfather isn't a crime boss who is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent people and the destruction of families due to illegal drugs that he would have potentially imported into the country.
3. he was definitely a Traditional Gangster with an er but not a Mobster to be in the mafia he has to be Sicilian Italian unless its one of those other race mafias witch are copycats
4. i have socilized with people in crime mostly on my mothers side my fatheres side would rape pilage and plunder they were roughiens the organized crime in my child hood was rampet
5. Actually you CAN be in the mafia even if you aren't full blooded Italian. Your grandpa probably was back in the day. =] Maybe tell your grandpa that you really wanna know the truth because you thinks its interesting. Obviously he is hiding something and your grandma is hiding it for him too..maybe try and talk your grandma into telling you? Good Luck.