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Published: April 12, 2021, 9 a.m.

b'John Pennisi
\\nJohn Pennisi is the interview subject. A very unusual former mobster. john Pennisi writes a regular blog titled Sitdown News (click to find this). He has become an accomplished author as he creates a new life outside his former life as a soldier in the Lucchese crime family.
\\nJohn Pennisi and Staten Island
\\nThe Lucchese crime family has held a strong presence on Staten Island for many years. John Pennisi tells Gary how he was actually a member of the Brooklyn facion of the Lucchese family but they operated out of Staten Island. over the years, with the Mafia clan holding a clandestine initiation ritual here and numerous members of its so-called Brooklyn crew operating on the borough, a mob snitch said last week.
\\nHow John Pennisi landed in Witness Protection
\\nJohn describes himself as a “cooperating witness” because he never wore a wore or \\u201cworked\\u201d undercover. He started cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation sometime after October 2018, when he walked into the Bureau\\u2019s office to share his \\u201cconcerns and basically crimes that he committed. That was just the beginning of his sharing the secret information about the Lucchese crime family and other New York City mobsters.
\\nwww.sitdownnews.com
\\nHere is some information he wrote about:
\\nSECRET INITIATION
\\nPennisi said he became a member of the Lucchese family in 2013, during a secret initiation ceremony at a house on Staten Island on his wife\\u2019s birthday.
\\nMatty Madonna, the acting boss of the Lucchese family, presided over the ceremony, he said. In the darkness of a basement, Pennisi sat in front of a table.
\\n\\u201cThere was a gun, a knife, there was a picture of a saint, an ashtray, a lighter, and like a diabetic pin, needle to check your blood,\\u201d said Pennisi.
\\nBelow are some interesting titles of his blog pieces
\\nThe Fashion Of Cosa Nostra
\\nBonanno Wiseguy Falsely Makes Himself A Boss
\\nNefarious Way of Johnny Sideburns
\\n\\u201cA Mob Handbook,\\u201d
\\nBelow are some excerpts from his blog
\\nA clueless La Cosa Nostra candidate John (Butch) Arpino allegedly seeks advice from Pennisi on how one wiseguy should let another know that he too is a wiseguy.
\\nWhen Pennisi repeats the curious inquiry to John (Johnny Sideburns) Cerrella, a then-acting Lucchese captain, the boss shakes his head and says, \\u201cIt is truly unbelievable, a guy like that got no business [becoming a made man]. What\\u2019s it come to? They now gotta hand them a f\\u2013king handbook after they straighten them out!\\u201d
\\n\\u201cThe Gotti Chaperone Ended Up with a Broken Bone\\u201d documents a circa-2000 snafu involving the Gotti family. Peter Gotti accompanied his niece, Victoria, on a trip to see her father, Gambino godfather John Gotti, in the federal pen at Marion, Ill. After the visit, Uncle Pete ordered a longtime associate to chaperone his niece, who wanted to take in a movie.
\\n\\u201cNo harm was done, just two adults enjoying a night at the movies,\\u201d Pennisi writes. However, days later, Victoria\\u2019s hotheaded Gambino capo husband, Carmine (Bull) Agnello, \\u201cgot wind of the movie night.\\u201d He summoned the chaperone to his Jamaica junkyard and allegedly broke his arm with a baseball bat.
\\nShow Notes by Gary Jenkins
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