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Unable to just say Fuhgeddaboudit, I decided to call Salvatore Gravano, a.k.a.
I reached him at an undisclosed location, and heres his personal movie review, slightly condensed and edited.
If you havent seenThe Irishmanyet, take note: Spoilers are everywhere.
What were your impressions ofThe Irishman?
It was not as well done as I thought would be, with everybody who was in it.
They couldve did a much better job.
You know, theyre all big actors when it comes to Mafia movies, stuff like that.
So I really actually thought it would be a lot better.
It was very long.
Number two, a lot of the stuff in the actual movie was wrong.
The Irishman did not do the shooting.
Hes not the guy who killed Jimmy Hoffa.
Yes, Sally Bugs.
From what I understood, he was the guy who actually killed Hoffa.
So the story was wrong.
It was all done wrong!
Matter of fact, Joe Pesci, the guy he played?
They exaggerated Russell Bufalinos part in this thing.
Angelo Bruno was the boss of the Philadelphia mob, not Russell Bufalino.
So they got this whole fucking thing twisted and turned around.
I dont know who told them what.
But I dont even know if he had any part in the damn thing.
So they got the whole thing fucked up.
Sheeran died a year before the book came out.
But taking credit for the Hoffa hit and the famous Joe Gallo hit makes for a good story.
Do you think that might have been the driver here selling books?
They got the Irishman killing Gallo, which is insane.
He had no part in that whatsoever.
I believe it was Carmine Persico and a few other people who killed him …
So now I guess they got to live with it.
Thats who put it out.
It was a Colombo thing.
There was a war.
I was with the Carmine Persico faction and then was transferred out to the Gambino family.
He was part of that hit.
A Colombo member saw Gallo come in, and it was a spur-of-the-moment thing.
I think they sent a message to Matty right away.
He gave a nod.
Hes in my restaurant?
Go ahead, take him out.
They went in the fucking restaurant and shot him.
What did you think of the way they treated the Hoffa hit?
I mean, this wasnt a complicated hit.
They exaggerated his part.
He was running the union.
When he went to prison, they liked him.
He was their boy.
Whatever comes down from the unions, you will get a nice piece of it.
Then you will hand over the other piece where it belongs.
We fire off the union.
We own the union.
He wouldnt accept it.
Would that have been Angelo Bruno?
Who would sanction that?
It mightve been a couple of bosses that had something to do with that union.
It might been Angelo Bruno.
Obviously, it must have had something to do with the Genovese family.
Were you a fan ofGoodfellas?
And that was fairly accurate.
You know when they went through the basement to get into the Copacabana?
Thats the way I used to get in.
Me and my friends, wed go right down there boom, right in, sitting at somebodys table.
Thats the way we lived.
It had a lot of truth, though Im sure there was some Hollywood involved.
Did the details of the Hoffa hit seem right to you?
What they done with the body, I really dont know.
I dont think anybody really knows for sure unless you were involved in it.
This is not something that they normally talk about!
In the movie, they burned him.
I dont buy the story they took them back to New Jersey.
I cant even imagine somebody telling me something like that.
I would tell him, Ill kill him youdrive him back.
That dont make sense at all.
Did it make sense to you that Sheeran left the gun on Hoffas body?
Fuck you Ill take care of the gun myself.
My prints on it.
I aint leaving it to nobody.
I dont give a fuck who said that.
Put the gun on top of the guys body?
Why the fuck would you do that?
I guess because its a movie and its dramatic?
Thats gotta be it.
But I mean, its ridiculous.
I would never do that.
And you could quote me,I would never do that.
