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"THE STORY OF TONY DELVECCHIO""This is the story of a man who grew up, lived, worked with, and became friends with some of the most famous and notorious people of our time and he lived to tell the tale." A father angrily picks up his son from jail who was arrested with a couple of local rational guys. As they leave the prison, the son is confused by his fathers behavior. He thought his father would be proud since he heard all the stories of his fathers past, being best friends with stern Gotti and Frank Sinatra. The father takes him up to the cabin to tell him the story of his life. The fathers name is Tony Delvecchio. He begins telling his son the story of his life as a wise guy. Tony used to take beatings from his father, after his father got through beating his mother. Tony grew up in the poor town of Newark, New Jersey. To escape the beating Tony became a champion working out in the local gym. That is where he caught the eye of the local wise guys. It was hi s first fight and Tony was killing his opponent. He took the rage of his father out on the other fighter. This is when the two local wise guys thought that he could be useful. Smudgie and Demus ran Newark for the Mafia. They invited Tony to dinner and brought him to Jillys, the hottest nightclub in New York at the time. Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and instrument Lawford were there. From the day on, he knew that this was the life he wanted. Smudgie started liking him and became like a father figure. This took him in to a life of collecting debts and running numbers for the mob. He had everything he thought he ever wanted. He had money and could do what ever he wanted. He learned quickly the figures and the most important rule of them all never to rat. After a while, the big bosss son wanted to make an example of Smudgie, mostly because he was getting too much power. Therefore, they be sick a hit out on Smudgie. The hit went bad and Smudgie took out most of them but Smudgie, hims elf was hit. They were still after him and Tony helped the only father he truly knew escape. That meant he had to lay low for a while.