The building is still there, and in an ironic twist, it is now the Purpose Life Church. He installed his cousin, crew member Joseph “Dracula” Guglielmo, into the adjoining apartment as a security procedure to prevent the NYPD cops and/or FBI from planting listening devices. DeMeo was a gun nut and he stored an impressive arsenal of machineguns, automatic rifles, and silencers in a storeroom at the lounge.
During this time he recruited another psychopathic killer named Henry Borelli. DeMeo owned a Brooklyn tavern at 4021 Flatlands Ave. He became a proficient killer who will live on in mob lore for the deeds of “DeMeo crew.” Joey Testa and Anthony Senter, who became known as the “Gemini Twins,” were the most feared crew members. A New Murder Inc.Īfter a life devoted to crime in his teens and early 20s, Nino Gaggi will mentor Roy Demeo as an associate of the Gambino crime family. Joseph “Dracula” Guglielmo, Anthony Senter, and brothers Joseph Testa and Patrick Testa became the core members of Demeo’s crew. In the early 1970s, Chris introduced some of his friends to Roy. With Roy as his partner, Chris became an illegal drug wholesaler with street dealers working for him. Roy had connections and money that allowed Rosenberg to deal with narcotics in larger amounts. DeMeo finds Rosenberg hanging out at a popular Canarsie gas station where he was basically a street dealer. One of his first recruits is a high school friend named Chris Rosenberg. He recruited other neighborhood guys to steal cars and sell drugs. Roy DeMeo will find other criminal opportunities as an associate to Gaggi’s crew. Nino Gaggi uses his Gambino connections to increase young Roy’s loanshark business by investing his cash into the young loan shark and sent him men who needed larger loans than DeMeo’s high school friends. Growing up in this atmosphere young Roy DeMeo, not unlike Henry Hill, notices that the men who have the money as represented by cash, cars, jewelry, and neighbor respect are all “connected guys” like Nino Gaggi. It would be during this time he is noticed by a Gambino crime family soldier named Nino Gaggi who takes him under his wing.
As a teenager, he starts loansharking while enrolled in James Madison High School. Roy Albert DeMeo was born into the Mafia neighborhood of Bath Beach Brooklyn.
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