FBI agent Art Ruffles talks about how the Westies Murdered Ruby Stein. The Genovese crime family complains to Paul Castellano. Danny Grillo Jimmy Coonan Mickey Featherstone Billy Beattie
Yeah State of grace loosely based on the Westies with Ed Harris as Jimmy Coonan type character and Gary Oldman as Mickey Featherstone. Its ok. a little too hollywood
I heard Billy Beattie say in an interview that they were all partying so hard in the apartment during this meeting ie: drinking, snorting coke, popping quaaludes, smoking reefer etc. that if the phone would have rung nothing would have happened cause they wouldn’t have heard it anyway or been able to rush the restaurant & kill anyone anyway. lol
the deal was if there _wasn't_ a call by 10, then rush the restaurant. for some reason there wasn't a call, i guess mickey knew they'd be too stoned anyway...
Wow. There it is. Incredible. And the funny part was that the Westies were too wacked out and didn’t even pay attention to the phone call and Coonan forgot to call. 😂
Ruby Stein was not involved with the Gambinos, he was with the Genovese Family. Roy told Coonan, don’t admit anything about the murder. Play ignorance and we got you covered.
Over in Italy wifes were involved as well. Even made major calls. Not many talk about it. Not sure if it still goes on, or when it stopped. But they definitely were in the past.
Billy and Art Ruffles did a joint podcast interview called Later Days In 22 or 21. It was mentioned that he had died shortly afterwards. He sounded rough in it. It covered his early years prior to the westies and growing up. It was a pity the interviews were pretty short. To be honest, a lot of it seemed like just going through all the most well known bits. You don't get much more in terms of who the players really were or the real characteristics. Billy did have a habit of distancing himself from the more nefarious actions of the crew. Probably had to in order to be a credible and relatable jury witness. The Westies story is a story that is not complete without input from Coonan or Featherstone, something that is not likely to ever happen. Shame really, as to my mind it is an incomplete story with too many gaps and interpretations that can only be filled by the participants themselves. Much like the Demeo story, there are a couple of guys Joey, Anthony and Henry who could really strip back some of the myths and speculation of that story.
Sorry not buying it. This is a sock account by the creator of the video who essentially cheated because they knew when video was dropping and was able to use sock account to type first before anyone else.
I don’t like saying stuff about dead people but I think Dom took a lot of liberties with the truth. He definitely embellished - saying he was a capo and a green beret among other things.
@@MrSoccerball100 acting Capo in certain times and certain meetings one can be appointed as Acting Capo without being a made man just like John Gotti was appointed acting Capo of the Carmine Fatico crew even before he was made. It really happens 😕
@@MrSoccerball100 Right exactly Soccer, I got all kinds of trolls and creeps and sycophants of Dominick all over me hahaha, this is the kind of birdbrains who worship this guys every fabrication. He was NOT Special Forces, for a fact. Dominick was 3rd Herd/173rd Airborne. Why not just tell the truth??? Thats VERy honorable duty!! Nor was douchebag Featherstone SF. he was kicked outta the army altogether in disgrace.
