Mob Stories: The Big Guy (Frank Cotroni)

Mob Stories: The Big Guy (Frank Cotroni)

2003, Crime  -   5 Comments
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Mob Stories - The Big Guy (Frank Cotroni)Mobster Frank Santos Cotroni was known in mob circles as Le Gros, French for the Big Guy, and Il Cice, Italian for the tender, life-giving core at the center of a hard nut. The youngest of six Cotroni children, the Montreal-born mobster was certainly a hard nut.

He served more than half his adult life in prison, some of it for ordering five underworld killings of mob rivals in the 1980s, including one at the Seaway Hotel on Toronto's waterfront.

The Cotroni boys grew up in a gritty downtown Montreal neighborhood with a flourishing bootlegging trade, gaming houses and brothels.

He published a cookbook that combined his favorite recipes and what his publisher called his culinary memories. Moviegoers saw an actor playing Cotroni grilling a steak in the 1990 film Goodfellas, based on time he spent in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., with mobster Henry Hill.

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RV
RV
7 years ago

The audio doesn't match up at times to the voices of those speaking.

David
David
13 years ago

Your assertion that Mr. Cotroni was portrayed in Goodfellas is INCORRECT... the character cooking steaks is Johnny Dio (dioguardi) and it is clearly stated in the film.

Capricious
Capricious
14 years ago

The host for this doc absolutely sucks.. unwatchable here :(

Fredi
Fredi
14 years ago

Thanks for all the documentaries man, been stuck on this website for the pass 3 days