A True Tough Guy: The Mafia, Gays, and Michael Sam’s Boyfriend
When Vito Cammisano kissed his boyfriend in front of the ESPN cameras, he must have known the world would find out his grandfather was a notorious mob boss—but he wasn’t afraid.
If the late mob boss William “Willie the Rat” Cammisano was like other Mafiosi—and by all accounts he most emphatically was—he would have been apoplectic had he been told his grandson was dating an African American.
But a Mafioso such as Willie the Rat would have taken that as the good news by comparison when he heard the rest.
For his grandson’s African-American lover also happens to be a man, as the whole world came to learn when Vito Cammisano kissed football draft pick Michael Sam in front of the ESPN cameras.
In doing so, Vito must have known that the press would quickly reveal him to be the grandson of a notorious Mafia boss whose nickname was once explained by a witness before a U.S. Senate Committee.
“Because he killed people and stuck them in the sewers so the rats could eat them,” said the witness, Fred Bonadonna.
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