During Prohibition, it was booze. Then gambling, racketeering and cocaine. But today, the New York mob makes big money from an unlikely product — marijuana. And the godfather of ganja is from one of the storied names in Mafia lore: Eboli. Silvio Eboli, 44, is the grandson of Tommy Eboli, who ruled the Genovese crime family from 1969-72, and grandnephew of Patsy Eboli, a Genovese capo and head of the what the family called the Greenwich Village Crew. Tommy Eboli was killed, his family believes by Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, a k a the “Oddfather,” who replaced him as boss of the Genovese. Patsy, the family tells me, figured he was next, so he fled to Lagos, Nigeria, then made his way over land and by boat to Sicily, where he lived in exile. But the Ebolis were already part of the pop-culture mafia before their fall. Actor Al Lettieri — whose sister, Jean, married Patsy — played Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo in “The Godfather.” Lettieri had to ask Tommy Eboli for permission to take the role, and during filming, the cast and crew came over to Patsy’s house in Fort Lee, NJ, for dinner. Legend has it Al Pacino leaned over into the crib of infant Silvio and kissed the ring finger of the “little Don” as a joke. It was a bit of foreshadowing. In 2013, during the Feast of San Gennaro, Silvio took over what was left of the Eboli crime family — forging his own enterprise outside the Genovese. Silvio Eboli has been steadily building his marijuana-delivery empire since the 1980s. He started at the bottom, “muling” bud in from Jamaica strapped to his legs. When Rudy Giuliani cracked down on street dealing in the mid- 1990s, the rise of the marijuana home-delivery market began. Silvio rode a bike throughout Manhattan delivering bud to customers earning $250 a day. One day Silvio met Chris Farley at a party and he introduced Silvio to others in the Saturday Night Live” cast, all of whom became clients of Silvio. Some of them, even the ones who branched out into big film stars, still remain in contact with Silvio and buy weed from him regularly. Besides celebrities, Silvio delivers regularly to many professional athletes in the tri-state area. Silvio personally handles all his “star” clients orders and over time has developed deep friendships with many of them. Silvio has recently launched a new business venture where the rich and famous he knows that have either moved out of New York or drop in for business can purchase a whole weekend or two-three day package deal that includes hotel rooms, escort girls, the type of drugs they want and invites to VIP parties. Pictures of escort girls are neatly arranged in a binder for clients to look over and select women like they would a meal off a menu. Silvio personally picks the client up at the airport in a limousine, gets them to the hotel, hands them the drugs they requested, picks them up to hit a nightclub or a party and introduces the girls to the clients. He is really proud of what he has created and looks at himself as successful business man or a CEO, despite the blatant illegality of it all. How much money he makes is a mystery, but he has several storage closets in Westchester filled with locked trunks of cash. But Silvio says the best way for a mobster to wash his dirty money is to spend it, which he certainly does a lot of. When we go out to eat, sometimes he orders several dinners at once, eating just a little off each plate. Why? Silvio doesn’t like to make choices. He wants it all. Why tell me all of it? I have come to conclusion that Silvio Eboli is blinded by pure narcissism. He wants people to know his position in the mob, to know how powerful he is — that’s why he let me follow him around as a reporter (though his brazenness does have limits — he refuses to be photographed). His personal life is the “live today, die tomorrow" mentally, the daily revolving door of escort girls and heavy drug use. Silvio Eboli has made Eboli a name again in crime; but for how long? Toby Rogers is the author of “The Ganja Godfather: The Untold Story of NYC’s Weed Kingpin” (Trine Day), out now.
Bernie Madoff — the world’s biggest Ponzi schemer — was also a pot smoker who tried to sleep with the girlfriend of his mobbed-up drug dealer, a new book reports.
Toby Rogers writes in “The Ganja Godfather” (Trine Day Press) how Madoff — now doing 150 years in federal prison — first met Silvio Eboli at a 1997 Christmas party at the Montauk Yacht Club, where Madoff’s son Mark (who would later commit suicide) toked up with Eboli on the boat dock.
Eboli became Madoff’s dealer, “but they were strained due to a mutual love interest. Bernie had hired an Israeli model as a stock analyst who was dating Silvio,” the book states.
“Bernie had put enormous pressure on ‘Leah’ to sleep with him and be his mistress, offering her practically anything if she just let him f - - k her.”
Eboli did not confront Bernie, but decided “if Madoff had ever ‘crossed the line’ with Leah, he would ‘not whack him’ but ‘cause serious bodily injury’ to him,” Rogers writes.
After Leah became pregnant with Eboli’s child in 2001, Madoff called Leah into his office and confronted her.
“I just got to know one thing. What are you doing with that f - - king hippie?” Madoff bellowed.
“You could have had gold. You could have had me. You could have had an apartment, a car, a driver. But instead you throw all that away for some f - - king hippie!”
Eboli and Leah recently parted. “But they are doing it amicably for the kids’ [two daughters] sake,” Rogers said. “Silvio is still free on the streets running his empire.”
TRUE CRIME AUTHOR PUSHES MAFIA GENRE TO THE EDGE WITH NEW BOOK
The Ganja Godfather By Toby Rogers Trine Day Press March 23, 2015
With the innocent swag of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson and the reflective insight of Michael Herr and Gary Smith, Toby Rogers' The Ganja Godfather is without a doubt Generation X's high water mark. Like On The Road and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, it's mythos will endure in high school detention halls, rowdy college dorm rooms and urban coffee houses across the globe for decades to come. -Jennifer Hershberger, author of Single and Content
The Ganja Godfather- The Untold Story Of NYC'S Weed Kingpin by award winning author and investigative journalist Toby Rogers pushes the true crime genre where it has never gone before.
The Ganja Godfather is no jail house memoir or old dead man's tale. It is Costa Nostra operating now on the streets of New York
Never before has a journalist had such unprecedented access to an ongoing criminal organization. From the inside of the notorious Eboli crime family, Rogers exposes organized crime's world of secrecy, warped codes of honor and ancient laws of the street. He witnessed murder, high volume drug transactions, extortion, theft, prostitution and construction kickbacks.
Rogers also uncovers several news worthy scoops during his investigation.
They include:
*Bernie Madoff's Mafia Love Triangle - P. 59 & 68 For years Bernie Madoff desperately tried to sleep an Israeli model who was dating his drug dealer, Silvio Eboli, aka The Ganja Godfather.
*The Mafia's Role In The Making Of The Godfather & Vanity Fair's Brian Williams Problem - P. 42-44 The Ganja Godfather had true lowdown on how the Eboli crime family influenced and consulted actors during the making of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in 1971. Rogers also uncovers that in 2009 Vanity Fair magazine totally embellished "facts" regarding this historic occasion, when members of the Godfather cast broke bread with the Eboli crime family. ie; publishing that Marlon Brando had dinner in high ranking mobster Patsy Eboli's basement bar and poolroom when in fact he did not.
*Genovese Crime Boss Tommy Eboli's Shady Pact With The New York Times Newsroom - P. 37 Its no secret that in the past, mob families have had city paper newsrooms on the payroll to plant misinformation for the Mafia. But both the mobster and the newspaper almost never get caught in the act manufacturing news for the benefit of a criminal operation. Rogers uncovers a starting pact between Genovese Crime Boss Tommy Eboli and The New York Times during the 1960's. For years, in order to avoid testifying, Tommy would have the New York Times publish fake stories that Eboli had a heart attack the day before he was scheduled to appear in court.
*The Church That Lucky Built - P. 24-25 When Lucky Luciano was transferred from Sing Sing Correctional Facility, in Ossining, New York to the Upstate Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York in 1939, he built the only free standing Church in the entire New York prison system. At a cost estimated at $250,000, Luciano, Meyer Lansky, "Bugsy" Seigel, and the Bothers Eboli all chipped in for what is now known as the Church of St. Dismas, the Good Thief. In 1991 the church was registered as a national landmark, yet - until now- both Federal and New York State Government has omitted that her benefactor was the most powerful crime boss in Mafia history.
*NYPD Attempts To Murder Mafia Kingpin - P. 20 The failed attempt to murder Charles "Lucky" Luciano in October 1929 was in fact orchestrated by the New York City Police Department.
*Who Killed "Dutch Schultz" in 1934? -P. 23- 24 When went the mentally unstable kingpin of the restaurant racket, Arthur Dutch Schultz went rouge, Luciano quickly had Tommy Eboli and a crew of Murder Inc. whack him and two bodyguards in Newark, New Jersey.
*Fatal Shot Of JFK Assassination May Have Been Fired By A Secret Service Agent - P. 33-36 According to mob Boss Tommy Eboli, JFK was killed by a Secret Service Agent in the follow up car to the presidential limousine. Rogers finds a string of startling witness testimony and other eyewitness accounts from the Warren Commission Report that lend support to Eboli's assertion.
*What happened to the Brothers Eboli? -P. 45-47 Also included the Ganja Godfather- Who pulled the trigger that killed Tommy Eboli in 1972 and what really happened to Patsy Eboli in 1976?
*The "Cannabis Cult" of Montana -P.99-103 American weed magazine Cannabis Now is a front for a vile white supremacist cult known as the Church of Universal Triumphant(CUT)
based in Paradise Valley, Montana.
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