Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy ',The Bull', Gravano, and Me! by Pulitzer Lisa & Gravano Karen

Author:Pulitzer, Lisa & Gravano, Karen [Gravano, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-02-14T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“I’m going to do something that goes against everything I’ve ever believed in.”

One day in early October of 1991, Dad summoned Mom, Uncle Eddie, and me to the Metropolitan Correctional Center. He told us to make sure we got there early, even earlier than usual. He sounded very tense, which didn’t surprise me. Both he and Uncle Eddie had been acting really strange for the previous two weeks, especially when they were discussing the serious charges Dad was facing.

Rain was coming down in buckets that day. I sensed something big was about to happen and that my life was about to change for the worse. Both in person and on the phone, Dad seemed to be tired and disgusted with everything. I was concerned, because he generally had a positive attitude about jail and life on the inside. Since his arrest, he’d always made it clear that he was doing absolutely everything he could to make the best of the situation, like everything was going to be okay. “Stay strong,” he’d say. “We’ll always be a family, no matter what.”

That day, as soon as Dad walked into the visiting room, I knew something was wrong. He wasn’t making his grand entrance, all high-fives and hugs. This time, he looked very serious, like something heavy was on his mind.

Mom, Uncle Eddie, and I were the only ones in the room. The rest of the inmates were doing their visiting in an adjacent room out of earshot. Dad sat down in between Mom and me, and Uncle Eddie took a seat to Mom’s right.

I could tell Dad had something extremely serious on his mind he wanted to talk to me in particular about. I watched as he took a long, deep breath, looked directly into my eyes and said, “I’m going to do something that goes against everything I’ve ever believed in, and everything I’ve ever told you guys to believe in. I’m going to cooperate with the government. I’m going to testify for them.”

I was hearing his words, but I couldn’t believe he was actually saying them. I jumped out of my seat, “How can you do this?” I yelled.

“Sit down!” Uncle Eddie directed with a stern voice.

I obeyed, but I was in total shock. What Dad was saying meant that he would be fingering friends, family, and people he’d worked with forever. His testimony was going to put people we’d known all our lives into prison for years and years. Yes, I loved him and wanted him out of prison as soon as possible, but turning state’s evidence went against every rule of behavior I had ever known, against everything he had ever taught us to believe in.

From the time we were young, my father told Gerard and me, “You never give anybody up, no matter what.” I’d get punished for telling on Gerard, and he’d get punished for telling on me. Once, Gerard and I had a dispute over the thermostat. It controlled the temperature for the upstairs part of our house, and it was located in Gerard’s room.

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