The Birth Of Tom and His Back Ground Part 1.
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02.27.02

The Facts: 

Tom's father was the youngest and only American born child of the14 children born to the Papanier/Papania family who emigrated from Palermo Sicily to South Philly (Philadelphia) at the turn of the century. It is not known why some of the relatives have the name PAPANIA rather than PAPANIER, but it is believed that, like in many case of immigration, those coming to this country had their names written down as they sounded. It is a fact that the family name was PAPANIER.  

Tom's father was born Anthony Papanier in 1909, Anthony would grow up along side his sister Josephine's daughter, Rose.

Anthony and Rose were the same age and shared the same last name due to the fact that Anthony's sister, Josephine, had conceived Rose out of wedlock. She had fallen in love with 22 year old Alfonse Massaro who already had a wife and children in Sicily. They would reside in Brooklyn, NY, and then move to Staten Island NY.

Anthony Papanier's sister, and mother to Rose, would eventually fall in love and bear two more children with Frank Guggino. Frank Guggino would be the only father Rose would ever know. He would remain an integral and respected Grand Father and father and family member until his death in the early 60's. 

By 1924, 15 year old Anthony Papanier had fallen in love with 15 year old Rose Papanier, his biological niece..

Anthony and Rose wanted to get married, but do to the fact that both the Law and the Catholic Church forbid the marriage, in 1925, at 16 years of age, they eloped to South Philly and sought out the Orphans Court where they were married with Rose Papanier assuming the last name of her father, Massaro, to keep her Papanier name from effecting the marriage. 

Contrary to Tom's testimony, outside of her later use of the Massaro name, Rose never did know or meet her biological father, Alfonse Massaro, instead, it was Frank Guggino she would come to view as her father, and that same Frank Guggino would be viewed as a grand father by Tom and Rose.

Further, contrary to Tom's allegation, it cannot be established that Alfonse Massaro was *GIUSEPPE MASSERIA the Joe Masseria, b. c. 1887,, Italy d. April 15, 1931, New York, N.Y., U.S. byname JOE THE BOSS. And, the record indicate Joe The Boss had a son, born in NY and no wife or children in Sicily. Further, Joe The Boss's family would become Genovese by the time of Tom's age, and Salvatore Marranzano's family would become the Gambino Crime Family. Tom's allusion that his father, Anthony, would not except a powerful position with the mob is another crazy idea even IF his mother were truly the daughter of Joe The Boss. Mob Protocol simply does NOT work like this. 

Anthony and Rose Papanier's marriage would produce Tom and, though contacts have stated two other children, we could not discover birth records of any other children. 

Tom's father, Anthony, never worked more than one job at a time. It is said that he was a large and handsome man who liked to drink beer. It is also true that he was rather heavy handed in his use of corporal punishment in the case of Tom. It could be said that Tom played an important roll in being on the receiving end. We also received stories of Anthony's weakness', words such as liar, petty thief and con artist surfaced on many occasions, though, I must say, there is nothing substantial we could discover, and we did not check for a police record. . We do desire to state that it was not rumor as much as stories. Yet, our writing is not to degrade, only to inform. So, we shall not delve any further with this portion, we only want to be fair to Tom and not paint Anthony as a white night.

Tom's father worked in the Brooklyn Navel Yard before losing this job for reasons we have yet to establish other than it was a hushed up situation. He then would operate a gas station and mechanic until health reasons caused him to cease this career. He then would secure a job with three Jewish business men. Overseeing their real estate and chauffeuring them around. A perk to this position was that he had the opportunity to not only drive a Cadillac, but got to keep the car over night. 

This job lasted until a drunk youth ran into him while he was driving the Cadillac, causing a serious accident that slammed him and the car across mediums and ended this career. Anthony Papanier would, sorrowfully, commit suicide in 1992. But not until after Rose came down with cancer and had to be placed in a nursing home because Anthony simply could not take care of her.

Contrary to Tom's testimony, where God cured Rose when he went to her, and the Doctors thought it was a miracle, she had to have a mastectomy. She would refuse chemo therapy and the cancer would return, but death would call in 1987 the form of several strokes.

Another fact that makes this story so horrendous and sorrowful when viewed in the context of Tom's Testimony is that Rose, Tom's mother, LOVED him dearly. She always stood by Tom. NEVER thought he could do no wrong. And what will truly make your heart render an extra beat is the fact that we will provide next.

How could a man forget a mother that would fight tooth and nail for him? How? To not offer more to this woman is simply against the very principles Tom attempts to portray. For his mother never threw him out. It was told to us that Tom just never seemed to care for his people. Often using that Love for his own, egotistical ends. We have stories that are just to hard to write here. Things Tom was said to have done that were corroborated by others.

In fact, that father Tom is always talking down, grew tired of the way Tom acted and reacted to everyday life. It was stated that Tom was the proverbial street punk [something this writer is very familiar with] coming home at all hours of the night, often not showing up for dinner, even, once, his father, Anthony, got so tired of Tom's excuses that he did not know what time it was, that he BOUGHT TOM a WATCH and set it BACK so Tom could be on time.

Our informed sources and records had provided us many powerful facts. Facts that had us standing up today in amazement. Our agreement not to publish any new information until after the copyright infringement trial was waived due to all the yahooing about the speaking engagements currently obsessing the EZnewsTV pages...so, without fan fare.. this is the BIG ONE!

Contrary to Tom's testimony that when he was 17-18 he was inducted into the Gambino Crime Family and given an assignment to shoot two people in Wichita, Kansas, and then was turned in by Gambino to prove he would keep his mouth shut with two 5 to 10 year prison sentences, in actuality, he went into the AIR FORCE and was STATIONED in WICHITA KANSAS where he committed burglaries and went to jail! 

And when Tom was released, instead of returning to NY and receiving Night Clubs as reward, he MOVED BACK INTO HIS Mother's HOUSE and DID NOT LEAVE until he MARRIED his first wife Phyllis and fathered a son!

What is wrong with this testimony by Tom? Match these statements to the facts above!

"  I was a raised in a household that - there wasn't much love there. My father and mother were married at thirteen years old in Sicily. They came to America. My father had no education. He would take any job that was available. He worked usually two jobs, sometimes three jobs.

When I was seventeen years old, they came to me, and they gave me a gun. This time it wasn't an old gun. It wasn't rusty, and this time it had bullets in it. And I took a vow that I would live and die by that gun. A piece of paper was put in my hand. It was set on fire. They said that if I betray the Mafia, I would burn like this paper was burning and go to hell.

And I rushed home and sure enough my mother was in the bedroom. When I walked in and she was on her knees praying, I answered up to her and asked her what she was praying about. She said "I'm praying for this family and for you". And I said, "What are you praying about for me?" And she looked up at me and tears had just started to come down her eyes and she said, "It's no secret that you're involved with these men." She said, "But, what you don't know is that these men are the men that killed my father." And she said, "You have no idea what it was like for my mother and I every day when my father left the house, never knowing whether he was coming back. And one day the police came to the house and told us he was killed. He wasn't coming back." And she said, "These men killed my father, and I don't want them killing my son."

And they said, "Now, is the next step. Some men have hijacked a truck in the Garment District. It was an inside job. We killed the man on the inside. That's already taken care of. But, the two men that hijacked the truck, they're hiding out in Kansas. We want you to go there. We want you to shoot both of these men. We don't want you to kill them. We just want you to set an example for everybody to see what happens if they should steal from us... Shoot the two men and come right back

I went there. I shot the two men. I came back to the airport. ... And I got on the plane. ..And all that was on the plane was policemen.And the judge said, "You know, you're Italian. You're from New York. And you're down here shooting people. Are you in the Mafia? Is this a contract?" When it came time for me to go before the judge, I still kept that vow of silence. I didn't say a word. He sentenced me to two 5 to 10 year sentences in the Kansas State Penitentiary. I went there, and at that time, it was probably. I went there, and at that time, it was probably the worst and toughest prison in the United States. As big as I was, and as tough as I was handling myself, I had to fight almost every other day for survival in that place. My mother and father had found out that I was arrested and put in jail for shooting somebody.And my father disowned me. He said, "I didn't have a mother, I didn't have a father." And not to write any letters, not to make any phone calls, that they didn't exist any more. And that I had chosen a new family

From two nightclubs, I eventually went to four and to six restaurants. By the time I was thirty years old, I was involved in the longshoremen business, the trucking business, the warehouse business. Every fruit and vegetable, every piece of meat, every fish that came into the ports and the different places in New York City, I was getting a kickback from. I was now making hundreds of thousands of dollars, not just hundreds any more, but hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was growing.

NONE IS TRUE!

Well, enough for today, this entire endeavor, with speakers and tom and.. has cost 22 hours straight on phones and writing to deliver this portion of our Tom The Con, The Tommy Boy Saga Episode. Look for the rest of this amazing story soon!

* "Masseria, Joe" Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
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