Rosario Michael “Black Sam” Nastasi 79, male, Italian-American, spent the last night of his life in a Brooklyn social club where the talk and the card games had the familiar rhythm of a neighborhood routine. In the early hours of December 5, 1991, that routine shattered when gunfire tore through the room and he was fatally shot as he played cards.
The killing was quickly described as more than a street crime. Contemporary accounts tied it to the escalating internal “Colombo Family
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