In 2005, at USP Lewisburg, I had the pleasure of meeting a Genovese soldier by the name of Mikey “hippie“Zanfardino. At the time, Mikey had just received a fresh 15 year sentence an arguably full of a lot of pain. And like so many people in prison, mob guys included, he filled that void by using heroin.
Today, Hippie is reportedly a Capo in the Genovese crime family. And I felt that this was a great opportunity to explain what I know about hippie as a way to show others that - contrary to what most people believe - so many members of the La Cosa Nostra use drugs in prison.
And some even become captains of a major crime family .