ENTER: PETE THE LEBANESE

I USED TO HAVE EVERYONE'S FULL NAMES AND CERTAIN DATES BUT FOR CERTAIN REASONS..I CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE THEM. BUT THOSE DETAILS ARE NOT IMPORTANT. BUT THERE WAS A GUY FROM THE USA WHOSE ANCESTORS WERE FROM LEBANON. HIS NAME WAS PETER (PITIR?) AND HE LIKED SMOKING CRACK COCAINE. WHEN HE WAS STRAIGHT, HE WAS A PUSSY. WHEN HE WAS ON CRACK..HE WAS A COLD KILLER.

SO, ONE TIME HE WAS IN THE BACK SEAT OF A TAXI SOMEWHERE ON THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND. I AM NOT SURE ABOUT HE EXACT DETAILS, BUT HIS GIRLFRIEND TOLD HIM TO BLOW THE TAXI DRIVERS HEAD OFF. WELL, HE PULLED OUT HIS GUN AND BLEW THE POOR GUYS HEAD OFF.

FOR SOME REASON, THE GREEK MOB IN ATHENS HAD A SOFT SPOT FOR THE SCUMBAG.

OK, TO CONTINUE THE STORY, PETER WAS A SPY FOR THE "TSAKO" CAMP. NICK, TEDDY, AND SOME OTHER "TORPEDOS" WHO WERE IN NICK AND TEDDY'S CAMP WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET UP WITH YIANNOPOULOS WITH TSAKOYIANNIS PLAYING THE MEDIATOR (BUT HE WAS REALLY 100% ALLIED WITH YIANNOPOULOS). I FORGET THE EXACT DETAILS BUT THEY GOT IN A SHOOTOUT IN THE PARKING LOT. NICK PULLED OUT AN UZI (OR SOMETHING SIMILAR) AND SPRAYED A JAGUAR FILLED WITH SOLDIERS WHO WERE ABOUT TO SUPRISE ATTACK NICK AND HIS BOYS.

IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST AND IT WAS THE EVENT THAT LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THERE WAS A WAR GOING ON..NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. THE BOYS KNEW TSAKO WAS FULL OF SHIT. ALL THE CARDS WERE ON THE TABLE. THE ONLY THING IS THE GRIGORAKOS FAMILY HAD "9 LIVES". THE TSAKO/YIANNO CAMP TRIED MANY TIMES TO ATTEMPT ASSASSINATIONS BUT THEY PROVED TO BE HARD TO HIT. THEY HAD A SIXTH SENSE THAT WENT WELL WITH THEIR STREET SMARTS AND PARANOIA.

BECAUSE THERE WAS A LEAST ONE SPY IN THE GRIGORAKOS CAMP (CRACK HEAD PETE), THE TSAKO/YIANNO GANG SEEMED THEY WERE ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE AMERICANS. THIS CAUSED A LOT OF ANXIETY IN THE GRIGORAKOS GANG. THEY WERE NOT SURE IF THEIR HOUSE AND CAR WERE BUGGED OR MAYBE THEIR PHONES. WHENEVER A SOLDIER WOULD TRY AND STALK TSAKO..ALL OF A SUDDEN TSAKOS BOYS (OR EVEN POLICE OFFICERS ON TSAKOS PAYROLL) ALL OF A SUDDEN WOULD STALK THE STALKERS.

HERE IS SOMETHING NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW..NOT EVEN TSAKOYIANNIS. ONE NIGHT, TSAKO WAS WITH HIS FAMILY RELAXING ON A BALCONY. NICK, TEDDY, AND THEIR FATHER WERE ACROSS THE STREET STALKING THEM. THEY HAD SOME SORT OF WEAPON..LIKE A GRENADE LAUNCHER OR SOMETHING. THEY WERE READY TO TAKE OUT TSAKO, EVEN IF IT MEANT COLLATERAL DAMGAGE. NTG AND TEDDY WERE READY TO DO IT. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MAJOR BLOW TO THE TSAKO/YIANNO SIDE AND MIGHT HAVE ENDED THE WAR. BUT THE FATHER INSISTED NO INNOCENT BYSTANDERS.

TSAKO, YOU GOT A PASS THAT NIGHT AND YOUR FAMILY SURVIVES TO THIS DAY. I WONDER IF YOU EVEN KNOW HOW CLOSE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY CAME TO BECOMING BURNT FLESH AND BONE PIECES.

ONE DAY, TEDDY WAS BUYING OR DELIVERING AT LEAST ONE KILO OF COCAINE. HE WAS APPROACHED BY MANY ARMED MEN WHO HE THOUGHT WAS ABOUT TO ROB HIM. HE PULLED OUT HIS AUTOMATIC AND SPRAYED THEM.

WELL, THEY WERE COPS AND HE WAS RIGHT..THEY WERE WITH TSAKO AND WERE ABOUT TO ROB HIM AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE THEY WERE GOING TO DO TO HIM. HE WAS EVENTUALLY ARRESTED AND THE COPS SAID THEY WERE NOT ROBBING HIM BUT INSTEAD CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION OR WHATEVER BLAH BLAH.

WHILE TEDDY WAS IN PRISON, NICK THE GREEK WAS COMING OUT OF A COURTHOUSE (OBVIOUSLY UNARMED) WHEN AN ALBANIAN MAN SHOT HIM AND KILLED HIM. THIS WAS A BIG BLOW WITH NICK DEAD AND TEDDY IN JAIL.

TEDDY WAS FEELING THE HEAT AND FROM HIS CELL HE WAS PROMISING HIS CRONIES US$100,000 AND TERRITORY IF THEY KILLED TSAKO.

THEN, ON TEDDY'S BIRTHDAY, THEY MADE SPAGHETTI TO CELEBRATE. WELL, GUESS WHO WAS IN JAIL WITH TEDDY AT THE TIME..PETER THE CRACK HEAD. TSAKO ORDERED PETER TO TAKE OUT TEDDY. PETER COULD NOT KILL HIM WITH A WEAPON BECAUSE TEDDY WOULD HAVE TAKEN IT AWAY AND KILLED PETER WITH HIS BARE HANDS. SO, PETER POISONED TEDDY'S SPAGHETTI AND KILLED HIM.

I'M NOT SURE IF IT HAPPENED BEFORE OR AFTER TEDDY'S DEATH..BUT ONE NIGHT, THEIR FATHER WAS ASSASSINATED ON VOULAGEMENI BLVD AS HE DROVE HIS CAR.

TSAKO AND HIS BOYS WON AND THE GRIGORAKOS UNDERLINGS ALL SCATTERED TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO AVOID GETTING WHACKED, ARRESTED, OR BOTH.

BUT ONE DAY, A RELATIVE OF THE GRIGORAKOS FAMILY STRUCK OUT IN REVENGE. AFTER A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, TSAKO WAS FEELING SAFE NOW THAT ALL OF HIS ENEMIES WERE DEAD..OR WERE THEY?

SOMEONE SHOT AND KILLED TSAKOS COUSIN AT TSAKOS BUSINESS (WHO LOOKED MUCH LIKE TSAKO) BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS TSAKO.

FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, BUT I AM NOT SURE IF THIS IS ACCURATE..TEDDY'S WIDOW MADE A DEAL WITH TSAKO ASSURING HIM THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MORE ATTEMPTS ON HIS LIFE. SHE JUST WANTED TO RAISE HER CHILD (TEDDY'S LITTLE BOY) IN PEACE. SHE DID WHAT ANY GOOD MOTHER WOULD DO AND PROTECTED HER SON. LOL, I WONDER IF SHE COULD BEAT TSAKO IN A ONE ON ONE FIGHT. SHE IS A TOUGH GREEK-AMERICAN BITCH!

EVENTUALLY, PETER MADE HIS WAY TO SOUTH AMERICA WHERE HE TRIED TO STAY LOW. THERE ARE RUMOURS THAT HE KILLED SOME INNOCENT PEOPLE THERE AS WELL. I BELIEVE IT WAS VENEZUELA WHERE PETER WAS KILLED. MAYBE TSAKO SENT HIS BOYS OUT THERE TO WHACK PETER TO SHUT HIM UP OR MAYBE PETER WAS KILLED BY SOMEONE HE WAS TRYING TO ROB. NO ONE KNOWS FOR SURE.

LASTLY, ACCORDING TO SOURCES WHO POST ON HERE, A COUPLE OF NICK AND TEDDY'S FRIENDS CAUGHT THE ALBANIAN WHO KILLED NICK AND TORTURED HIM AND KILLED HIM. THIS HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED BUT I BELIEVE IT.

I WONDER WHAT THE GREEK UNDERWORLD IN ATHENS WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE IF THE GRIGORAKOS FAMILY WON THE WAR AND CONTROLLED THE ATHENS UNDERWORLD. ONLY ZEUS KNOWS!!!

THE FINAL GREEK MAFIA WAR OF THE CENTURY: PART ONE

IT'S GOING TO TAKE MANY ARTICLES TO TELL THE STORY OF THE FINAL GREEK MAFIA WAR OF THE 20TH CENTURY. SO, I DECIDED TO FIRST WRITE ABOUT THE CAST OF MAIN CHARACTERS:


VASSILIS GRIGORAKOS (FATHER OF NIKOS AND THEODOROS)
NIKOS GRIGORAKOS (OLDER BROTHER OF THEODOROS)
THEODOROS GRIGORAKOS (YOUNGER BROTHER OF NIKOS)
NIKOS YIANNOPOULOS (WAS CO-LEADER OF EXTORTION RING)
GIORGOS TSAKOYIANNIS (WAS CO-LEADER WITH NIKOS Y.)

In the late 1980's, Vassilis brought his family back from New York, where they had been living, to settle in the eastern Athens suburb of Ilioupolis. Vassilis and his eldest son Nikos initially became involved in protection rackets but soon formed a large network of people from the established gangland of Athens, active in the southern coastal suburbs. Vasisilis, reminiscent of the ancient Spartans, brought up his kids to be tough as nails and molded them into hardcore young men.

Nikos (aka Nick the Greek aka N.T.G.) was a big, bearded, burly, tough, biker-like bad ass who was known for being a one punch knock out striker and a man with nine lives. He was also known for wearing his biker jacket and jeans instead of suits and ties. He led by example and had a loyal following. He would never ask you to do something he would not do himself.

Theodoros (aka Teddy), also of a large stature, was a top martial artist who could do the splits as easy as I can sit on a chair.

Of course, they were good with all sorts of weapons as well.

In 1996, someone snitched..possibly an extortion victim but no one is for sure. It was reported a cafe owner in Ilioupolis went to the police, leading to the arrest of Nikos and Theodoros Grigorakos, Giorgos Tsakoyiannis, Nikos Yiannopoulos, Yiannis Sotiropoulos, Thanasis Billis and his brother Dimitris Billis.

In 1998, they were all back on the street and things were not the same. Basically, Tsakoyiannis and Yiannopoulos together ran the extortion racket which concentrated on nighclubs and bars in Athens. Before the arrests, the Grigorakos men worked for them. The Grigorakos family (especially Nikos) expanded their extortion territory to include such businesses as parking lots, repair shops, street vendors, etc. It came to the point where 80% of the territory came by Grigorakos hard work attaining new extortion victims. Nick had a saying, "A little from a lot of people..not a lot from a little people." He easily convinced people they could not depend on the police. "Why not pay 50 euros a week to make sure you are protected?", he would plea.

Nikos Yiannopoulos had many hard core soldiers and Giorgos Tsakoyiannis had the high level police connections. Even though the Grigorakos family had done so much for them, N.Y. and G.T. barely shared any of the spoils with the hungry Greek-Americans. So, when they did get out of jail in 1998, tension was in the air moneywise and trustwise. Nick the Greek was collecting extortion money and was not kicking it up the ladder. Whether the Americans were right or wrong, they were "steppin' on toes" left and right. The soldiers split into two camps..the Grigorakos camp and the Yiannopoulos camp. Tsakoyiannis played the neutral mediator but in reality was in the Yiannopoulos camp.

Part Two coming soon!!

BOSS OF BOSSES: TSAKOYIANNIS?

THE BOSS OF BOSSES FOR ATHENS GREECE?
GIORGOS TSAKOYIANNIS








WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT GIORGOS TSAKOYIANNIS? WE KNOW HE WON THE BIG GREEK MAFIA WAR OF THE LATE 1990'S WITH THE GRIGORAKOS FAMILY. WE KNOW HE HAS POLICE OFFICERS AS BODY GUARDS. WE KNOW HE IS NOT KNOWN FOR BEING A TOUGH GUY WITH HIS FISTS BUT INSTEAD USES HIS MIND, HIS CONTACTS, HIS INTELLIGENCE NETWORK, AND HIS HITMEN. WE KNOW HE CONTROLS THE COCAINE MARKET FROM KIFISIA ALL THE WAY TO VARKIZA (ONLY AFTER HIS SOLDIERS CUT HIS PRODUCT AND RE-BRICK IT.) WE KNOW HE LIKES TO HIRE RUSSIANS AND OTHER FOREIGNERS TO DO HIS DIRTY WORK. IN MY NEXT ARTICLE, I WILL GIVE YOU A BLOW BY BLOW OF THE WAR THAT PUT HIM ON TOP.