Kenny Gallo = FBI Informant
Jerry Capeci writes August 11, 2005:
When [Teddy Persico] walked out of Green Haven, he jumped into a well-stocked stretch limousine that was waiting to take Teddy back to Brooklyn. Among the amenities was a porn star/hooker provided by a family associate with a lucrative online porn and escort business...
Unfortunately for Persico, the porn dealer had also been supplying the FBI information about mob activities from New York to California for four years, and was wired up and on the scene when Carmine L. Persico gave brother Teddy a handgun that triggered his tape-recorded rant about clean and dirty bullets.
8/14/05: I believe the porn star/hooker in this story is Dayton and the porn dealer is Kenny Gallo aka Kenji aka Kenneth V. Gallo (born 6/1/68). The only other person in the car was gangster Eddie Garofalo.
Kenny (half-Japanese (on the father's side), half-Italian) knew Teddy Persico well.
Contrary to the Jerry Capeci report, Gallo doesn't own an online porn and escort business. But as a gangster, he would shake down such businesses, including Exotica-2000. E2K would hire Kenny to collect money from the girls and then write him a check for his efforts.
...[T]the informer has told the FBI that Edward Garofalo – whose father, demolition contractor Edward (The Chink) Garofalo was killed in 1990 on orders from the Dapper Don – is a key Teddy Persico operative and partner in a Staten Island trucking company that was raided last month in a continuing federal grand jury investigation.
Edward Garofalo is related to Keith Gordon, who owns Bizarre Video. They have many businesses together, such as parking garages. Eddie and Keith grew up together.
There's a federal gand jury in New York investigating the bankrupt Jill Kelly Productions, which Keith Gordon partnered with for a year. As Kenny Gallo worked for JKP and for Keith, it is likely that Gallo's reports started that grand jury investigation.
Keith lived across the street from Edward Garofalo's uncle Manny, who's married to one of Keith's relatives.
Keith frequently fronts for Eddie Garofalo. Keith is the nice-guy front for the Mob.
Teddy Persico Jr was headed to become the boss of the Colombo family but Gallo took care of that.
Gallo is now running for his life. There are a lot of people who want him dead, including Donnie Shacks, Jimmy Caci, and Eddie Garofalo.
Teddy Persico's attorney Joseph Corozzo, whose uncle is Gambino capo Nicholas (Little Nick) Corozzo, says the testimony of Kenny Gallo is unreliable.
I call Tabetha Stevens. "I think I've read about your ex-husband."
Tabetha: "That he's ratting everybody out? I don't talk to him. I have no idea. He's a nightmare. He's supposed to be out of the country in protective custody. He's a big liar. Whatever happens, he has it coming. He did a lot of bad things to me. He's been ratting on some big people.
"It's amazing to me how he got in there. To get in that close to get them in that much trouble? He must've done something serious."
Luke: "He was a big cocaine dealer."
Tabetha: "He wasn't that big. He says he was. Kenny likes to fabricate.
"He came crying to me [about a year ago over a porn store Kenny and Tabetha owned in Orange County]. He forged my name on documents. We got sued. I didn't know. I took the store over from him. There was a lean on it. I didn't even know. I had to pay off his debt (over $50,000). He cried to me that he couldn't do it.
"He's going to find out the hard way. He's going to screw with the wrong person at the wrong time and I'm not going to be there to bail him out."
I remember one day in 1998 when James DiGiorgio came barging into Rob Spallone's office and announced: "Kenji's (Kenny Gallo) been busted in a RICO investigation."
Perhaps Kenny went to work for the feds to reduce his own problems with law enforcemen?
Kenny was busted for smuggling kilos of cocaine in 1989. He was one of the West Coast's biggest cocaine smugglers.
In 1998, he was popped by the Las Vegas branch of the FBI in the RICO cases "Operation Thin Crust" and "Operation Button Down." He posted bond. The bust increased his street credibility and enabled him to get more information for the FBI. He wore a wire into various meetings with Mafiosi and their henchmen.
From the February 25, 2003 edition of DP Tonight:
An email comes in inquiring about the private parts of asian men. The four girls deny any knowledge of such things.
Devon squeals to Tabitha: "You've been married to an Asian."
Tabetha's second marriage was to Kenny Gallo aka Kenji, a man who was busted by the feds on a RICO charge because of his connections to organized crime. Kenny is half Japanese and half Italian. He and Tabitha Stevens own an adult bookstore in Orange County. They divorced in 1997.
Tabetha: "He had a dogleg to the left. Last night, Kenny came over to Devon's house. We made him get naked. We made him do the bean dance. We called him Farmer Kenny."
Devon: "He's very subservient."
Tabetha: "That's what I like about him. Every morning, he would bring my orange juice, bagel and vitamins out at 6AM. I wouldn't get up for another six hours. My bagel was a little dry."
I called around the industry to get some reactions to Kenny the Rat.
"He's always prided himself on being an encyclopedia of the Mob," said one guy. "He could name names. He's read every book. His father is rich and owns a bunch of magazines."
Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith (author of the book The Animal in Hollywood, the autobiography of Gallo's friend Anthony Fiato, an ex-gangster) writes about Kenny Gallo in his July 1, 2001 column:
He still has the face of a young man, but he's been running the streets of Los Angeles for years. His eyes are getting old, like maybe they've seen too much.
First it was dope and strong-arm stuff, then he graduated to more sophisticated crime and even a few quasi-legitimate businesses. From cocaine to kink, he's made the rounds.
Eventually, he hooked up with Palm Springs, Calif., mobster Jimmy Caci. He traded on Caci's name and contacts, made a few scores and kicked back money to the aging Mafia figure. Through the years, he developed contacts in Hollywood and the pornography racket.
But by far his most important contact is with the FBI, with whom he has maintained a stormy relationship as a confidential informant on a variety of cases, but most especially the sweeping La Cosa Nostra racketeering case marked by the 1996 murder of Las Vegas mobster Herbie Blitzstein.
Now my man is nervous.
From the archives of l-keford.com 5/18/01:
When Jimmy Caci Shook Down David Sturman
XXX says: You know who sent Jimmy Caci (West Coast mobster whose contacts go up to Sonny Franzese of the Colombo crime family) to Sin City to shake down David Sturman in 1995? It was Ken Gallo, aka Kenji, that Japanese guy who thinks he's a mobster.
You can see Jimmy Caci and Ken Gallo and Tabitha Stevens in this picture.
Gallo claimed that Sin City owed him money. I think they screwed David over which is why David was being a hardass. They got into a screaming match. There were a lot of people in the building when it happened.
Kenny called these people (Jimmy Caci and company) in from Palm Springs. David got into an argument with them. David told they to go f--- themselves. And they said they were going to make a phone call. David said, 'You're going to make a f---ing phone call? I'll make a f---ing phone call. I'll make your f---ing phone call s--- in your pants.' In other words, David can make a bigger phone call. And those guys left.
Luke: They left with thousands of David's dollars.
XXX: They left with way less money than was owed Kenny. I know they settled for less, for like $9,000 out of $15,000. David was ballistic. He was pissed beyond belief. He was screaming. 'You bring these f---ing wiseguys into my f---ing place?' And then David tried to blackball Kenny Gallo. He said that GVA would not buy anything that had Kenny Gallo's name on it. I'm sure he still won't talk to Kenny Gallo.
YYY says: This Israeli guy Ben, through Jerry Zimmerman, sold a movie to Mickey Blank at Sin City. And Sin City never bothered to pay. So Jimmy Caci went down there and collected the money from David Sturman. Later, Sin City owed money to Kenny Gallo for the Buck Adams movie Blade. The video rights were sold to Kevin Beechum and David Sturman bought the foreign and cable rights. David claimed that Buck owned the money and that he didn't owe Kenji any money. So Kenji showed him the copyright on the movie.
So Kenji and Jimmy Caci and a couple of other guys went into Sin City to pay David Sturman a call. And Buck Adams and Mickey Blank and a bunch of guys were there. Buck got thrown out. And David said, 'I don't know what you guys are making such a big deal about. It's only $13,000.'
An argument erupted. David tried to weasel his way out and that he knew people, muscle, too. So Jimmy says, 'Get on the phone bubblegum chewing motherf---er. Call who you've got to call.' And of course, David didn't call anyone because he can't. He has no muscle. Just because you have money doesn't mean anything. Then Mickey Blank interjected until he got told to shut up. And Gallo got his check.
Jimmy Caci made hundreds of thousands of dollars off of porno. But he and the other mobsters hate to be called pimps. But they take the money. They shake people down and they're silent partners with pornographers.
Jimmy Caci was good friends with Butchie and Tony Peraino and LP Duplication and "Big Chris" Natale Richichi (a captain in the Gambino family). Big Chris's son Sal owned L.A. Video with Kevin Beechum. Big Chris lived in Las Vegas. He just died.
In the year 2000, Mickey Blank tried to get Gallo arrested for selling his product. First Blank told the police that it was counterfeit. The Orange County intelligence squad drove all the way into the San Fernando Valley to look into this. Mickey claimed that the only person who could distribute his product was him. And that it was worth $14 a tape. But everyone in the business knows it is worth $2 a tape. It turned out that Mickey Blank's son sold the 400 pieces to Kenji Gallo. And Mickey and the police looked like idiots.
Amber Lynn got high on crack cocaine and held Kenji Gallo hostage. The SWAT team got the gun away from her. She ran. They grabbed her. They held her on $30,000 bail. She called and threatened Kenji 20-30 times in a day and they pressed charges against her for making telephonic threats. And placed a six-year restraining order against her.
I call Kevin Beechum and ask: "Who is Kenny Gallo aka Kenji?"
Kevin: "Kenny's a f---ing little punk Chinese f---er that thinks he's a wiseguy Italian."
Luke: "He seems to have a lot of connections."
Kevin: "He's was a little f---ing runner for the boys in the day that would do anything and so he was associated with some. Big deal. The coattails, he's trying to scare everybody. Or he gets them to come into their office like he did with David [Sturman]. After that, David called me and f--- dude, I called Kenny and said, 'Bring them punks over here.' And they were too chicken to come over."
Luke: "Could you have handled Jimmy Caci? He's a big mobster."
Kevin: "He can suck dick."
Luke: "What's Kenny's full name?"
Kevin: "I don't know dude. He's f---ing Chinese. He's got four different names that he tries to go by and puts Italian names on. Who f---ing knows. He didn't shake down David like that. They went in there but as soon as they walked out of there, David called me. I got right on Kenny's f---ing ass and those guys. And they actually got together and called me on the phone through a mediator and they asked me to not be after them and be pissed off after them."
7/12/01
David Sturman Blackballs Kenny Gallo From Jill Kelly Shoot
I hear that Sin City Video owner David Sturman blackballed porn producer Kenny Gallo from working on a shoot for Jill Kelly Productions this week at the Sin City studio.
An inside source says: "David made a deal with Buck Adams. And Buck owed Kenny Gallo money. So Kenny took it upon himself to hire these junior Mafia guys to extort money from David because Buck owed him. Sturman bought the foreign rights to the movie. And once David got paid, David paid Buck. And then Kenny Gallo showed up at David's door.
"David could've made calls to New York but he worried about his family. So he just paid the money and that was it.
"David didn't know who these mobsters were. They were these midget Italian guys. David called Kevin and Beechum said he'd take care of these guys. David's a Jewish guy from the suburbs and is not used to this."
2/10/06
Background On Kenny Gallo, The Primary Author Of HollywoodMafia.com
Gallo is a convicted cocaine dealer and law enforcement informant. He produced many porn movies, was married to Tabitha Stevens, and hung out with numerous porners and Mafia-types.
Orange County Sheriff's Department investigator Michael L. Currey in 1990 prepared this statement of probable cause to get a search warrant:
...Genises, a nightclub and sushi bar located at 23311 Muirlands Blvd, El Toro, CA. We had received information that vice and narcotic violations, specifically the sales of cocaine, money laundering, and/or loan sharking had been...occurring at this business.
On 1-20-90 the Orange County Fire Department investigated a possible arson at the nightclub Genises. The owners were identified as:
1. Caselini, Antonio Luciano (10-6-56) [Not the famous Dr. Antonio Caselini, the professor]
2. [Gallo], Kendall Sawyer (6-1-68)
3. England, Darren David (12-4-66)During the investigation, a confidential informant (C/I) came forward... The C/I told me that subjects Darren England and Kendall [Gallo] were involved in the sales of cocaine. The C/I further stated that their share of the money to buy Genises had come from cocaine sales, and that there is a current "rift" between [Gallo] and England vs. Caselini over ownership and money debts.
...Both [Gallo and England] had sold a great deal of cocaine during 1989. Both had lived at 21971 Rimhurst, #H, El Toro. During this time, they formed a "semi-organized crime" outfit and were distributing cocaine with amounts as much as "kilo quantity."
[Gallo and England] hid their money under the alias name Ramon Gonzalez at Home Federal Savings at 4543 Campus Drive, Irvine.
Wise Guy writes April 14, 2006:
There's a federal gand jury in New York investigating the bankrupt Jill Kelly Productions, which Keith Gordon partnered with for a year. As Kenny Gallo worked for JKP and for Keith, it is likely that Gallo's reports started that grand jury investigation.
Keith lived across the street from Edward Garofalo's uncle Manny, who's married to one of Keith's relatives. Keith frequently fronts for Eddie Garofalo. Keith is the nice-guy front for the Mob.
Teddy Persico Jr was headed to become the boss of the Colombo family but Gallo took care of that. Gallo is now running for his life. There are a lot of people who want him dead, including Donnie Shacks, Jimmy Caci, and Eddie Garofalo. Teddy Persico's attorney Joseph Corozzo, whose uncle is Gambino capo Nicholas (Little Nick) Corozzo, says the testimony of Kenny Gallo is unreliable.
Kenny Gallo writes April 12, 2006:
We soon decided to do some business with Peter North, so I had my guy Ramon bring him the cash for two movies. We took him the cash in a Carls Jr paper bag, we had changed it all to 20 dollars bills. We had been getting paid in real street cash, so just getting twenties was miracle. Peter knew that all our cash was coming from cocaine, but he didn’t care he just wanted to make cash. We had decided to shoot to films back to back so that we could maximize our profit. We used the same location and crew for both films. They films were National Poontangs Sex Vacation and Haunted Passions, which we filmed at comedian Sam Kinison's home.
...I found this on Jerry Zimmerman! Jerry is speaking to me on Wiseguy speak on the site. An (NYC) FBI investigation of organized crime's inroads in movie industry examined; surveillance of "Cry of the City" executive producers Jerry Zimmerman and Michafrankestese cited as example Scenes, starring Sammy Davis, Junior, shown. Zimmerman's and Franzese's criminal background and their reputed membership in organized crime family, the Colombo Mafia family, discussed. Alleged control of organized crime's role in movie industry said attributed to John "Sonny" Franzese; details given. "Deep Throat, Texas Chainsaw Massacre" reported allegedly financed by and with profits going to the mob. [US attorney Rudolph GIULIANI - believes Michael Franzese is following in father's footsteps.] Vatican noted issuing special blessing for Zimmerman and Franzese in Miami, Florida. [Miami Beach Mayor Malcolm FROMBERG - presents Franzese with key to city and special police pass.] [FRANZESE - dismisses FBI claims he's a member of Colombo family.] FBI's later arrest of Franzese on racketeering chgs. detailed.
We made a good profit from the two porn films we made with Peter North aka Matt Ramsey. The problem with Peter was he was lazy. He also did not like telling people he was in the porn biz. So he had all this guilt or something and he could not sleep. Peter is a Canadian Citizen so he traveled to Canada and was arrested because he had warrants. Ramon bailed him out. I decided to get more involved because I knew we could make cash if we worked it. I was given a company and a name by a friend, so I drove up to the valley.
The company was TGA and the guy was Mike Esposito. TGA was Teddy Gaswirth and Associates, but Teddy left for Florida. Mike was a cool guy who had a lot of the same friends as I had. Mikes Father Sal had been a driver for Tony Ducks the boss of the Lucchese Family. Mike Had grown up in Italian Harlem by Rao’s restaurant. I liked Mike right away, so I knew we would do business. It is funny but when I got into porn, I did not know much about it. I had never really watched the films and I didn’t care about magazines. I did buy them when I was in Military school, but that was a while back. I was one woman guy and I was faithful to my girlfriends. So while Ramon and Phil might have gotten into porn for the woman, I did not. I had not even gone to our sets when we were filming.
Peter North had brought us to this guy who produced films named Jim at West Coast Films. Jim was a nice guy who would take our cash to shoot films. Later on Jim would be known as Uncle Roy in a popular Amateur video series. I brought the cash up to the set which was located at an Avocado farm. The set was known as the Avocado farm and it was past the valley. I was with my friend Chuck who later would became a Vago MC member. The first person I met on set was Christy Canyon and she was half naked. I was a little shy because I had never been around a woman like that in person. She took me to the set where they were already filming a sex scene. Jimbo was behind a monitor with headphones on watching the action. I handed Jimbo the sack of cash and he handed it back to me. Jimbo asked me to pay everyone so I could figure out how everything Worked.
I was up in Porn Valley all the time because we were filming a lot. I was up in the Chatsworth area one day, so I stopped by my friend Frank Rubin’s office. Frank was a former Bookie/ Head of the Projectors Union and he owned a company called Dreamland. Frank’s partner was a guy named Perry Ross. Perry was a big steroid guy who was an asshole. One day I was seated in Frank’s office and he came charging into the place screaming. The guy was big, but he was not what he thought. He never touched me or anything in the office. Later Perry would be given a hot shot in Amsterdam where he was collecting some cash. That was no lose to the world. So Frank introduced me to Jerry Zimmerman a huge guy, but funny and good-natured. Jerry was 6’5 and 300 pounds easy, but he was a smooth conman. I liked Jerry right away. Jerry was from New York where he had run with Sonny Franzese. He had just gone through the whole Gas House Gang RICO case with his Sonny’s son Michael Franzese. They had made a big budget motion picture in Miami that was called the Knights of the City. Michael and his guys had also stolen 300 million in State and Federal Gas Taxes. Michael had not put out his book Quitting the Mob yet so Jerry was just another New York wise guy hustling in LA.
Kenny Gallo writes April 21, 2006:
I put up some more cash with Peter North so we could shoot two more films. This is where I met Savannah aka Shannon Wisley. I could not get over how stunning and sexy she was on the set.
I couldntn't understand how a girl that good looking was in porn. I was around her all day and I soon figured out why she was there. She was a bitchy, selfish girl and she had a mean drug problem. She told me she was doing a lot of cocaine. She was kind of a rock groupie. I liked her and I thought she was fine.
I decided at this point to go my own way and not work with Peter North. He was lazy and I just could not take him. He showed up at 5pm on the set and then he wanted to be paid as a director plus talent! The guy never helped us sell the films; I was doing it by then. We also had a falling out over the fact that he was a GAY pornstar named Matt Ramsey. I did not care that he was a cock smoker. He made a big deal because I was buying the master of one of the films he did as Matt. It was all business and it was cheap.
I had this guy directing films for me named Vinny Rossi and he was making me cash. So one day Vinny calls me up scared and he tells me he can no longer work for me. I ask him why and he tells me Butchie Perrano wants to kill him! I was making 10 grand a month from this guys work, so no way was I going to let Butchie mess with my guy. He told me Butchie came to one of my sets and threatened him. I wanted to bring a motorcycle up there and take care of the Butchie problem. Cooler heads prevailed, so I called Jerry Zimmerman who spoke to Big Tony Perrano, Butchie's father.
We set up a meeting in Mike Esposito and Tommy Sinopoli's office. Butchie claimed Vinny owed him 50 grand. I told Vinny that no way was he going to pay Butchie a cent. So got my friend Keith to come up with me. Keith was to sit in the car outside the office with our guns. Keith was always game for anything and I used him often. We had the meeting in Tommy's office. Butchie was there with his Father. Jerry Zimmerman was there for me because he was close to Sonny Franzese. I went into the meeting with it set in my mind that I would not pay him a cent. I just told Butchie that Vinny was with me. Butchie started screaming that if he was with me I owed him the cash. Big Tony asked what the cash was for and Butchie explained that it was for some films. Big Tony told him that Vinny had given him the films when he was locked up and he did not owe the money. Butchie was pissed at me but he looked at his father.... We shook hands and we walked away. I walked out and jumped into the car with Keith. There was no way I was going to let Butchie have any of our cash. He was just a blowhard that was nothing. He did own Deepthroat and later we became friends.
Kenny Gallo writes April 23, 2006:
Jack Rausch the German...wanted to make a porn film and [with] some of his cash. Jack had his own script he wanted to do. So I set up a meeting with my guy Vinny Rossi. Jack picked the dates he wanted to film based on his witchcraft. Then he told Vinny he wanted it dark and Vampire-like. We found this porn star named Madison to be the lead. We were shooting at this sound stage in Arleta it was the 4 play studio.
There were two of these so called agents in the porn biz. One is Jim South at World Modeling and the other is Reb, this old biker type. They try to make people pay at the time 50 dollars per girl that you shoot. We never got our girls through them and they would do nothing for their agents fee.
So Reb told me we had to pay him something like 350 for the girls on my set or else. I just laughed at him. We were standing in the parking lot of the sound stage taking a break in between shots, when Reb pulls into the lot with two guys. I was standing with Vinny Rossi, two Columbians, two Hoover Crips, my friend Chuck and this big wrestler Mat. I looked at the guys standing their and everyone had a pistol.
Reb walked up and tried to speak to me. I just told Chuck to tell him to leave. I said Chuck tell this guy this is a closed set and he is not welcome. Reb tried to speak to me and I just said tell this old loser we have no business with him. We all just laughed at him until he left. We made money on this film when we sold it to Russ [Hampshire] at VCA. We were still moving cocaine to our customers, but we were keeping a low profile.
5/1/06
The telemarketing rooms brought in a huge amount of cash. We were handling so many charges because we had so many rooms giving us there charges. The reason there were so many charge backs was because the “vacation Package” was not great. It was a two night stay at a fort Lauderdale Beach front hotel and a two day cruise. The hotel was the smallest on the strip and the ships were not so great. They guys inside the rooms would sell these mid-westerners the vacations over the phone or with doctored pictures. We also used to bang out the people cards at a later date. Some people paid by check to be on the safe side, that made it easy. We would make a copy of the check and pass it. Things were going smoothly until someone in Mexico noticed how much money we had going through our accounts. They demanded more money or fee’s, and we paid them. They got greedy and came back for more, so we paid again. Then it became a demand for more money so we told them no way! That was it! They seized our office equipment and froze our accounts. That was it, we lost 86,000 and we were kicked out of the country.
The loss of the Mexican business hurt, but we had to step it up to keep going. I was shooting porn down in Florida, so that brought in cash. I also had my bad check business going strong. I was flying back to California all the time so I kept up things there. I would come back and Black Dave would drive me around. I was shooting porn movies and then I would trade them for product that I would sell in Florida. This was a good way maximize my cash. Most porn companies are slow payers. They drag payments out or bounce checks. The bigger they are the longer they take to pay. They figure you should be happy to work with them.
I started hanging out with PJ Sparxx a porn star. PJ was very pretty, when she was slim, she would get bloated. She was a dyke and I think she hated men. I liked her and she introduced me to a lot of porn girls.
Jerry had come up with some scam where they were able to get a truckload of Televisions. I guess they were being dropped at off at this guy Paul’s warehouse and things got screwed up. Jimmy Caci was around when this was going down. He had an argument with Ori and he slapped him. Ori turned white and almost started to cry. Paul ended up getting arrested for the TV, fiasco and Jerry bailed him out. I had met these Chinese and Vietnamese guys who were chipping cell phones. They showed me how they chipped phones so we could make free calls. You could get two months back then before they shut you down. I went out and bought a box and chip burner so I had my own business going in California. I used to charge 50 or 100 dollars a phone to chip a flip phone. There was zero risk back then because the coppers did not know a thing about it. I would drive around and grab data to burn my chips. I showed some guys I knew well how to do it so they could make cash for me when I was in Florida.
5/2/06
Kenny Gallo's Adventures In Mob-Porn Land
I have written about this garbage pail Ori Spado before and today I will begin to tell the story of Ori. I was home on one of my trips back to LA from Florida, when Jerry [Zimmerman] called me. He told me to drop by because he had something for me. I knew It was a score because Jerry always had something good. Jerry was at his office with Ori when I came by. Ori had gotten a hold of a porn film that was shot by a guy who worked on Michael Franzese’s [1986] breakdance movie Knights of the City. It was worth about 60,000, but Ori had the masters, the releases and the stills. The split was to be three ways, so I was to get 30,000 for the thing. Ori needed a check for 1,000 to hold something so I gave him one from my production account. He promised he would not cash it. The next day I check my accounts and I found that I was down a 1,000. I knew Ori had tried to put a move on me. So I called up this Israeli porn guy I knew and I sold him the film for 10,000. I only took 10,000 because that is what I had coming. I gave my friend Keith a grand to find Ori and hurt him. I was out looking for Ori at the same time. Ori heard I was looking for him. He tried to call me a couple of times. He was hiding out at his Swall rent a place. He tried to get the film back but that was gone. I have a way of dealing with guys like him. I say this once it goes into my pocket, it never comes out. Yes I burned Ori and look he could do nothing.. You can hear him making threats like a bitch under the Tough guy sound on the site. That fat Moe looking limp dick tried every threat and I just laughed at him. He had Billy call me, Jimmy called me, Jerry called me. I told everyone no way would I do anything with him. I just said I would hurt him. Jimmy [Caci] finally asked me to meet him. I did because I had nothing to fear from Ori “the Capone Turd”. Jimmy asked me to make peace with Ori. So I did because I made money with Jerry and those guys.
I also met Jill Kelly at a strip club before she was Jill Kelly. I went with my Porn Lawyer Mark to a club owned by a friend of Jimmy Caci and Louie Gelfuso. This guy Mike owned a couple of clubs in LA and now he owns one in Las Vegas. I saw Jill on stage when we were seated by the stage, so I waited for her to finish her set. I asked her to sit with us and she did. We got along real good right away. The next day I was in the Video Exclusives office and she walked inside. That night I was at a party at Lawry’s and she was seated next to me. That is how we became friends. I had to leave LA for Florida, so I just took her number and told her I would call her when I came back.
5/3/06
Kenny Gallo's Porn Career
I had to leave Florida because I was not wanted by the State. They did not want me to transfer my parole. That was it and that was the end of my work there. I did learn a lot and I had fun. Billy taught me a lot and introduced me to a whole world of characters. I packed up my stuff and drove home.
Th... OC had changed very little. The cocaine biz was dead, because there was no real money to be made and you could get real time. My pal Jerry [Zimmerman] had turned on me after all the things we had done together. He gave me so much information and did so many things with me. He was really nothing more than a drugged out surfer. He used to do lines of cocaine across the table. He banged girls with us and he was down. I would find this often in my life of crime. I learned that you could depend on nobody but yourself. It would be many years before I would see Jerry again, but he would cause me grief. I still did things with Jerry because he made money.
I was shooting porn all the time in the valley. I was working with this guy Chuck Martino who was talent. Chuck was a hustler so he would get new girls that we could shoot them. I had made a couple of Video’s early on that were sold to this guy named Kevin Beechum. Kevin had a small place that was next to AFV. K-Beech was the name of his company. Kevin was a big guy who could bang. He was a nasty drunk. Kevin was also a fun guy to be around. Kevin made money and he had a secret. The secret Kevin had was that he had helped bomb and vandalism some video stores.
Mickey Fine who was an associate of Reuben Sturman came to Kevin for help in forcing some bookstore owners to pay Rubin. Kevin hired some of his biker friends to carry out the bombing. There is plenty online about this. A man was killed on the way to the bookstore when a bomb went off. Kevin made a deal with the Feds and Mickey Fine would now die in prison. Chuck was good friends with Kevin, so we were around him a lot. Kevin even loaned Chuck money for a liposuction surgery!
Chuck and I began shooting Jill Kelly like crazy. We were either shooting her or she was working in a Buck Adams film. Chuck was in love with Jill who was still married. Jill had separated from her husband and had an apartment on her own. Cal Jammer was becoming more distraught by the day. One night he went to her apartment and he killed himself outside with a gunshot to the head. Chuck and Buck would claim they spoke to Cal before and a lot of people blamed Jill. Jill was in a bad way and she let Chuck take advantage of her. Chuck and I shot her a lot to help her out with cash after that.
Kendra Jade, Kenny Gallo, Dayton
Kenny Gallo writes May 8, 2006:
I was around Tabitha Stevens a lot after we came back from Hawaii. I was staying at her place in the Valley, so I was around LA a lot more. Jimmy [Caci] had been locked up for the Telemarketing, but we were working on his release. We finally were able to get him an appeal bond and a new lawyer. Jimmy asked me to come to breakfast at the Sportsman’s lodge in Encino. I brought Tabitha with me so that she could meet Jimmy.
Jimmy was seated at the table with Ori when I walked into the place. Jimmy is a real old school gentleman who will never cuss in front of a woman. Ori [Spado] is just an uncouth turd. We sat down had a great breakfast while Jimmy told stories. Jimmy then pulled out a white envelope that he opened up and poured out some diamonds. It was a dazzling sight and it made Tabitha smile. Jimmy and Ori were trying to raise money to pay Jimmy’s expenses. So they asked me if I wanted to them raise money by hitting people up for cash.
I was making movies with Buck Adams at this point. Bucks porno were films not Gonzo no plot video’s like Chuck’s. We were going to be selling these to cable. Buck was a walking disaster! He was jacked up on cocaine and booze everyday. Buck was a big dreamer and he thought he was making real movies.
One day when I was over at Bucks place his sister Amber Lynn stopped by. I had never met Amber but I knew that she was a legend in the porn biz. The minute I saw her I knew we would end up being close. She was just dancing at this point and was not in the biz anymore. We spoke for a couple of hours and she ended up giving me her number. So I was now out with Amber all the time. It was strange because I really liked Amber, but I was with Tabitha.
So with my personal life all messed up, I kept up my criminal career. I was with Jimmy a lot, meeting bookies and assorted other guys at the track. We were getting cash from all these guys, so life was great. I also met other guys in the LA Family during this time. I would drive Jimmy around all day and we would meet people. One day we drove to the Valley to a deli and we met this short buff guy with kind of hook nose. This little guy was Louie Caruso and Jimmy told me he was a made guy. I immediately did not like him because he was arrogant , like he had a chip on his shoulder.
Kenny Gallo writes May 7, 2006:
Guys like Ori "Al Capone" Spado, a man with sugar and tubby little body who yells.. This man was a paid informant that hides behind the coppers so he can make threats. He gets with hookers and then he can't get it up. Limpy! Then we have Pat Mumbles and his Tranny Dana... Why does his wife Daun put up with this? Mumbles always making like he is with Danny Pagano! He knows nobody but that Fat Obese John Groundbeef! What a joke the are... I have to bash Jerry the Copper because he is the worst. He is a user and he was with me doing drugs selling his information. I will be posting this guys name and department after I go on a radio or TV show.
Kenny Gallo writes May 8, 2006:
Amber Lynn and I were together a lot. I liked hanging with her because she would go to cool places. We were all over Hollywood. We would be in Spago’s or down on Sunset. One day when we were at Cravings on Sunset and we met a girl there. She was a pretty girl from Canada who had just gotten a boob job. Amber and her had the same Doctor. The Doctor had messed up and her Boob was deflating. It had only been a week! The girl had no money, but her friend had paid for the boob job. She was from Canada and did not know anyone in LA except for her friend. Amber took up her cause and just let the Doctor have it! She was calling him all the time. Finally the Doctor agreed to do the surgery for free.
We went up to the place where the girl was living. It was that yellow building Sunset Plaza. The girl who she was living with? Pam Anderson! Pre Tommy Lee! She had a place there because her condo was damaged during the earthquake! Amber could either be a good friend or a nightmare, that day Amber was a good friend.
I went with Amber to the Pink Poodle strip club in San Jose while she featured. She was this big star, but the place was a dump! She started treating me like I was s---. We were hanging out with this HAMC guy named Steve or Mister 187 as his Tattoo on his arm and back said. I thought Steve was a cool guy. He was not the kind of guy I would usually hang with. He was tough and we had some of the same friends. After two days of putting up with Ambers crap I took a plane home and that was that.
Once back in LA I was still running around with Jimmy Caci raising cash for his defense. He was even getting money from Telemarketers. The guy Mike who owned the strip clubs gave him cash all the time. I was burned out on hitting up the same people, so I decided to hit up some new people. I had heard about this guy named Johnny who was pimping out some porn girls. He was making some big cash because the girls were going out for 5 grand a customer. I was all about taking his cash. I asked him to be partners with us first and he did not get it. So I took my buddy Keith and another guy to his house. He looked like he was high at the time, so we just got into his face. I asked him for 40 grand and he said okay. Keith followed him into the other room and he gave it to us! I felt stupid after we left because he gave up the cash way to easy! We did not even have to go to guns! I do not know why he did this or how much he was making!
Chuck [Martino] called me one night and told me there was a coming home party for this guy who used to be a pro football player. Big Barry had been busted with multiple kilos of cocaine, so he did sometime in prison and now he was out. This guy was a good friend of Kevin Beechum, so we were all going out in the OC. We had dinner at some place in Fountain Valley. There were some HAMC guys and other biker types. We all headed down to Newport to the Warehouse nightclub to party. Some s--- went down in the bathroom and Kevin had broken a bottle. The bottle had cut into Kevin’s hand and wrist so blood was shooting out of it. When I walked into the bathroom blood was everywhere and people were running out of there. Once we had Kevin elevate his arm and we wrapped his hand it was almost stopped. We ended up in the hospital the rest of the night getting Kevin stitches!
I get a lot of email from guys who want to know about my time in Porn. I was in it for the money, that was it. It was easy and I could wash cash. There are a lot of misfits in porn. Sexual deviates, felons and just plain moronic. The girls? What can they do after they f--- on film? They have no real future. They try to tell the girls Porn will be a stepping stone to something better. What? It never comes for many. I was around Savannah the real one Shannon. She was so pretty. She was really messed up. She was a bitch. She was also strung out on drugs. She finally realized that she did not matter. The industry used her up and when she was no longer fresh they spit her out. Amber Lynn she was huge! She made feature dancing. She made so much money. She used to make a 1000.00 a show with an 18 show minima. The club used to have to send her a deposit before she would sign and block out the dates. Today Tony Lee and his ilk send clubs girls who cannot draw and then never back their own dancers. The girls in porn make most of their cash from "SIDEWORK" which is just a code name for hooking. I have been there with them. I have seen the cash and the credit card slips. Its a sad life that will lead down.
Me? I did what I did. I dealt cocaine, sold guns, pills took action, shylocked out cash and fraud lots of fraud. I have paid my dues. I have tried to put things right. Maybe I never can, but I have tried. My life has been a total train wreck. People post up here that I lie. There are no lies here. Before I left the street my every move, my every word, email etc.. Was documented. How many years? I know a lot. My buddy Jerry the Cop told me when I first got into porn that it would be bad. He said the next thing you know you will be dating these girls. LOL How right was he? Then again this came out of a guy who swore an othe to protect and serve the public. The same guy who gave me cocaine, taught me how to be a super criminal and ran WSIN checks on people. Jerry knew I was going to hurt people, but he did it anyway. With guys like Jerry and then Jimmy Caci around me of course I turned out like I did. Who was the worse guy I met? Lets see all the killers I knew in Brooklyn, even the guys who killed the cop. No Jerry was the worse.
Las Vegas is just a one trick pony! The whole place is supported by gaming. If we had a depression or even another big terrorist attack the place would return to the desert it really should be. I do not like to gamble. I feel like I am pissing my money away. The odds are with the house. Why do you think they have billion dollar casino's? I was bored out of my mind in Las Vegas with Tabitha. There are only so many movies to watch and books to read. I wanted to be in the OC or LA working!
Tabitha [Stevens] is a lazy girl. She makes money and then stops working instead of working steady and putting some away. She does not get that it will not always be there. This is how I found myself standing outside the RIO Casino. Tabitha was inside playing some machine for 50 bucks a pull. She was going to have lunch with one of the owners son and a VIP Host named Tony. The host Tony I would see again lying on the stand in a Federal drug trial. Fat Tony, John Bronco and this kid I knew as Musso pulled up in a Cadillac and I jumped into the back. John Bronco was talking his tough guy s--- and Fat Tony was lying because his mouth was open. John was going on about how I needed to make a choice. A choice about who I was going to be with. He was trying to get me to commit to Las Vegas. What the hell was there in Las Vegas? John Bronco? So Fat Tony drove us by a condo complex and he pointed out a place he said Fat Herbie lived. He told both Musso and I that Fat Herbie used an auto door opener and we could get him then. I did not say anything, but I was shocked because this was the first I heard of this. I had not heard anything from Jimmy. Jimmy liked Herbie, Herbie had been in Boron with Jimmy and his brother. Herbie sold them cars. John Bronco told us Milano wanted it done. I could tell he was full of s---. We drove to a Blue Berry Hill restaurant over in Henderson. I remember that there was a Gold's Gym in the same parking lot. Fat Steve Cino was in the parking lot. We all spoke to Fat Steve. John told him that I wanted to move to Las Vegas and work with them. Fat Steve looked at me because he knew that I was with Jimmy. I told him I would do things in Las Vegas when I was there but that I was staying in the OC. Then they brought up Fat Herbie and Fat Steve told them that he would speak to Herbie. They wanted a piece of his Shylock business. Fat Steve was already getting cash from Herbie. John and fat Tony tried to pressure Fat Steve, but he blew them off and went inside to eat. We had to sit at a table because Fat Steve could not fit in a booth! I would stay in Las Vegas a week and then being the OC for week. It was a lot of driving. I was still working on Eve's Beach Fantasy. I had to shoot a bunch of exteriors and pick up shots around Newport Beach. It would just be April and I doing the work. I would shoot it all on my 16mm camera. April was a fun girl and she was nice, we had a lot of long talks during this time. Tabitha was thinking about going on the road as a feature dancer. I was hoping she would just go. I could tell this marriage was a huge mistake. I was in and now I would have to ride it out. So I kept up my end of the deal.
This weekend it was my friend The Animal's [Anthony Fiato] Birthday! He is a good friend. He been there for me through all this s---. He knows that there is more to life than this fake LCN crap.
So one day while all this crap was going on in Las Vegas, I ended up working late with April. We then went out to a club by my place. We were at Twin Palms and one of my friends had some GHB. I took a couple of cap fulls and was blasted! April was a good girl and did not drink or anything. We messed around, really I was all over her. My wife Tabitha was out on the road cheating on me anyway. I think Canada, the House of Lancaster. So April and I hooked up. When we got back to my place the phone kept blowing up, I knew it was not Tabitha so oh well. April listened to the voicemails and it was a former girlfriend of mine Stripper Becky. She said she was turning on the gas and was going to kill herself. I was so f---ed up I just wanted to sleep. So I past out. The next thing I knew there were 5 OC Sheriffs and some Newport Beach Coppers in my place. I woke up to these coppers April let them inside. They told me to calm down that they were not there to arrest me. They could not trace Stripper Becky’s phone to her address because it was a Big Complex in Laguna Nigel. I was so f---ed up I had to speak over a radio to walk the guys to her house. They made it and saved her, probably saved the complex. April the do gooder! Jimmy was never supposed to leave Palm Springs, but he was in Las Vegas. He would take the back way from Palm Springs and then stay with friends in Las Vegas. Felons are supposed to register when in town for more than 24 hours. We never did. Later when I was doing pump and dump we would meet at Stateline or Baker to avoid the eye's. Jimmy met with John Bronco and Fat Steve at the Italian Deli. John Bronco again brought up Fat Herbie. Jimmy tried to give John back some cash. John would not take it, he came right back after he left and asked Jimmy for some money. I met Jimmy and Fat Steve at Nicky Blair’s for dinner. Jimmy then told me to be careful around John Bronco. Jimmy told me not trust him and that Vince Lupo was doing a lot with John. I wondered why Jimmy was taking cash from him. I spoke to Fat Steve about Fat Tony. I told him I did not like him or trust him. After dinner Jimmy and I went to a sportsbook. Jimmy played the horses and lost. I bet some games. I was working with Vince at this point to get some Telemarketing cash. I kept Jimmy in the Lupe by giving him cash.
I had an office in Valencia with Vince Lupo, we were paying cash to phone rooms for their checks. So say if it was a hundred bucks we would pay 50.00 and then we would turn them in to Mitch Gold or Tim Lyons for 93.00. It paid the bills. Vince was doing some check schemes with this guy Vern. They would make checks using the ones we bought and then cash them or buy things with them. They also made fake cashiers checks with Fat Tony and bought things at the Las Vegas trade shows. I passed on all that bulls---. I would open merchant accounts and have some 200.00 dollar office in La Habra where we would bang cards for under 20 bucks a pop. We had thousands of cards thanks to porn websites and stores that sold me copies of the carbon. We could get 3 months out of an office. It was easy and there was no risk. I loaned Fat Tony like 400 bucks and he beat me. What a loser. I wanted to torch his car. I drove by one night to do it and someone had thrown a wooden pole through the windshield! He must have pissed off some other guy.
So I was back in Las Vegas with Tabitha, staying at her Grandmothers home. I called Fat Steve and we met at Marie Calendars by Summerlin. Fat Steve was upset about his crazy son. We spoke for an hour about Fat Tony and John Bronco. I told Fat Steve that I wanted to do something to Fat Tony. He told me to just hold on and then I could. We spoke in the parking lot and we saw a guy taking our pictures. I went back to Tabitha's Grandmothers and we went to see a movie. That night Tabitha was in a Xanex coma, but I was up early. I turned on the Las Vegas News and Fat Herbie was all over it! he had been shot the night before! I knew right away that John Bronco and Fat Tony had something to do with it. They owed him money and had been talking a lot of s--- on him. They wanted him dead. They egged people on. I called Jimmy he was upset. I packed up and left because I wanted nothing to do with Las Vegas Coppers. I was supposed to check in with the coppers when I was in town but I never did. I called Vince and he knew we were all in trouble. It really sucked and it put a lot of heat on us. The next day John Bronco and Fat Tony were off the street. When s--- like that goes down you know you are sunk. You try and remember any little thing you said or did with the guys. You try and figure out in your mind how long they were wearing a wire. Then you just wait. The wait is what kills you. It eats away at your mind. You begin to feel physical pain because you know that one morning the FBI will come with a warrant. You hope you will be showered with warm clothes on, because it will be a full 24 hours before you will get a shower or change of clothes. I was held one time for almost 10 days with out a change of clothes or a proper meal. I was held in a city jail over a holiday weekend. It sucked!