Thomas DeSimone was born in squalor.
 When DeSimone heard about the threat, he went to Jerothe's apartment and killed him
 DeSimone was also the brother-in-law of mobster Joseph "The Barber" Spione, who was slain for refusing to help kill DeSimone in the late 1970s, and the ex-son-in-law of Gambino associate Salvatore DeVita

