Mickey Morris Barra was a veteran member of the Genovese Family’s Bronx regime and identified early on as an inducted “soldier.”Although active in a variety of rackets throughout his life, in later years, Barra was mostly a burglar and strong-arm in his youth and a voracious counterfeiter for decades.
He and his brother once went “on the lam” for eight months for a counterfeiting indictment until a mafioso friend of his by the name of Michael (Mike Rosie) Maione stepped in to help clean up “the mess.”
