Modeste (Mickey Morris) Barra was a soldier and influential member of the Genovese Crime Family.
Although active in a variety of rackets throughout his life, Barra was mostly a burglar and strong-arm in his youth and a voracious counterfeiter for decades in later years!
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 Maione stepped in to help clean up “the mess.”
