Vincent Caserta was a soldier in the Genovese Family under the leadership of Vincent (The Chin) Gigante. He was a local fixture of the Little Italy section for many years and was a very well-known hoodlum and strong-arm man who operated as a shylock in his immediate neighborhood.
In a bit of underworld intrigue and Cosa Nostra “soap opera,” Jimmy Red’s father, Vincent, was beaten in broad daylight along Mulberry Street one afternoon in September 1968 by Michael (Mikey Burns) Granello, the hotheaded son of the notorious Sally Burns. And it didn’t turn out well for Michael or his father.
