"Icepick" Vinnie, center, pictured with Anthony Cavezza (aka Tony Bagels), left, and John Brancaccio (aka Johnny Bandanna), right.
Icepick Vinnie was born Vincent Bellatoni in a zoo in Italy in 1929. His viscous temperament lead to charges of vehicular homicide, so he moved to the relatively lawless Antarctica until the situation back home chilled off.
Unfortunately for his moral constitution, the fellas he fell in with down South were even more cold hearted than the fuzz back home. In order to pay back a loan he took out to finance a toboggan, Vinnie did some work for local boss Tommy Sneakers. He never predicted that his icy determination to pay back some cold, hard cash would lead him to climb the ranks of the mob to succeed Tommy and control most of the Antartic Continent.
Finally at the top, Icepick Vinnie decided to return to Italy and put some of his old enemies on ice. He first froze their assets before sending them a chilling message: he was taking over the business. The bosses in Italy said it'd happen when hell froze over. They had no idea what Vinnie was capable of. The streets of Italy quickly turned into a war zone.
Baffled police routinely found dead penguins with stab wounds and no sign of a murder weapon. Those in on the inter-mob fight knew the cause, though. Icepick Vinnie's signature method was an icicle straight through the heart. The murder weapon melted like gelato under the Italian sun.
Before Vinnie could take over Italy, however, the government found him. Secret Service agents traced him down by investigating suspicious businesses with unreasonably high refrigerant intake. Vinnie was charged with leaving the country illegally and tax evasion, and sentenced to 40 years in a small pet carrier.
Vinnie may or may not be or have been in cahoots with the penguin from Wallace and Gromit.
It should be noted that all mafia nicknames were taken from real Italian Americans.
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