TOM'S TESTIMONY 1996 THROUGH 2000 THAT WE ARE AWARE OF

"From two nightclubs, I eventually went to four and to six restaurants. By the time I was thirty years old, I was involved in the longshoremen business, the trucking business, the warehouse business. Every fruit and vegetable, every piece of meat, every fish that came into the ports and the different places in New York City, I was getting a kickback from. I was now making hundreds of thousands of dollars, not just hundreds any more, but hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was growing."

"I was making millions, and I was worried about forty or fifty thousand dollars."

"And I could go down there myself, oversee all these restaurants and expedite everything. And I said, "I'll do better than send somebody down, I'll come down myself. And as far as paying me, don't worry about it. We'll just increase my percentage a little more." By now, I had more percentage in his business than he had. Went down there.[atlanta] And the first thing I asked him, "What is the most exclusive area to live? Where are the more expensive houses?" He told me. I went and got a house there.So, I had this expensive house in an expensive neighborhood. I was already driving a Mercedes. I already had the Rolex. Always walking around with suits. So, the people in the neighborhood thought I was just another yuppie that moved in."

"[I] Went home. Went to sleep. Woke up Saturday morning. When I got up Saturday morning, I just slid to the edge of the bed. I just started looking at the house that I had. Everything inside the house was custom made. The house itself was custom. All the furniture, my jewelry. I had custom touches to the car. Pride began to swell up inside me. I looked at all that I had, and I started remembering how little my father had. And I thought to myself, "My father had two and sometimes three jobs and had nothing. I don't have any job and look at all that I have." And I just looked over everything and I said, "I done this all by myself. Nobody's ever helped me."

"I was thirty-nine years old, making millions and millions of dollars a year."

[HE WAS THIS BIG SHOT, YET NO ONE KNOWS OF TOM PAPANIER OR TOM PAPANIA -- CHECK http://ganglandnews.com do a search!]

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ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION ARCHIVES: 
Witness links Coppola to death plots involving remote-control bombs

Around the same time the murder conspiracy against Forgione was being planned, Biscuiti testified, Coppola and Papanier had had a falling- out that climaxed when Papanier "backhanded" Coppola during a meeting in a Jilly's restaurant in Atlanta. Coppola decided to take Papanier off the Jilly's payroll and stop paying rent on his Dunwoody home...

so, what happened to the millions? we mean, he stated he owned his home, yet was broke when they threw him out? and, if he were a "made" wiseguy, like he states today, HOW could they throw him out?