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| | New Bedford's made man: 9/ 21/ 2003 |
 | | In his days as an underworld prince of New York City's Fulton Fish Market docks, decked out in expensive suits, gold necklaces and wearing whole fistfuls of rings, he was a fearsome, 6-foot-2- inch, 360-pound presence, a full-fledged "made" man you messed with at your peril. |
 | | Romano was once the underworld boss of the Fulton Fish Market in New York, a capo regime -- or captain -- in the Genovese Mafia family that oversaw a Mafia stronghold so thoroughly dominated by the Mob it set a standard for corruption. |
 | | By 1935, when the Romano twins were born, the Fulton Fish market was -- and remains -- the nation's biggest seafood market, and was already under the mob's thumb. |
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