The Untold Story of a Jersey Legend: A Rare Look at Paulie ‘Walnuts’ Gualtieri in 1978

him a firm place within the criminal hierarchy.

The qualities that later defined him were already visible.

He was obsessively neat, deeply superstitious, loyal to the old code, sensitive to disrespect, and capable of switching from humor to violence without warning.

He represented the classic street soldier of the late 1970s, a man built for an environment continue reading …