Finally proof: the real mafia and the Hollywood version of the underworld have become one and the same. True and false came together during a remarkable 1999 Christmas party in Little Italy that was under FBI surveillance, the Daily News has learned.
Another participant at the Goodfellas meeting on Mulberry Street was The Godfather's James Caan, the source said. The intersection of myth and reality was discovered on a cold night in December 1999 when law enforcement agents secretly surveilled the restaurant after learning that Columbos were gathering there, a source told The News.
Source: New York Daily News