“I mean, both sides shot themselves in the foot at some point.” ‘Who does that?’ “I’m just not sure which side couldn’t shoot straight,” Baldwin, 75, now in private practice, said in an interview. His short-lived breakout took mob observers back to the heyday of La Cosa Nostra in the Lake Ontario city of about 200,000 - where the tragicomedy antics of rival factions at times evoked the third-rate mobsters in Jimmy’s Breslin’s novel “The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight.” A man who federal officials say began a life of crime at the age of 16, Taddeo, 64, was a largely forgotten crime figure until his March 28 escape - less than a year before his likely release - from a Central Florida halfway house while on a medical appointment.
