Biography of Johnny Ramano played by John J. Cornetta in Lynch Mob in theaters September 18, 2009 
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He first appears in the 2009 mafia horror film Lynch Mob as Captain of the Giovanni crime family. He is the nephew to the family's boss Anthony Giovanni [ Tony Darrow] who is more like a father to Johnny since Johnny's father disappeared and was assumed dead or in Witness Protection Program when Johnny was only 8 years old. That was the same time that Johnny, his younger sister Maria and Johnny's Mother Marutzi were all brutalized by a young gang of thugs in an alley way just outside of the city in Pearl River
New York. The gang raped both Johnny's mother Marutzi and his kid sister Maria, killing her and forcing Johnny to watch it all. Johnny's mother killed herself a few days later and Johnny was raised by Anthony Giovanni and his wife, Johnny's Aunt Philomene whom Johnny affectionately calls Nanny
Biography of Johnny Ramano played by John J. Cornetta in Lynch Mob in theaters September 18, 2009
Johnny is the son of would be family Don Ferdinando DiMayo and Marutzi Luciano.
John J. Cornetta and Tony Darrow F.B.I. photo Lynch MobJohnny has a chip on his shoulder for anyone who would even dare touch or hurt a woman. The death of his sister and mother marked in his brain forever. This noble trait is not so noble in an underground crime family and throughout the film it puts Johnny at odds with the family and himself.
John J. Cornetta who portrays Johnny Ramano worked closely with business partner and writer Scott Stamper when creating the character. Part of the influence on Johnny's overly protective tendencies is based on Cornetta's own youth. Cornetta, born and raised in Piermont N.Y. was the youngest of four children to Joseph and Patricia Cornetta. Cornetta had three older sisters, Pattie, Anita and Lisa but no brothers. His fathers sister Adel Cornetta tragically lost her husband John Post to an auto accident just months before John was born. John J. Cornetta, who was set to be named Joseph Anthony Cornetta, was named after his deceased uncle. His now widowed aunt was now left to raise their two little girls Debbie and Lynne with John's father Joseph assuming the father role John now had five older sisters and no brother. Unbelievably counting John's sisters and first cousins only, he had more than 20 female relatives and just two boys. John J. Cornetta learned how to respect and protect woman at an early age.
Part of the influence for this film can be seen in the opening scene which takes place in a bar with many gangsters. Again Cornetta was raised in his parents Restaurant in
Piermont N.Y. Cornetta's Seafood Restaurant where not only were drinks and food served but his mother Patricia worked as a waitress and where real life mobsters from New York in the 70's and 80's would frequent this New York landmark.
John J. Cornetta plays this protecting gangster and falls in love with Lynchberg, yes you guessed it, waitress Sarah, portrayed by actress Kristyn Sammons.
Johnny's rival for family power Michael Giovanni is played by none other than actor
Paul 
Borghese who grew up in the neighboring town of
Blauvelt New York and Paul and John and their families have been friends for more than 50 years!
Johnny Ramano is the first Gangster to visit Lynchberg Georgia and with the help of two woman is the only one to leave there alive and move back to N.Y.
The twist of all twists is that in the end it is those same two woman Sarah and her daughter (hidden for most of the film) who end up killing and eating Johnny. As a piece of flesh is sliced away from Johnny the first person to eat him is a 140 year old infant! Yes a one hundred and forty year old baby, the nucleolus of the family and of the Lynchberg curse. So is Johnny dead or is he now the one cursed?
Only the release of Lynch Mob China Town (now in production) will answer that question!
Paul Borghese official siteJohn J. Cornetta official siteTony Darrow official site
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