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TRENTON, Aug. 20—Gerardo Catena, the reputed Mafia bos who was released from a stat reformatory after five year yesterday, will have to meet soon with Carlo Gambino, th New York crime family boss and the dominant underworlc figure in the Metropolitan area, according to state and county, law enforcement officials.

One state police expert or organized crime said such a meeting was “inevitable” if only to establish guidelines to straighten out the muddled un derworld picture that followed Mr. Catena's jailing on March 4, 1970, for his refusal to talk to the State Commission of Investigation.

In the absence of Mr. Catena who law enforcement sources say became the boss of the New Jersey portion of the Vit Genovese family following th death of the former “boss o bosses” in 1969, some of Mr Gambino's lieutenants begat moving into northern New Jer sey rackets.

Interviews with officials of the State Attorney General's office, the State Police, the State Commission of Investigation and county police officials familiar with the operation of organized crime produced a consensus that a meeting between the two bosses would soon take place, but speculation differed on what Mr. Catena']s stance might •be at the meeting. 100 Days of Leave

John Matthews, ‘project director of the Newark‐Essex County organized crime strike force, has said Mr. Catena was still. consulted on crime family business while at the Yardville correction center and Clinton Reformatory and during the more than 100 days of leaves he’ was granted for holidays and medical checkups, but did not oversee the day‐to‐day operations of his organization. A state police source said he wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Catena, who is 73 and described as being in failing health, would retire and move to Florida.

“Our information was he really didn't want it anyway,” he said, referring to Mr. Catena's ascendancy from his role of one of two underbosses to Mr. Genovese.

The other underboss. Thomas Eboli, alias Tommy Ryan, of Fort Lee was gunned’ down on a Brooklyn street in July, 1972 while Mr. Catena was behind bars and some New York law enforcement officials believe the killing could be traced to the Gambino family.

Qther officials interviewed today said they didn't believe Mr. Catena was ready to step down and looked for him to again exert his influence in north Jersey construction and trucking industries and in blink, and loan‐sharking rackets in Newark, Bergen County and the northern shore resort counties of Monmouth and Ocean.

While Mr. Catena was in prison Rugg.ero Boiardo of Livingston, who is in his 80's and semi‐retired after a brief prison stay, reportedly tried to become more active to “keep the cap on” for Mr. Catena in the face of the intrusion by Gambino forces.

His son, Anthony Boiardo, was expected by some law enorcement officials to also become more active in Mr. Catela's absence. But the younger Boiardo had his case severed from a Federal extortion conspiracy trial in 1970 for health reasons and the United States. Attorney's office stands ready to bring him to trial if he shows signs of improved health or increased activity.

The most visible sign of Mr. Gambino's attempt to pull together elements of the Genovese family under his own influence was the emergence of oseph Paterno of Newark as the man whom many of the 3enovese family members turned to after Mr. Catena was ailed.

Mr. Paterno, who is listed by the United States Justice Department as a lieutenant in the Gambino family, moved to Florida two years ago apphrently to avoid an investigation commission's subpoena and soon the visits by New Jersey underworld figures to Florida reportedly became more frequent.

“We know there was one meeting called in Florida to discuss how to respond to our subpoenas,” an investigation commission official said.

Surveillance of the Florida trips also helped the Bergen County prosecutor's office and the state police to establish the importance of Anthony Carminati, a relatively unknown figure until his arrest in May, along with several associates, on gambling conspiracy charges.

Joseph C. Woodcock, the Bergen County Prosecutor, said the meetings between Mr. Carminati and Mr. Paterno enabled law enforcement officials to identify Mr. Carminati as a, Gambino lieutenant.

Mr. Catena was freed by the State Supreme Court, saying, in a 5 to 2 decision, that the indefinite incarceration had lost its “corrosive power” in Mr. Catena's case and there was no “substantial likelihood” that he would change his mind and talk to the commission. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sidney Schreiber said Mr. Catena should be kept in jail and not allowed to substitute the underworld code of silence for a legislative mandate to the commission to find out all it. could about organized crime.

Mr. Woodcock said Mr. Catena's release with his oath of silence intact “give for members of the underworld what they couldn't do themselves; they admire that kind of performance.”

But if Mr. Catena stands to be lionized by his associates, other bosses of crime families operating in New Jersey aren't faring as well.

In addition to the Gambino and Genovese families the only Mafia families known to be active in New Jersey are those headed by Simone DeCavalcante of Princeton Township and Angelo Bruno of Philadelphia.

Mr. Bruno was jailed for three years along with Mr. Catena but was released for medical reasons in 1973 and reportedly is scheduled to undergo surgery. Mr. DeCavalcante is under subpoena to appear befori’ the commission, probably in the fall, and is reportedly keeping out of public view. One law enforcement official said there were some indications Mr. DeCavalcante might be considering retiring, but another said he is just being more careful since a series of. police wiretaps on one of his business offices became part of a public court record and brought him unwelcomed notoriety in the late nineteen‐sixties.

Law enforcement officials said one problem that stems) from the successful jailing of the top organized crime figures is the uncertainty abbut who is taking over. “You don't know who the Young Turks are and that's always a problem,” one official said.

Luciano

The Silent Gangster: Chapter Five

Lucian pic...

• Luciano pics
• [Charles "Lucky" Luciano, handcuffed to two deputies and surrounded by other men, leaving New York Charles "Lucky" Luciano, handcuffed to two deputies and surrounded by other men, leaving New York Supreme Court after being sentenced] enlarged here
• Ed Diamond, Jack Diamond, Fatty Walsh, and Charles Luciano, full-length portrait, standing, facing front

Renaldi Ruggiero

Renaldi "Ray" Ruggiero – former capo of in South Florida. Ruggiero was promoted to capo in 2003 controlling rackets in South Florida couties of Broward and Palm Beach.^[5] In 2006, Ruggiero, Albert Facchiano and other members of his crew were arrested and charged with extortion, robbery and money laundering.^[6] He pleaded guilty to racketeering in 2007.^[5] In February 2012, Ruggiero's sentence was cut in half because of his cooperation with the government.^[5]

Steven Franse

Steven Franse (1895–1953), was a former soldier who was a close associate to Vito Genovese.^[7] In 1937, Genovese fled to Italy leaving Franse in charge of his business interests and looking after his wife Anna.^[7] When Genovese returned to New York his wife Anna sued for divorce and revealed information about his legal and illegal business interests.^[7] Genovese blamed Franse for his wife's defection and ordered capo Anthony Strollo, to set up Franse's murder.^[8] On June 18, 1953, Joseph Valachi lured Franse to his restaurant in the Bronx, there Franse was strangled to death by Pasquale Pagano and Fiore Siano (Valachi's nephew).^[8]

Sources

• Sifakis, Carl The Mafia Encyclopedia

Angelo Ponte (needs work)

Angelo Ponte was an assoicate in the Genovese crime family active in carting rackets. ..

He was careful to cultivate political connections, and managed to have himself named a Knight of Malta by the Roman Catholic Church. Ponte was a target of the operation wasteland investigation. On January 28, 1997 he pled guilty to participating in a Mafia run operation to control and manipulate the cartage business in New York City.^[9] He is the founder of F. Illi Ponte Ristorante on the West Side highway and has extensive real estate holdings throughout the lower west side of Manhattan..

• (Five Families by Raab p.570

• The Kings Of Trash The City's Garbage Honchos' Reputed Mob Links Have Been Anything But A Waste

BY Tom Robbins (December 17, 1995) New York Daily News.

• How Cop Hauled In Mob Risked Life By Going Undercover 3 Years BY Kevin Flynn and Tom Robbins (June 5, 1996) New York Daily News.

• Prosecutors Block a Deal to Divert Indicted Trash Hauler's Wealth By Selwyn Raab (August 8, 1996) New York Times

• Carted Off To Prison Trash Bigwig Gets 2 Years, 7.5m Fine BY BARBARA ROSS AND TOM ROBBINS (January 28, 1997) New York Daily News

Arthur Nigro

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• Crime Families Controlling Longshoreman - Fed Suit by Thomas Zambito (New York Daily News) July 7, 2005

• Bravest, Oldfellas in gambling bust by Kevin Deutsch , Sarah Armaghan and Janon Fisher (New York Daily News) March 2, 2012

• Morello & Lupo:

1. The World's work, Volume 26 "The New Chief of Secret Service" by Frank Marshall White p.33-39
2. The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and The Birth of the American Mafia by Mike Dash View "Morello family tree"

• Fortunato Lomonte.

1. Gangrule: Fortunato Lomonte (Morello cousin)

• Genovese family; is operating in Connecticut, counties of Hartford and. Fairfield, and in Springfield, Massachusetts

• The Genovese crime family often referred to as the Ivy League of organized crime has been one of the more low key New York mafia families for decades. Who exactly has been in control of the Cosa Nostra powerhouse has been a topic of debate for some time. According to multiple sources quoted by Jerry Capeci and ganglandnews, including those in law enforcement circles Liborio “Barney” Bellomo is allegedly the current Genovese family boss. The 59 year old mobster has been calling the shots and sitting atop the ranks of the family very quietly for the last few years according to reports. Bellomo has been a powerful member of he family for years and was appointed as acting boss in the late 1980’s by then boss Vincent Gigante.

According to the report Bellomo learned a lot from former boss Gigante and is using a street boss to relay orders to the family’s capos and soldiers. Long time capo Peter “Petey Red” DiChiara now allegedly serves as the families “street boss” or in somewhat of an acting boss capacity for Bellomo. The infamous Gigante used a similar arrangement years ago in his heyday electing Fat Tony Salerno to serve as an upfront boss helping to keep him under law enforcement’s radar. But one source claimed it was clear Bellomo was the boss and it was one reason why mobsters from both the Bronx and Brooklyn have been making their way to a social club owned by Petey Red in lower Manhattan.

Bellomo has been on the feds radar for years and his seven year reign as acting boss for Gigante from 1989-96 ended in an indictment. He was sent to prison for 12 years after copping a plea on two racketeering indictments in which he was accused or ordering multiple mob hits. He was able to skate around the murder charges by pleading guilty to extortion and served his time from 1996 to 2008. He has been extremely low key and squeaky clean since his 2008 release, which included three years of supervised release. But law enforcement sources claim even though it hasn’t been proven that he has committed a crime since then there is no doubt he is the Genovese family boss.

Mafia control of the New York newspaper rackets shifts families

New York mafia has long maintained a very profitable racket by keeping its hooks in the distribution of New York newspapers in both NY and New Jersey. The mafia newspaper racket has been controlled for the last several years by the Bonanno crime family but times are changing as the beleaguered family losses its grip. Mob sources confirm that powerful Genovese crime family captain Peter “Petey Red” DiChiara has taken control of the mob local newspaper rackets. The Bonanno family continues to lose ground as other families including the Genovese family have once again began to re-establish themselves to an extent as law enforcement focuses more efforts on anti-terrorism. The 72 year old DiChiara although not all that well known is said to be a powerful member of the Genovese family operating out of his social club in Knickerbocker Village. According to sources he used his connections with members and high ranking officials inside two newspapers worker unions to grab control. Payoffs from the racket come from kickbacks and payoffs from the a bootlegging scheme which has stolen magazines and newspapers delivered by non union workers. The elder mobster was busted back in 2001 on gambling, extortion, and money laundering charges after mob associate Michael “Cookie” D’Urso turned rat and wore a wire for feds for three years. He and several members of his crew were taken down and Peter Red ended up doing 63 months. When he returned to the streets along with members of his crew his Market Street social club once again became a hotbed of NY mafia activity according to the feds. It was clear the elder wiseguy was back in action on behalf of the Genovese family. In 2008 Peter Red was being investigated by organized crime detectives along with members of the Newspaper and Mail Deliveries and Mailer Unions for involvement in a check cashing and tax evasion scheme. According to the investigation it involved the use of a shell company to hide illegal payoffs and kickbacks received by the men from the non union drivers bootlegging scheme. To date prosecutors have yet to be able to make a case against DiChiara or any of the Union members for the alleged money laundering and check cashing scams or any form of labor racketeering they investigated.

Notes

References

Venero Mangano

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/venero-benny-eggs-mangano-genovese-underboss-dead-95-article-1.3423874

Venero (Benny Eggs) Mangano, longtime underboss of Genovese family, dead at 95 BY Larry Mcshane NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, August 18, 2017, 5:45 PM

Venero (Benny Eggs) Mangano (c.) passed away in Greenwich Village, the neighborhood where he ran his operations.

Legendary mobster Venero “Benny Eggs” Mangano, the hard-boiled underboss of the Genovese crime family under Vincent (The Chin) Gigante, died Friday. He was 95. The old-school Mangano passed away in Greenwich Village, the neighborhood where he spent most of his life and ran his operations out of a Thompson St. social club. Mangano was among the most highly respected Mafiosi among New York’s five organized crime families, rising through the ranks to serve as Gigante’s right-hand man. The longtime Chin loyalist infamously refused to testify at Gigante’s 1997 federal trial when called to the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse by prosecutors.

“What do you want to do, shoot me?” snapped tough guy Mangano. “Shoot me, but I'm not going to answer any questions. I’m tired of these charades.” The mob veteran invoked the Fifth Amendment twice, his dignity and oath of omerta remaining intact. The resolutely old-school Mangano made his exit without giving an inch — or a useful answer — to the feds.

The made man kept his mouth shut across more than 13 years in prison before his Nov. 2, 2006, release. He reportedly returned to serve as part of a rotating panel of veterans overseeing the Genovese family once released.

He was jailed for a 1991 conviction in the “Windows Case,” where the mob made tens of millions of dollars installing new windows in city housing projects. Mangano held the line against the city’s other crime families when they pressed for a bigger piece of the $151 million in business generated by the scam. “It’s all ours,” Mangano declared when the Lucheses and the Gambinos complained about the arrangement. “Nobody’s supposed to touch it.” Mangano’s nickname stemmed from an egg store once run by his mother, back before he served as a World War II tail gunner — with two D-Day bombing runs among his 33 missions.

Mangano’s nickname stemmed from an egg store once run by his mother, back before he served as a World War II tail gunner. (Anthony Pescatore/New York Daily News) The future gangster earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and an air medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters and three Battle Stars for his heroism over Europe. Mangano grew up in the Village as did Gigante, joining the Chin’s crew before his ascension to boss in 1981. The pair was even indicted together nine years later as co-defendants in the Windows case. Mangano was busted four times for bookmaking, and once served eight months in jail for refusing to testify in a Pennsylvania prosecution. His legitimate business was M&J Enterprises, a company that purchased leftover designer clothing for resale overseas. Among his clients: Fashion icon Calvin Klein..

Genovese busted uc

Undercover G-Man Stings The Powerful Genovese Crime Family August 11, 2016 This Week in Gang Land By Jerry Capeci

Undercover G-Man Stings The Powerful Genovese Crime Family

Shades of Joe Pistone and Big Jack Garcia! A young FBI agent has joined the ranks of those undercover icons by accomplishing the unthinkable: He has stung the Ivy League of organized crime in New York — the powerful, sophisticated Genovese crime family. Posing as a wannabe wiseguy for three plus years, the G-man got close enough to two family capos to tape-record numerous discussions about the crime family's rackets.

Law enforcement sources spoke with awe of the undercover work that led to last week's blockbuster indictment. Among the 46 mobsters and associates of five families snared was Philadelphia mob boss Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino and three Genovese capos. They said the results of the agent's secret mission were so good, and linked so many defendants to so many crimes, that it took four months longer for prosecutors to obtain racketeering charges than they had originally planned.

Authorities say the agent — and a mob turncoat who vouched for the G-man — recorded "thousands of hours" of discussions to snare the defendants in a laundry list of criminal activity. The racketeering case alleges illegal gun sales, arson, assault, extortion, credit card scams and health care fraud in addition to the mob's moneymaking staples of bookmaking and loansharking.

"What the undercover did was amazing," said one law enforcement official. "He started out driving, waiting in the car outside while the wiseguys went inside. Then he progressed where he was invited inside to meetings at restaurants and other places. And the FBI had an agent sitting at the table wearing a recorder as capos and other made guys were discussing their business."

Despite his growing acceptance, the ever-wary Genovese leadership still remained out of sight. Sources say the agent "wasn't close" to being proposed for membership, and never met family boss Liborio (Barney) Bellomo, or other top family leaders. But he was a "trusted" associate who drove his immediate mob superiors to the lower Manhattan social club on Market Street run by Peter (Petey Red) DiChiara, whom Gang Land disclosed in February to be a "street boss" for the closeted Bellomo.

Merlino, 54, and two capos, Pasquale (Patsy) Parrello, 72, the owner of Pasquale's Rigoletto in the Bronx, and Eugene (Rooster) O'Nofrio, a convicted cocaine dealer based in Connecticut, are among a handful of arrested defendants who are behind bars as dangers to the community.

According to a court filing, the agent, identified in the indictment as UC-1, served as a driver for O'Nofrio. He "captured hundreds of hours of inculpatory conversations involving O'Nofrio and others" during the last two years of the sting as the 74-year-old capo oversaw the family's Springfield Massachusetts crew as well as one that operated on Mulberry Street.

All told, the sting operation lasted about four and a half years, according to a prosecution memo that sought to detain 11 of the 41 defendants who were arrested in the tri-state area, in Springfield, and in Florida, where Merlino remains behind bars. Two defendants, including Genovese capo Conrad Ianniello, were already in prison on other charges. Three are fugitives.

The investigation began in late 2011, after a longtime Parrello cohort flipped after being jammed up by the Westchester District Attorney's office for an assault when a wiretap picked up two mob associates discussing a baseball bat beating of a panhandler who had bothered women customers of Patsy's restaurant. Gang Land is withholding his name — for now. Court papers say the cooperating witness, CW-1, and a now deceased gangster, Ronald (The Beast) Mastrovincenzo had assaulted the victim in the Bronx in a plot with defendants Israel (Buddy) Torres and Anthony (Anthony Boy) Zinzi. On tape, The Beast was heard explaining the assault to Zinzi: "Remember the old days in the neighborhood when we used to play baseball? A ball game like that was done."

It's unclear if the CW was implicated in other crimes before he turned, or the specifics of his deal, but on December 16, 2011, according to court papers, he tape recorded his first conversation for the feds. In it, he got Vinci to say that he "might have to throw bricks through windows" or have to "break knee caps" to resolve a dispute Parrello was having with a rival gambler whose game was undercutting one that Patsy controlled in Yonkers.

Sometime later, the cooperating witness,introduced the undercover agent around as being "with" Parrello, the Bronx mobster who hosted sitdowns and other business meetings at the popular restaurant he has owned for decades on Arthur Avenue in the Belmont section.

The sting moved into high gear in 2014, sources say, the same year O'Nofrio told the agent that he would soon be promoted to acting capo and take over Ianniello's two crews because the nephew of the late Genovese powerhouse Matthew (Matty The Horse) Ianniello had been convicted of unrelated racketeering charges and would begin a three year prison stretch.

That's when Rooster O'Nofrio "claimed" the UC, and when Parello delegated the CW to work closely with Merlino, especially with lucrative health care scams involving Medicare and other insurance plans that cover prescription pain creams that Skinny Joey was running in Florida, where he moved following his release from federal prison in 2011.

"You're with me now, you work for me now," O'Nofrio told the agent, according to one source.

Taking over Ianniello's crew was a big deal for Rooster, a Connecticut-based soldier. He was finally moving into the big time, he boasted, telling the agent that Ianniello had told him: "I'm going to put you at the helm. I want you acting (crew) boss. I already told them, I want you," according to a court filing.

"I had to go meet certain guys," O'Nofrio told the UC, according to the papers, "First time I met them. They said he (Ianniello) wants you."

On the tapes, O'Nofrio is heard implicating himself in selling untaxed cigarettes, extortion, and loansharking in talks with the agent and with CW-1, court papers say. "Again and again," the papers claim, Rooster "used threats of violence to collect debts." In snippets that cite him as a dangerous felon, he is quoted as saying that a cohort should "crack the guy's ****ing head" to get the money he was owed, and that O'Nofrio would hit another deadbeat "in the head with a ****ing hammer" if he didn't come across with the cash.

Sources say that from 2014 until March of this year, when the covert aspect of the investigation ended, the agent was meeting "almost every day with Rooster." This made life difficult not only for the UC but also for the under-staffed three-person FBI squad — agents William Inzerillo and Joy Adam, along with NYPD detective Andrew Macelhinney — that was running him. The team was with the G-Man all day and night, whenever he was "working," as one source put it.

None of them would talk about the undercover aspect of the case. The FBI, which consistently declines to discuss its reduction of resources against the mob, has also been mum. But several current and former agents who have been involved in other undercover operations agreed to speak anonymously. Most marveled at the accomplishments, of both the UC, and the short-staffed FBI squad that backed him up.

"There's a tremendous amount of grunt work," said one source who has been involved in several stings. "The undercover never goes out without backup, never goes somewhere alone. There are always agents on the outside; they're recording him, their surveilling him, they're there just in case (of a problem.)"

"The FBI hasn't had a guy in like that in more than 10 years," said one source, referring to Jack Garcia the Cuban-born superstar agent who infiltrated the Gambino family in 2003 and helped send more than 30 mobsters and associates to prison, including the family's hierarchy at the time.

"Informers and CWs do it, but anytime you are able to put a good guy at the same table with gangsters, it's a great accomplishment," said Garcia. "This is a law enforcement officer who walked among them, someone without criminal baggage. It's a great investigative technique. It gets information about their crimes. It shows weakness on their part, and it demoralizes the hell out of them, no matter how much their lawyers badmouth it in court."

"When you have a law enforcement officer pose as a bad guy, and convince these so-called wiseguys he's really one of them — and he infiltrates their so-called secret criminal society — it's a feather in the cap of law enforcement," said Garcia. "It's one for the good guys."

It Could Have Been Worse For Skinny Joey, But Not Much

He got hit with racketeering charges anyway, but Philadelphia mob boss Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino was spared four months of possibly incriminating conversations about gambling, mob sitdowns and alleged health care scams last year because of an agreement between federal prosecutors in New York and the City of Brotherly Love, Gang Land has learned.

Federal law enforcement sources in both cities say that the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office initially asked its Philadelphia counterparts not to charge Merlino with violating his strict post-prison restrictions because jailing him would prevent a cooperating witness from taping conversations with him. But eventually it okayed the move by the Philadelphia U.S. Attorney's office to charge him.

As it turned out, Skinny Joey got four months behind bars, but served about 10 days less, when the Third Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the violation on technical gcolumn865.htmrounds, and he was released in early April of last year.

Merlino's three-year supervised release began on September 7, 2011. Less than three months before his restrictions would end, on June 18, 2014, he was spotted meeting Philadelphia wiseguy Joseph Ciacaglini. When FBI agents in New York learned about it, they informed prosecutors, who asked their counterparts to hold off because of their probe.

Initially they did. Eventually, though, according to several sources, New York prosecutor Andrea Kramer acquiesced in the move by the feds in Philly to charge Merlino with VOSR, and they did on August 26, of 2014. But since the official violation wasn't filed until after his supervision ended on September 6, 2014 the appeals court tossed it.

Sources say that months earlier, Genovese capo Patsy Parello released the wired up CW to work closely with Merlino in Florida.

Neither U.S. Attorney's office responded to a request for comment. Merlino, who has spent about half of his life behind bars, wise-cracked to Gang Land last year that his Court of Appeals victory means that next time the feds nail him, "They owe me four months."

But the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office decision to go along with the feds in Philadelphia was no laughing matter to several members of the multi-faceted New York probe that included the NYPD, the FBI, and the Westchester District Attorney's office. Said one: "If they had pushed, Philadelphia would have gone along, and we would have had a stronger case."

Sources say Merlino, who relocated to the Sunshine State when he got out of prison, was tape recorded several times by the task force's CW both in New York and in Florida, where he owns Merlino's, an Italian restaurant in Boca Raton, where he lives.

In court papers, prosecutors say that the "overwhelming proof of his guilt" that they have acquired against him in their probe, combined with his previous convictions for racketeering, show that Merlino is a danger to the community and is a threat to flee, and should be detained permanently until trial.

His detention hearing is slated to take place tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale Federal Court.

Preet's Prosecutors Go 0 For 5 In First Round Of Detention Hearings

The prosecution team that Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara assembled for last week's major mob indictment hasn't done very well convincing federal judges in New York and Florida to lock up eleven defendants that prosecutors have deemed to be dangers to the community. As a matter of fact, they have done very badly.

The only gangsters who have been held without bail so far are six mobsters and associates who agreed to detention at their first appearance before a judge in order to come up with a suitable bail package to offer at a later proceeding when his attorney argues for bail.

Judges granted bail for all five defendants who have had bail hearings up until now, rejecting contentions by prosecutors Amanda Kramer, Abigail Kurlan, Jessica Lonergan, Jonathan Rebold, and Lauren Abinanti that they were dangers to the community, or threats to flee before trial.

The quintet includes Alex Conigliaro, 56, of Staten Island, a Genovese soldier charged with two extortions and gambling charges. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas ordered a $1 million personal recognizance bond, co-signed by three relatives and secured by $250,000 in property. Judges also set bail for mob associates Mitchell (Mitch) Fusco, 52, of Yonkers, Harold (Harry) Thomas, 71, and Anthony (Anthony Boy) Zinzi, 73, of the Bronx, and Pasquale (Pat C) Capolongo, of West Palm Beach.

Two defendants — Zinzi, who is at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, and Capolongo, who is detained in Florida — are still behind bars, however. Their releases were stayed when prosecutors filed notice they are appealing those findings to the Manhattan Federal Court Judge assigned to the case, Richard Sullivan.

New York Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses set a personal recognizance bond of $200,000 for Zinzi, a longtime Parrello associate with prior convictions for homicide and drug dealing. He is charged with arson, assault, three extortions, loansharking, and the illegal sale of weapons.

West Palm Beach Magistrate Judge William Matthewman set a $2 million personal recognizance bond co-signed by three relatives for Capolongo, 67, a longtime bookmaker-loanshark with a dozen prior convictions who is also currently waiting trial on racketeering charges in Florida.

In arguing for his detention, prosecutors contended that a 2014 conversation recorded by the Queens District Attorney's office showed that Pat C had placed a tracking device on the CW's car over a $30,000 debt and that he then encouraged a cohort to whack the CW if he had any trouble with him — without ever knowing that he was a cooperating witness.

"If Capolongo was willing to go to such lengths to collect a gambling debt, the government has grave concerns about what he would do in retaliation for cooperating with the government," the prosecutors stated in asking Judge Sullivan to overturn the Florida judge's decision.

In an 11-page ruling, Matthewman criticized the government for having a stand-in FBI agent from Miami with no first-hand knowledge of the case testify about what a New York agent had told him about Capolongo and the CW, and found that "the government's evidence that Capolongo constitutes a danger to CW-I and CW-1's family was not substantial or compelling."

In addition to Zinzi and Capolongo, the other defendants still behind bars pending bail hearings are: Genovese soldier Ralph Balsamo, 46, of the Bronx, mob associates Israel (Buddy) Torres, 66, of Queens, and Mark (Stymie) Maiuzzo, 37, of Scarsdale, and the trio charged as the leaders of the racketeering conspiracy, Patsy Parrello, Skinny Joey Merlino and Rooster O'Norfio.

Genovese MA crew

https://mafiagenealogy.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/the-bosses-of-springfield-massachusetts/

https://gangsterreport.com/the-ralphie-question-where-does-younger-santaniello-stand-in-springfield-ma-mob-regime/

Crews

• Maspeth -- Rusty, Joe Massino, {Anthony Urso - Maspeth "was Massino driver"} // Louis "Louie Electric" DeCicco// Anthony "Little Anthony" Pipitone

• Ozone Park Crew -- Phillip Giaccone, Joseph "Joe Desi" DeSimone
  • Split from Giaccone -- Long Island Crew -- Thomas DiFiore (spilt from Giaccone) // John "Johnny Mulberry" Sciremammano (Long Island; "possibly acting")

• Greenpoint Crew/Long Island -- Nicholas Santora // acting capo Vito Badamo // members of Santora crew -- Ernest Aiello, Anthony "Skinny" Santoro, Dominick Siano, Nicholas Bernhard, Scott O'Neil, Anthony Urban and Richard Sinde // old member of motion crew -- Anthony Rabito

• Bensonhurst Crew/Staten Island -- Anthony Spero, Vincent Badalamenti, acting capo Vito Balsamo
  • Split from Bensonhurst 1980s-- Brooklyn/Staten Island Crew -- Anthony Graziano (his mentor was Anthony Spero) // Joe Lefty" Loiacono (acting) // John "Porky" Zancocchio (former Napolitano crew; moved to Staten Island Graziano crew after he married Graziano's daughter; Zancocchio took over the crew after Joe Loiacono) // Anthony Calabrese (only a soldier in Staten Island) // ---- could be George "Grumpy" Tropiano (indicted along with Zancocchio and a lot of Bensonhurst guys in 2018)

• Staten Island/Florida crew -- Gerald Chilli (Staten Island/Florida drugs) // John "Big John" Contello (arrested in 2009 with Gerald Chilli he was listed "as capo") // unknow ???

• Staten Island crew -- Anthony "Scal" Sclafani not a capo anymore (2019 busted as soldier)
• http://www.brooklynda.org/2019/12/18/six-defendants-indicted-for-running-two-internet-based-sports-gambling-operations/
• https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/6-men-from-new-jersey-staten-island-charged-with-running-illegal-sports-gambling-sites/

• Manhattan/Lower East Side -- Frank Lino, Al Indelicato

• Bronx crew -- William “Big Willie” Riviello // Anthony Frascone // John Spirito Jr // John Palazzolo // Joseph "Joe Valet" Sabella

• Missing Manhattan, Staten Island ??

• Peter Lovaglio/54 - Staten Island became a informant (?? could have been before Sclafani??)

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• In 2009 capo Joseph Sammartino (NJ), capo Anthony “Scal” Sclafani, 63, and acting capo Anthony “Little Anthony” Pipitone, 37 and acting capo Joe Lefty" Loiacono arrested
• https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nye/pr/2009/2009oct07.html

• In 2019 the boss even shelved Joe C’s father-in-law Vito Grimaldi and brother-in-law Joseph Grimaldi. Both mobsters were capos and part of the families Sicilian faction.

Nicholas Santora July 2013

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• Well-armed Bonnano crime crew busted on charges including Viagra trafficking, extortion: DA
• DISTRICT ATTORNEY VANCE ANNOUNCES INDICTMENT OF CAPTAIN AND MEMBERS OF A CREW OF THE BONANNO ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY "According to the indictment and court filings, between approximately March 2010 and February 2012, SANTORA served as the captain – alternately known as a “capo” – for a crew of the Bonanno organized crime family operating in the New York area and elsewhere. AIELLO and BADAMO functioned as acting capos, or otherwise as senior members, who reported to SANTORA. Crews consist of “soldiers” and “associates,” whose purpose is, in part, to insulate and protect the capo; SANTORO functioned as one such soldier beneath AIELLO and BADAMO, while SIANO, BERNHARD, O’NEILL, and URBAN served as associates in this crew. SINDE is accused of taking part in the crew by engaging in shared criminal activities and purposes with several of the other defendants."...

Notes

References

Luca DiMatteo

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/colombo-crime-family-captain-and-two-associates-charged-racketeering-conspiracy

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/colombo-mobster-years-100-000-shakedown-article-1.2877553

Past members

• Samples

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• December 1967 raid Buffalo capos Dan Sansanese Sr. and John Cammilleri soldiers Salvatore Bonito and Rocco Vaccaro
• Sansanese lived in West Seneca south of Buffalo
• https://books.google.com/books?id=lI7qedvddcYC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=rocco+vaccaro+buffalo+family&source=bl&ots=4O4bvNA50n&sig=ACfU3U3WuLV0faG69TDGtyBK_nVP50I9iw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj96YDa4JDnAhXlwVkKHZltBm0Q6AEwB3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=rocco%20vaccaro%20buffalo%20family&f=false

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• July 9, 1922: Joseph Peter DiCarlo, boss of the Buffalo Family, died of natural causes. He was succeeded by Stefano (Steve) Magaddino.
• February 6, 1973: Richard J. Todaro, an influential member of the Magaddino Family, was indicted on charges of running an illegal gambling business. Todaro also was charged with destruction of property to avoid seizure when he set fire to his records during an FBI search of his residence in March, 1972.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20060703010757/http://www.nevadaobserver.com/Chronological%20History%20of%20La%20Cosa%20Nostra%20%281988%29.htm

• he Todaros are related by marriage to Robert "Bobby" Panaro, who moved from Buffalo and has been in the Las Vegas area for almost 30 years.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20061206060035/http://www.americanmafia.com/Cities/Buffalo.html
• https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/organizedcrimesyndicates/buffalo.html&date=2009-10-26+00:03:23
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070819000209/http://www.nlpc.org/view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=1268

• http://buffalomob.blogspot.com/

Canada

• Charles Calogero Bordonaro of Hamilton listed as leader of Mafia sic at Hamilton
• Domenic Belcastro, Thomas Rasso and Domenic Longo of Guelph members of international gang

• Rocco Perri lieutenants: Frank Sylvestro "Frank Ross" a bootlegger; Antonio Papalia a bootlegger and father of John Papalia; and Calogero "Charlie" Bordonaro black hand bomber and Perri supporter.

• From Niagara falls Vincenzo "James" Saccco, bootlegger and Perri associate; "Black Peter" Sacco an gambler and bootlegger; John "Archie/Czar" Saccone, alien smuggler; ..
• From Guelph arsonist and counterfeiter Domenic Belcastro and Domenic Longo a bootlegger and Perri ally

https://books.google.com/books?id=Pi08FdhWKI8C&pg=PA137&dq=Santo+Scibetta&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bGDQUdneJtWj4APioYHICw&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Cipolla&f=false

• pg. 108 The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime: From Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher By Peter Edwards

• pg. 252 The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime: From Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher By Peter Edwards

https://books.google.com/books?id=D4XaV2YB7U4C&pg=PA252&dq=Sylvestro+and+Frank+%22Chich&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR1pfJptvmAhXrV98KHQAsCjwQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=Sylvestro%20and%20Frank%20%22Chich&f=false

• Antonio "Tony" Sylvestro and Frank "Chich" Sylvestro of Hamilton were Mafia members of southern Ontario in the 1940s and 1950s along with Matteo "Big Joe" Cipolla in Guelph and Nicholas Cicchini in Windsor. Frank Sylvestro who sometimes travelled under name "Frank Ross" was a bootlegger and a lieutenant of Rocco Perri.

• Three dons Calogero "Charles" Bordonaro, Anthony "Tony" Sylvestro and Santo Scibetta
• Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada. By Stephen Schneider pp.286
• https://books.google.com/books?id=ZO8jKSn25DAC&pg=PA569&lpg=PA569&dq=Calogero+Charlie+Bordonaro&source=bl&ots=r0nXosbWto&sig=ACfU3U1QPp3xUkcp6ZotQ-oHTHQGkZjZsQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTjqPKgZHnAhUjnOAKHW52CNkQ6AEwBXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Calogero%20Charlie%20Bordonaro&f=false

Ignazio "Harold/Harry/Harold Vincent" Bordonaro and Jimmy Bordonaro

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• http://www.angelfire.com/americangangland/lacosanostra/thearm/main.html
• http://www.ipsn.org/laborers/international/RICOnewest.htm

• Daniel "Danny" Gasbarinni

Gasbarrini married the daughter of Tony Sylvestro, one of three Mafia dons who took over loansharking, gambling and narcotics across southern Ontario after Rocco Perri disappeared and his lieutenants were murdered

• https://www.thespec.com/news-story/4409478-reputed-mafia-boss-dies-at-home-at-age-93/

Musitano family

• The Musitano clan had long been under the protection of the powerful Rizzuto clan in Montreal.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/mob-war-theories-abound-on-musitano-powerplay

Rochester

https://rocwiki.org/Rochester_Crime_Family

• Loren Piccarreto, son of mobster Rene Piccarreto
• https://www.democratandchronicle.com/videos/news/2019/02/07/mobsters-son-discusses-1964-disappearance-jake-russo/2799515002/

• https://www.gambling911.com/gambling-news/rochester-region-center-online-gambling-arrests-020710.html
• https://nypost.com/2009/10/22/500m-mob-betting-ring-busted/
• Arrested Feb 7, 2010: BetOnline.com Gambling arrests, gambling ring pulled in $587 million over 28 months
• Joseph J. Fafone, 48 of Farmington
• David Valerio, 61, of Rochester
• Louis Lippa Jr., 61, of Perinton
• Edward P. Kenny of Florida, also previously lived in Rochester
• Joseph P. Fafone, 70 father of Joseph Fafone. Lived in Boca Raton, Fla. He also previously lived in Rochester.

Alleged betting ring busted in October "had links to both the Gambino and Genovese crime families." In 2002, the elder Fafone, nicknamed "Boca Joe," was arrested with his son and a reputed Gambino family associate - Frank "The Bear" Basto - by a Florida police investigation dubbed "Operation Goodfellas."

Paul Borrelli

• https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdny/pr/bookie-sentenced-illegal-gambling-and-money-laundering
• https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/blogs/law-and-disorder/2015/12/20/thomas-vanek-paull-borrelli-nhl-gambling-mark-joseph-ruff-wagers/77664786/

• Thomas M. Torpey
• https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/07/30/thomas-torpey-rochester-mobster-dies-obit/1868865001/

Jake Russo death

• https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/02/07/rochester-mafia-mystery-jake-russo-killed-pizza-stop-basement-frank-valenti-apalachin-meeting/2191800002/

illegal gambling operation. Daniel Elliott, who sources said goes by "Miami Dan,

• https://13wham.com/news/top-stories/police-illegal-gambling-operation-investigation-underway

Background

Indictment

On May 31, 1990 fifteen men were indicted on conspiracy and tax fraud charges

The four crime families monopolized the selection of contractors for the manufacture and installation of more than one million windows. The Mafia leaders determined who would bid for most contracts to replace or install windows for the New York City Housing Authority, the indictment said.(NYT Suspected....)

The trail began on May 8, 1991, Victor Amuso and Anthony Casso were fugitive's.

• Jerry Capeci's Gang Land By Jerry Capeci October 22, 1991 "Windows Trail Pane and Gain"

• Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful ... By Selwyn Raab p. 498

• The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia By Guy Lawson, William Oldham p. 127.

• Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss By Philip Carlo p. 224

• Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime By James B. Jacobs, Coleen Friel, Robert Raddick p. 289

• US of America v. Vittorio Amuso

• Suspected New York Mob Leaders Are Indicted in Contract Rigging By Selwyn Raab (May 31, 1990) New York Times (15 men indicted: 12 arrrested; 3 missing) .

1. Vittorio (Vic) Amuso boss of the Lucchese crime family; missing yesterday not arrested
2. Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso underboss of the Lucchese family; missing yesterday not arrested
3. Peter (Fat Pete) Chido capo in the Lucchese family; released on $1 million bond
4. John (Sonny Blue) Morrissey associate in the Lucchese family; missing yesterday not arrested
5. Joseph (Joe Cakes) Marion associate in the Lucchese family; released on $1 million bond
6. Vincent (the Chin) Gigante boss of the Genovese crime family
7. Venero (Benny Eggs) Mangano underboss of the Genovese family
8. Dominic (Baldy Dom) Canterino capo in the Genovese family
9. Joseph Zito capo in the Genovese family; released on $1 million bond
10. Peter Gotti capo in Gambino family; released on $1 million bond
11. Caesar Gurino associate of the Gambino family
12. Benedetto (Benny) Aloi consiglieri in Colombo family
13. Dennis DeLucia soldier in the Colombo family; released on $1 million bond
14. Vincent (three fingers) Ricciardo associate of the Colombo family
15. Thomas McGowan a business agent in Local 580; released on $1 million bond

• 2 Mob Fugitives Hiding In New York, Police Say By Selwyn Raab (August 5, 1990) New York Times

From 1978 to 1990 four, of the Five New York City crime families (Lucchese, Genovese, Gambino and Colombo) formed a cartel that controlled the sale and installation of thousands of energy-efficient windows in New York City housing projects.

• "Windows Jury Finds 3 Guilty And Acquits 5" By Arnold H. Lubasch New York Times October 19, 1991

"Colombo family mobsters Benedetto Aloi and Dennis DeLucia along with Genovese family mobster Venero Mangano were found guilty. ... Peter Savino, a Genovese associate testified that the bid-rigging scheme began more than 10 years ago but that it ceased for awhile and that he revived it in his role as a Government informer in 1988. Local 580 received the payoffs and passed on a substantial share to the Lucchese crime family, the prosecutors charged. They said three other crime families -- Genovese, Colombo and Gambino -- controlled various window companies that provided profits and kickbacks. Two more mobsters who became informers, Philip Leonetti and Peter Chiodo, testified about their roles in the Mafia."

• "2 Men Sentenced In 'Windows Trial'" New York Times (March 28, 1993)

"Colombo family's Benedetto Aloi was given 16 years and 8 months; Genovese family's Venero Mangano received 15 years and 8 months and each man was also fined $100,000. Colombo family's Dennis DeLucia, was sentenced to 3 years and 10 months and fined $25,000." ......