Simone DeCavalcante, a.k.a. In his absence, a little known but extremely well-liked and capable caporegime stepped up, first as underboss, then acting boss, and ultimately to formally head the Family, John (The Eagle) Riggi, Sr., the well-groomed son of a veteran member named Emmanuel Riggi, had served the Family for decades as business agent of Local #394 Laborers & Hod Carriers Union (AFL-CIO) and several other labor unions. Although a small membership, they had a reach into metropolitan New York City where they ran several regimes, Waterbury, Connecticut, where co-underboss Joseph (Joe Buff) LaSelva operated a crew, and South Florida where additional members lived and operated. On September 11, 1989, Capo drove DeCavalcante mobsters Vincent Palermo and James Gallo to Weiss' apartment. The alleged MS-13 "regional director for the East Coast" had a home in the Jersey Shore's Long Branch. This panel included capos Vincent Palermo, Girolamo Palermo (no relation) and Newark faction leader Charles Majuri. [29], In 2016, Anthony Stango Jr. was sentenced to 6 years in prison after pleading guilty to using a telephone in interstate commerce to conduct a prostitution operation, conspiring to distribute five grams or more of cocaine, distributing more than $70,000 worth of cocaine, and possessing a shotgun as a convicted felon. Instead, at least five different crime families: New England's Raymond Patriarca Family, three of New York CIty's notorious Five Families (the Genovese, Gambino, and Colombo), as well as New Jersey's Simone DeCavalcante Family, all competed to grab various pieces of its territory, thereby carving up The Nutmeg State like a pizza pie. The FBI surveilled DeCavalcante and several of his associates, built an effective case against him, and in 1969 he was convicted on a variety of racketeering charges. The vaunted five families were faring even worse, to the point of virtual extinction. He landed in prison after seeking to curry favor with John Gotti by arranging the murder of a former newspaper editor turned toxic-waste dumper and potential informant. Joseph Anthony Miranda was an American mobster and member of the New Jersey-based DeCavalcante crime family. But that was forgotten as Anthony Rotondo rhapsodized about The Sopranos. At least one customer called 911 seeking police assistance.. Most of its leaders are either dead or incarcerated, and other criminal networks have wrestled control of the remaining rackets that once provided serious revenue for the family. 19311955 Filippo "Phil" Amari promoted to boss, 19551956 Nicholas "Nick" Delmore promoted to boss, 19561957 Francesco "Fat Frank" Majuri stepped down and became consigliere, 19571983 Francesco "Fat Frank" Majuri died in 1983, 19832006 Stefano "Steve the Truck Driver" Vitabile sentenced to life in 2006, overturned in 2008, released in 2013, 2006present Frank "Goombah Frankie" Nigro arrested 2015. [13] Riggi continued to run the family from his jail cell, but he appointed Giacomo "Jake" Amari as his new acting boss. By the late 1990s, high turnover rates in the familys leadership due to arrests, deaths, or disappearances was beginning to take its toll on the crime networks fortunes. [15] In retaliation, Vincent Palermo decided to have Majuri murdered. John was active as a "wire-room" rigger for bookmaking rings throughout LI and Queens. The Gotti Crime family in New York is one of America's most famous and the long-standing trial of the flamboyant John Gotti garnered headlines for years until his death in 2002. . Anthony "Tony" Capo was an American hitman in the DeCavalcante crime family who later became a government witness and entered the Witness Protection Program. "LaCosa Nostra" (Italian for "our thing") doesn't enjoy the same power it hadin decades past. [72] [73] The family was the subject of the CNBC program Mob Money, which aired on June 23, 2010, [74] and The Real Sopranos TV documentary directed by Thomas Viner for the UK production company Class Films. He would quickly utilize his position and popularity to help expand the influence and geographic reach of this borgata. According to the DeCavalcante capo -turned-informant Anthony Rotondo, Gotti attended his father's wake with numerous other Gambino mobsters in a "show of force" and forced boss John Riggi to. Guarraci pleaded guilty and in January 2012 got off with six months of home confinement, followed by five years probation. He declared that This Thing of Ours and Our Friends were the same, whether it be among the five families of New York or his family in New Jersey. UnderBoss: "Unknown" Consiglieri: Frank "Shipe" Nigro PATRIARCA FAMILY ( New England Mafia Family) Boss/Acting Boss: Carmen (The Cheeseman) DiNunzio UnderBoss: Matthew Guglielmetti Consiglieri: (?) [4], In December 1999, Capo and the DeCavalcante leadership were indicted on charges of labor racketeering, extortion, loansharking, murder, and conspiracy to commit murder. Joseph "Joey O" Masella was a mob associate in New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family and a friend of known mobster Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo. [75]. Umberto Gallo ran a private mob social club as a base and was partners with his older brother in the shylock rackets. See what employees say it's like to work at Chateau Marmont. The Mafia"capo"had an employeeproblem. ignored and then continued working, the indictment notes. He might not have been the most sophisticated mafioso to ever walk the streets of Brooklyn, but Rudy Farone was certainly one of Cosa Nostras most dedicated. A resident of South Beach, Staten Island, Capo became an associate of the DeCavalcante crime family during the early 1980s under powerful Elizabeth, New Jersey faction leader Giovanni Riggi. Copyright 2019-2023, Button Guys of The New York Mafia. Under his guidance, the DeCavalcante Family added dozens of made men to their ranks, and even gained a seat on the infamous Commission. 1970s-1990s Organized Crime Jersey Style, After DeCavalcantes incarceration and apparent retirement, he appointed a trusted. What characters, Rotondo said. It is also a message to La Cosa Nostra that FBI Newark will do everything . It operates on the opposite side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York. Daily News page 43 - October 20, 2000 - Headline: N.J. Crime family indicted - Boss, 11 others charged with murder and racketeering - DeCavalcante. He appointed Gaetano Vastola to oversee the family while he was behind bars, but Vastola was subsequently arrested shortly afterwards as well. DeCavalcante and 54 associates were charged and tried in 1969. [15] Guarino spent ten years undercover working for the FBI. [18] With the decline of the DeCavalcante family, New York's Five Families have taken over many of the rackets in northern New Jersey. Important members over the years have included underboss Francesco (Big Frank) Majuri, capo di decina Luciano (Big Louie) Larasso, Frank (Frankie Coch) Cocchiaro, Vincent (Jimmy) Rotondo, and soldiers Robert (Bobby Basile) Occhipinti and the notorious Gaetano (Corky) Vastola. He retired to Florida upon his release. The boss of the mafia family on which the Sopranos series is believed to be based was executed by one of his own soldiers because . Cosa Nostra is Cosa Nostra, he declared. CHICAGO MAFIA FAMILY ( CHICAGO OUTFIT) An Amico Nostro is an Amico Nostro.. (Gotti was later convicted of this conspiracy.) Around the end of the first season, an actual FBI electronic device carried by an informant recorded members of the DeCavalcante family chatting about the show as they drove to a sit-down. His aliases included Marshall Beach, Mathew Beach and Wade Beach. Several customers became alarmed and exited the restaurant, without paying their bills. The DeCavalcante crime family is an Italian-American organized crime family that operates in Elizabeth, New Jersey and surrounding areas in the state and is part of the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). Tracing its origins to Ribera, Sicily, and with its home base in the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, the DeCavalcante Family is the only Cosa Nostra group able to claim true Jersey origins. Louis "Louie Eggs" Consalvo is a New Jersey mobster and reputed soldier and acting captain in the DeCavalcante crime family. Tried, convicted, and sentenced to five years in federal prison, and after serving two years in jail, DeCavalcante gained parole and immediately migrated to Miami, Florida and into semi-retirement. The mutt a made member of the Mafia family had insulted an acting boss and disputed a mobster staffing decision. After acting boss Amari's death, Riggi organized a three-man ruling panel in 1998 to run the day-to-day business of the crime family, [14] consisting of Girolamo Palermo, Vincent Palermo (no relation), and Charles Majuri, [15] with Stefano Vitabile as the reputed consigliere and adviser to the three. In contravention of Cosa Nostra rules on the killing of a family boss, the plotters did not ask permission to kill D'Amato from the Mafia Commission in New York. Anthony "Tony" Capo (1959/60 January 23, 2012)[1] was an American hitman in the DeCavalcante crime family who later became a government witness and entered the Witness Protection Program. John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato was a New Jersey mobster and former acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. Theyre now a low-grade fever, Seglem said. D'Amato's body was never recovered. Palermo and Gallo shot Weiss in the face as he was entering his car. [ Want to keep tabs on crime in New Jersey? At the same time, a New York State report indicated that he and another Mafia family controlled 90-percent of the pornography stores in New York City. Carmelo (Melio) Cocchiaro was a soldier in the DeCavalcante Family who once made a youthful blunder after a string of supermarket robberies. OMalley said he didnt think the killing had the markings of a sanctioned mob hit. From city to city and state to state, Button Guys of The New York Mafia breaks down the history of organized crime in America. Organized Crime Task Force. . Joseph Miranda became an alleged acting underboss/acting boss -- at the age of 83 -- after the mass 2003 arrests of the Family. There was also Abner Zwillman, a Jewish gangster operating in Newark, and the Philadelphia crime family operating in South Jersey. Tony Soprano is said to have been based on John Riggi (Image: NY Daily News via Getty Images) By 1990, Capo was working for John D'Amato and reputed capo Anthony Rotondo of the New York faction in labor racketeering, illegal gambling, extortion and loansharking activities. Capo was involved in extortion and loansharking activities. After longtime boss Giovanni Riggi went on to be indicted for labor racketeering and extortion charges in late 1989, Vastola stepped up as the new acting boss of the North Jersey Mafia while Riggi was on trial. And Tony Soprano was not a Michael Corleone. Never mind that DeCavalcante had transformed a bunch of ever-warring factions into an immensely profitable operation. Guarraci is 54. Simone DeCavalcante was the boss of the crime family that bore his name and a FBI bug recorded his every word to his secretary when he arrived at his office one morning in 1964. Unrelenting law enforcement pressure was further diminishing the power of the DeCavalcante crime family as well. He was then summoned to a sit-down where he agreed to withdraw. John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato (died January 1992) was a New Jersey mobster and former acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family.After being recruited by Gambino crime family boss John Gotti to take over the family, he was suspected of engaging in homosexual activity and was murdered in January 1992. Francisco Frank Guarraci hailed from Simone DeCavalcantes ancestral hometown of Ribera. DeCavalcante would have loved to be considered their equal. The thugs had just been bemoaning the continued lack of respect they received from the five families. DeCAVALCANTE FAMILY ( New Jersey Mafia Family) Boss: Charles Majuri (?) He died of a heart attack in 1997 at age 84. [9]. Comello's attorney told theNetwork the incident is related to hate online, "including right-wing conspiracy websites and public comments made by politicians,Robert Gottlieb said. The people in New Jersey who are really worth admiring are people such as the actual family that gave us the actor who summoned their example of hard, honest work as he so brilliantly played the fictional gangster Tony Soprano. Riggi, nicknamed Johnny the Eagle brought lucrative union and construction connections to the familys illicit portfolio. The Panel infuriated longtime captain Charles Majuri, who had been a hardworking member of the family since his teens and felt that he was wronged when he was not selected as the only acting boss. Members refer to the organization as the Lucchese borgata; borgata is Mafia slang for criminal gang, which itself was derived from Sicilian word meaning close-knit community. [26], In March 2017, Stango was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit murder. The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family. He died of natural causes in 1997. D'Amato of the powerful Elizabeth faction of the DeCavalcante crime family, was soon cooperating with high-ranking members Charles "Big Ears" Majuri and Gaetano "Corky" Vastola in illegal gambling and loansharking operations. And under his lead, the DeCavalcante spread money around to local politicians and often presented a veneer of legitimacy Riggi helped develop little league baseball fields and supported many charitable causes even as the family was committing serious crimes, extortion, and fraud across the state. You just gotta put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life or somebody's gotta get a f----- jar of acid and throw it in his f----- face Charles Beeps Stango said, according to a March 2015 federal court document alleging crimes by him and other accused members of the DeCavalcante crime family, the New Jersey mob outfit known as an inspiration for "The Sopranos" series on HBO. Capo also worked with reputed Gambino crime family mobster Joseph Watts in a loansharking racket that allegedly grossed more than $12 million. The scene where the FBI breaks into Tonys basement to plant a bug was so realistic that an agent who happened to encounter two of the shows head writers at The Buffalo Club in Santa Monica asked where they got their information. lieutenant, Giovanni Riggi, as the head of the family. It operates on the opposite side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York. . If you dont mind, Id rather not talk about it, she said. The opening sequence of the first episode in 1999 made clear that this was New Jersey. When boss Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi wanted to curry favour with newly-minted Gambino boss John Gotti, he. This true crime biography by a Mafia insider chronicles the hair-raising life of the notorious Colombo crime family boss. Their reward was to see their son enter Rutgers. When describing this incident in court in 2003, Capo said he thought Remy had a gun and described him as a "violent individual". He appointed Gaetano Vastola to oversee. Anthony Carollo. Today, the DeCavalcante Crime family is a shadow of its former self. Riggi was the leader of the "Elizabeth crew" in the family when he was a Caporegime. He took on the role after longtime reputed Boss Ercole 'Eckley' DiMeo was sent to prison in 1995. OMalley explained that mobsters today are struggling to make money. He gained much respect because he held a place on the infamous Commission, a governing body for the American Mafia which included the Five Families of New York, the Chicago, LA and Florida. After DeCavalcante left prison in the mid-1970s, he appointed Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi as acting boss of the family while he stayed semi-retired in Florida. Courtesy of Giovanni Rocco The fear of reprisal took a. Since then, several other top mobsters agreed to become government witnesses in exchange for being given lenient or no sentences at all. The indictment reports that Guarraci then fired the general manager. His low-key persona and legitimate cover was destroyed and before long he, himself, was indicted along with 54 mob minions for heading a $20,000,000-a-year gambling ring. Anthony Samuel Carollo ( / krlo / kar-AW-loh, [citation needed] Italian: [karllo]; November 24, 1923 - February 1, 2007) was an American mobster, boss of the New Orleans crime family and son of the mob boss Silvestro Carollo. 20122015 "Horse" mentioned by Charles Stango in December 2012 wiretaps. His mother, Santa, worked as a high school cafeteria chef. He declined to commenton a rumored romantic motive, except to saywere investigating everything thats been reported.". Antonio Caruso was a member of the DeCavalcante Family active in gambling operations on the Lower East Side with policy and card games. It operates on the other side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York, but it maintains strong relations with many of them, as well as with the . If Guarraci is indeed an acting boss, it seems he is the only one still out there being a gangster a la the fictional Tony Soprano, at however small a scale. Thu 1 May 2003 21.20 EDT. However, that same year, Vastola went to federal prison on a 20-year sentence on extortion charges. "Telling Court He's Gay, Mob Informer Crosses Line", "Hit man's confessions Mob turncoat tells court of his blood-soaked life", WISEGUY GETS LIFE FOR HIT ON GAY MOB BOSS, "Racketeering Convictions Rejected for 3 in Mob Case", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Amato&oldid=1092821241, This page was last edited on 12 June 2022, at 20:33. The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth,[2] Newark, West New York,[3] and various other North Jersey cities and the surrounding areas in North Jersey. Over the years, the DeCavalcante family earned a reputation for incompetence. [15], Using information provided by Guarino, US law enforcement launched a large scale arrest on December 2, 1999 of over 30 members and associates of the DeCavalcante crime family. The Genovese crime family, also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia. Riggi also had the family maintain their old traditions, which Sam DeCavalcante saw as unnecessary. [5] Capo also ran a DeCavalcante crew in New York City. He is now 87. Informed in prison of D'Amato's execution, Riggi appointed Amari as the new acting boss.[3][5][7]. It operates in North Jersey under the Gambino family, one of the five major crime families based in New York, according to the FBI. Pete Galletta was a "sleeper" DeCavalcante member who was involved in the Family's gambling rackets, yet unknown to law enforcement. In addition, many family members believed that D'Amato was controlled by Gambino boss John Gotti. He preferred The Count. (He told people his father had been an Italian marquis.). As Capo himself described it in court testimony in 2003, "Nobody's going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business."[6]. One other capo of notice is Anthony "Tough Tony" Provenzano. Copyright 2019-2022. He was considered the new head of the New Jersey organization, but his reign proved to be very short, as there were multiple factions operating underneath who all conspired to take over. mafia in the catskillsdandy nicholls cause of deathdandy nicholls cause of death He was allegedly killed the Philly black mafia. It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. Dec 15, 2016 - The real Sopranos . She described swinging encounters that D'Amato had in Manhattan sex clubs with both women and men. The mob still exists, said Grady OMalley, senior litigation counsel in the U.S. Attorneys Office inNew Jersey, who has sentMafia members to trial and prison since the late 1970s. [16] This was the fourth indictment of the family since 1999. They have generally maintained a varying degree of influence over many of the smaller mob families outside New York, including ties with the Philadelphia, Patriarca, and Buffalo crime families. However, Capo later testified that he slept during class and allowed the school's operator to take the test for him. Informed in prison of D'Amato's execution, Riggi appointed Amari as the new acting boss.[3][4][5]. The mansion originally went on the market at $4 million dollars . A total of 10 members and associates of the New Jersey-based DeCavalcante crime family were arrested today for running a prostitution ring, drug trafficking and plotting to kill a rival, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. The DiMeo family had then been taken over by Jackie Aprile, who dies of cancer just like Jake Amari. Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo is an Italian American former mobster who was de facto boss of the New Jersey DeCavalcante crime family before becoming a government witness in 1999. The attorney who represented Stango in thecase declined to comment. Organized crime is not dead, unfortunately, Seglem said. Anthony Comello was arrested in Brick andcharged in the fatal shooting. Fictional mob boss Tony Soprano, the protagonist of the HBO series The Sopranos, is said to be based upon Palermo. 1 mo. He was recorded telling Majuri of going with fellow mobster Gaetano Corky Vastola to visit someone who had failed to come in for a chat when summoned. Saying a thing and doing it are two different things.. [7] [8] D'Amico fled the United States in 1937 after a failed assassination attempt ordered by Joseph Profaci. Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. His obituary reads, "John M. Riggi, Laborers Local 394 business agent, Army Air Corps veteran, dedicated his life to his family." The Genovese and the Gambino families were and are among the five New York families, the Ivy League of the Mafia. Rotondo shared this information with underboss Giacomo Amari, and consigliere Stefano Vitabile. [32], A "street boss" will sometimes run several crews at once. Her husband called the office and DeCavalcante chatted with him while periodically muffling the phone and muttering encouraging endearments to her. According to Wikipedia he also was a flamboyant entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and intermediary between Italian-American and African-American organized crime groups. Sam was recorded talking about The Commission, his efforts as a Commission rep to help quell the Banana War and the Gallo-Profaci conflicts, casino operations in Vegas, and other very sensitive underworld secrets. (1959/1960 - January 23, 2012 [1] ) Made Man A resident of South Beach, Staten Island, Capo became an associate of the DeCavalcante crime family during the early 1980s under powerful Elizabeth, New Jersey faction leader Giovanni Riggi. The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, Newark, West New York, and various other North Jersey cities and the surrounding areas in North Jersey. The FBI surveilled DeCavalcante and several of his associates, built an effective case against him, and in 1969 he was convicted on a variety of racketeering charges. Crime bosses came and left, and the turnover meant that there was no true power center. The downfall of the DeCavalcante family was precipitated in 1998, when an associate named Ralph Guarino became an FBI informant, in an effort to avoid a long prison sentence in connection with taking part with two others in a heist of $1.6 million from the World Trade Center. His other advantage over the more high-profile families in New York was that law enforcement in New Jersey is more fragmented and less zealous. The Family was active in many of the traditional rackets such as gambling, shylocking, labor union racketeering and corruption, extortion, and narcotics. has fought against New Jersey withdrawing from the commission, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, [2] Newark, West New York, [3] and various other North Jersey cities and the surrounding areas in North Jersey. One of these mobsters was D'Amato, who reportedly conspired with Gotti and his underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano into murdering Vastola. They operate in the realm made mythic by The Godfather and their bosses are figures of legend. Although a highly secretive Family even among Cosa Nostra itself, in the early 1960s, the FBI was able to install a hidden bug or listening device in Sam DeCavalcantes plumbing contracting office. T He had been the acting boss during the 1970s and became the official boss around 1982. He was born in 1913 and was involved in illegal gambling, murder, and racketeering for most of his life. The high turnover of mafia leadership that gave rise to the DeCavalcante family in the 1960s played a key part in its precipitous decline four decades later. Yet old school mobstersstill wreak havoc on the shreds ofturf they control, with federal prosecutions in recent years uncovering mob activity at the Port of New York and New Jersey and in somesuburbs across the state. In 1989, Capo participated in the murder of Fred Weiss, a Staten Island, New York developer and newspaper publisher. Simone DeCavalcante was the boss of the crime family that bore his name and a FBI bug recorded his every word to his secretary when he arrived at his office one morning in 1964. He doubled the number of made men within his family during the 60s. [23] [24] [25] Luigi Oliveri was charged with the possession of contraband cigarettes. The new boss was Giovanni John the Eagle Riggi. After one plot fell through, the murder was eventually called off. Originally dismissed by the large New York City crime organizations, the DeCavalcantes sought the opportunity to move up in the crime world . Nobodys going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business, Capo later testified.
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