Umberto Gallo ran a private mob social club as a base and was partners with his older brother in the shylock rackets. He also ran Roulette Records and golfed on occasion with Sammy Davis, Jr. Vastola then landed in prison and John DAmato became acting boss until the girlfriend he shared with another mobster revealed that he was bisexual. DeCavalcante always paid a good price when persuading judges and politicians and cops to sell their souls. 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. Mr. Rocco offers a story of his . 103 8 The indictment reports that Guarraci then fired the general manager. He died in 1964, and his nephew Simone DeCavalcante was installed as new boss of the officially recognized "DeCavalcante crime family" of North Jersey. She described swinging encounters that D'Amato had in Manhattan sex clubs with both women and men. Unfortunately for Sam the Plumber, his rise to power coincided with another development: more aggressive and sophisticated law enforcement efforts to take down organized crime. 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. Prosecutors charged Capo with the 1989 Weiss murder, the 1992 D'Amato murder, and involvement in two other murders. Claiming descent from the Italian royal family, DeCavalcante was nicknamed "The Count". Underboss Frank Majuri was recorded telling Simone DeCavalcante that he shouldnt run around because Catena and Gambino dont. Majuri meant Gerardo Catena of the Genovese family and Carlo Gambino of the family of that name. 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. DAmato subsequently disappeared in the late 1990s, apparently after someone alleged to socially conservative mafiosos that he was bisexual. In the golden age of organized crime, Carmine "The Snake" Persico was the King of the Streets. Vastolas successor, John DAmato, was reputed to be more loyal to the Gambinos than his own New Jersey associates. Thats it.. has fought against New Jersey withdrawing from the commission, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Robert Occhipinti was a member of the DeCavalcante Family who ran into trouble when the infamous "Sam the Plumber" tapes were revealed. The bosses of the five families on the other side of the Hudson River were busy hiding and pretending they were not in charge of anything when Guarraci strode right into Lennys Brick Oven Pizza in Washington Township, N.J. in August 2010 and announced that he was taking over the business. Two of the notorious five New York crime families Lucchese and Genovese operate in New Jersey, mob experts said. Unsurprisingly, the DeCavalcante Family were fans of the show. [20], In March 2015, the FBI arrested 10 members and associates of the crime family on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and distribution of drugs, including 71 year-old captain Charles "Beeps" Stango and 72 year-old consigliere Frank Nigro. He had to meet death, concluded the reputedcaporegime, the Italian term for captain in the underworld. 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. 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. Ba-boom! It operates on the . 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. As in The Sopranos, the DeCavalcante family recruited a new arrival from Sicily. U.S. District Judge William H. Walls on Tuesday sentenced Stango, 73, a reputed capo in the DeCavalcante crime family, to 10 years in federal prison for using a telephone to plot a murder. [10], Between 1999-2005, about 45 men were imprisoned, including the family's consigliere and seven capos. Copyright 2019-2022. 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. [27] [28] Stango reportedly wanted Nigro and associate Paul Colella to get permission from the New Jersey hierarchy to kill Luigi Oliveri, but the murder was not committed because Stango did not get an answer. Picture of Recently Captured Fugitive Mafia Boss Matteo Messina Denaro With One of the Doctors Who Treated Him at the Private Clinic He Was Arrested At 112 19 12 days ago This guy killed over 100 people 138 104 21 days ago Colorized image of Tony Spilotro and Joey "The Clown" Lombardo being released from jail. He was 90 years old. All five of the New York City crime families, plus the New Jersey DeCavalcantes and the Philadelphia mob have people placed in the port, according to Walter Arsenault, executive director of the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor. D'Amato's body was never recovered. It operates on the opposite side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York. There was also Abner Zwillman, a Jewish gangster operating in Newark, and the Philadelphia crime family operating in South Jersey. Unrelenting law enforcement pressure was further diminishing the power of the DeCavalcante crime family as well. [15], Toward the late 1990s, the Ruling Panel kept running the DeCavalcante crime family with Giovanni Riggi still behind bars as the boss. Gary Younge in New York. 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. He had been released from prison almost three years ago and peacefully died at home surrounded by his family. [6] The New York City families had crews operating in New Jersey: the Masseria family's New Jersey faction, and the Reina family's Jersey crew. The latest "organized crime spotlight" report issued by the state focused instead on the notoriously violent street gang MS-13. Informed in prison of D'Amato's execution, Riggi appointed Amari as the new acting boss.[3][4][5]. All may have seemed well, but trouble was brewing beneath. This caused a massive power vacuum within the family, with high-ranking members pushing to become the next boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. 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. The other Commission members had decided that Galante was bad for their business and gave Rastelli permission to remove him. [31], In July 2022, capo Charlie Stango was released from federal prison and went into a New York halfway house. However, the familys declining fortunes coincided with the debit of the Sopranos, the hit television series depicting the lives of second-tier mafiosas operating out of New Jersey. The Mafia"capo"had an employeeproblem. D'Amato was later revealed to have participated in homosexual acts and was murdered in 1992. However, in the 1960s the New Jersey mob was riding high. John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato was a New Jersey mobster and former acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. Daily News page 43 - October 20, 2000 - Headline: N.J. Crime family indicted - Boss, 11 others charged with murder and racketeering - DeCavalcante. 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. John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato (died January 1992) was a New Jersey mobster and former acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. (Gotti was later convicted of this conspiracy.) After Riggi's conviction for racketeering, he appointed John D'Amato as acting boss of the family in 1990. He had recently doubled the number of made members and he was taking full advantage of his native states remarkable propensity for corruption at all levels of government. If you dont mind, Id rather not talk about it, she said. For the next several years, every single word spoken by Sam and his Mafia associates was recorded for posterity by the agents. 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. 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. lieutenant, Giovanni Riggi, as the head of the family. During prohibition and afterwards, several New Jersey families controlled their own city-wide networks, and crews associated with the Five Families in New York staked out a claim on rackets in Jersey as well. Angelo Gallo was active in loanshark rackets and was associated with the Gallo Gang faction of the Colombos. 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. While incarcerated, Riggi attempted to maintain control of the DeCavalcante crime family, with uneven success. The one thing that they are is adaptable.. Pete Galletta was a "sleeper" DeCavalcante member who was involved in the Family's gambling rackets, yet unknown to law enforcement. He had been the acting boss during the 1970s and became the official boss around 1980. When questioned by a federal prosecutor about his knowledge of asbestos removal, Capo replied, "I wouldn't know asbestos if I was sitting on it. FBI agent Giovanni Rocco posed as the outlaw biker "Giovanni Gatto" (above) to infiltrate the DeCavalcante crime family in New Jersey. The USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey learned the state remains a hunting ground for mobsters tied to Philadelphia and New York City. Informed in prison of D'Amato's execution, Riggi appointed Amari as the new acting boss.[3][5][7]. Capo also warned prosecutors that a stenographer working in the Manhattan office of the U.S. Attorney was passing sensitive information, including lists of suspects, to Giovanelli. "I had a. It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. One of them decided to cooperate and a dozen more were grabbed. By stepping outside myth, the show brought the expectation that it would be something new and authentic. He was married with three children.[2]. Dec 15, 2016 - The real Sopranos . He relocated to Sicily and was replaced by Nicholas "Nick" Delmore. As with all of Cosa Nostra in the last 20 to 30 years, the DeCavalcante Family has fallen prey to the Rat Fever permeating through the ranks of all the mobbut the beat goes on! He was arrested for it several times. DeCavalcante would have loved to be considered their equal. This true crime biography by a Mafia insider chronicles the hair-raising life of the notorious Colombo crime family boss. 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. Instead, Gallo told Vincent about the plot. The members include Vito Spatafore, who is killed after it becomes known he is gay, just as John DAmato was killed. [Colombo] sits like a baby next to Carl [Gambino] all the time, DeCavalcante said. Button Guys of The New York Mafia. When he took it over, that was when the FBI was naming families by who was in charge, so it became. All five of the New York City crime families, plus the New Jersey DeCavalcantes and the Philadelphia mob have people placed in the port, according to Walter Arsenault, executive director of the. The members of other crime families sometimes refer to Lucchese family members as "Lukes". The defacto boss of the Colombo Mafia family since the 1970s, he oversaw major rackets and . [15] In retaliation, Vincent Palermo decided to have Majuri murdered. Badami's underboss Filippo Amari began to run the illegal operations. He was a prominent member and reputed acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. La famille de Philadelphie, plus connue comme famille Scarfo (ou famille Bruno-Scarfo ), est une organisation criminelle base dans la ville de Philadelphie ( Pennsylvanie) et l'une des 25 familles qui composent la mafia amricaine plus connue sous le nom de Cosa nostra . MORE:'The things you can't beat are the tapes': Jersey Shore Mafia drug ring busted. Riggi placed the family under the day-to-day direction of a ruling panel headed by Vastola, whose various activities ranged from shaking down dice games to promoting concerts by Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. If youre a real honest guy, you wind up [a] hunchback with headaches., A feeling that he had not received his due respect may have added to DeCavalcantes dislike for the nicknames Sam the Plumber (he owned a heating and plumbing company) and the Claw (he made sure to collect every usurious penny in loan sharking). He sounded like any worried father when he fretted aloud about his three sons. 1 mo. Which directive G.M. You were screaming You had pearls on Everything was so screwed up Mary [his wife] woke me upsomething about pearls I dont remember.. When boss Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi wanted to curry favour with newly-minted Gambino boss John Gotti, he. Join. And Tony Soprano was not a Michael Corleone. [19] Longtime acting boss Francesco Guarraci died of cancer in 2016. However, that same year, Vastola went to federal prison on a 20-year sentence on extortion charges. The killing was one of a litany of murders and other crimes listed in a racketeering indictment made possible by an informant who had been assisting the FBI for a decade. [8], To avoid a life sentence for murder, Capo became a government witness. In 2003, capos Philip "Phil" Abramo, Giuseppe "Pino" Schifilliti and the reputed consigliere Stefano Vitabile were charged in organizing various crimes, including the murder of D'Amato. He became a boss of acting as he played an acting boss. [17], In 2001, 20 mobsters were charged with racketeering, seven murders, 14 murder conspiracies, attempted murder, extortion in the construction industry, and stock fraud. The bug also recorded the then-52-year-old DeCavalcante being robustly intimate with the secretary. The Family was active in many of the traditional rackets such as gambling, shylocking, labor union racketeering and corruption, extortion, and narcotics. Biography He is now 87. 20152016 "Milk" mentioned by Charles Stango in December 2012 wiretaps. Longtime New Jersey mob boss John Riggi passed away on Monday. Giacomo Michael "Jackie" Aprile (April 11, 1954 - September 9 1998), played by Michael Rispoli, was the first Acting Boss of the DiMeo crime family. "[3] Sometime in the late 1980s, law enforcement listed Capo as a soldier in the DeCavalcante family. The DeCavalcante crime family is an 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). Like his predecessor before him, the law eventually caught up with Johnny the Eagle as well. [15] Riggi was in jail until November 27, 2012, and he died in 2015. However, Capo later testified that he slept during class and allowed the school's operator to take the test for him. Hell do anything Carl wants him to do., DeCavalcante went on to say, Sometimes, Frank, the more things you see, the more disillusioned you become. And that will continue as long as there are ships that are coming in from all over the world and the people here who know what the ships are bringing in.. Joseph Miranda became an alleged acting underboss/acting boss -- at the age of 83 -- after the mass 2003 arrests of the Family. den Stdten Scranton, Wilkes-Barre und Pittston aktiv. He hung out at the Ribera Social Club in Elizabeth, remaining so low-key that even some members of the family were unaware of his alleged position. He appointed Gaetano Vastola to oversee. After DeCavalcante boss Giovanni Riggi was sent down in 1989, John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato became the crime family's acting boss. Salvatore Vincent "Bill" Bonanno (November 5, 1932 - January 1, 2008) was an American mobster who served as consigliere of the Bonanno crime family, and son of crime boss Joseph Bonanno. The writers just looked at each other and said nothing. An Amico Nostro is an Amico Nostro.. In one recent example, a Bonanno crime family captain was connected to a scheme in which a dirt broker trucked in demolition waste, including dirt tainted with a cancer-causing substance, to fill in backyards eroded by superstorm Sandy along the edge of Raritan Bay in the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, according to a 2017 report by the State Commission of Investigation. He owned Kenilworth Heating and Air Conditioning in Kenilworth, New Jersey as a legal front and source of taxable income, for which he gained the nickname "Sam the Plumber". Riggis hope to put the DeCavalcante family back on the map with the killing was dashed when it became known that when stealing license plates to put on a getaway car, one of the hit squad had inadvertently chosen the plates of a vehicle belonging to the wife of a well-known mobster. You know, honesty and honorability, those things., Majuri replied, Yeah. The DeCavalcante crime family is an 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). He was married with three children. [30], Longtime member Charles "Big Ears" Majuri is the current boss of the family. [15] Guarino spent ten years undercover working for the FBI. It fell victim to its own hubris, and to new law enforcement technologies that allowed police and FBI agents to maintain relentless pressure on it. After Riggi was indicted in 1990 for labor racketeering and extortion, he appointed Gaetano "Corky" Vastola as the new acting boss. Famille de Philadelphie. ago. 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