John (John the Eagle) Riggi - DeCalvacante Family Acting Boss John Riggi helmed the DeCavalcante ship with a steely resolve for nearly 35 years even while Gambino boss John Gotti sought to sink it. 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. The attorney who represented Stango in thecase declined to comment. Guarraci pleaded guilty and in January 2012 got off with six months of home confinement, followed by five years probation. It was during Lucky Luciano's organization of the American Mafia after the Castellammarese War, following the assassinations of "Joe the Boss" Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, that the gang run by Joseph Profaci became recognized as the Profaci crime family. Seglem explained they still make money with traditional ventures likelabor racketeering taking control of workers at a construction site and demanding a payout from the builders. The Decavalcantes are considered by some to be the "Sixth Family". 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. Carmelo (Melio) Cocchiaro was a soldier in the DeCavalcante Family who once made a youthful blunder after a string of supermarket robberies. It helped funnel millions into mob coffers through its control of a powerful division of the Laborers International Union of North America in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey. [15] Riggi was in jail until November 27, 2012, and he died in 2015. Giuseppe "Pino" Schifilliti is a former prominent member of the DeCavalcante crime family since the 1980s, heavily involved in labor racketeering and extortion activities. The other Commission members had decided that Galante was bad for their business and gave Rastelli permission to remove him. [18] With the decline of the DeCavalcante family, New York's Five Families have taken over many of the rackets in northern New Jersey. 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. Capo was flirting with a girl there when Remy interrupted their conversation. 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. 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. DeCAVALCANTE FAMILY ( New Jersey Mafia Family) Boss: Charles Majuri (?) He was released on November 27, 2012. When describing this incident in court in 2003, Capo said he thought Remy had a gun and described him as a "violent individual". 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. She described swinging encounters that D'Amato had in Manhattan sex clubs with both women and men. Nicknamed Sam the Plumber because of the plumbing supply store he operated as a business front, DeCavalcante was an ambitious Mafioso who managed to organize New Jerseys rackets like never before, and make them profitable. The thugs had just been bemoaning the continued lack of respect they received from the five families. 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). Even so, legacymob activity in New Jersey is detailed in the records of recent federal prosecutions: The Port of New York and New Jersey is a longtime hotspot for organized crime, OMalley noted. DeCavalcante would have loved to be considered their equal. Guarraci and a man who would be arrested with him became more insistent and threatening. He wore a listening device and recorded conversations that mobsters would have about criminal business. T Stango pleaded guilty to using the telephone with the intent to commit murder and was sentenced in 2017 to 10 years in prison in connection to the planned killing. Riggi was the leader of the "Elizabeth crew" in the family when he was a Caporegime. The new boss was Giovanni John the Eagle Riggi. 67. r/Mafia. The Network also found documents identifying recent New Jersey ties tothe Bonnano and Gambino families. And authentic it was, almost as if the FBI had just kept recording after DeCavalcantes death in 1997 and on through Amaris death and into the present day. 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. The vaunted five families were faring even worse, to the point of virtual extinction. [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. His father, James, Sr., received a Purple Heart during World War II and worked as a mason and then as a high-school custodian. Also. But that was forgotten as Anthony Rotondo rhapsodized about The Sopranos. 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. The nightmares and panic attacks suffered by Tony Soprano as played by James Gandolfini seemed authentic enough to anybody who had listened to the FBI recordings of a real-life New Jersey mob boss in the 1960s. Later in life, he became a writer and produced films for television about his family.Early lifeBonanno was the first child of Joseph and Fay (ne Labruzzo) Bonanno, born on November 5, 1932, in the Brooklyn . was gunned down in Staten Island earlier this month. Dominick Napolitano was later promoted to caporegime for his efforts. The Kefauver hearings later named his crime family the DeCavalcante crime family since he was the boss of the family at the time of those hearings. 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. 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. [21] [22] Associates Rosario Pali and Nicholas DeGidio were convicted on April 4, 2017, after pleading guilty to distributing more than 500 grams of cocaine. Then he hit him another one. Centered in Union County, the family also has extensive operations in Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and Essex Counties as well as Staten Island, New York. He retired to a high-rise condo in Florida when he was released and largely stayed out of Mafia business, although the FBI believed that he was still advising the family into the early 1990s. Guarraci allegedly rose to acting boss as he continued to work as a foreman with a laborers union. According to Wikipedia he also was a flamboyant entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and intermediary between Italian-American and African-American organized crime groups. 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. 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. And Tony Soprano was not a Michael Corleone. On the day of the attack, Capo and another man picked up D'Amato a block from his girlfriend's house in Brooklyn to drive to lunch. However, in the 1960s the New Jersey mob was riding high. John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato (died January 1992) was a New Jersey mobster and former acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. [15] To gain complete control of the DeCavalcante family, Majuri decided that he should murder Vincent Palermo, leaving himself in charge of the family. Claiming descent from the Italian royal family, DeCavalcante was nicknamed "The Count". 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. 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. 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. Louis "Fat Lou" LaRasso was an American mobster and the longtime official underboss of the DeCavalcante crime family. Gambino BossFrancesco "Franky Boy"Cali was gunned down in Staten Island earlier this month. The longtime New Jersey mob godfather took over officially as boss in the early 1980's controlling the family for decades. The writers just looked at each other and said nothing. All may have seemed well, but trouble was brewing beneath. Die Bufalino-Familie wurde unter anderem mit Gewerkschaftskorruption, Flschungen . He is now 87. The Commission is the council of the crime bosses brought together to maintain order in the Mafia. Vincent now decided to murder Majuri and enlisted Capo and Gallo in the plot. Copyright 2019-2023, Button Guys of The New York Mafia. DeCavalcante always paid a good price when persuading judges and politicians and cops to sell their souls. [13] Riggi continued to run the family from his jail cell, but he appointed Giacomo "Jake" Amari as his new acting boss. His aliases included Marshall Beach, Mathew Beach and Wade Beach. That has never stopped, OMalley said. He also owned a strip club called Wiggles, which was the inspiration behind the show's Bada Bing! A longtime "soldier" to Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and later boss Giovanni Riggi, he became acting underboss for Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo following the imprisonment of many high-ranking members in 2003. 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 . All rights reserved. 40 affranchis et environ 100 associs. Rotondo shared this information with underboss Giacomo Amari, and consigliere Stefano Vitabile. HBO's fictional character Tony Sopranos stock in trade, the solid waste industry, also remains a moneymaking magnet, according to Seglem. OMalley said he didnt think the killing had the markings of a sanctioned mob hit. The suspects include reputed captain 71-year-old Charles Stango, of Henderson, Nevada, and 72-year-old Frank Nigro, of Toms River, a reputed consigliere, or adviser. Riggi used his power and influence to place subcontractors and workers at various construction projects around the state, and the DeCavalcantes were able to steal from union welfare and pension funds. Informed in prison of D'Amato's execution, Riggi appointed Amari as the new acting boss.[3][4][5]. He would quickly utilize his position and popularity to help expand the influence and geographic reach of this borgata. After the failed murder attempt, Vincent Palermo decided to cancel the murder contract. It operates on the opposite side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York. This allowed the Family to control major construction projects in both New Jersey and New York. He was 90 years old. All was seemingly settled until Amari became ill and died slowly of stomach cancer in 1997. Riggi was the leader of the "Elizabeth crew" in the family when he was a Caporegime. Sam the Plumber, alleged Mafia family member whose phone conversations were taped by the FBI, is pictured here with his. Philip Abramo, also known as "The King of Wall Street" and "Lou Metzer", is a caporegime in the New Jersey DeCavalcante crime family who was allegedly involved in security fraud and murder. The mutt a made member of the Mafia family had insulted an acting boss and disputed a mobster staffing decision. D'Amato's body was never recovered. Join. 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. Delmore kept running the organization until he became ill in the early 1960s. However, Capo later testified that he slept during class and allowed the school's operator to take the test for him. By far the smallest Mafia Family in the New York/New Jersey area, the tight-knit DeCavalcante mob, nonetheless, always maintained an inducted membership of anywhere from 35 to 50 made members and upwards of 100 close associates. He was then summoned to a sit-down where he agreed to withdraw. 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. "I had a. Francesco "Frank" Guarraci was an Italian-born American mobster. For the next several years, every single word spoken by Sam and his Mafia associates was recorded for posterity by the agents. Joe Lolordo was a member of the Sam DeCavalcante Family and was reportedly involved in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. There was also Abner Zwillman, a Jewish gangster operating in Newark, and the Philadelphia crime family operating in South Jersey. 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. [4] [5]. He took on the role after longtime reputed Boss Ercole 'Eckley' DiMeo was sent to prison in 1995. New Jersey was a long restive region for organized crime, with no single boss and numerous criminal networks. Giovanni Rocco, a New Jersey police officer, detailed as an FBI undercover operative, infiltrated the notorious DeCavalcante Cosa Nostra crime family in New Jersey. 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. . 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