Pete Galletta was a "sleeper" DeCavalcante member who was involved in the Family's gambling rackets, yet unknown to law enforcement. DeCavalcante will soon be moving to Los Santos Either in October 2012 or Sometime in 2013. 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. But, he could turn instantly savage when his authority was challenged. 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. Stango's case stands among the latest federal prosecutions of New Jersey Mafia figures, showing that despite the rise of other gangs, the old mob is still active in the Garden State. Nicolas (Nicky Dell) Delmore - An Early DeCavalcante Family Boss Nicholas (Nicky Dell) Delmore was one of the original powers in Northern New Jersey's underworld - a very well-respected mafioso who eventually became boss. After nearly two and a half years of undercover investigation, Giovanni Rocco sat in the spacious home of his mentor, Charlie Stango, eating sauteed shrimp made by one of the most powerful people in the DeCavalcante mafia family. Stefano "Steve" Badami became the boss of the Elizabeth-Newark family. [15], Toward the late 1990s, the Ruling Panel kept running the DeCavalcante crime family with Giovanni Riggi still behind bars as the boss. 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. An era has come to the end for the New Jersey mafia and the DeCavalcante crime family with the death of long time boss Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi. But creator David Chase is said to have drawn inspiration from real-life figures. 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. As todays complaint shows, members and associates of a long-standing organized crime family continue to ply their illegal trade, selling dangerous drugs and illegal cigarettes, promoting prostitution and threatening to settle internal scores with violence and death.. . At least one customer called 911 seeking police assistance.. At the height of his power, DeCavalcantes crime family was reported to oversee illicit activities worth over $20 million a year. 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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. . Francesco Majuri was a well-respected member of the underworld who started out as an alcohol bootlegger in the 1920s and 1930s. FAX: 609-989-2275. It maintains strong relations with many of them, as well as with the Philadelphia crime family and the Patriarca crime family of New England. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. A welcome email is on its way. 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. 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. Over the years, the DeCavalcante family earned a reputation for incompetence. Unsurprisingly, the DeCavalcante Family were fans of the show. SNP treasurer Colin Beattie has been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party.. Police Scotland revealed this morning that . [ Want to keep tabs on crime in New Jersey? DeCavalcante Mafia family mobsters hit with drug charges Mafia author shares dark stories behind Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey New Jersey Mafia capo gets 10 years for plans to whack rival DeCavalcante family capo admits planning mob rival's murder Two Decavalcante family mobsters admit distributing cocaine 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. However, in many cases DeCavalcante crime family activities were even more colorful than the fiction they later inspired. Stango, Charles et al. His mother, Santa, worked as a high school cafeteria chef. Never mind that DeCavalcante had transformed a bunch of ever-warring factions into an immensely profitable operation. A lock ( Have a question about Government Services? There were several bosses in North Jersey during the Prohibition era controlling transportation of alcohol and whiskey into New York City, and there were two Mafia families based in New Jersey: the Newark family headed by Gaspare D'Amico, and the Elizabeth family headed by Stefano Badami. NEWARK, N.J. - Ten members and associates of the DeCavalcante organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra were arrested today and charged with various plots to commit murder, distribute drugs and run a prostitution business, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. After Riggi's conviction for racketeering, he appointed John D'Amato as acting boss of the family in 1990. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. He preferred The Count. (He told people his father had been an Italian marquis.). DAmato subsequently disappeared in the late 1990s, apparently after someone alleged to socially conservative mafiosos that he was bisexual. Thats it.. As slickly dressed Italian mafioso's exported their secret societies and the code of Omerta to the United States at the dawn of the 1900s, a powerbase of fiv. Is this supposed to be us?. 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. HBO's fictional character Tony Sopranos stock in trade, the solid waste industry, also remains a moneymaking magnet, according to Seglem. They operate in the realm made mythic by The Godfather and their bosses are figures of legend. Hey, whats this f-ing thing, Sopranos? Joseph Tin Ear Sclafani asked. The The government is represented by Senior Litigation Counsel V. Grady OMalley and Assistant U.S. Attorney James Donnelly of the U.S. Attorneys Offices Organized Crime/Gangs Unit. Nobodys going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business, Capo later testified. Mob Fireside Chat BGs Official YouTube Channel, The DeCavalcante Crime Family of New Jersey, Nicolas (Nicky Dell) Delmore An Early DeCavalcante Family Boss, Simone Rizzo DeCavalcante The Count Of New Jersey, John (John the Eagle) Riggi DeCalvacante Family Acting Boss, Francesco (Big Frank) Majuri The Underboss, Joseph (Joe Buff) La Selva Nutmeg Mafioso, Antonio (Tony the Fox) Caruso The Hidden Fox, Carmelo (Melio) Cocchiaro DeCavalcante Family Soldier, Frank (Big Frankie) Cocchiaro DeCavalcante Caporegime, Rudolph (Rudy) Farone This Tootsie Dont Roll, Pietro (Pete) Galletta This Zip Liked To Sleep, Umberto (Vadoo) Gallo The Longshore Loaner, Joseph Guerriero Pippy of Connecticut, Joe Lolordo Machine-Gun Killer and DeCavalcante Capo, Joseph (The Old Man) Miranda The Mob Turtle. Mario Galli III, a DeCavalcante crime family associate who plead guilty to drug and firearm charges Mario Galli III, 28, from Toms River New Jersey and an associate of the DeCavalcante crime family has been sentenced to five years in federal prison - and probably much more. 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. One snitch quoted the doomed hitman just before he was whacked:Im sorry, I hope everybody doesnt blame me. They did. In 1935, Vincenzo Troia conspired to take over the Newark family and was murdered. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. My pop was good friends with a lot of guys and ran cigarettes for the DeCalvacantes. They dont recognize more than five families, a law-enforcement expert notes. You were screaming You had pearls on Everything was so screwed up Mary [his wife] woke me upsomething about pearls I dont remember.. Riggi, nicknamed Johnny the Eagle brought lucrative union and construction connections to the familys illicit portfolio. DeCavalcante and 54 associates were charged and tried in 1969. Unions, construction, bootlegging, waste management, porn, gambling, prostitution, drugs, and much, much more. Gregory "Georgie" Rago (born 1959) is a New Jersey mobster and "soldier" in the DeCavalcante crime family. Galli was already on supervised release after a 30-month stint for a 2016 conviction for conspiring to distribute more than a pound of drugs. Gay bosses, Sicilian recruits, FBI bugs. During Guarino's time as an informant, fellow mobster Joseph Masella was gunned down on the orders of Vincent Palermo. The thugs had just been bemoaning the continued lack of respect they received from the five families. The operators appealed the demand to DeCavalcante boss Sam DeCavalcante, who allegedly reduced the demand to $12,000 plus a negotiating fee of $3,800. 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. families in New York - the boss, underboss, captains and soldiers are depicted on different levels of the chart Among them are street boss Andrew Russo and acting underboss Benjamin Castellazzo from the Colombo family, and Bartolemeo Vernace and Joseph Corozzo from the Gambino family. A Colombo Family Legend March 25, 2020 2023 American Mafia History [10], Between 1999-2005, about 45 men were imprisoned, including the family's consigliere and seven capos. DeCavalcante can be heard on the recordings expressing some bitterness when Joe Colombo of the Colombo crime family was appointed to the ruling Commission at Carlo Gambinos urging. However, long before the Sopranos there was an actual mafia network running criminal activities across the Hudson River that divides New Jersey from New York (and the Five Families who operated in the big city). 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. 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He rose to power in 1964, and he was incarcerated in 1969. An official website of the United States government. The Mafia once infiltrated New Jerseys political system and some elements of law enforcement, according to Lee Seglem, executive director of the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, a 51-year-old arm of state government dedicated to rooting out organized crime and corruption. Like Sam the Plumber, Riggi also had strong connections to the Five Families in New York as well; he had a particularly close relationship with John Gotti, boss of the Gambino Family. Unlike New York's infamous Five Families, the Chicago mob consists of only one family, often referred to as the "Outfit.". 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.. Guarraci is said by the FBI to have been inducted by Riggi in place of the hitman who screwed up with the license plates and otherwise would have been next to be made. Guarraci allegedly rose to acting boss as he continued to work as a foreman with a laborers union.
ignored and then continued working, the indictment notes. Charged With Murder Plot, Cocaine Distribution and Prostitution Business. For the next several years, every single word spoken by Sam and his Mafia associates was recorded for posterity by the agents. He has five sisters, including Claire and Nancy, and one brother. [31], In July 2022, capo Charlie Stango was released from federal prison and went into a New York halfway house. When boss Giovanni John the Eagle Riggi wanted to curry favour with newly-minted Gambino boss John Gotti, he offered to do a hit. Cosa Nostra is Cosa Nostra, he declared. Which directive G.M. James Gandolfinis parents came emigrated from Italy to New Jersey. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. And Tony Soprano was not a Michael Corleone. Sweeping federal indictments in past decades decimated the mob hierarchy as members flipped to help law enforcement or went to prison. After college, the son discovered his calling. ', GOLDSTEIN: A strike by federal workers? Prosecutors claimed that Stango and his son had plans to open a high-end escort service in Toms River, New Jersey. If you dont mind, Id rather not talk about it, she said. The Commission did not recognize the DeCavalcantes as an autonomous crime family until the regime of Sam DeCavalcante. He soon after died of stomach cancer. At the height of his power, DeCavalcante's crime family was reported to oversee illicit activities worth over $20 million a year. [32], A "street boss" will sometimes run several crews at once. DeCavalcante crime family capo Louis "Fat Lou" LaRasso went missing on Nov. 11, 1991, after shopping with his wife for his upcoming birthday party, and having dinner in their pregnant daughter . Mario Galli III, 28, from Toms River New Jersey and an associate of the DeCavalcante crime family has been sentenced to five years in federal prison and probably much more.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[320,100],'aboutthemafia_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_2',650,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-aboutthemafia_com-medrectangle-3-0'); In exchange for leniency, Galli plead guilty on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Trenton to possession of drugs and possession of a firearm during a drug crime, which were discovered during a search of his and another home by detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutors Office. Claiming descent from the Italian royal family, DeCavalcante was nicknamed "The Count". He died in 1964, and his nephew Simone DeCavalcante was installed as new boss of the officially recognized "DeCavalcante crime family" of North Jersey. Read the room, Get the latest from Brad Hunter straight to your inbox. Previously, the familys factions in Newark and Elizabeth littered the Meadowlands with corpses in a battle for control. Hearing Impaired: 973-645-6227
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DeCavalcante always paid a good price when persuading judges and politicians and cops to sell their souls. By stepping outside myth, the show brought the expectation that it would be something new and authentic. But that was forgotten as Anthony Rotondo rhapsodized about The Sopranos. 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. Critics have praised the hit series, about a mob boss and his family, for its writing, cast, style and themes.. Violence, sex, drugs and money all feature heavily in the six-season American crime drama, which ran from 1999 to 2007. An Amico Nostro is an Amico Nostro.. The FBI, Like his predecessor before him, the law eventually caught up with Johnny the Eagle as well. The DiMeo family had then been taken over by Jackie Aprile, who dies of cancer just like Jake Amari. Under his guidance, the DeCavalcante Family added dozens of made men to their ranks, and even gained a seat on the infamous Commission. 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). It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. John Riggi helmed the DeCavalcante ship with a steely resolve for nearly 35 years even while Gambino boss John Gotti sought to sink it. There was also Abner Zwillman, a Jewish gangster operating in Newark, and the Philadelphia crime family operating in South Jersey. 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. [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. Through deep-dive biographies and snapshots of mobsters to in-depth stories about mafia regimes and crews, youll uncover an underworld you might never have known existed maybe even in your own hometown! lieutenant, Giovanni Riggi, as the head of the family. Angelo Gallo was active in loanshark rackets and was associated with the Gallo Gang faction of the Colombos. Stango along with his son Anthony was charged with distributing cocaine, conspiring to run a prostitution business and a murder plot. [16] Other top members, like Anthony Rotondo and Anthony Capo, also agreed to become government witnesses. Do not over Speak the Don or Higher Ranks than you. Riggi was hit with another 10 years just as he was about to be freed. Its death has been greatly exaggerated, Arsenault said of the mob. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It operates on the opposite side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York. Being that he was recorded saying this, it did little to improve his stature on the other side of the Hudson. 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! NEWARK, NJTen members and associates of the DeCavalcante organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra were arrested today and charged with various plots to commit murder, distribute drugs and run a . Its illicit activities include bookmaking, cement and construction violations, bootlegging, corruption, drug trafficking, extortion, fencing, fraud, hijacking, illegal gambling, loan-sharking, money laundering, murder, pier thefts, pornography, prostitution, racketeering, and waste management violations. 1. 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. 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. John LaMela was a DeCavalcante Family soldier active in liquor bootlegging, narcotics, and garbage rackets. Riggi continued to run the family throughout the 1980s, with underboss Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo and Stefano Vitabile as consigliere,[11] after Frank Majuri died of health problems. The target was a former newspaper editor turned toxic waste entrepreneur. He would quickly utilize his position and popularity to help expand the influence and geographic reach of this borgata. The attorney who represented Stango in thecase declined to comment. 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