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He is the cousin of mobsters Michael Perna, and Daniel, Joseph and Thomas Ricciardi. Michael is also the uncle of Joseph Perna born c.a. 1969, John G. Perna born c.a. 1977 and Ralph M. Perna Junior born c.a. 1972 who are the sons of his cousin Ralph V. Perna and his wife Roseanne. They all followed their father and uncle into organized crime.
The early members of the Lucchese family's New Jersey faction can be traced back to independent Italian criminal groups that operated in Newark, New Jersey.During the early 1900s, in city of Newark, the Italian criminals was divided into two ethnic factions: the "Sicilians" headed by Stefano "Don Steven" Badami and the "Neapolitans" led by Ruggiero "the Boot" Boiardo.
[265] [263] In 1933, he was one of the individuals arrested in New York City in connection with the murder of John Bazzano, who was the boss of the Pittsburgh crime family at the time. When the D'Amico family collapsed in 1937 with its rackets being divided up by the Commission , Michael Russo joined the Lucchese crime family, presumably to ...
For 16 years, a suburban New York prosecutor’s office insisted it had the right man in a notorious 1996 double killing. The office tried him five times, through a series of hung juries and ...
A man has been arrested over the leak of graphic crime scene photos taken from the wooded trail where teenage best friends Libby German and Abby Williams were brutally murdered.. In what marks the ...
Florida State University Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brothers including 1994 murder victim John Edwards,18, bottom far left, and Chris Spires, white hat, top middle. The photo was taken in the fall ...
Michael is the uncle of Joseph Perna born c.a. 1969, John Perna born c.a. 1977 and Ralph Perna Junior born c.a. 1972. They followed their father and uncle into organized crime. He is the father of Pamela Abdy , a film producer whose credits include " Garden State " that was awarded an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature in 2005 as ...
Michael J. Coppola (born May 18, 1946), [2] also known as "Mikey Cigars", is an American mobster and captain in the Genovese crime family active in their New Jersey faction.He made national headlines when he went into hiding for 11 years to avoid a possible murder conviction.