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Dominick Napolitano (June 16, 1930 – August 17, 1981), also known as Sonny Black, was an American Mafia caporegime in the Bonanno crime family. He is known for unwittingly allowing FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone to become an associate in his crew and nearly having him become a "made man."
He was the son of Modesto Santora, a sidewalk soldier for the Colombo crime family under boss Joseph Magliocco. Originally a member of a youth gang, Santora became a made man along with mobsters Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero and Joseph "Big Joey" Massino in the mid 1970s.
Joseph Massino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another Philip Rastelli loyalist capo, after the 1979 murder of Carmine Galante.Both men were themselves threatened by another faction seeking to depose the absentee boss led by capos Indelicato, Dominick "Big Trin" Trincera and Philip Giaccone. [2]
Dominick Napolitano, "Sonny Black" (1936–1981) John Nardi (born Giovanni Narcchione, 1916–1977) Charles Nicoletti, "Chuckie", "The Typewriter" (1916–1977) Ralph Natale (1935–2022) Frank Nitti, "The Enforcer" (born Francesco Raffaele Nitto, 1886–1943)
Sabella was replaced as capo by his former underling Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano. After the assassination of the three captains: Alphonse Indelicato , Dominick Trinchera , and Philip Giaccone , Sabella decided to sell his restaurant and remained a low level figure throughout the 1980s.
Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939) is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, [nb 1] as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family under the tutelage of Anthony Mirra and later Dominick Napolitano, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New ...
In his book Sonny Boy, out Oct. 15 from Penguin Press, Pacino, 84, opens about many of his encounters with celebrities — some of whom he considers close friends — as well as the more difficult ...
Joseph Massino was born on January 10, 1943, in New York City. [1] He was one of three sons of Neapolitan-American Anthony and Adeline Massino. [2] Raised in Maspeth, Queens, [2] Massino has admitted to being a juvenile delinquent by the age of 12 and claimed that at 14 he ran away from home to Florida. [3]