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On January 12, 2018, eight members of the Bonanno family were arrested and charged with racketeering, extortion and related offenses. Street boss Joseph Cammarano Jr. and consigliere John "Porky" Zancocchio were included. Genovese and Lucchese crime family members Ernest Montevecchi and Eugene "Boopsie" Castelle were also arrested.
Vincent Asaro (July 10, 1935 – October 22, 2023) was an American mobster who served as a caporegime in the Bonanno crime family. [1] [2] Born in Queens, a borough of New York City, he was arrested by the FBI on January 23, 2014 and indicted on charges related to the 1978 Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
(Rutigliano was not among the men arrested Tuesday and remains at large, prosecutors say.) Defendant Agostino Gabriele, 35, allegedly collected proceeds for the Bonanno family, sending laundered ...
Gene Borrello (born June 6, 1984) is an American podcaster and convicted criminal who was a former associate of the Bonanno crime family. [1] [2] He later became a government witness, agreeing to testify against crime family members Vincent Asaro and Ronald Giallanzo in 2016. Borrello is now a podcaster, author and motivational speaker.
Vincent John Basciano (Italian pronunciation: [baʃˈʃaːno]; born November 14, 1959) [1] is an American mobster who became acting boss of the Bonanno crime family after the arrest of Joseph Massino. [2] Basciano was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 2011.
Joseph Charles Bonanno (born Giuseppe Carlo Bonanno; Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈkarlo boˈnanno]; January 18, 1905 – May 11, 2002), sometimes referred to as Joe Bananas, was an Italian-American crime boss of the Bonanno crime family, which he ran from 1931 to 1968.
On January 12, 2018, Castelle, along with Bonanno family Acting Boss Joseph Cammarano Jr. and seven other members of the Bonanno family and one member of the Genovese family were arrested and charged with racketeering and loan sharking related offenses. [73] [74] In the indictment Castelle was charged with conspiracy to commit extortion.
The Bonanno crime family operates mainly in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island. The family also maintains influence in Manhattan , The Bronx , Westchester County, New Jersey, California , Florida , and Atlanta , and have ties to the Rizzuto crime family in Quebec .