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Following his release from prison, Galante allegedly ordered the bombing of the doors to the private mausoleum of his enemy Frank Costello, who had died in 1973, in St. Michael's Cemetery. [ 19 ] On February 23, 1974, at a meeting at the Americana Hotel in Manhattan , the Commission named Philip "Rusty" Rastelli as boss. [ 20 ]
Michael described his brother as a "nobody in the mob life", and that his father "felt sick" that one of his sons had "betrayed him like this". [70] Sonny Franzese was sentenced to eight years in prison, and was released from prison in 2017 at the age of 100, [ 71 ] dying three years later.
Scarfo died in prison on January 13, 2017, while serving his 55-year sentence. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He was the father of Nicky Scarfo Jr. , a Lucchese family soldier, who was sentenced in 2015 to 30 years in prison for security fraud, racketeering, and illegal gambling.
His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia’s “boss of bosses,’’ Salvatore “Toto” Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.
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He wanted Blythe Street to work under the Mexican Mafia, the syndicate that controlled the prisons where he'd spent the last 18 years. ... "Sometimes I’m not having a good day," he told his boss ...
Persico's loyalists unsuccessfully attempted to kill Orena at his Brooklyn home. In retaliation, Orena decided to murder Scarpa, one of Persico's strongest supporters. On November 18, Scarpa was driving his own car in Brooklyn, followed behind by his 22-year-old daughter Linda and 8-month-old grandson, when he was stopped by two cars.
Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, the once powerful New England Mafia boss who was serving a life sentence behind bars for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner, has died at the age of ...