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Joseph Vollaro, also known as "Joey V" and "Joe Andrews" (born 1966), is a Staten Island-based American trucking executive and Gambino crime family associate who is now a government informant and witness. Vollaro did construction work and worked in several gyms as a young man. Vollaro became an associate of the Gambino family in the 1990s.
Gambino and Luciano then allegedly provided a part of the $100,000 paid to a Puerto Rican drug dealer to falsely implicate Genovese in a drug deal. [38] In April 1959, Genovese was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, where he died in 1969. [39] Gambino quickly built the family into the most powerful crime family in the United States.
The New Springville Boys was an Italian-American recruitment gang or "farm team" for the American Mafia, specifically the Bonanno crime family.The gang frequently operated from the New Springville Mall in Staten Island.
Giovanni "John" Gambino (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ɡamˈbiːno]; August 22, 1940 – November 16, 2017) was an Italian-born American mobster.Born in Palermo, Sicily, he became a made member of the Gambino crime family in 1975 and a capodecina or captain, and head of the crime family's Sicilian faction, appointed by family boss John Gotti in 1986, according to Mafia turncoat Sammy Gravano.
They were also charged with hijacking a truckload of marijuana worth over $1 million, and selling drugs in their neighborhood. Members included leader Lee D'Avanzo, Ned Bilali, Robert Catanese, Randy (Randy The Jew) Gordon, Francis Costanzo, William "Big Billy" Fauci, Joseph "Fat Joe" Gambino, and Edward Shamah.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies are concerned about copycat vehicle-ramming attacks following the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans by a U.S. Army veteran ...