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Two gunmen riddled his Dodge Avenger with bullets, killing Alba and narrowly missing his girlfriend in the passenger seat. After the bullets stopped flying, she ran into the street to flag down an ...
Following his release from prison, Galante allegedly ordered the bombing of the doors to the private mausoleum of his enemy Frank Costello in St. Michael's Cemetery, who had died in 1973. [ 18 ] On February 23, 1974, at a meeting at the Americana Hotel in Manhattan , the Commission named Philip "Rusty" Rastelli as boss. [ 19 ]
Mancuso pleaded guilty to manslaughter of his wife and received a 10-year prison sentence. [5] [6] In 2004, acting boss Vincent Basciano promoted him to the acting underboss position. He became acting boss in November 2004, after Basciano was imprisoned. [5] In May 2005, Joseph Massino implicated Mancuso in the 1999 murder of Gerlando Sciascia. [4]
After Salerno's recovery from his stroke and the March 31, 1981, death of Genovese front boss Frank Tieri, Salerno succeeded him.Although law enforcement at the time thought that Salerno was the boss of the Genovese family, it was an open secret in New York Mafia circles that Salerno was merely a front man for the real boss, Vincent "the Chin" Gigante.
Before his arrest at a private health clinic in Palermo in January, the former boss of the Sicilian Mafia had been a fugitive since 1993 and was considered by Europol one of the most wanted men in ...
L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died on Monday in a hospital prison ward, several months after being ...
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.
Fotios "Freddy" Geas -- the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence -- was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday for bludgeoning New England crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger to ...