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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.
Tramunti served as acting boss, even after Corallo was released from prison in 1970. In 1973, with Tramunti's imprisonment, Corallo finally became the official Lucchese boss. In the early 1970s the Five Families of New York organized crime decided to "open the books', allowing a new generation of mob associates to become made men .
It had long been a rule in the Mafia that a boss could only be killed with the approval of a majority of the Commission. Indeed, Gotti's planned hit would have been the first unsanctioned hit on a boss of the Five Families since Frank Costello was nearly killed in 1957 and would have been the first on any boss since Angelo Bruno in 1980.
A Mafia boss who spent nearly three decades evading law enforcement before he was arrested in January has died while receiving medical treatment, according to Italian media reports.
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 ...
Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who once claimed to have murdered enough people to fill a cemetery, was laid to rest on Wednesday in his hometown in Sicily, with only a handful of family ...
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.
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 ...