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Michael J. Coppola (born May 18, 1946), [2] also known as "Mikey Cigars", is an American mobster and captain in the Genovese crime family active in their New Jersey ...
On March 9, 2007, Coppola was arrested after eleven years on the run as a fugitive. The FBI offered him a deal to become an informant in their case against Fiumara for Ricci's murder. [24] Coppola refused to testify and was sentenced on December 18, 2009, to 16 years. [25] On September 16, 2010, Fiumara died of natural causes. [26]
Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola was a top lieutenant in the 116th Street Crew of Ciro Terranova. He took over the crew sometime between 1932 and 1936, after Terranova was "put on the shelf" (i.e. forced into retirement) by the new Luciano-Genovese-Costello regime of the Luciano crime family .
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Frank Coppola, "Frank Three Fingers" (born Francesco Paolo Coppola, 1899–1982) Michael Coppola , "Trigger Mike" (1900–1966) Mikey Coppola , "Mikey Cigars" (born 1946)
Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola (July 2, 1900 – October 1, 1966) was a New York City mobster who became a caporegime of the 116th Street Crew of the Luciano family, which later came to be known as the Genovese family. Coppola headed many Genovese family criminal operations from the late 1930s until the early 1960s.
In New York City, Italian immigration became insulation; in gaining power, the mafia was able to affirm a Sicilian system in a new land. Yet in Nevada, Michael Corleone is once again an immigrant.
The Springfield faction of the Genovese crime family is a group of Italian-American mobsters who control organized crime activities in the Springfield, Massachusetts area.