He was released on November 27, 2012. Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo is an Italian American former mobster who was de facto boss of the New Jersey DeCavalcante crime family before becoming a government witness in 1999. Organized crime is not dead, unfortunately, Seglem said. Virgil Alessi was a very active DeCavalcante mobster who started his mob career as a phone-man for Jiggs Forlano. . He retired to a high-rise condo in Florida when he was released and largely stayed out of Mafia business, although the FBI believed that he was still advising the family into the early 1990s. Hey, whats this f-ing thing, Sopranos? Joseph Tin Ear Sclafani asked. The Network also found documents identifying recent New Jersey ties tothe Bonnano and Gambino families. A total of 10 members and associates of the New Jersey-based DeCavalcante crime family were arrested today for running a prostitution ring, drug trafficking and plotting to kill a rival, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. This caused a massive power vacuum within the family, with high-ranking members pushing to become the next boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. You just gotta put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life or somebody's gotta get a f----- jar of acid and throw it in his f----- face Charles Beeps Stango said, according to a March 2015 federal court document alleging crimes by him and other accused members of the DeCavalcante crime family, the New Jersey mob outfit known as an inspiration for "The Sopranos" series on HBO. "Telling Court He's Gay, Mob Informer Crosses Line", "Hit man's confessions Mob turncoat tells court of his blood-soaked life", WISEGUY GETS LIFE FOR HIT ON GAY MOB BOSS, "Racketeering Convictions Rejected for 3 in Mob Case", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Amato&oldid=1092821241, This page was last edited on 12 June 2022, at 20:33. By far the smallest Mafia Family in the New York/New Jersey area, the tight-knit DeCavalcante mob, nonetheless, always maintained an inducted membership of anywhere from 35 to 50 made members and upwards of 100 close associates. Its illicit activities include bookmaking, cement and construction violations, bootlegging, corruption, drug trafficking, extortion, fencing, fraud, hijacking, illegal gambling, loan-sharking, money laundering, murder, pier thefts, pornography, prostitution, racketeering, and waste management violations. Originally dismissed by the large New York City crime organizations, the DeCavalcantes sought the opportunity to move up in the crime world . [29], In 2016, Anthony Stango Jr. was sentenced to 6 years in prison after pleading guilty to using a telephone in interstate commerce to conduct a prostitution operation, conspiring to distribute five grams or more of cocaine, distributing more than $70,000 worth of cocaine, and possessing a shotgun as a convicted felon. The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, [2] Newark, West New York, [3] and various other North Jersey cities and the surrounding areas in North Jersey. She described swinging encounters that D'Amato had in Manhattan sex clubs with both women and men. was gunned down in Staten Island earlier this month. Stango, now 75, ultimately opted for death, according to the document. Capo also warned prosecutors that a stenographer working in the Manhattan office of the U.S. Attorney was passing sensitive information, including lists of suspects, to Giovanelli. Also. Mr. Rocco offers a story of his . It operates on the other side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York, but it maintains strong relations with many of them, as well as with the . His obituary reads, "John M. Riggi, Laborers Local 394 business agent, Army Air Corps veteran, dedicated his life to his family." Though the obit refers to his blood relatives, it . Federal authorities previously have called the DeCavalcante organization one of La Cosa Nostra's most ruthless families. One of them decided to cooperate and a dozen more were grabbed. Famille de Philadelphie. He was a knockaround Jersey guy rising to power in the fictional DiMeo family, founded by Ercole DiMeo, who had been sent to prison just like Simone DeCavalcante. [75]. He was married with three children. And under his lead, the DeCavalcante spread money around to local politicians and often presented a veneer of legitimacy Riggi helped develop little league baseball fields and supported many charitable causes even as the family was committing serious crimes, extortion, and fraud across the state. Capo also worked with reputed Gambino crime family mobster Joseph Watts in a loansharking racket that allegedly grossed more than $12 million. Riggi continued to run the family throughout the 1980s, with underboss Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo and Stefano Vitabile as consigliere, [11] after Frank Majuri died of health problems. It also helped send him to prison. [4] Capo and Rotundo left the body at a safe house, where other mobsters disposed of it. lieutenant, Giovanni Riggi, as the head of the family. John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato (died January 1992) was a New Jersey mobster and former acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family.After being recruited by Gambino crime family boss John Gotti to take over the family, he was suspected of engaging in homosexual activity and was murdered in January 1992. Seglem explained they still make money with traditional ventures likelabor racketeering taking control of workers at a construction site and demanding a payout from the builders. Louis "Louie Eggs" Consalvo is a New Jersey mobster and reputed soldier and acting captain in the DeCavalcante crime family. Fictional mob boss Tony Soprano, the protagonist of the HBO series The Sopranos, is said to be based upon Palermo. If you dont mind, Id rather not talk about it, she said. Gallo was a strong ally and friend of Vincent Palermo's, and told him about Majuri's plans. He rose to power in 1964, and he was incarcerated in 1969. Bonanno boss Joseph 'Big Joe' Massino was boss from early 1990s to 2004 - he then became the first official boss from New York to become an informant. Soon, Riggi was convicted of his charges and sentenced to 15 years in 1990, which meant that Vastola kept running the day-to-day activities. Cosa Nostra is Cosa Nostra, he declared. Anthony Samuel Carollo ( / krlo / kar-AW-loh, [citation needed] Italian: [karllo]; November 24, 1923 - February 1, 2007) was an American mobster, boss of the New Orleans crime family and son of the mob boss Silvestro Carollo. It was around the mid-1980s that Riggi fell increasingly under the influence of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. charged along with Stango were accused of discussing at a bar in Toms River in 2015 their plan for a prostitution business. In his absence, a little known but extremely well-liked and capable caporegime stepped up, first as underboss, then acting boss, and ultimately to formally head the Family, John (The Eagle) Riggi, Sr., the well-groomed son of a veteran member named Emmanuel Riggi, had served the Family for decades as business agent of Local #394 Laborers & Hod Carriers Union (AFL-CIO) and several other labor unions. He became a boss of acting as he played an acting boss. Frank "Franky the Beast" Scarabino is a New York City mobster and former soldier in the North Jersey based DeCavalcante crime family. Riggi was incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens, Massachusetts, on extortion and labor racketeering convictions. On the day of the attack, D'Amato, Capo and the other two hitmen entered D'Amato's car to drive to lunch. Picture of Recently Captured Fugitive Mafia Boss Matteo Messina Denaro With One of the Doctors Who Treated Him at the Private Clinic He Was Arrested At 112 19 12 days ago This guy killed over 100 people 138 104 21 days ago Colorized image of Tony Spilotro and Joey "The Clown" Lombardo being released from jail. He ruled until early in the 1970's. He was succeeded by John Riggi, who is currently imprisoned. Dec 15, 2016 - The real Sopranos . Which directive G.M. During the mid-1990s, Capo stabbed a Gambino associate named Remy in the eye at a Staten Island bar. The DeCavalcante Family Of the seven La Cosa Nostra families active in New Jersey, the DeCavalcante family is the only one indigenous to the state. He declined to commenton a rumored romantic motive, except to saywere investigating everything thats been reported.". Sam the Plumber, alleged Mafia family member whose phone conversations were taped by the FBI, is pictured here with his. He is based on DeCavalcante crime family acting mob boss Giacomo "Jake" Amari . After college, the son discovered his calling. It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. strip club. Earlier in 1991, D'Amato's girlfriend, retaliating against D'Amato over an argument, told Rotondo that D'Amato was an active bisexual. [ Want to keep tabs on crime in New Jersey? Underboss Frank Majuri was recorded telling Simone DeCavalcante that he shouldnt run around because Catena and Gambino dont. Majuri meant Gerardo Catena of the Genovese family and Carlo Gambino of the family of that name. mafia in the catskillsdandy nicholls cause of deathdandy nicholls cause of death Tony Soprano is said to have been based on John Riggi (Image: NY Daily News via Getty Images) It operates in North Jersey under the Gambino family, one of the five major crime families based in New York, according to the FBI. The Genovese and the Gambino families were and are among the five New York families, the Ivy League of the Mafia. Joe Lolordo was a member of the Sam DeCavalcante Family and was reportedly involved in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. Riggis hope to put the DeCavalcante family back on the map with the killing was dashed when it became known that when stealing license plates to put on a getaway car, one of the hit squad had inadvertently chosen the plates of a vehicle belonging to the wife of a well-known mobster. She opened the front door and spoke over the yapping of her schnauzer. It helped funnel millions into mob coffers through its control of a powerful division of the Laborers International Union of North America in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey. It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. DAmato subsequently disappeared in the late 1990s, apparently after someone alleged to socially conservative mafiosos that he was bisexual. Guarraci pleaded guilty and in January 2012 got off with six months of home confinement, followed by five years probation. Claiming descent from the Italian royal family, DeCavalcante was nicknamed "The Count". [16] This was the fourth indictment of the family since 1999. The vaunted five families were faring even worse, to the point of virtual extinction. [19] Longtime acting boss Francesco Guarraci died of cancer in 2016. He is believed by law enforcement to remain the boss, even though Riggi was released in November 2012, after 22 years in prison. And in New Jersey, the DeCavalcante Family ran the show. [72] [73] The family was the subject of the CNBC program Mob Money, which aired on June 23, 2010, [74] and The Real Sopranos TV documentary directed by Thomas Viner for the UK production company Class Films. "I had a. He is said by law enforcement to remain a boss who may outlast them all in the five families for the same reason that helped make The Sopranos such a hit. The DeCavalcante crime family is an organized crime family that operates in Elizabeth, New Jersey and surrounding areas in the state and is part of the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). DeCavalcante was sentenced to five years in prison. had a home in the Jersey Shore's Long Branch. As with all of Cosa Nostra in the last 20 to 30 years, the DeCavalcante Family has fallen prey to the Rat Fever permeating through the ranks of all the mobbut the beat goes on! John (John the Eagle) Riggi - DeCalvacante Family Acting Boss John Riggi helmed the DeCavalcante ship with a steely resolve for nearly 35 years even while Gambino boss John Gotti sought to sink it. Die Bufalino-Familie (Pittston Crime Family, Scranton Wilkes-Barre Family) war eine italo-amerikanische Mafiafamilie der amerikanischen Cosa Nostra und in der nordstlichen Region von Pennsylvania, bzw. 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