[20], In March 2015, the FBI arrested 10 members and associates of the crime family on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and distribution of drugs, including 71 year-old captain Charles "Beeps" Stango and 72 year-old consigliere Frank Nigro. The thugs had just been bemoaning the continued lack of respect they received from the five families. He started hollering. He wore a listening device and recorded conversations that mobsters would have about criminal business. The members of other crime families sometimes refer to Lucchese family members as "Lukes". Daily News page 43 - October 20, 2000 - Headline: N.J. Crime family indicted - Boss, 11 others charged with murder and racketeering - DeCavalcante. Riggi, nicknamed Johnny the Eagle brought lucrative union and construction connections to the familys illicit portfolio. More than 30 members and associates of the family were arrested. They operate in the realm made mythic by The Godfather and their bosses are figures of legend. The Genovese family controls the New Jersey side, according to Arsenault. DeCavalcante and 54 associates were charged and tried in 1969. In contravention of Cosa Nostra rules on the killing of a family boss, the plotters did not ask permission to kill D'Amato from the Mafia Commission in New York. Riggi was the leader of the "Elizabeth crew" in the family when he was a Caporegime. The three men ordered D'Amato's execution and gave the job to Capo, Vincent Palermo, and James Gallo. Yet old school mobstersstill wreak havoc on the shreds ofturf they control, with federal prosecutions in recent years uncovering mob activity at the Port of New York and New Jersey and in somesuburbs across the state. Under his guidance, the DeCavalcante Family added dozens of made men to their ranks, and, Unfortunately for Sam the Plumber, his rise to power coincided with another development: more aggressive and sophisticated law enforcement efforts to take down organized crime. Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi was a New Jersey mobster and member of the DeCavalcante crime family since the 1940s, before the family had acquired its name. He retired to Florida upon his release. Riggi placed the family under the day-to-day direction of a ruling panel headed by Vastola, whose various activities ranged from shaking down dice games to promoting concerts by Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. You were screaming You had pearls on Everything was so screwed up Mary [his wife] woke me upsomething about pearls I dont remember.. Badami's underboss Filippo Amari began to run the illegal operations. The defacto boss of the Colombo Mafia family since the 1970s, he oversaw major rackets and . He is the capo of the DeCavalcante family's crew in Miami, Florida, United States. [18] With the decline of the DeCavalcante family, New York's Five Families have taken over many of the rackets in northern New Jersey. His aliases included Marshall Beach, Mathew Beach and Wade Beach. It fell victim to its own hubris, and to new law enforcement technologies that allowed police and FBI agents to maintain relentless pressure on it. DeCavalcante stepped down as boss officially in 1980, passing leadership to Riggi, [10] who had been a business agent of the International Association of Laborers and Hod Carriers in New Jersey for years. The Panel infuriated longtime captain Charles Majuri, who had been a hardworking member of the family since his teens and felt that he was wronged when he was not selected as the only acting boss. [15], Using information provided by Guarino, US law enforcement launched a large scale arrest on December 2, 1999 of over 30 members and associates of the DeCavalcante crime family. Vincent now decided to murder Majuri and enlisted Capo and Gallo in the plot. As a favor to Gotti, the DeCavalcantes agreed to murder Weiss. With D'Amato sitting in the back seat, Capo turned and shot D'Amato four times, killing him. [4] Palermo and Gallo then re-entered Capo's car, and Capo drove them away from the murder scene. Fictional mob boss Tony Soprano, the protagonist of the HBO series The Sopranos, is said to be based upon Palermo. After several hours, the hitmen drove away. A resident of South Beach, Staten Island, Capo became an associate of the DeCavalcante crime family during the early 1980s under powerful Elizabeth, New Jersey faction leader Giovanni Riggi. Longtime New Jersey mob boss John Riggi passed away on Monday. The family also Francesco "Frank" Polizzi was a New Jersey mobster and captain in the DeCavalcante crime family. The FBI, Like his predecessor before him, the law eventually caught up with Johnny the Eagle as well. Samuel DeCavalcante was the most prominent boss of the New Jersey LCN. por . DAmato subsequently disappeared in the late 1990s, apparently after someone alleged to socially conservative mafiosos that he was bisexual. The scene where the FBI breaks into Tonys basement to plant a bug was so realistic that an agent who happened to encounter two of the shows head writers at The Buffalo Club in Santa Monica asked where they got their information. Although a small membership, they had a reach into metropolitan New York City where they ran several regimes, Waterbury, Connecticut, where co-underboss Joseph (Joe Buff) LaSelva operated a crew, and South Florida where additional members lived and operated. Two DeCavalcante soldiers last month pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder Louis LaRasso, whose body, while never found, is believed to have been buried at an upstate New York farm. He plead guilty to operating a gambling racket turning over $20 million a year. This caused a massive power vacuum within the family, with high-ranking members pushing to become the next boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. [31], In July 2022, capo Charlie Stango was released from federal prison and went into a New York halfway house. It is also a message to La Cosa Nostra that FBI Newark will do everything . For the next several years, every single word spoken by Sam and his Mafia associates was recorded for posterity by the agents. The boss of the mafia family on which the Sopranos series is believed to be based was executed by one of his own soldiers because . Federal authorities previously have called the DeCavalcante organization one of La Cosa Nostra's most ruthless families. He took on the role after longtime reputed Boss Ercole 'Eckley' DiMeo was sent to prison in 1995. He also ran Roulette Records and golfed on occasion with Sammy Davis, Jr. Vastola then landed in prison and John DAmato became acting boss until the girlfriend he shared with another mobster revealed that he was bisexual. Today's mobsters arent as sophisticated as Asian, Russian or African organized criminals conducting high-end internet fraudin New Jersey, according to O'Malley. The popular Sopranos television series may helped make New Jerseys connections to the Mafia and organized crime a popular discussion topic at dinner tables across America. He later testified against the DeCavalcante family, Colombo crime family boss Joel Cacace, and Genovese crime family capo Federico Giovanelli. 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 Mafia once infiltrated New Jerseys political system and some elements of law enforcement, according to Lee Seglem, executive director of the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, a 51-year-old arm of state government dedicated to rooting out organized crime and corruption. The plate number was written down by a witness who saw the hitman tossing the guns in a stream. Important members over the years have included underboss Francesco (Big Frank) Majuri, capo di decina Luciano (Big Louie) Larasso, Frank (Frankie Coch) Cocchiaro, Vincent (Jimmy) Rotondo, and soldiers Robert (Bobby Basile) Occhipinti and the notorious Gaetano (Corky) Vastola. Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi was a New Jersey mobster and member of the DeCavalcante crime family since the 1940s, before the family had acquired its name. The DiMeo family had then been taken over by Jackie Aprile, who dies of cancer just like Jake Amari. After being promoted caporegime during the 1980s by Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi, D'Amato became heavily involved in large labor and construction racketeering operations with prominent New Jersey mobsters Giacomo "Jake" Amari and Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo. The FBI was able to pressure several lower ranking DeCavalcante associates into becoming informants after catching them committing serious crimes; these informants helped the Justice Department to gather substantial evidence against the family, and led to scores of long-term Federal convictions. 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. [8], To avoid a life sentence for murder, Capo became a government witness. 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. And authentic it was, almost as if the FBI had just kept recording after DeCavalcantes death in 1997 and on through Amaris death and into the present day. 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. Brooklyn-born Frank (Big Frankie) Cocchiaro was one of the most active racketeers in the DeCavalcante Family - and one of its most notorious. 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. had a home in the Jersey Shore's Long Branch. ]. Ba-boom! One of them decided to cooperate and a dozen more were grabbed. Guarraci is 54. The capoplannedto paytwo motorcycle gang members $25,000 each to kill the Elizabeth man, but the hit never came. The indictment listed murder . [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. Francesco Majuri was a well-respected member of the underworld who started out as an alcohol bootlegger in the 1920s and 1930s. Most of its leaders are either dead or incarcerated, and other criminal networks have wrestled control of the remaining rackets that once provided serious revenue for the family. Weiss was under federal investigation for illegal dumping of medical waste and Gambino boss John Gotti was afraid that Weiss might become a government witness. US law enforcement even put Giovanni Riggi on trial, who was hoping to be released in 2003, and he was sentenced to 10 additional years in prison. By 1990, Capo was working for John D'Amato and reputed capo Anthony Rotondo of the New York faction in labor racketeering, illegal gambling, extortion and loansharking activities. The Genovese and the Gambino families were and are among the five New York families, the Ivy League of the Mafia. Riggi replaced Vastola with D'Amato as acting boss. 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"Today Newark FBI arrested 10 members of the DeCavalcante organized crime family, disrupting one of the most notorious crime families," FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel said. Great acting.. [15] Guarino spent ten years undercover working for the FBI. When describing this incident in court in 2003, Capo said he thought Remy had a gun and described him as a "violent individual". The alleged MS-13 "regional director for the East Coast" had a home in the Jersey Shore's Long Branch. . After longtime boss Giovanni Riggi went on to be indicted for labor racketeering and extortion charges in late 1989, Vastola stepped up as the new acting boss of the North Jersey Mafia while Riggi was on trial. CHICAGO MAFIA FAMILY ( CHICAGO OUTFIT) Nicknamed Sam the Plumber because of the plumbing supply store he operated as a business front, DeCavalcante was an ambitious Mafioso who managed to organize New Jerseys rackets like never before, and make them profitable. He relocated to Sicily and was replaced by Nicholas "Nick" Delmore. Joseph Guerriero was a smart and capable soldier in the DeCavalcante Family and a rackets boss of the New Britain section of Connecticut. However, Majuri wanted to control the family himself, and he asked Gallo to murder Vincent Palermo. And in New Jersey, the DeCavalcante Family ran the show. Download the Asbury Park Press app today. He estimated up to 300 associates are active in the state, down from 800 at their peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Simone DeCavalcante was the boss of the crime family that bore his name and a FBI bug recorded his every word to his secretary when he arrived at his office one morning in 1964. D'Amato of the powerful Elizabeth faction of the DeCavalcante crime family, was soon cooperating with high-ranking members Charles "Big Ears" Majuri and Gaetano "Corky" Vastola in illegal gambling and loansharking operations. The Gotti Crime family in New York is one of America's most famous and the long-standing trial of the flamboyant John Gotti garnered headlines for years until his death in 2002. . The opening sequence of the first episode in 1999 made clear that this was New Jersey. An era has come to the end for the New Jersey mafia and the DeCavalcante crime family with the death of long time boss Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi. After acting boss Amari's death, Riggi organized a three-man ruling panel in 1998 to run the day-to-day business of the crime family, [14] consisting of Girolamo Palermo, Vincent Palermo (no relation), and Charles Majuri, [15] with Stefano Vitabile as the reputed consigliere and adviser to the three. [Colombo] sits like a baby next to Carl [Gambino] all the time, DeCavalcante said. [1], Last edited on 5 September 2022, at 08:04, "Mob rat squeals no more Dies in protection", "Made men: the true rise-and-fall story of a New Jersey mob family", "Hit man's confessions Mob turncoat tells court of his blood-soaked life", "Telling Court He's Gay, Mob Informer Crosses Line", WISEGUY GETS LIFE FOR HIT ON GAY MOB BOSS, "Stenographer Investigated in Leaks to the Mob", The Star-Ledger: Mob Story - How a crime family turned dysfunctional, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Capo&oldid=1108593767, This page was last edited on 5 September 2022, at 08:04. [15] In retaliation, Vincent Palermo decided to have Majuri murdered. Vastolas successor, John DAmato, was reputed to be more loyal to the Gambinos than his own New Jersey associates. Riggi used his power and influence to place subcontractors and workers at various construction projects around the state, and the DeCavalcantes were able to steal from union welfare and pension funds. 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. Sitting in the back seat, Capo shot D'Amato four times, killing him. The Kefauver hearings later named his crime family the DeCavalcante crime family since he was the boss of the family at the time of those hearings. As Capo described it in court testimony in 2003, "Nobody's going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business."[1]. 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. His mother, Santa, worked as a high school cafeteria chef. The latest "organized crime spotlight" report issued by the state focused instead on the notoriously violent street gang MS-13. He was married with three children. strip club. The wife, Mary DeCavalcante, remained remarkable restrained when a reporter showed up at her home in Princeton Township. 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. Its death has been greatly exaggerated, Arsenault said of the mob. John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato (died January 1992) was a New Jersey mobster and former acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. Later in 1990, Riggi was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Instead, Gallo told Vincent about the plot. Stango's case stands among the latest federal prosecutions of New Jersey Mafia figures, showing that despite the rise of other gangs, the old mob is still active in the Garden State. He was released on November 27, 2012. After the failed murder attempt, Vincent Palermo decided to cancel the murder contract. Originally dismissed by the large New York City crime organizations, the DeCavalcantes sought the opportunity to move up in the crime world . The people in New Jersey who are really worth admiring are people such as the actual family that gave us the actor who summoned their example of hard, honest work as he so brilliantly played the fictional gangster Tony Soprano. The nightmares and panic attacks suffered by Tony Soprano as played by James Gandolfini seemed authentic enough to anybody who had listened to the FBI recordings of a real-life New Jersey mob boss in the 1960s. 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). Arsenault described mob activity at the port today similar to the problems that prompted the formation of the commission: theft of cargo and containers, extortion of port workers and importationand sale of drugs. Capo was flirting with a girl there when Remy interrupted their conversation. The Lucchese crime family (pronounced [lukkeze; -ese]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, in the United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.Members refer to the organization as the Lucchese borgata; borgata (or brugard) is Mafia slang for criminal . Following his release from prison in 1976, he allegedly retired from the Mafia and moved to Florida. Two of the restaurants waitresses, young women in their late teens, began to cry, the indictment says. All Rights Reserved. He is based on DeCavalcante crime family acting mob boss Giacomo "Jake" Amari . Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo was an Italian-born American mobster and longtime underboss of the DeCavalcante crime family in Elizabeth, New Jersey, under the imprisoned boss Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi. Cosa Nostra is Cosa Nostra, he declared. Riggi ran a well-structured borgata until he, too, fell afoul of law enforcement. See more ideas about sopranos, crime family, mobster. The longtime New Jersey mob godfather took over officially as boss in the early 1980's controlling the family for decades. His aliases included Marshall Beach, Mathew Beach and Wade Beach. OMalley said he didnt think the killing had the markings of a sanctioned mob hit. Philip Abramo, also known as "The King of Wall Street" and "Lou Metzer", is a caporegime in the New Jersey DeCavalcante crime family who was allegedly involved in security fraud and murder. Copyright 2019-2023, Button Guys of The New York Mafia. As in The Sopranos, the DeCavalcante family recruited a new arrival from Sicily. Guarraci is said by the FBI to have been inducted by Riggi in place of the hitman who screwed up with the license plates and otherwise would have been next to be made. Based on more than 1000 hours of secretly recorded conversations, this book tells the story of New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family. [17], In 2001, 20 mobsters were charged with racketeering, seven murders, 14 murder conspiracies, attempted murder, extortion in the construction industry, and stock fraud. Carmelo (Melio) Cocchiaro was a soldier in the DeCavalcante Family who once made a youthful blunder after a string of supermarket robberies. Riggi also had the family maintain their old traditions, which Sam DeCavalcante saw as unnecessary. The FBI surveilled DeCavalcante and several of his associates, built an effective case against him, and in 1969 he was convicted on a variety of racketeering charges. 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. [16] This resulted in the arrest of 12 more men less than a year later, [16] decimating the crime family's hierarchy and putting it on the brink of extinction. Stango, now 75, ultimately opted for death, according to the document. Members refer to the organization as the Lucchese borgata; borgata is Mafia slang for criminal gang, which itself was derived from Sicilian word meaning close-knit community. However, the familys declining fortunes coincided with the debit of the Sopranos, the hit television series depicting the lives of second-tier mafiosas operating out of New Jersey. 20122015 "Horse" mentioned by Charles Stango in December 2012 wiretaps. Earlier in 1991, D'Amato's girlfriend, retaliating against D'Amato over an argument, told Anthony Rotondo that D'Amato was an active bisexual. 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