Bonanno crime family
Bonanno crime family
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1920s-present
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Territory
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Various
neighborhoods over New York City
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Ethnicity
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Made men
are Italian, Italian-American,
Sicilian or Sicilian-American. Criminals of various ethnicities are employed as
"associates"
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Membership
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115-130
made members, 500-1500 associates
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Criminal
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The Bonanno crime family is
one of the "Five Families"
that dominates organized crime
activities in New York City,
United States,
within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
Founded and named after Joseph
Bonanno, the Bonanno family was the first
of the New York families to be kicked off the Commission
(a council of the bosses that helps to maintain order in the Mafia), due to
allegations that the family was actively dealing heroin and the inner family
fighting for control of the leadership. Later, the family faced shaky
leadership, with acting boss Carmine
Galante being murdered in 1979 on the order
of imprisoned boss Philip Rastelli,
as well as two major setbacks: in 1981, they learned that an FBI agent calling
himself Donnie Brasco
had infiltrated their ranks; in 2004, boss Joseph
Massino, who previously brought the family
back to respectable stature among the families and back on the Commission,
became a government informant.
History
Sicilian
origins
The origins of the Bonanno crime
family can be traced back to the early 1880s in the town of Castellammare del Golfo located in the Province of Trapani,
Sicily.[1] During the 1900s, top members of the Bonanno, Bonventre,
and Magaddino Mafia families relocated to New York, forming the Castellammarese
clan due to their rivalry with Felice Buccellato, the boss of the Buccellato
Mafia clan.[1][2] The newly arriving Bonanno, Bonventre and Magaddino Mafia
members began establishing dominance and control in the Castellammarese
community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While operating in Brooklyn, the Castellammarese leaders
were able to preserve the criminal organization's future.[2]
Castellammarese
War
In 1927 violence broke out between
the two rival New York Mafia factions and soon developed into a full out war
known as the Castellammarese War.[3] It all started when members of the Castellammarese Clan
began hijacking truckloads of illegal liquor that belonged to Giuseppe
"Joe the Boss" Masseria.
The small Castellammarese Clan was based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and led by Nicola "Cola" Schiro who tried to work
with Masseria. But one of the group's leaders Salvatore Maranzano
wanted to take control over New York's underworld. Maranzano took control of
the Castellammarese Clan continuing a bloody Mafia War.[3] The Castellammarese faction was organized and more unified
than Masseria family
members were. Maranzano's powerful allies that supported him were fellow
Castellammarese's, Buffalo family Boss Stefano
Magaddino, Detroit family Boss Gaspar
Milazzo and Philadelphia family Boss Salvatore
Sabella.[3] Maranzano's faction included his underboss, Joseph
Bonanno, Carmine
Galante, Gaspar
DiGregorio, and others. He also kept a close
relationship with Joseph Profaci
Boss of the New York Profaci family
and a secret alliance with Bronx Reina family
Boss Gaetano Reina.
After Reina’s murder on February 26, 1930 more members of Masseria faction
began to defect.[3] By 1931, momentum had shifted in favor of Maranzano and his
Castellammarese faction. Maranzano would receive help from Masseria faction
defectors Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Vito Genovese,
Frank Costello,
Reina family Boss Tommy Gagliano
and Tommy Lucchese.
Luciano, the leader of a group referred to as the "Young Turks,"
wanted to end the war. He concluded a secret deal with Maranzano to have
Masseria killed. On April 15, 1931 Masseria was murdered ending the long
Castellammarese War.[3]
The
Commission
After Masseria's murder, Maranzano
became the new "Boss of Bosses" and outlined a peace plan to all the
Sicilian and Italian Mafia leaders in the United States. There would be 24
organizations (to be known as "families") throughout the United
States who would elect their own boss.[3] In New York City, the five Mafia families were established
and headed by Salvatore Maranzano, Lucky Luciano, Vincent
Mangano, Tommy
Gagliano and Joseph
Profaci. Maranzano soon began planning to
have Luciano killed, but before he had a chance he was murdered on September
10, 1931 by Jewish gangsters.[3] Luciano instead of becoming the new "Boss of
Bosses" removed the position and established The Commission
to regulate the families' affairs.[3]
The
Bonanno era
Bonanno was awarded most of
Maranzano's crime family. He was one of the charter members of the Commission,
along with Luciano family
Boss Charles "Lucky" Luciano who served as head of the Commission, Mangano family
Boss Vincent Mangano, Gagliano family
Boss Tommy Gagliano, Profaci family
Boss Joseph Profaci and Chicago
Outfit Boss Al
"Scarface" Capone.[3] At only 26 years old, he was the youngest boss of a crime
family.[4] He directed the family into popular organized crime
dealings, involving gambling, loansharking, and narcotics.
The family also had significant interests in California and Arizona.
With the support of his cousin, Buffalo crime family boss Stefano
Magaddino, he also expanded into Canada.[5]
Bonanno was more steeped in the Old
World Mafia traditions of "honor," "tradition,"
"respect," and "dignity" than other mafiosi of his
generation, and was widely reckoned as the most traditional boss in New York.[6] His family was considered the closest knit of the Five
Families due to the fact that it was made up mostly of Castelammarese. He
strongly believed that blood relations and a strict Sicilian upbringing would
be the only way to hold the traditional values of the Mafia together. Bonanno's
power was due to his close relationship with fellow boss Joe
Profaci. The relationship between the two
bosses became stronger when Bonanno's son Salvatore
"Bill" Bonanno married
Profaci's niece Rosalie in 1956.[7] If any members of the other three families exercised
thoughts of muscling in on Bonanno enterprises, the close ties to the Profaci
family made them think twice. With the death of Joe Profaci in 1962 an alliance
of Tommy Lucchese
and Carlo Gambino
threatened to undermine Bonanno's position.[7]
The
Bonanno War
In the early 1960s many of the
Bonanno family members were complaining that boss Joe Bonanno spent too much
time at his second home in Tucson,
Arizona.[7] This led to a civil war in the family, widely referred to
in the media as the "Banana Split" or "Banana
War".[5] The war was triggered in 1963 when Bonanno conspired with Joe
Magliocco, Profaci's successor as boss of the
Profaci family, to wipe out several other mob leaders, including Magaddino, Carlo
Gambino, Tommy
Lucchese and Frank
DeSimone.[5] Magliocco was given the task of wiping out Gambino and
Lucchese, and gave the contract to one of his top hit men, Joe
Colombo. However, Colombo instead alerted
Gambino and Lucchese.[5] The other bosses quickly realized that Magliocco could not
possibly have planned this by himself. Remembering how close Magliocco was to
Bonanno (and before him, Profaci), they realized that Bonanno was the real
mastermind. The commission summoned Magliocco and Bonanno, intending to go easy
on them, with nothing more than a fine and loss of their family. However, only
Magliocco showed up. He admitted his role in the plot and was forced to give up
his family to Colombo. After months of no word from Bonanno, the commission
named Bonanno capo Gaspar
DiGregorio as the new boss.[5][6]
Bonanno still claimed to be the
rightful boss.[5] Magaddino, acting on behalf of the commission, sent two of
his soldiers to kidnap Bonanno and take him to a rural area in Upstate New
York. He was finally released after a month, with the commission hoping he'd
fade quietly into the background. Instead, he rallied a large part of the
family to his side. The family split into two factions, the DiGregorio
supporters and the Bonanno loyalists. The Bonanno loyalists
were led by Bonanno, his brother-in-law Frank Labruzzo and Bonanno's son Bill.[7]
There had been no violence from either
side until a 1966 Brooklyn sit-down. DiGregorio's men arrived at the meeting,
and when Bill Bonanno arrived a large gun battle ensued. The DiGregorio
loyalists had planned to wipe out the opposition, but they failed, and no one
was killed.[7] Further peace offers from both sides were spurned with the
ongoing violence and murders. The Commission grew tired of the affair and
replaced DiGregorio with Paul
Sciacca, but the fighting carried on
regardless.
The war was finally brought to a
close with Joe Bonanno, still in hiding, suffering a heart attack and
announcing his permanent retirement in 1968 (he went on to live to the age of
97, dying in Tucson, Arizona in 2002).[5][7] Both factions came together under Sciacca's leadership. His
replacement was Natale "Joe Diamonds" Evola as boss of the Bonanno family.[5] Evola's leadership was short lived - his death (from
natural causes) in 1973 brought Phillip
"Rusty" Rastelli to the
throne.[5]
Rastelli
regime
Due to the infighting of the Bonanno
family, it was spurned by the other families and stripped of its Commission seat. Rastelli took charge
of a seemingly hapless, doomed organization. Rastelli's former friend Carmine
Galante became a powerful and dangerous renegade.
Having previously acted as a focal
point for the importation of heroin to the USA via Montreal, Galante set about refining the family's drug trafficking
operations. The incredibly lucrative deals he was able to make made the family
a fortune, but with the other four families being kept out of the arrangements,
Galante was making a rod for his own back.
When eight members of the Genovese family
were murdered on Galante's orders for trying to muscle in on his drug
operation, the other families decided he had outlived his usefulness at the
head of the Bonanno family. On July 12, 1979, Galante was shot dead by three
men, at a restaurant in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn.
Rastelli took over once again, but
the family's internal strife was far from over. Three renegade capos - Phillip
Giaccone, Alphonse
"Sonny Red" Indelicato
and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera - began to openly question Rastelli's leadership and
apparently to plot to overthrow him. With the blessing of the other families,
Rastelli had the three men wiped out in a hit arranged by then-street boss Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, as well as the future Boss Joseph
"Big Joe" Massino.
The alleged Boss of the Mafia
in Montreal Vito Rizzuto
was extradited from Canada to the USA in August 2006 and will face charges in
connection with the murder of three captains of the Bonanno family in 1981.
Vito Rizzuto is now in prison and will be out in 2 years.[8]
Donnie
Brasco
Joseph D. Pistone, alias Donnie
Brasco
Two of the men involved in the
murder of the three rogue capos were Benjamin
"Lefty Guns" Ruggiero
and his capo Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano. Ruggiero had an associate, Donnie
Brasco, whom he proposed for full family
membership. In reality, Brasco was undercover FBI
agent Joe
Pistone, conducting what would become a
six-year infiltration of the family.
Pistone's undercover work led to
numerous charges against the Bonanno family. Both Ruggiero and Rastelli
received lengthy sentences. On August 17, 1981, Napolitano was shot and killed
in a basement by Ronald Filocomo and Frank
"Curly" Lino as
punishment for admitting Pistone to his crew.[9][10][11] Anthony Mirra,
the man who had brought Pistone to the family, was also killed.
After the Donnie Brasco affair, the Mafia Commission
removed the Bonanno family from the panel. However, when the federal government
pressed charges against the New York Cosa Nostra leaderhsip in the Mafia Commission Trial, the Bonannos avoided indictment. As a result, the Bonanno
family was able to keep its leadership intact and build up its power again.
Under
Massino's command
Rastelli's death in 1991, following
a period in which he ruled the family from inside prison, saw the promotion of
Massino to the top spot. Finally, the family had found a man who could reverse
its fortunes. By promoting a far more secretive way of doing business, Massino
not only concentrated on the narcotics trade as had become mandatory for a mob
boss, but also in other areas less likely to draw the attention of the
authorities than drugs, such as the Mafia's stock trades of racketeering, money
laundering and loan sharking. A close friend of Massino's, and boss of the
Gambino crime family, John Gotti,
also helped to get the Bonannos a seat on "The Commission"
again. Over the next 10 years the family regrouped while the other families
bosses were in prison. The FBI considered Massino the most powerful mob boss in
the country.
Massino
turns informant
Massino managed to keep his nose
clean until the killing of Napolitano came back to haunt him. He and his
underboss, Salvatore Vitale,
were charged with the crime in 2003 after two of their capos turned themselves
over as witnesses for the government. Vitale, who had until that point been
utterly loyal to his boss, also faced a further murder charge and decided to
switch sides himself,[12]
condemning Massino to life imprisonment. Capital punishment had been a
possibility for Massino, but in 2004 he became the first serving New York City
Mafia boss to turn informant, sparing himself the ultimate penalty.
Massino is believed to be the man
who pointed the FBI towards a spot in Ozone Park, Queens, called "The
Hole", where the body of Alphonse Indelicato had been found in 1981. Told
to dig a little deeper, authorities duly uncovered the remains of Dominick
Trinchera and Philip Giaccone, as well as a body suspected to be that of John
Favara, a neighbor of Gambino family boss John
Gotti who had killed the mobster's son in
a car/bicycle accident, and paid with his life.
Former Boss Joseph
Massino is also believed to have provided
the police with information on a number of high ranking Bonanno Family members
and former acting boss Vincent Basciano, whose conversations with Massino were
taped in late 2004 and early 2005 by the turncoat himself. Before Massino
became an informant himself, his acting boss on the outside was Anthony
"Tony Green" Urso, but his tenure was short-lived as he too was
imprisoned on numerous charges, leading to Basciano taking control. Vincent
Basciano's term as acting boss was hampered with his arrest in late 2004, but
with Massino's eventual betrayal, authorities claim that Basciano assumed the
top position in 2005, is allegedly the current Boss and leading the broken
Bonanno family from his prison cell.
The authorities continue to plague
the family, with the February 16, 2006 arrest of acting boss Michael Mancuso on
murder charges, while alleged Boss Vincent Basciano was convicted on charges of
conspiracy to murder, attempted murder, and illegal gambling and was sentenced
to life imprisonment
in late 2007. The main charge against him was that he conspired to murder both
the judge and prosecutor in the case, as well as Patrick
DeFilippo, a fellow Bonanno crime family
captain.
Basciano's
leadership
Bonanno family Boss Vincent
Basciano named Brooklyn business owner Salvatore "Sal the Ironworker" Montagna, as the new "acting boss" of the Bonanno Family.
He is sometimes referred to as "Sal the Zip" being that he is from
Joseph Bonanno's hometown of Castellammare del Golfo, is closely associated
with the Family's Sicilian faction and fellow Castellammarese, Baldo Amato who
is currently in prison and former Bonanno Capo Cesare
Bonventre who was murdered in 1984." Sal
Montagna was an unknown soldier in the Bronx crew of capo Patrick
"Patty from the Bronx" DeFilippo
and became acting capo of the crew upon DeFilippo's 2003 arrest on
murder and racketeering
charges. Law enforcement sources have stated that Salvatore Montagna was tabbed
as "acting boss" with Vincent Basciano's consent to maintain the
Bonanno Family's base of power within the
Bronx faction of the Bonanno crime family.
The Bonanno family's base of power was traditionally held by the Brooklyn faction from the time of Family patriarch Joseph
Bonanno until the eventual rise of Queens faction leader Philip
"Rusty" Rastelli in the
early 1970s. The ascension of the Bronx faction began with Basciano's promotion
to acting boss, eventual ascension to the top position of Boss, continued
through Michael Mancuso's short tenure and now remains with Sal Montagna acting
on behalf of Basciano.
In July 2004, The New York Times reported that federal prosecutors in Brooklyn "say
that overall, in the last four years, they have won convictions against roughly
75 mobsters or associates in a crime clan with fewer than 150 made
members."[13] In February 2005, Bonanno family Capo Anthony "Tony
Green" Urso pleaded guilty to racketeering, murder, gambling, loan
sharking and extortion charges, while Capo Joseph "Joe Saunders"
Cammarano, along with soldier Louis Restivo pleaded guilty to murder and
racketeering charges."[14]
Twelve Bonanno family member and
associates, seven over the age 70, including acting consigliere Anthony
"Mr. Fish" Rabito and respected soldier Salvatore Scudiero were
indicted and arrested on June 14, 2005 on charges of operating a $10 million a
year gambling ring."[15]
The defection of former Bonanno
family Bosses Joseph Massino and Salvatore Vitale, along with four high ranking
former Capos, has caused the Bonanno family to lose power, influence and
respect within the New York underworld to a degree not seen since the Donnie
Brasco incident. With Nicholas
"Nicky Mouth" Santora
as "acting underboss" for the imprisoned Michael Mancuso, and Anthony
Rabito as the alleged consigliere, Montagna was capable of running the
day-to-day operations on behalf of Vincent Basciano.[16][17]
Current
position of the family
Under the rule of former Boss Joseph
Massino, the Bonanno family climbed back to the top of New York's crime family
hierarchy and once again became a top power in America's underworld, but high
level defections and convictions have left the family a shell of its former
self once more during its long criminal history.[16] Vincent Basciano is serving a prison sentence for
racketeering and Salvatore Montagna has been deported to Canada. Both were
appointed acting bosses during Massino's imprisonment and after Massino's
defection to the FBI.
A March 2009 article in the New York
Post stated that Salvatore "Sal the Iron Worker" Montagna is the acting boss of the Bonanno crime family. The article
also stated that the Bonanno family current consists of approximately 115
"made" members.[18] Montagna was later deported to Canada in April 2009 leaving
the family to create a ruling panel until a new boss was chosen.[19]
On January 11, 2010 Jerry
Capeci quoted sources as saying that Nicholas
Santora and Anthony Rabito, who were both
released from prison in 2009 and are still unable to meet freely with their
fellow wiseguys, are supporting capo Vincent
Asaro to become the new boss of the
family.[20] Asaro also has close ties to Queens-based mobsters from the
Lucchese, Gambino and Genovese families who have voiced their support for him,
sources say. A key player in the recent talks is Vito Grimaldi, who is viewed
as an adviser to the Zips
(Sicilian mobsters in the United States).
Capeci's sources say Asaro, who for
many years has had dealings as both a mob supervisor and cohort of Sicilian
wiseguys, may win Grimaldi's support.[20] Another candidate with key Sicilian backing is Vincent
Badalamenti. Due to Joseph Massino deciding to cooperate with the FBI, both
sides agree that the family will no longer take orders from the man he
previously appointed acting boss, Vincent Basciano. "[Joseph Massino's]
word don't count any more," said one source, adding that even if his words
still had clout, it made no sense.[20]
Historical
leadership
Bosses
(official and acting)
Boss
(sometimes called Godfather or Don) is the head of the crime
family, no one can override his decisions. Only the boss and underboss can
initiate an associate into the family, allowing them to become a made man. The
boss gives the family oath to new members and make them sgarrista (soldiers).
The boss also has the authority to give people their positions and ranks. The
boss usually reigns as a dictator (until somebody deposes him).[5][21][22]
·
1890s–1901 — Giuseppe "Don
Peppino" Bonanno – older brother to Salvatore and Stefano Bonanno. He
started the Castellammarese clan in New York City. He died in 1901.[22]
·
1908–1911 — Salvatore "Don
Turridu" Bonanno[22]
– came to New York City with his wife Caterina Bonventre and son Giuseppe. He
returned to Italy in 1911 and died of a heart attack in 1915.[23]
·
1911–1930 — Nicola Schiro[22]
– disappeared in 1930 to avoid paying $10,000 extortion demand to rival Joe
Masseria.[3]
o
Acting— 1962–1964 — John "Johnny Burns" Morales
·
1973–1979 — Carmine
"Cigar" Galante[24] – seized power without Rastelli's support or Commission
sanction, but with the underboss and majority of capos publicly supporting him,
he carried the true power. He was murdered on July 12, 1979 in Commission
sanctioned plot aganist him allowing Rastelli to assume control again.[5]
·
1991–2004 - Joseph
"Big Joe" Massino (a.k.a.
"The Ear") – imprisoned January 2003, became government informant in
October 2004
o
Acting — 1991–1993 — Anthony "Old Man" Spero
o
Acting — 2003–2004 — Anthony "Tony Green" Urso
o
Acting — 2004–2009 — Vincent
Basciano – was the last acting boss
chosen by Massino. He was viewed as the unofficial Boss; convicted July 2007
receiving a life sentence.[27]
o
Acting — 2005–2006 — Michael Mancuso – imprisoned February 2006
o
Acting — 2006–2009 — Salvatore "Sal the Iron Worker" Montagna – deported to Canada in April 2009[19]
Street
Boss and Ruling panel(s)
Street Boss
Ruling panel(s)
During the 1960s, members of the Boanno family went to war with their boss Joseph Bonanno. The Commission assembled a ruling panel (or committee) of capos was to control the decision making of the crime family. A ruling panel of capos may be assemble if the official boss dies, goes to prison, or is incapacitated.
During the 1960s, members of the Boanno family went to war with their boss Joseph Bonanno. The Commission assembled a ruling panel (or committee) of capos was to control the decision making of the crime family. A ruling panel of capos may be assemble if the official boss dies, goes to prison, or is incapacitated.
·
1964– Gasparino DiGregorio, Angelo
Caruso, Nicolino Alfano, Joseph Notaro, Thomas D’Angelo, Natale Evola, Joseph
DeFilippo, Peter Crociata and Paul Sciacca
·
1964–1965 — Gasparino DiGregorio,
Angelo Caruso, and Nicolino Alfano
Underboss
Underboss
is the number two position in the family (after the Boss). Also known as the
"capo bastone" in some criminal organizations, the underboss is
responsible for sending a share of the family's profits to the boss. The
underboss also oversees the selection of caporegimes and soldier(s). After the
boss dies, the underboss normally takes control of the crime family until a new
boss is chosen, in some cases the underboss.[22]
·
1930 - Angelo Caruso
·
1950-1956 - Francesco "Frank
Caroll" Garafolo
·
1964 – Vacant due to Bonanno War.
·
1965-1968 - Pietro "Skinny
Pete" Crociata
·
1968 - Frank "Russo" Mari
·
1979-1981 - Salvatore
"Sal" Catalano (leader of the Sicilian faction)
o
Acting 2001-2003 - Richard "Shellackhead" Cantarella (became an FBI informant on December 2002, and in June 2004
testified aganist Bonanno boss Joseph
Massino.)[31]
o
Acting 2003-2004 - Joseph "Joe C." Cammarano Sr.
Consigliere
Consigliere
is the number three position in the organization. Together, the boss, underboss
and consigliere are referred to as "the administration." In Italian, consigliere
means "advisor."[22]
·
1964-1965 – Vacant due to the
Bonanno War.
·
1965-1968 - Nicolino
"Nick" Alfano
·
1968 - Michael "Mike"
Adamo
·
1971-1974 - Joseph DiFilippo
·
1974-1984 - Stefano "Stevie
Beefs" Cannone
o
Acting 1987-1992 - Joseph Buccellato
o
Acting 1999-2001 - Anthony "T.G." Graziano
o
Acting 2001-2003 - Anthony "Tony Green" Urso
o
Acting 2003–present - Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito
Current
family members
Administration
·
Boss Unknown
·
Acting Boss Unknown - either Vincent
Asaro or Vincent Badalamenti both are
candidates to become the official boss.
·
Underboss Unknown
·
Acting
Underboss Nicholas
"Nicky Mouth" Santora
- took over as acting underboss in 2005, when Joseph
Massino and Salvatore
Vitale became government witnesses.
Santora is a longtime Brooklyn capo of the Motion
Lounge crew, which originally belonged to "Sonny Black" Napolitano. The Motion Lounge crew is active in the Western
Brooklyn communities of Williamsburg and East Williamsburg among others. Santora is currently on trial for
racketeering and extortion charges.[17]
·
Consigliere Anthony
"T.G." Graziano -
consigliere, former capo in the Staten Island faction in the 1980s. He operated
a pension fund scheme that eventually reaped over $11.7 million from elderly
investors and supervised a large narcotics trafficking operation in Florida. In 2002, Graziano was imprisoned on federal racketeering
and murder charges. His projected release date is January 30, 2012.[34]
·
Acting
Consigliere Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito
- was acting Consigliere for Vincent Basciano prior to his incarceration and a
longtime member of the Bonanno family. From January 2003 to July 2004, Rabito
operated an illegal gambling and loansharking ring in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan,
and Staten Island,
earning $210,000 a week. Currently on trial for RICO charges.[17]
Capos
Capo - Caporegime (Crew boss/Captain/Lieutenant/Skipper) The
boss appoints a capo to operate a borgata (regime, or crew) of sgarrista
(soldiers). Each capo reports directly to the underboss and must get permission
from the underboss to perform any actions. If the family wants to kill someone,
the leadership usually asks the capo to carry out the order. The capo runs the
day-to-day operations of his own crew. The soldiers in his crew give the capo
part of their earnings, and the capo sends a part of these earnings to the
underboss. A capo can recommend to the boss or underboss that a new recruit be
sworn into his crew. A soldier becomes acting capo while the capo is in
imprisoned, sick or on trial.
Brooklyn faction
·
Vincent "Vinny
T.V." Badalamenti – capo
operating in Brooklyn and Staten Island. In December 2009, Badalamenti was
found with Staten Island-based capo Anthony Calabrese and soldier John
"Johnny Green" Faracithe meeting at a Bensonhurst storefront. He is
considered a top member and is backed by the Sicilian faction of the family to
become the new boss.[20][35]
·
Joseph Cammarano Sr. – capo operating a crew in Brooklyn with his son Joseph
"Joe Saunders" Cammarano Jr. His son Joe Jr. has been in the Bonanno
family since 1990s under Joseph Massino. In 2007, Joe Jr. was indicted for
racketeering, conspiracy, illegal gambling, extortion, loansharking and drug
trafficking.[17][36]
·
Anthony
"Anthony from Elmont" Mannone
- (aka Anthony from the Five Towns) - capo who was arrested on February
24, 2010 for running an illegal gambling and extortion ring throughout
Brooklyn.[37][38][39] He is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting trial.
·
Louis "Louie
Electric" DeCicco - capo in
Brooklyn with operations in Queens and Long Island. In March 2007, DeCicco was
arrested along with other Bonanno capos. On December 31, 2009, DeCicco was
released from prison.[40][41]
Manhattan faction
·
Joseph Indelicato - capo in Manhattan and New Jersey. Took over crew of from
his deceased brother, Alphonse
"Sonny Red" Indelicato.
Joseph's nephew Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato is a soldier in the crew.[42]
·
William "Willie
Glasses" Riviello – capo
operating in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx and Westchester County. In
2004, Riviello was arrested for a stolen bank check scheme in the Bronx and Yonkers,
New York, that grossed over $500,000 for the
family. In 2007, Riviello was released from prison.[43][44]
Queens faction
·
Vincent
"Vinny" Asaro - capo
since the 1980s. During the 1990s, Asaro allegedly operated a
multi-million-dollar stolen car ring and oversaw the hijacking of cargo at John F. Kennedy
International Airport. In 1995, Asaro was convicted of racketeering and enterprise corruption and sentenced to more than five years
in prison.
Staten Island faction
·
Anthony
Calabrese – capo based in Staten Island. He
was found with capo Vincent Badalamenti on December 2009 meeting at a
Bensonhurst storefront for a Christmas party.[35]
·
Anthony Furino - capo based in Staten Island. In 2004, Furino was arrested
for extortion of Long Island
night clubs and Staten Island restaurants. In 2007, Furino was released from
prison and is now allegedly operating his Staten Island crew.[45][46]
·
Anthony
"Scal" Sclafani – capo in
the Staten Island faction who operates illegal gambling. Sclafani also operates
in New Jersey with capo Joseph Sammartino Sr. On October 14, 2009, Sclafani was
arrested om loansharking charges.[29][47][48][49] Sclafani is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting trial.
·
Frank Porco - 70 year-old capo operating from Staten Island, Brooklyn
and Florida. In 2005, Calabrese was released from prison.[50][51]
New Jersey faction
·
Joseph
"Sammy" Sammartino Sr.
– capo in the New Jersey faction since 2003. Sammartino lives in North Arlington, New Jersey and is part of the current ruling panel/committee. His crew
is based in Bayonne, New Jersey.
On October 14, 2009, Sammartino was arrested on loansharking charges[29][52] He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $50,000
dollar fine for extortion.[53] On January 27, 2011, Sammartino was released from prison.
Imprisoned capos
·
Patrick
"Patty From the Bronx" DeFilippo
- capo in the Bronx faction and leader of the Sicilian faction. DeFilippo was
incarcerated on racketeering
charges and acting boss Salvatore Montagna
took his crew. DeFilippo's projected released date is June 25, 2038.[54]
·
Gerard
"Jerry" Chilli - capo in
the Staten Island faction. Chilli along with his nephew Tom Fiore controlled
operations in Broward County, Florida and Hollywood, Florida.[55]
Soldiers
·
Jerome
Asaro - a former acting capo with large
illegal gambling and loansharking rings in Queens. Asaro is the son of Vincent
Asaro. In February 2007, Jerome Asaro
pleaded guilty to a 25-year association with the Bonanno family. On November 2,
2010, Asaro was released from prison.[56]
·
Baldassare
"Baldo" Amato - a
soldier in the Sicilian faction and leader of a freelance crew operating in Ridgewood,
Queens.[57][58][59]
·
Joseph
"Joe Saunders, Jr." Cammarano, Jr.
- his father Joseph Cammarano Sr. is a Bonanno family capo. Joseph Jr., served
in the U.S. Navy for six years before joining the Bonanno crime family.[60] In February 2007, he was arrested on racketeering charges.[61] In January 2009, Joseph Jr. was released from federal
prison.[62]
·
Salvatore
"Toto" Catalano - a
former capo and Street boss of the Sicilian faction. Catalano was heavily
involved in the Pizza Connection
a heroin drug distribution scheme with boss Carmine Galante. The heroin was
shipped into the U.S. and sold through pizzerias in New York City and New
Jersey. In 1976, Catalano became capo of the Knickerbocker Avenue Crew.[63] On March 2, 1987, Catalano was sentenced to 45 years in
prison and fined $1.15 million.[64][65][66][67] He was released from prison on November 16, 2009.
·
Joseph
"Joe Desi" DeSimone
- a former capo.[68] DeSimone was involved in the 1981 murders of Phillip
Giaccone, Dominick Trinchera
and Alphonse Indelicato.[69]
Imprisoned
soldiers
·
Louis
"Louie Ha Ha" Attanasio
- a former capo in the Bronx. Attanasio along with his brother Robert and Peter
Calabrese murdered Bonanno family Sicilian faction member Cesare
Bonventre in 1984.[70] On September 20, 2006 Attanasio and Peter Calabrese were
sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 1984 Bonventre murder.[71] Attanasio's projected release date is January 23, 2018.[72]
·
Peter
"Peter Rabbit" Calabrese
- a former capo involved in the 1984 murder of Cesare Bonventre with brothers
Louis and Robert Attanasio.[70] In 2006, Calabrese and Louis Attanasio were sentenced to 15
years for Cesare Bonventre's murder.[71] Calabrese's projected release date is February 13, 2017.
·
Thomas
Fiore - former "acting capo" of
Gerard Chilli's South Florida crew. He is based in Palm
Beach County, city of Boynton Beach.
On October 14, 2009 his crew in South Florida was charged under the RICO law.
Six of the eleven crew members pleaded guilty to a list of crimes. The members
that plead guilty included crew enforcer Pasquale Rubbo his brother Joseph
Rubbo. The crew is involved in arson, insurance fraud, identity theft, illegal
gambling and other crimes. They send some tribute up to Bonanno family bosses
in New York City.[73] On March 2, 2010 Fiore was sentenced to twelve years for
racketeering.[74] His projected release date is January 18, 2020.
·
Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato - soldier in the crew of his uncle, Joseph Indelicato and
the son of Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato. A made member
since the late 1970s, Anthony Indelicato may have participated in the 1979
murder of Carmine Galante. Indelicato was a defendant in 1986 Mafia Commission Trial[75] he was sentenced to 45 years and was released in 2000. On
December 16, 2008 Indelicato received a 20 year prison sentence for the 2001
killing of Frank Santoro. Indelicato's projected release date is May 20, 2023.
·
Joseph
"Joe Lefty" Loiacono
- former acting capo who was arrested on October 14, 2009 for running a
loansharking operation. Loiacono is being held at the Metropolitan Detention
Center in Brooklyn awaiting trial.[17][76][77][78]
·
Michael
Mancuso - former capo, underboss, and
acting boss, reportedly with the Bronx faction under Vincent Basciano. Mancuso
is incarcerated on federal racketeering charges with a projected release date from prison of March
12, 2019.[79][80]
·
Anthony
"Little Anthony" Pipitone
- former acting capo arrested on October 14, 2009.[81][82] Pipitone is currently incarcerated in federal prison. His
project release date is February 7, 2013.
·
Anthony
"Tony Green" Urso - former
capo and acting capo under Joseph
Massino in the 1990s. In 2004, Urso was
imprisoned for extortion and loansharking. Currently in prison, his projected
release date is December 5, 2021.[83]
Former
members
·
Cesare
"The Tall Guy" Bonventre
- a former capo and member of the Sicilian faction. He was related to Vito
Bonventre, John Bonventre, and Joseph Bonanno. He was murdered on April 16,
1984.
·
John
"Boobie" Cerasani – was a
Bonanno family soldier and right-hand man to Sonny "Black"
Napolitano.[84] Cerasani was involved in the 1981 murders of three warring
captains Alphonse Indelicato, Dominick Trinchera and Philip Giaccone. In July
26, 1982 Cerasani, Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero, Anthony Rabito,
Nicholas Santora and Antonio Tomasulo were tried at a Manhattan federal
district court. Cerasani was later acquitted.[85]
·
Salvatore "Sal the Iron Worker" Montagna - Capo
and acting boss after the 2005 conviction of Vincent Basciano. Based in the
Bronx, Montagna was reportedly the leader of the Sicilian faction. Montagna was
born in Montreal, Canada
and resided in Elmont, New York.
His family originated from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. On April 21, 2009, Montagna was deported to Canada. The Rizzuto crime family led by Vito
Rizzuto allowed Montagna to work with his
family but would not take orders from him.[20]
·
Gerlando
"George from Canada" Sciascia
- a former capo who operated out of Montreal, Canada and worked with the
Sicilian faction in New York.[63] Sciascia served as mediator between Bonanno family and Montreal's Rizzuto family in the early 1990s. He was murdered on March 18, 1999.[88][89]
Family
crews
·
The
Sicilian faction - in the 1950s the Bonanno family
started bringing Sicilian-born Mafia members to New York to keep closer ties
with the Sicilian Mafia families. American mobsters frequently refer to these
Sicilian mobsters as Zips.
The derogatory term name derives from their Sicilian birth and their
fast-spoken, difficult-to-understand Sicilian dialects.
·
The
Motion Lounge crew - run by underboss and capo Nicholas
"Nicky Mouth" Santora.
This Brooklyn-based crew is active primarily in the Western Brooklyn communities
of Williamsburg and East Williamsburg.
·
The
Indelicato crew - run by capo Joseph Indelicato.
This crew is active in Manhattan and New Jersey. Indelicato's nephew Anthony
"Bruno" Indelicato is a soldier in this crew.[42]
·
Phoenix
crew - possibly inactive after retiring
of Joe Bonanno.
Allied
criminal organization
·
The
Bonanno's and the Canadian faction
- In the late 1950s, Carmine
Galante established two groups to control
the illegal rackets in Montreal,
Canada.[90] The Sicilian group
was led by Luigi Greco and the Calabrian group
was led by Vic Cotroni.[90] The Montreal groups became part of the Bonanno crime family
having made members in each group. Joseph Bonanno promoted Vic Controni to
become the boss (capo) of both Montreal groups.[90] In 1964, Sicilian group leader Pasquale Cuntrera was
arrested and Nicolo "Nick" Rizzuto took over the group starting a war in 1973.[91] The Sicilians killed the Controni-Calabrian group underboss
Paolo
Violi and others.[91] With the death of Vic Controni in 1984, the Rizzuto crime
family became the most powerful Mafia family in Montreal, Canada.[91] In 1988, Nick Rizzuto was convicted of cocaine trafficking
and his son Vittorio "Vito" Rizzuto became boss of the family.[91] By 1999 the Rizzuto crime family began working independently, while remaining allies to the
Bonanno family.[92][93] Vito Rizzuto was arrested in January 2004 and extradited to
the United States on murder charges in August 2006. In May 2007, Rizzuto
accepted a plea deal for his involvement in the May 1981 murders of three
renegade Bonanno capos in New York. He was sentenced to ten years in prison,
with a projected release date of October 2012. However, after his release,
Rizzuto faces the possibility of extradition to Italy to face conspiracy and
money laundering charges concerning the Straits of Messina
Bridge project there.[94] On November 10, 2010, Nick Rizzuto was killed at his
residence in the Cartierville borough of Montreal.[95][96][97]
Government
Informants and Witnesses
·
Joseph
"Big Joe" Massino – former
boss from early 1990s until 2004. Massino became the first official boss from
New York to become an informant. While boss, Massino changed the Bonanno family
from being the weakest family in New York City to one of the most powerful in
the country. He teamed up with Gambino family boss John
Gotti to reinstate the Bonanno family on
the Mafia Commission. In the early 2000s, Massino was the strongest and most
influential boss not in prison. In January 2003, Massino was charged with the
1981 murder of Bonanno capo Dominick Napolitano.
Massino had Napolitano killed for admitting FBI agent Joseph
D. Pistone (known as Donnie Brasco) to his
crew. In 2004, Massino turned informant and testified against members of his
own family to avoid the death penalty. In January 2005, Massino wore a
surveillance device to record conversations in prison with his acting boss
Vincent Basciano.[98][99][100][101][102]
·
Salvatore
"Handsome Sal" Vitale
– former underboss. In January 2003, Vitale was charged with the 1992 murder of
Bonanno associate Robert Perrino. in April 2003, Vitale became a government
informant. In July 2004, he testified at the trial of his brother-in-law, boss
Joseph Massino.[103][104]
·
Richard Cantarella
– former underboss. In December 2002, Cantarella became one of the first
Bonanno government witnesses. In January 2003, Cantarella was indicted for the
1991 murder of Bonanno associate Robert Perrino. In June 2004, Cantarella
testified against boss Joseph Massino. Cantarella's wife Lauretta, his son
Paul, a Bonanno soldier, and cousin Joseph D’Amico, a Bonanno capo, also became
government witnesses.[105][106][107][108][109]
·
Frank "Curly" Lino – former capo. Became the first government witness in
Bonanno history. Lino testified at the trial for the 1981 murders of Bonanno
capos Alphonse Indelicato, Philip Giaccone, and Dominick Trinchera. Lino then
testified on the 1981 murder of Dominick Napolitano. Napolitano was killed by
Bonanno family member Robert Lino Sr. (his cousin) and Ronald Filocomo.[112][113]
·
James
"Big Louie" Tartaglione
– former capo. In 2003, Tartaglione began wearing a surveillance device and
recorded conversations with other Bonanno family members. In 2007, Tartaglione
testified against Vincent Basciano and Patrick DeFilippo.[114][115][116][117]
·
Paul
"Paulie" Cantarella
- former soldier and son of Bonanno capo Richard Cantarella. In 2002, Paul
became government witness with his father and his mother Lauretta.[118][119]
·
Joseph
"Joey Moak" D'Amico
– former soldier in the crew of his uncle, Bonanno capo Alfred
"Al Walker" Embarrato’s.
D’Amico was arrested for the murder of his cousin Anthony Mirra, who had
allowed FBI agent Joseph Pistone to work for the family. In March 2003, D'Amico
decided to become a government informant.[111][120]
·
Dominick
Cicale – former capo and former friend of
acting capo Vincent Basciano. In 2007, Cicale became a government witness and
testified against Basciano.[121][122][123]
·
Nicholas
"P.J" Pisciotti – former
acting capo. In 2007, Pisciotti assaulted several Genovese crime family associates in a Little
Italy restaurant. When Piscotti learned
that Bonanno mobsters Nicholas Santora and Anthony Rabito had given the
Genovese family permission to kill him, Pisciotti became a government witness.
In 2007, he testified against Vincent Basciano.[124]
·
Joseph
Calco – former associate with the Bath
Avenue crew. In 2001, Calco became a government witness and testified
against Bonanno Consigliere Anthony Spero. Calco then entered the Witness
Protection Program under the name "Joseph Milano". While working in
Florida, Calco got into a fight and his true identity became public knowledge.[125]
·
Michael
"Mikey Y" Yammine – former
associate with the Bath Avenue crew. In 2001, Yammine became a
government informant and testified against Bonanno consigliere Anthony Spero.[126][127]
·
Duane
"Goldie" Leisenheimer
– a family associate and ally to Joseph Massino since the age of twelve.[128] He joined Massino hijacking crew and helped hide Massino in
1980s.[128] Leisenheimer was the lookout for the 1981 murder of three
captains. In 2004 with Salvatore Vital testifying against him he turned
informant against Massino.[128]
·
Chris
"King of South Beach" Paciello
- former associate of the Bonanno and Colombo crime family's.[129] In 1993, Paciello became a government informant.[129]
Bonanno
family Mafia trials
·
Pizza Connection Trial
In
popular culture
·
The 1997 film Donnie Brasco
tells the story of how FBI agent Joseph
D. Pistone was able to work undercover with
the Bonanno crime family and almost became a made
man. The film was directed by Mike
Newell, Written by Joseph D. Pistone and starred Al
Pacino and Johnny
Depp.[130]
·
In the video game GTA 4 the Messina crime family is based on the Bonanno
crime family. The Messina family is said to return its lost power back in the
last years because of their alliance with Jon Gravelli. This is like the
Bonanno family 1990s turn around becoming a powerful force on the commission
again after John Gotti helped them regain their lost seat. They have a
stronghold in Dukes the GTA 4 version of Queens like the real life Bonannos and
also are involved in construction business.
·
The 1999 film Bonanno: A
Godfather's Story is an autobiography of boss Joseph
"Joe Bananas" Bonanno.
Directed by Michel Poulette, the film was based on the book written by Bill and
Joseph Bonanno. Joseph was played by Martin
Landau, Tony
Nardi. and Bruce
Ramsay.[131]
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'Goldie'
Finders His Mafia Boss Testifies in Massino trial by John Marzulli (July 18, 2004) New York Daily News
Further
reading
·
Bonanno, Bill. Pistone, Joseph.
(2008). "The Good Guys." MUST READ.
·
Bonanno, Bill (1999). "Bound by
Honor: A Mafioso's Story." New York: St Martin's Paperbacks
·
Bonanno, Joe (1983). A Man of
Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno. New York: St Martin's
Paperbacks. ISBN
0-312-97923-1
·
Pistone, Joseph D.; & Woodley,
Richard (1999) Donnie
Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia,
Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN
0-340-66637-4.
·
Pistone, Joseph D.; & Brandt, Charles
(2007). Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Running Press. ISBN
0-7624-2707-8.
·
Alexander, Shana. The Pizza
Connection: Lawyers, Drugs, Money, Mafia. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1988.
·
Blumenthal, Ralph. Last Days of
the Sicilians. New York: Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books), 1988.
·
Sterling, Claire. Octopus: How
the Long Reach of the Sicilian Mafia Controls The global Narcotics Trade.
New York: Simon & Schuster (Touchstone), 1990.
·
Stille, Alexander. Excellent
Cadavers: The Mafia & the Death of the First Italian Republic. New
York: Random House, 1995.
·
Nicaso, Antonio & Lamothe, Lee. Bloodlines:
The Rise & Fall of the Mafia's Royal Family. Canada: Harper Collins,
2001.
·
Raab, Selwyn. The Five Families:
The Rise, Decline & Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empire.
New York: St. Martins Press, 2005.
·
Edwards, Peter. The Northern
Connection: Inside Canada's Deadliest Mafia Family. Canada: Optimum
International, 2006.
·
Humphreys, Adrian & Lamothe,
Lee. The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia & the Rise of
Vito Rizzuto. Canada: Wiley, 2006.
·
Crittle, Simon. The Last
Godfather: The Rise & Fall of Joey Massino. New York: Berkley Books,
2006.
·
DeStefano, Anthony. The Last
Godfather: Joey Massino & the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family.
California: Citadel, 2006.
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