Genovese crime family
Genovese crime family
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Founded
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Years
active
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1890s-present
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Territory
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Various
neighborhoods in New York City and throughout the U.S.
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Ethnicity
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Made men
(full members) are Italian,
Italian-American, Sicilian
or Sicilian-American. Criminals of other ethnicities are employed as
"associates."
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Membership
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Criminal
activities
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Racketeering,
conspiracy, loansharking,
money laundering, murder, drug trafficking,
extortion,
labor racketeering, pornography, prostitution,
bookmaking,
and illegal gambling,
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Allies
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Rivals
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The Westies
and various other gangs in New York City, including their allies
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The Genovese 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). The Genovese crime family has been
nicknamed the "Ivy League"
and "Rolls Royce"
of organized crime. They are rivaled in size by only the Gambino crime family and Chicago
Outfit and are unmatched in terms of
power. They have generally maintained a varying degree of influence over many
of the smaller mob families outside of New York, including ties with the Patriarca,
Buffalo,
Syracuse,
Albany
and Philadelphia crime families.
Finding new ways to make money in
the 21st century, the Genovese family took advantage of lax due
diligence by banks during the housing spike with
a wave of mortgage frauds. Prosecutors say loan
shark victims obtained home
equity loans to pay off debts to their mob
bankers. The family found ways to use new technology to improve on old reliable
illegal gambling, with customers placing bets through offshore sites via the Internet. The modern family was founded by Lucky
Luciano, but after 1957 it was renamed
after boss Vito Genovese.
Originally in control of the waterfront on the West Side of Manhattan
(including the Fulton Fish Market),
the family was run for years by "the Oddfather", Vincent
"the Chin" Gigante,
who feigned insanity by shuffling unshaven through New York’s Greenwich
Village wearing a tattered bath robe and
muttering to himself incoherently.
Although the leadership of the
Genovese family seemed to have been in limbo after the death of Gigante in
2005, the family still appears to be the most organized family and remains powerful.[3] The family, now named after Vito
Genovese, has endured like no other. Unique
in today's Mafia, the family has benefited greatly from members following the
code of Omertà. While many mobsters from across the country have testified
against their crime families since the 1980s, the Genovese family has only had
five members turn state's evidence in its history.[4]
History
Origins
Giuseppe Morello
The Genovese crime family originated
from the Morello crime family of East Harlem,
the first Mafia family in New York City. The Morellos started arriving in New
York from the village of Corleone,
Sicily around 1892, when only a few
thousand Italians lived in New York. The first incarnation of what would become
the Morello crime family was the 107th Street Mob, established by Giuseppe
Morello, later joined by associate Ignazio
"the Wolf" Lupo.
Morello's lieutenants were his half brothers Nicholas, Vincenzo
and Ciro.
By the early 1900s, the Morello family was involved with counterfeiting, extortion,
kidnapping, and other traditional Mafia activities in Manhattan.
As the Morello family increased in
power and influence, bloody territorial conflicts arose with other Italian
criminal gangs in New York. Their new rival was the Neapolitan
Camorra organization, which consisted of
two small Brooklyn gangs run by Pellegrino
Morano and Alessandro Vollero.
Unlike the Sicilian Morellos, the Camorra was composed of immigrants from Naples,
Italy. Initially the Morellos and the
Camorra collaborated to divide up criminal activities in Manhattan. However,
when Giuseppe Morello and Lupo went to prison in 1909 for counterfeiting,
Morano decided that he could kill the remaining Morello leadership and take the
family's more lucrative rackets. Morano's move resulted in the bloody Mafia-Camorra
War from 1914 to 1918. By 1918, law
enforcement had sent many Camorra gang members to prison, decimating the
Camorra in New York and ending the war. Although the Morellos had won this gang
conflict, they had suffered losses also, including the 1916 assassination of
boss Nicholas Morello. The Morellos now faced stronger rivals than the Camorra.
With the passage of Prohibition in 1919 and the outlawing of alcohol sales, the Morello
family regrouped and built a lucrative bootlegging operation in Manhattan. However, by the early 1920s, the
Morello family no longer existed. A powerful Sicilian rival, Salvatore D'Aquila,
had declared a death sentence on Giuseppe Morello and Lupo, both recently
released from prison, forcing them to flee to Italy for safety. When the two
men returned to New York, they relied on Giuseppe
"Joe the Boss" Masseria,
a new Morello ally, to kill D'Aquilla. However, the price of Masseria's help
was to essentially take over the Morello Family.[5]
The
Castellammarese era
Joseph Masseria
During the mid-1920s, Massaria
continued to expand his bootlegging, extortion, loansharking, and illegal gambling rackets throughout New York. To
operate and protect these rackets, Massaria recruited many ambitious young
mobsters. These mobsters included future Cosa Nostra powers Charlie
"Lucky" Luciano, Frank
Costello, Frankie
Yale, Joseph
"Joey A" Adonis, Vito
Genovese, Albert
Anastasia and Carlo
Gambino. Masseria was willing to take all
Italian-American recruits, no matter where they had originated in Sicily or
Italy.
Masseria's strongest rival in New
York was Salvatore Maranzano,
leader of the Castellammare del Golfo Sicilian organization in Brooklyn. A
recent arrival from Sicily, Maranzano had strong support from elements of the
Sicilian Mafia and was a traditionalist mafiosi. He recruited Sicilian mobsters
only, preferably from the Castellammarese clan. Marangano's top lieutenants
included future family bosses Joseph
"Joe Bananas" Bonanno,
Joseph Profaci,
and Stefano Magaddino.
By 1928, the Castellammarese War
between Masseria and Maranzano had begun. By the late 1920s, more than 60
mobsters on both sides had been murdered.[5] On April 15, 1931, Masseria was murdered in a Coney
Island, Brooklyn, restaurant, reportedly
by members of Luciano's crew. Angry over broken promises from Masseria, Luciano
had secretly conspired with Maranzano to plot Masseria's assassination. On the
day of the murder, Luciano was allegedly eating dinner with Masseria at a
restaurant. After Luciano went to the restroom, his hitmen arrived and murdered
Masseria. With Masseria's death, the Castellamarese War had ended.
Now in control of New York,
Maranzano took several important steps to solidify his victory. He reorganized
the Italian-American gangs of New York into five new families, structured after
the hierarchical and highly disciplined Mafia families of Sicily. Maranzano's
second big change was to appoint himself as the boss of all the families. As
part of this reorganization, Maranzano designated Luciano as boss of the old
Morello/Masseria family. However, Luciano and other mob leaders privately
objected to Maranzano's dictatorial role. Maranzano soon found out about
Luciano's discontent and ordered his assassination. Discovering that he was in
danger, Luciano plotted Maranzano's assassination with Maranzano trustee Gaetano
"Tommy" Lucchese. On
September 10, 1931, Jewish gangsters provided by Luciano ally Meyer
Lansky shot and stabbed Maranzano to death
in his Manhattan office. Luciano was now the most powerful mobster in the
United States.[6]
Luciano
and the Commission
"Lucky" Luciano in a police photo
After Maranzano's murder, Luciano
created a new governing body for the Cosa
Nostra families, the Commission.
The Commission consisted of representatives from each of the Five Families, the
Chicago Outfit
and the Magaddino crime family of Buffalo,
New York. Luciano wanted the Commission to
mediate disputes between the families and prevent future gang wars. Although
nominally a democratic body, Luciano and his allies actually controlled the
Commission throughout the 1930s. As head of the new Luciano family, Luciano
appointed Vito Genovese as his underboss, or second in command, and Frank
Costello as his Consigliere,
or advisor. With the new structure in place, the five New York families would
enjoy several decades of peace and growth.
In 1935, Luciano was indicted on pandering charges by New York district attorney Thomas
Dewey. Many observers believed that
Luciano would never have directly involved himself with prostitutes, and that
the case was fraudulent. During the trial, Luciano made a tactical mistake in
taking the witness stand, where the prosecutor interrogated him for five hours
about how he made his living. In 1936, Luciano was convicted and sentenced to
30 to 50 years in prison. Although in prison, Luciano continued to run his
crime family. His underboss Genovese now supervised the day-to-day family
activities. In 1937, Genovese was indicted on murder charges and fled the
country to Italy. After Genovese's departure, Costello became the new acting
boss of the Luciano family.
During World
War II, federal agents asked Luciano for
help in preventing enemy sabotage on the New York waterfront and other activities.
Luciano agreed to help, but in reality provided insignificant assistance to the
allied cause. After the end of the war, the arrangement with Luciano became
public knowledge. To prevent further embarrassment, the government agreed to
deport Luciano on condition that he never return to the United States. In 1946,
Luciano was taken from prison and deported to Italy, never to return to the
United States. Costello became the effective boss of the Luciano family.
The
Prime Minister
Frank Costello
at the Kefauver hearings.
During the reign of Frank
Costello, the Luciano family controlled much
of the bookmaking,
loansharking, illegal gambling and labor racketeering activities in New York
City. Costello wanted to increase the family involvement in lucrative financial
schemes; he was less interested in low grossing criminal activities that relied
on brutality and intimidation. Costello believed in diplomacy and discipline,
and in diversifying family interests. Nicknamed "The Prime Minister of the
Underworld", Costello controlled much of the New York waterfront and had
tremendous political connections. It was said that no state judge could be
appointed in any case without Costello's consent. During the 1940s, Costello
allowed Luciano associates Meyer
Lansky and Benjamin
"Bugsy" Siegel to expand
the family business in Southern California and build the first modern casino
resort in Las Vegas. When Siegel failed to open the resort on time, his mob
investors allegedly sanctioned his murder.
While serving as boss of the Luciano
family in the 1950s, Costello suffered from depression
and panic attacks.
During this period Costello sought help from a psychiatrist, who advised him to distance himself from old associates
such as Genovese and spend more time with politicians. In the early 1950s, U.S.
Senator Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee began investigating organized crime in New York in the Kefauver
hearings. The Committee summoned numerous
mobsters to testify, but they refused to answer questions at the hearings. The
mobsters uniformly cited the Fifth
Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution, a legal protection against self-incrimination.
However, when Costello was summoned, he agreed to answer questions at the
hearings and not take the Fifth Amendment. As part of the agreement to testify,
the Special Committee and the U.S. television networks agreed not to broadcast
Costello's face. During the questioning, Costello nervously refused to answer
certain questions and skirted around others. When the Committee asked Costello,
"What have you done for your country Mr. Costello?", he famously
replied, "Paid my tax!". The TV cameras, unable to show Costello's
face, instead focused on his hands, which Costello wrung nervously while answering
questions. Costello eventually walked out of the hearings.
The
return of Genovese
Costello ruled for 20 peaceful
years, but that quiet reign ended when Genovese was extradited from Italy to
New York. During his absence, Costello demoted Genovese from underboss to capo
and Genovese determined to take control of the family. Soon after his arrival
in the United States, Genovese was acquitted of the 1936 murder charge that had
driven him into exile.[7] Free of legal entanglements, Genovese started plotting
against Costello with the assistance of Mangano crime family underboss Carlo
Gambino. On May 2, 1957, Luciano family
mobster Vincente "Chin" Gigante shot Costello in the side of the head on a public street;
however, Costello survived the attack. Months later, Mangano family boss Albert
Anastasia, a powerful ally of Costello, was murdered by Gambino's gunmen. With
Anastasia's death, Gambino seized control of the Mangano family. Feeling afraid
and isolated after the shootings, Costello quietly retired and surrendered
control of the Luciano family to Genovese.[8]
Vito Genovese
in a police photo
Having taken control of what was now
the Genovese crime family in 1957, Vito
Genovese decided to organize a Cosa Nostra
conference to legitimize his new position. Held on mobster Joseph
Barbera's farm in Apalachin, New York,
the Apalachin Meeting
attracted over 100 Cosa Nostra mobsters from around the nation. However, local
law enforcement discovered the meeting by chance and quickly surrounded the
farm. As the meeting broke up, Genovese escaped capture by running through the
woods. However, many other high-ranking mobsters were arrested. Cosa Nostra
leaders were chagrined by the public exposure and bad publicity from the
Apalachin meeting, and generally blamed Genovese for the fiasco. Wary of
Genovese gaining more power in the Mafia Commission, Gambino used the abortive
Apalachin Meeting as an excuse to move against his former ally. Gambino, former
Genovese bosses Lucky Luciano
and Frank Costello,
and Lucchese crime family boss Tommy
Lucchese allegedly lured Genovese into a
drug distribution scheme that ultimately resulted in his conspiracy
indictment and conviction. In 1959, Genovese was sentenced to 15 years in
prison on narcotics
charges. Genovese, who was the most powerful boss in New York, had been
effectively eliminated as a rival by Gambino.[9] Genovese would later die in prison.
The
Valachi Hearings
Joseph Valachi
at the McClellan Hearings
The Genovese family was soon rocked
by a second public embarrassment: the United States Senate McClellan Hearings.
While incarcerated at a federal prison in Atlanta, Genovese soldier Joseph
"Joe Cargo" Valachi
believed he was being targeted for murder by the mob on the suspicion that he
was an informer. On June 22, 1962, Valachi brutally murdered another inmate
with a pipe. Valachi told investigators that he thought the victim was Joseph
"Joe Beck" DiPalermo, a Genovese soldier coming to kill him.
To avoid a capital
murder trial, Valachi agreed to cooperate
with federal prosecutors against the Genovese family. He thus became the first
Cosa Nostra mobster to publicly affirm the organization's existence. With
information from prosecutors, the low-level Valachi was able to testify in
nationally-televised hearings about the Cosa Nostra's influence over legal
enterprises in aid of racketeering and other criminal activities to make huge
profit. Valachi also introduced the name "Cosa Nostra" as a household
name. Although Valachi's testimony never led to any convictions, it helped law
enforcement by identifying many members of the Genovese and other New York
families.
Front
bosses and the ruling panels
New York Police Department mugshot of Thomas Eboli
After Genovese was sent to prison in
1959, the family leadership secretly established a "Ruling Panel" to
run the family in Genovese's absence. This first panel included acting boss Thomas
"Tommy Ryan" Eboli,
underboss Gerardo "Jerry" Catena, and Catena's protege Philip
"Benny Squint" Lombardo.
After Genovese died in 1969, Lombardo was named his successor. However, the
family appointed a series of "Front Bosses" to masquerade as the
official family boss. The aim of these deceptions was to confuse both law
enforcement and rival crime families as to the true leader of the family. In
the late 1960s, Gambino boss Carlo
Gambino loaned $4 million to Eboli for a
drug scheme in an attempt to gain control of the Genovese family. When Eboli
failed to pay back his debt, Gambino, with Commission approval, murdered Eboli
in 1972.
After Eboli's death, Genovese capo
and Gambino ally Frank "Funzi" Tieri was appointed as the new front boss. In reality, the
Genovese family created a new ruling panel to run the family. This second panel
consisted of Catena, Michele
"Big Mike" Miranda,
and Lombardo. In 1981, Tieri became the first Cosa Nostra boss to be convicted
under the new Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
(RICO). In 1982, Tieri died in prison.[10] After Tieri went to prison in 1981, the Genovese family
reshuffled its leadership. The capo of the Manhattan faction, Anthony
Salerno ("Fat Tony"), became the
new front boss. Lombardo, the defacto boss of the family, retired and Vincent
"Chin" Gigante, the
triggerman on the failed Costello hit, took actual control of the family.[11] In 1985, Salerno was convicted in the Mafia Commission Trial and sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.
After the 1980 murder of Philadelphia crime family boss Angelo "Gentle Don" Bruno, Gigante and
Lombardo began manipulating the rival factions in the war-torn Philadelphia
family. Gigante and Lombardo finally gave their support to Philadelphia mobster
Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, who in return gave the Genovese mobsters permission to
operate in Atlantic City
in 1982.[11]
The
Oddfather
After Vincent
Gigante took over the Genovese family, he
instituted a new "administration" structure. Former Salerno protègé Vincent
Cafaro had turned informer and identified
Gigante as the real boss to the FBI, so the use of front bosses no longer
protected the real leader of the family. In addition, Gigante was unnerved by
Salerno's conviction and long sentence, and decided he needed greater
protection. Gigante decided to replace the front boss with a new street boss
position. The job of the street boss was to publicly run the family operations
on a daily basis, under Gigante's remote direction. To insulate himself even
further from law enforcement, Gigante started communicating to his men through
another new position, the messenger. As a result of these changes,
Gigante did not directly communicate with other family mobsters, with the
exception of his sons, Vincent Esposito and Andrew Gigante, and a few other
close associates.
Another Gigante tactic to confuse
law enforcement was by pretending insanity. Gigante frequently walked down New
York streets in a bathrobe,
mumbling incoherently. Gigante succeeded in convincing court-appointed psychiatrists that his mental illness was worsening, and avoided several
criminal prosecutions. The New York media soon nicknamed Gigante "The
Oddfather".[12] Gigante reportedly operated from the Triangle Social Club in Greenwich
Village in Manhattan. He never left his
house during the day, fearing that the FBI would sneak in and plant a bug. At
night, he would sneak away from his house and conduct family business when FBI
surveillance was more lax. Even then, he only whispered to keep from being
picked up by wiretaps. To avoid incrimination from undercover surveillance,
family members were forbidden to speak Gigante's name under penalty of death.
When necessary, mobsters would only point to their chins when referring to him.
In this way, Gigante managed to stay on the streets while the city's other four
bosses ended up getting long prison terms.
While the public and media were
watching Gigante, other family leaders were running the day-to-day operations
of the family. Underboss Venero
"Benny Eggs" Mangano
operated out of Brooklyn and ran the family's Windows Case
rackets. Consigliere Louis "Bobby" Manna, who operated out of the New
Jersey faction of the family, as well as
supervising four captains
around that area during the 1980s.
In 1985, Gigante and other family
bosses were shocked and enraged by the murder of Paul
Castellano, the Gambino family boss. An
ambitious Gambino capo, John Gotti,
had capitalized on discontent in that family to murder Castellano and his
underboss outside a Manhattan restaurant and become the new Gambino boss. Gotti
had violated Cosa Nostra protocol by failing to obtain prior approval for the
murder from The Commission.
Ironically, as mentioned above, Gigante had been the triggerman on the last unsanctioned
hit on a boss—the hit on Costello. With Castellano dead, Gigante now controlled
the Commission and he decided to kill Gotti. Gigante and Lucchese crime family boss Vittorio
"Vic" Amuso and underboss Anthony
"Gaspipe" Casso hatched a
scheme to kill Gotti with a car bomb. On April 13, 1986, a bomb exploded in
Gambino underboss Frank DeCicco's
car, killing DeCicco. However, Gotti was not in DiCicco's car that day and
escaped harm.[12] Although Gigante eventually made peace with Gotti, Gigante
remained the boss of the most powerful crime family in New York. The Genovese
family dominated construction and union rackets, gambling rackets, and
operations at the Fulton Fish Market
and the waterfront operations. During this period, Gigante used intimidation
and murder to maintain control of the family.
During the early 1990s, law
enforcement used several high profile government informants and witnesses to
finally put Gigante in prison. Faced with criminal prosecution, in 1992 Gambino
underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano agreed to testify against Gotti and other Cosa Nostra
leaders, including Gigante. Philadelphia crime family underboss Phil
Leonetti also became a government witness
and testified that during the 1980s, Gigante had ordered the murders of several
Philadelphia associates. Finally, Lucchese underboss Anthony Casso implicated Gigante
in the 1986 plan to kill John Gotti, Frank
DeCicco and Eugene
"Gene" Gotti. While in
prison, Gigante was recorded as saying that he'd feigned insanity for 40 years.
In 1997, Gigante was convicted on racketeering and conspiracy charges and
sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. While Gigante was in prison, the
Genovese family was run by acting bosses Ernest Muscarella, Dominick Cirillo,
and Gigante's brother Mario. On December 19, 2005, Gigante died in prison from heart
disease.
Since the 1990s, infamous mobsters
in top positions of the other Five Families of NYC have become informants and
testified against many mobsters, putting bosses, capos, and soldiers into
prison. The most prominent government witness was Bonanno crime family Boss Joseph
"Big Joe" Massino, who
started cooperating in 2005. Genovese Underboss Venero
"Benny Eggs" Mangano,
Consigliere Louis "Bobby" Manna, capo James
Ida ("Little Jimmy") and
street boss Liborio "Barney" Bellomo received lengthy prison sentences on murder, racketeering
and conspiracy convictions. During the last decades, US law enforcement
systematically broke down the Genovese crime family, as well as the other Mafia
families. Despite these indictments the Genovese family remains a formidable
power with as approximately 250 made men and 14 active crews as of 2005,
according to Selwyn Raab.
Current
position and leadership
When Vincent Gigante died in late
2005, the leadership went to Genovese capo Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo, who was apparently running the day-to-day activities of
the Genovese crime family by 2006.[13] In 2006, Genovese underboss and former Gigante loyalist, Venero
"Benny Eggs" Mangano
was released from prison. That same year, former Gigante loyalist and prominent
capo Dominick Cirillo
was allegedly promoted to consigliere in prison. By 2008, the Genovese family
administration was believed to be whole again.[14] In March 2008, Leo was sentenced to five years in prison
for loansharking and extortion. Underboss Venero
Mangano is reportedly one of the top
leaders within the Manhattan faction of the Genovese crime family. Former
acting consigliere Lawrence
"Little Larry" Dentico
was leading the New Jersey
faction of the family until convicted of racketeering in 2006. Dentico was
released from prison in 2009. In July 2008, one-time Gigante street boss Liborio
"Barney" Bellomo was
paroled from prison after serving 12 years. What role Bellomo plays in the
Genovese hierarchy is open to speculation, but he is likely to have a major say
in the running of the family once his tight parole restrictions are over.
A March 2009 article in the New York
Post claimed Daniel Leo was still acting boss despite his incarceration. It
also estimated that the family consists of approximately 270 "made"
members.[15] The Genovese family maintains power and influence in New
York, New Jersey, Atlantic City and Florida. It is recognized as the most
powerful Cosa Nostra family in the United States.[3] Since Gigante's reign, the Genovese family has been so
strong and successful because of its continued devotion to secrecy. According
to the FBI, many family associates don't know the names of family leaders or
even other associates. This information lockdown makes it more difficult
difficult for the FBI to gain incriminating information from government
informants.[16]
According to the FBI, the Genovese
family has not had an official boss since Gigante's death.[17] Law enforcement considers Leo to be the acting boss,
Mangano the underboss, and Cirillo the consigliere. The Genovese family is
known for placing top caporegimes in leadership positions to help the
administration run the day-to-day activities of the crime family. At
present,capos Bellomo, Ernest Muscarella, Cirillo, and Dentico hold the
greatest influence within the family and play major roles in its
administration.[16] The Manhattan and Bronx factions, the traditional powers in
the family, still exercise that control today.
Historical
leadership
Boss
(official and acting)
·
1920–1922 — Giuseppe
"the Clutch Hand" Morello
— stepped down becoming underboss to Giuseppe Masseria in 1922
o
Acting 1937–1946 — Frank
"the Prime Minister" Costello
— became official boss after Luciano's deportation
·
Acting 2005–2008 — Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo[19] — Imprisoned in 2008. Projected release date is January 25,
2013
Front
boss and street boss
After Philip Lombardo replaced
Thomas Eboli as effective boss in the mid-1960s, Lombardo decided that Eboli
should continue to perform the outward functions of the boss while Lombardo
secretly made all the decisions. Lombardo created this deception so as to
divert law enforcement attention from himself to Eboli. The family maintained
this "front boss" deception for the next 20 years. Even after
government witness Vincent "Fish" Cafaro exposed this scam in 1988, the Genovese family still found
this way of dividing authority useful. So, in 1992, the front boss position was
replaced by that of "street boss". From 1998 to 2006, a committee of
capos known as the "administration" conducted decision making for the
family.[20]
Front boss
Street boss
o
Co-Acting 1998–2002 – Ernest Muscarella and Frank Serpico[21][22] – in 2002 both were indicted,[23] and Serpico died of cancer.[24]
Underboss
(official and acting)
Underboss - the number two position in the family (after the boss).
Also known as the "capo bastone", the underboss ensures that criminal
profits flow up to the boss. The underboss also oversees the selection of
caporegimes and soldiers to carry out murders and other crimes for the family.
When the boss dies, the underboss normally assumes control until a new boss is
chosen (which in some cases is the underboss).
·
1936-1936 — Frank "Chee"
Gusage
·
1957-1972 — Gerardo
"Jerry" Catena — also boss
of the New Jersey faction; jailed from 1970 to 1972.
·
1974-1975 — Carmine "Little
Eli" Zeccardi
o
Acting 1997-2003 — Joseph Zito
Consigliere
(official and acting)
Consigliere
- Also known as an advisor or "right-hand man," a consigliere
provides counsel to the boss of the crime family. The consigliere ranks just
below the boss in the family power structure, but does not have any family
members reporting to him. Each family usually has one consigliere.
·
1937-1957 — "Sandino" —
mysterious figure mentioned once by Valachi
·
1975-1978 — Antonio
"Buckaloo" Ferro
o
Acting 1978-1980 — Dominick "Fat Dom" Alongi
·
1980-1981 — Dominick "Fat
Dom" Alongi
Messaggero
Messaggero – The messaggero (messenger) functions as liaison between
crime families. The messenger can reduce the need for sit-downs, or meetings,
of the mob hierarchy, and thus limit the public exposure of the bosses. Boss Vincent
Gigante was credited with inventing the
messaggero position to avoid law enforcement attention.
·
1997-2003 - Andrew Gigante
Administrative
capos
If the official boss dies, goes to
prison, or is incapacitated, the family may assemble a ruling committee (or
panel) of capos to help the acting boss, street boss, underboss, and
consigliere run the family, and to divert attention from law enforcement.
·
1997-1998 — (eight-man committee)
— Frank "Farby" Serpico, Ernest "Ernie" Muscarella,
Pasquale "Patsy" Parello, Lawrence
"Little Larry" Dentico,
John
"Johnny Sausage" Barbato,
Alan
"Baldie" Longo, Federico
"Fritzy" Giovanelli and Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo
·
1998-2001 — (seven-man committee)
— Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo, Ernest Muscarella, Pasquale Parello, Lawrence Dentico,
John Barbato, Alan Longo and Daniel Leo
·
2001-2002 — (five-man committee)
— Dominick Cirillo, Ernest Muscarella, Lawrence Dentico, John Barbato and Alan
Longo
·
2002-2003 — (four-man committee)
— Dominick Cirillo, Lawrence Dentico, John Barbato and Daniel Leo
·
2007–2010 — (three-man panel)
— Tino "The Greek" Fiumara (died 2010)[32]
the other two are unknown.
Current
family members
Administration
·
Boss Vacant
·
Acting
Boss Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo - belonged to the Purple Gang
of East Harlem in the 1970s. In the late 1990s, Leo joined Vincent Gigante's
circle of trusted capos. With Gigante's death in 2005, Leo became acting
boss. In 2008, Leo was sentenced to five years in prison on loansharking
and extortion charges. In March 2010, Leo received an additional 18 months in
prison on racketeering charges and was fined $1.3 million. Leo is currently in
prison.[33][34]
·
Street
Boss Liborio
"Barney" Bellomo - became Street
boss in 1992 under boss Vincent Gigante. Bellomo was imprisoned from 1996
until July 2008.
·
Underboss Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano - became underboss in 1986 under boss Vincent
Gigante. A Gigante loyalist, Mangano
belonged to the West Side Crew. Mangano was sentenced to 15 years in prison for
his involvement in the 1991 "Windows Case". He was convicted of
extortion and attempting to manipulate the bidding process of window
replacements within municipal housing projects. Released from prison in
November 2006, Mangano is reportedly still a Manhattan
faction leader.
·
Consigliere Dominick
"Quiet Dom" Cirillo
- former capo
and trusted aide to boss Vincent
Gigante. Cirillo belonged to the West
Side Crew and was known as one of the Four Doms; capos Dominick "Baldy Dom" Canterino, Dominick "The Sailor" DiQuarto and Dominick
"Fat Dom" Alongi. Cirillo served as Acting Boss from 1997 to 1998,
but resigned due to heart problems. In 2003, Cirillo became acting boss,
resigned in 2006 due to his imprisonment on loansharking charges. In August
2008, Cirillo was released from prison. Law enforcement believes that Cirillo
is still active in the family.
·
New Jersey
Faction Boss - Unknown - was Tino
Fiumara until his death on September 16,
2010.[35][36]
Capos
New
York
Bronx faction
·
Liborio
"Barney" Bellomo – capo
and current Street Boss, was also the acting boss and protégé of Vincent
Gigante. He controls one of the most
influential crews in the crime family, the Manhattan East
Harlem and Bronx-based 116th
Street Crew. Bellomo, in his early 50s, was
released from prison in July 2008 and is a top candidate to become the new
official boss.[37]
·
Joseph "Joe
D" Dente Jr. – capo, operating in the Bronx. In
December 2001, Dente and capos Rosario Gangi and Pasquale Parrello were
indicted in Manhattan on racketeering charges. Dente was released from prison
on April 29, 2009.[38][39][40]
·
Pasquale
"Patsy" Parello – capo
operating in the Bronx, owns a restaurant on Arthur Ave.
In 2004, Parello was found guilty of loansharking and embezzlement along with
capo Rosario Gangi.[41] Parello was released from prison on April 23, 2008.[42][43]
Manhattan faction
·
Matthew
"Matty the Horse" Ianniello
– capo and former acting boss for Vincent
Gigante, Ianniello is a longtime Manhattan
faction leader who also operates in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Long Island, New
Jersey and Connecticut.[44] Iannello was imprisoned on extortion and racketeering
charges and released on April 3, 2009.[45]
·
Rosario
"Ross" Gangi – capo
operating in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. Gangi was involved in
extortion activities at Fulton Fish Market. He was released from prison on
August 8, 2008.[46][47]
·
John
"Johnny Sausage" Barbato
– capo and former driver of Venero
Mangano, involved in labor and construction
racketeering with capos from the Brooklyn faction. He was
imprisoned in 2005 on racketeering and extortion charges, and released in 2008.[48][49]
·
James "Jimmy
from 8th Street" Messera
– capo of the Little Italy Crew operating in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In
the 1990s, Messera was involved in extorting the Mason Tenders union and was
imprisoned on racketeering charges.[50][51]
Brooklyn faction
·
Alphonse "Allie Shades" Malangone – capo operating from Brooklyn and Manhattan. Malagone was
very powerful in the 1990s, controlling gambling, loansharking, waterfront
rackets and extorting the Fulton Fish Market.
Malangone also controlled several private sanitation companies in Brooklyn
through Kings County Trade Waste Association and Greater New York
Waste Paper Association. Malagone was arrested in 2000 along with several
Genovese and Gambino family members for their activities in the private waste
industry.[52][53]
·
Anthony
"Tico" Antico – capo
involved in labor and construction racketeering in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In
2005, Antico and capos John Barbato and Lawrence
Dentico were convicted of extortion charges.
In 2007, Antico was released from prison.[54][55] On March 6, 2010, Antico was charged with racketeering in
connection with the 2008 robbery and murder of Staten
Island jeweler Louis Antonelli.[56] He was acquitted of murder charges, but found guilty of
racketeering.
·
Frank
"Punchy" Illiano – capo
operating in Brooklyn and Staten Island. Illiano was a high-ranking member of
the Gallo crew in the Colombo crime family before switching to the Genovese family in the mid-1970s.
·
Charles
"Chuckie" Tuzzo – capo
operating in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Tuzzo was involved in pump
and dump stock schemes with capo Liborio
"Barney" Bellomo. Tuzzo and acting street boss Ernest
Muscarella infiltrated a International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) local
in order to extort waterfront companies operating from New York, New Jersey and
Florida.[57][58] On February 2, 2006, Tuzzo was released from prison after
serving several years on racketeering and conspiracy charges.[59]
Queens faction
·
Anthony
"Tough Tony" Federici
– capo in the Queens faction with alleged money
laundering, bribery and loansharking
activities. Owner of a Queens restaurant, Federici was honored in 2005 by
Queens Borough President Helen
Marshall for his community service.[60]
New
Jersey
The Genovese crime family is
operating in New Jersey
with five crews.[61] According to the State of New Jersey Commission of
Investigation, several other New York based Genovese family members run
criminal activities in New Jersey. The family's power has traditionally been
base in New York, but in recent years some of the New Jersey faction members
have risen to acting positions within the family's hierarchy.
·
(Acting) Stephen Depiro – acting capo of the "Fiumara crew". Depiro was overseeing the illegal operations in the
New Jersey Newark/Elizabeth
Seaport [62] before Fiumara's death in 2010. It is unknown if Depiro
still holds this position.
·
(In prison) Angelo
"The Horn" Prisco – capo of
a "crew" operating in Hudson County waterfronts citys of
Bayonne and Jersey City; Monmouth County and Florida. In 2009, Prisco was
sentenced to life[63]
and is currently imprisoned in Florida.[64]
·
Ludwig
"Ninni" Bruschi – capo of
a "crew" operating in South Jersey Counties of Ocean,
Monmouth, Middlesex, and North Jersey Counties of Hudson, Essex, Passaic and
Union. He was indicted in June 2003 and paroled in April 2010.[65]
·
Unknown – after the death of capo Joseph "The Eagle"
Gatto in April 2010[66] it is unknown who is controlling the old "Gatto crew" operating in Bergen and Passaic Counties.
·
Lawrence
"Little Larry" Dentico
– capo operating in South Jersey and Philadelphia. Dentico was acting consigliere from 2003 through
2005, when he was imprisoned on extortion, loansharking and racketeering
charges. Released from prison on May 12, 2009.[67][68]
Soldiers
New York
·
Salvatore
"Sammy Meatballs" Aparo
– former acting capo of the Gangi crew who operated large loansharking and labor rackets. In October 2002, he was sentenced to
five years in federal prison for racketeering.[69] On May 25, 2006, Aparo was released from prison.
·
Ralph Anthony
"the Undertaker" Balsamo
(born in 1971) - Bronx and Westchester soldier who works closely with Liborio Bellomo. Runs an
funeral parlor where family meetings are held and is known as "the
Undertaker". Pleaded guilty in 2007 to narcotics trafficking, firearms
trafficking, extortion, and union-related fraud and sentenced to 97 months in
prison.[70] Currently imprisoned in a low security prison facility in
Petersburg and is set to be released on March 9, 2013.[71]
·
Vincent
"Vinny" DiNapoli - soldier
and former capo with the 116th Street Crew. DiNapol is heavily involved in
labor racketeering and has reportedly earned millions of dollars from
extortion, bid rigging and loansharking rackets. DiNapoli dominated the N.Y.C. District
Council of Carpenters and used them to extort other
contractors in New York. DiNapoli's brother, Joseph
DiNapoli, is a powerful capo in the Lucchese crime family.[72][73]
·
Albert
"Kid Blast" Gallo – acting
capo of the Illiano crew in the South Brooklyn neighborhoods of Carroll
Gardens, Red Hook, and Cobble Hill. Gallo
runs gambling and loan sharking operations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten
Island. In the mid-1970s, Gallo
transferred from the Gallo crew of the Colombo crime family to the Genovese family and became a made member.
·
Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli - soldier who was heavily involved in loansharking, illegal
gambling and bookmaking in the Queens/Brooklyn area. Giovanelli was charged
with the January 1986 killing of Anthony Venditti, an undercover NYPD
detective, but was eventually acquitted. One known soldier in Giovanelli's crew
was Frank
"Frankie California" Condo.
In 2001, Giovanelli worked with soldier Ernest
"Junior" Varacalli
in a car theft ring.
·
Alan "Baldie" Longo –
acting capo of the Malangone crew, he was involved in stock
fraud activities and white-collar crime
in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was imprisoned on loansharking and racketeering
charges, sentenced to 11 years, released in June 2010.[75][76]
·
Ernest
"Ernie" Muscarella
– former acting capo of the 116th Street crew in the Manhattan faction.
Muscarella served as acting street boss for Vincent
Gigante and Dominick
Cirillo in 2002 until his racketeering conviction. He was released from prison on December 31,
2007, and is still active in the family.[77]
·
Joseph Olivieri - soldier, operating in the 116th Street Crew under
Capo Louis Moscatiello. Olivieri has been involved in extorting carpenters unions
and is tied to labor racketeer Vincent DiNapoli.[78] Was convicted of perjury and was released from Philadelphia
CCM on January 13, 2011.[79][80]
·
Daniel
"Danny" Pagano - former
acting capo of the Westchester County-Rockland
County crew. Pagano was involved in the
1980s bootleg gasoline scheme with Russian mobsters.[81] In 2007, Pagano was released after serving 105 months in
prison.[82]
·
Charles Salzano - A soldier released from prison in 2009 after serving 37
months on loan sharking charges.[70]
·
Joseph Zito - soldier in the Manhattan faction (the West Side Crew)
under capo Rosario Gangi.
Zito was involved in bookmaking and loansharking business.[83] Law enforcement labeled Zito as acting underboss from 1997
through 2003, but he was probably just a top lieutenant under official
underboss Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano. In the mid-1990s, Zito frequently visited Mangano in
prison after his conviction in the Windows Case. Zito relayed messages
from Mangano to the rest of the family leadership.
New Jersey
·
Anthony Palumbo - former acting
capo in the New Jersey faction. Palumbo was promoted acting boss of
the New Jersey faction by close ally and acting boss Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo. On February 2, 2009, Palumbo was released from prison.[84][85]
Florida
·
Albert
"Chinkie" Facchiano
- operated in South Florida until his 2007 arrest, is now considered retired.[86]
Other
territories
The Genovese family operates
primarily in the New York City area; their main rackets are illegal gambling
and labor racketeering.
·
New York
City - The Genovese family operates in
all five boroughs of New York as well as in Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, and
Orange Counties in the New York suburbs. The family controls many businesses in
the construction, trucking and waste hauling industries. It also operates
numerous illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion,,and insurance rackets.
Small Genovese crews or individuals have operated in Albany, Syracuse,
Delaware County, and Utica. The Buffalo, Rochester
and Utica crime families or factions traditionally controlled these areas.
·
Massachusetts - Springfield, Massachusetts has been a Genovese territory since the family's earliest
days. The most influential Genovese leaders from Springfield were Salvatore
"Big Nose Sam" Curfari, Francesco "Frankie Skyball"
Scibelli, Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno, and Anthony Arillotta (turned informant 2009).[87] In Worcester, Massachusetts, the most influential capos were Frank Iaconi and Carlo
Mastrototaro. In Boston, Massachusetts, the New
England or Patriarca crime family from Providence, Rhode Island has long dominated the North
End of Boston, but has been aligned with the Genovese family since the Prohibition era. In 2010, the FBI convinced Genovese mobsters Anthony
Arillotta and Felix L. Tranghese to become government witnesses.[4][88] They represent only the fourth and fifth Genovese made
men to have cooperated with law
enforcement.[4] The government used Arillotta and Tranghese to prosecute
capo Arthur "Artie" Nigro and his associates for the murder of Adolfo
"Big Al" Bruno.[88][89]
·
Connecticut - The Genovese family has long operated trucking and waste
hauling rackets in New Haven, Connecticut. In 2006, Genovese capo Matthew
"Matty the Horse" Ianniello
was indicted for trash hauling rackets in New Haven and Westchester County,
New York.
·
Las Vegas - The state of Nevada legalized gambling in 1931, but Sin City was without a
doubt turned into a gambling mecca and paradise by the American Mafia. Once
again, Genovese crime family members such as Frank
Costello, Vincent
Alo and associates Meyer
Lansky and Benjamin
"Bugsy" Siegel realized
the opportunities that Las Vegas offered. Bugsy Siegel was one of the first New
York mobsters sent out west in the 1930s to oversee the expansion of the Mob's
race wire operations. By the mid 1940s various American Mafia crime families,
mainly New York's Genovese crime family and the Chicago
Outfit were looking to invest heavily in
new, swanky casinos and hotels. Soon other crime family leaders from Cleveland,
Detroit, New England, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Northeastern Pennsylvania,
Milwaukee and Pittsburgh came together in hopes of obtaining hidden ownership
of a casino. This was always done through front men they chose to oversee the
casino skim, usually Jewish associates or syndicate money men such as Morris
"Moe" Dalitz and Joseph
"Doc" Stacher. The
Genovese crime family was one of the first to invest in Las Vegas casinos and
the crime family maintained those investments through Lansky and his Jewish
syndicate associates. By the 1960s the Chicago Outfit and the Cleveland
Syndicate carried the most influence in Las Vegas, maintaining their casino
investments well into the 1980s. To this day Las Vegas is recognized as an open
city where all Cosa Nostra. crime families can operate, but today their
interests are focused outside of the casino count room and not on casino
ownership. The crime families still generate a great deal of profits from
gambling, loansharking, extortion and narcotics rackets. They also invest in
legitimate businesses such as nightclubs, strip-joints and restaurants, along
with food and service industry operations such as pizza and sandwich shops, and
catering companies.
Family
crews
·
116th
Street Crew - led by Liborio
"Barney" Bellomo (crew
operates in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx)
·
Greenwich Village Crew - (former crew of Vincent
Gigante ) (crew operates in Greenwich
Village in Lower Manhattan)
Former
members
·
Dominick
"Dom The Sailor" DiQuarto
– former member of Vincent Gigante's Greenwich Village Crew.[90]
Hearings
|
In
popular culture
·
In the 1969 novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo,
the Corleone family
may be based on the Genovese family. Just like Vito
Corleone, the Genovese family's original
founders came from the village of Corleone as were many of its members. The Corleone family also has a
strong presence in areas like Little Italy and the
Bronx and is described as the most
powerful crime family in the country.
·
The 1971 film The French
Connection (film) is about smuggling narcotics (heroin) from Marseille, France to New York City. In the real French
Connection, the heroin was shipped from Sicily
to France, then to New York City. Top members of the Genovese family, and the
others four families in New York controlled the heroin trade in the United States.[91]
·
In the 1991 film Mobsters, Genovese boss Charlie
"Lucky" Luciano was
played by Christian Slater.
Patrick Dempsey
played Meyer Lansky,
Costas Mandylor
played Frank Costello),
and Richard Grieco
played Bugsy Siegel).
The film was about the formation of the Mafia Commission in the United States.[92]
·
In the 1991 film Bugsy, Genovese boss Lucky Luciano was played by actor Bill Graham.
Warren Beatty
played Bugsy Siegel)
and Ben Kingsley
played Meyer Lansky.
·
In the 1999 film Bonanno: A
Godfather's Story, Genovese boss Charlie "Lucky" Luciano was
played by actor Vince Corazza
and boss Vito Genovese
by Emidio Michetti.[93]
·
The 2010 to present HBO U.S. television series Boardwalk
Empire takes place in 1920s Atlantic City, New Jersey. Mobster Charlie "Lucky" Luciano is played by
actor Vincent Piazza.[94]
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