Gangsters Inc.'s Blog Posts Tagged 'Lucchese' (24)
Genovese and Gambino Mobsters in Garbage Bust
“I'm in the waste management business. Everybody immediately assumes you're mobbed up. It's a stereotype. And it's offensive. (…) There is no Mafia.” - Tony Soprano
By David Amoruso
Thirty-two members and associates of the Genovese, Gambino, and Lucchese crime families were hit with various racketeering charges yesterday, all…
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The Time I Hurt Mobster Henry Hill’s Feelings
By David Amoruso
A year before his death, mobster-turned-snitch-turned-celebrity Henry Hill almost blew off an appearance on a radio show because of a comment I made about him. The whole incident gives some nice insight into the ego of a glorified street hustler and the power of fame.
After becoming a celebrity when his book “…
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Goodfella Henry Hill dead at 69
By David Amoruso
His death didn’t come as a surprise. Former mob associate-turned rat Henry Hill died in a hospital on June 12 at the age of 69. He leaves behind his fiancée Lisa Caserta and her son Nate. Nate told the Los Angeles Times that Hill died of complications of heart problems related to smoking. Not the cause of death many people would have expected for Hill…
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Gangland Hits Caught On Video
By David Amoruso“Big Brother is watching you,” George Orwell wrote in his famous novel 1984. And with all the security cameras, webcams, and cellular phones with video and photo cameras that indeed seems to be the case. Media around the world are showing us images and video of any incident that occurred, be it a terrorist attack or robbery, viewers at home have a… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on June 22, 2011 at 7:00am — No Comments
The Man Who Stole the French Connection
By Thom L. Jones
‘A sweetheart of a guy. He wasn’t a drinker and didn’t cheat on his wife the way most of these guys do. His one big fault is that once in a while, he would import 50-100 kilos of pure heroin.’
James Drucker
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District Strike Force, 1973.
On March 6th,…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on May 2, 2011 at 8:30am — 24 Comments
Lucchese Family Sold “Oxy” From Ice Cream Truck in New York
By David Amoruso
Don’t we all miss our friendly neighborhood milkman who used to deliver bottles of milk right up to our doorsteps? What happened to the businessman who would offer that kind of service? Well, leave it to the mob to step into that void by driving an ice cream truck into your neighborhood that not only sells ice cream but also oxycodone pills at $20… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on March 18, 2011 at 9:30am — 1 Comment
Will Historic Mob Bust Really Go Down As Historic?
By David Amoruso
It was the largest nationally coordinated crime bust in the FBI’s history. Over 800 agents of the FBI together with local, state, and other federal law enforcement officers, took part in raids on the early morning of January 20. Carrying arrest warrants for 127 organized crime figures connected to the five New York La Cosa Nostra families as…
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Mobsters In Prison: A Story From Behind Bars
By Seth Ferranti (www.gorillaconvict.com)
Goodfellas, the Godfather, Donnie Brasco, The Sopranos- Hollywood's obsession with mobsters dates all the way back to the turn of the century. A litany of wise guys have gained fame and notoriety and eventually been incarcerated by the feds. Beginning with Al Capone and…
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The Evil That Men Do: The killing of Robert Kubecka & Donald Barstow
By Thom L. Jones
Salvatore Avellino recorded by electronic surveillance:
'Do you understand me, now when you got a guy that steps out of line and this and that, now you got the whip. You got the fuckin' whip. This is what he, Tony Corallo, tells me all the time, a strong union makes money for everybody, including the wise… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on December 2, 2010 at 9:29am — 1 Comment
Lucchese Acting Boss: Steven Crea
By David Amoruso
Posted on June 13, 2008
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Steven "Stevie Wonder" Crea is one of the leading members of the troubled Lucchese Crime Family. Crea is a powerhouse in labor racketeering. Using the reputation of the Lucchese Family and, when needed to prove that reputation, its muscle, he had gained a position in which he could put in place a mob tax of five… Continue
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Lucchese Acting Boss: Louis Daidone
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2005
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Louis "Louis Bagels" Daidone was born on February 23, 1946. In the early 1980s the FBI listed him as a soldier in the Lucchese Crime Family. In 1989 Daidone received orders that he had to kill small time car thief Thomas Gilmore. The mob suspected that Gilmore was a rat. Daidone and two associates tailed Gilmore to his home… Continue
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The Lucchese New Jersey Faction
Posted May 26, 2007
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The Lucchese Crime Family's New Jersey faction was once among the most powerful in the state. They operated from Bergen County through Essex County, Morris County, Passaic County and Union County, to Sussex County. Their criminal business included illegal gambling, loansharking, drug trafficking, cigarette smuggling, fraud, extortion, and anything else that made a fast… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 26, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments
The Lucchese Crime Family - Overview
Estimate members: Between 120 and 130 (according to Jerry Capeci)
First Boss: Tom Gagliano
Primary activities: Narcotics, gambling, loan sharking, waste management, construction and extortion.…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 26, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments
Lucchese Acting Boss: Joseph Defede
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2002
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Joseph "Little Joe" Defede was born in 1934 in New York. In his early days as a mobster Defede used to operate a hot dog truck in Brooklyn that doubled as a numbers bank. As a close personal friend of Lucchese Boss Vittorio Amuso Defede started climbing the ranks and by 1994, not long after Amuso's conviction and life… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 26, 2010 at 5:59am — No Comments
Lucchese Soldier: Frank "Frankie Pearl" Federico
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2006
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Frank "Frankie Pearl" Federico was born on January 3, 1928. On August 10, 1989 Federico murders Long Island carters Robert Kubecka and Donald Barstow at the offices of the Kubecka Carting Company at 41 Brightside Avenue, East Northport, New York because of their cooperation with law enforcement’s investigation of the carting… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 26, 2010 at 5:55am — No Comments
Lucchese Soldier: Frank Gioia
Posted in 2006
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Frank Gioia was born in 1967. Gioia was born into 'the life', his father Frank Gioia senior was a Lucchese Family mobster. Growing up around mobsters it was`nt long untill Gioia himself became one. At age 12 he hung around a mob owned social club, getting drinks for wiseguys and doing small tasks for them. By the age of 18 though Gioia had left behind the errand-boy role. He… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 26, 2010 at 5:54am — No Comments
Lucchese Boss: Gaetano Lucchese
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
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Thomas Lucchese was Boss of the Mafia Family that still bears his name. A ruthless guy with a ruthless reputation but he somehow managed to have friends who were law abiding citizens and weren't scared of him, later when they found out he was a major figure in the New York underworld they didn't know where to run. Lucchese's… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 26, 2010 at 5:52am — No Comments
Lucchese Acting Boss: Alphonse "Little Al" D'Arco
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
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Alphnose "Little Al" D'Arco was born July 28, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York. As early as D'Arco could remember he hung around people who were either associates, members or even bosses of the Mafia. As he grew up in Brooklyn he made visits to bosses of all the 5 Families in New York. Pretty soon Little Al knew that this was the… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 26, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments
A Death in the Family
In those last few seconds, as his life was disappearing like an evanescent breath, nothing to protect him, no salvation at hand, his thoughts must have been perhaps his wife and children; his family to be torn apart by his sudden and awful ending. Did he cry out in frustration at the inevitability of this act of duplicity locking him into this act of ultimate violence; or the venal manoeuvre that enticed him into a cul-de-sac from which there could be no escape? The… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 24, 2010 at 4:27pm — 1 Comment
Mob Meeting at Apalachin: The Big Barbeque
November 1957
The question, to my mind, has to be why?
Why was this meeting held?
There are a number of other interesting questions as well of course, and none of them have ever been answered satisfactorily.
Who actually arranged it?
Who first thought of the idea?
Who in fact brought the whole thing together?
Long before the days of rapid technological communications, how did the… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 24, 2010 at 4:30am — 3 Comments
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