First Boss: Filippo "Phil" Amari
Primary activities: Extortion, gambling, drugs, loansharking, union corruption, prostitution.
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By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
Every Mafia family has its go-to guy when it comes to violent acts. For New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family one of those men was Anthony Capo, a soldier with a hair-trigger temper who relished hurting people and
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
That gun and the grams of coke? Yeah, those were his, an alleged associate of New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family admitted in court on Monday. 28-year-old Mario Galli III (photo above) of Toms River, NJ, pleaded guilty to
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
Two alleged associates of New Jersey’s DeCavalcante Mafia family were hit with drug charges on Wednesday. 27-year-old Mario Galli III (photo above, left) and 37-year-old Jason Vella (right) are each charged with trafficking
By Gangsters Inc. Editors
DeCavalcante crime family captain Charles Stango admitted on Wednesday using a telephone to plan the murder of a Mafia rival. He also pleaded guilty to violating the terms of his supervised release, which he was serving foll
By David Amoruso
Reputed DeCavalcante crime family mob boss Francesco Guarraci passed away on April 14, 2016, at home surrounded by his loving family. He was 61. Guarraci became acting boss of the New Jersey mob around 2006.
Guarraci was born in Ribe
By David Amoruso
Longtime New Jersey mob boss John Riggi passed away on Monday. He was 90 years old. He had been released from prison almost three years ago and peacefully died at home surrounded by his family.
His obituary reads, “John M. Riggi, Lab
By Luca
You could be easily forgiven for not mentioning John D’Amato in the same breath as Carlo Gambino or Carlos Marcello. Truth is he won’t go down as one of the most powerful nor successful mob bosses of all time. But the former DeCalvacante G
By Maarten Anthonissen
Francesco Polizzi never was a very important figure in the world of American wiseguys. A typical soldier who climbed the ladder and became a capo. His income, and that of his whole crew, came from typical mob rackets; loansha
By David Amoruso
DeCavalcante mobster Vincent “Vinny Ocean” Palermo (photo right) disappeared into the witness protection program at the turn of the millennium after giving testimony about mob rackets in New Jersey and New York. Like all criminals wh
