[18] With the decline of the DeCavalcante family, New York's Five Families have taken over many of the rackets in northern New Jersey. In one recent example, a Bonanno crime family captain was connected to a scheme in which a dirt broker trucked in demolition waste, including dirt tainted with a cancer-causing substance, to fill in backyards eroded by superstorm Sandy along the edge of Raritan Bay in the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, according to a 2017 report by the State Commission of Investigation. He is now 87. At the same time, a New York State report indicated that he and another Mafia family controlled 90-percent of the pornography stores in New York City. [13] Riggi continued to run the family from his jail cell, but he appointed Giacomo "Jake" Amari as his new acting boss. [7] In 2006, Abramo, Schifilliti and Vitabile were sentenced to life imprisonment. However, in many cases DeCavalcante crime family activities were even more colorful than the fiction they later inspired. He died of natural causes in 1997. The DeCavalcante crime family, which he led, was accused of demanding payoffs for labor peace, imposing no-show jobs and promoting loan-sharking, sweetheart contracts and gambling, among. He had been released from prison almost three years ago and peacefully died at home surrounded by his family. The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family. Corky hit him, DeCavalcante said. lieutenant, Giovanni Riggi, as the head of the family. HBO's fictional character Tony Sopranos stock in trade, the solid waste industry, also remains a moneymaking magnet, according to Seglem. During the mid-1990s, Capo stabbed a Gambino associate named Remy in the eye at a Staten Island bar. Capo then stabbed Remy in the eye and the face. [17], In 2001, 20 mobsters were charged with racketeering, seven murders, 14 murder conspiracies, attempted murder, extortion in the construction industry, and stock fraud. He might not have been the most sophisticated mafioso to ever walk the streets of Brooklyn, but Rudy Farone was certainly one of Cosa Nostras most dedicated. After DeCavalcante boss Giovanni Riggi was sent down in 1989, John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato became the crime family's acting boss. Two of the notorious five New York crime families Lucchese and Genovese operate in New Jersey, mob experts said. Sam DeCavalcante was the boss of the DeCavalcante Family who became notorious for undercover FBI recordings at his plumbing office. On the day of the attack, Capo and another man picked up D'Amato a block from his girlfriend's house in Brooklyn to drive to lunch. The Genovese family controls the New Jersey side, according to Arsenault. Mob historians claim Stefano Badami, in the 1920s, was the first capo over a group of Mafiosi which later were more formally organized under the auspices of Filippo (Phil) Amari, and later during the late 1940s through the early 1960s era, one Nicholas (Nicky Dell) Delmore, a well-respected old-line bootlegger and labor racketeer who commanded the Family. The wife, Mary DeCavalcante, remained remarkable restrained when a reporter showed up at her home in Princeton Township. Riggi was promoted to the position of official boss, and he reaped the enormous benefits of large labor and construction racketeering, [10] loansharking, illegal gambling, and extortion activities. Even so, legacymob activity in New Jersey is detailed in the records of recent federal prosecutions: The Port of New York and New Jersey is a longtime hotspot for organized crime, OMalley noted. It operates on the . he so brilliantly played the fictional gangster Tony Soprano. Around the end of the first season, an actual FBI electronic device carried by an informant recorded members of the DeCavalcante family chatting about the show as they drove to a sit-down. The members of other crime families sometimes refer to Lucchese family members as "Lukes". Under his guidance, the DeCavalcante Family added dozens of made men to their ranks, and, Unfortunately for Sam the Plumber, his rise to power coincided with another development: more aggressive and sophisticated law enforcement efforts to take down organized crime. Although a small membership, they had a reach into metropolitan New York City where they ran several regimes, Waterbury, Connecticut, where co-underboss Joseph (Joe Buff) LaSelva operated a crew, and South Florida where additional members lived and operated. Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi was a New Jersey mobster and member of the DeCavalcante crime family since the 1940s, before the family had acquired its name. There were several bosses in North Jersey during the Prohibition era controlling transportation of alcohol and whiskey into New York City, and there were two Mafia families based in New Jersey: the Newark family headed by Gaspare D'Amico, and the Elizabeth family headed by Stefano Badami. He was then summoned to a sit-down where he agreed to withdraw. [1], Last edited on 5 September 2022, at 08:04, "Mob rat squeals no more Dies in protection", "Made men: the true rise-and-fall story of a New Jersey mob family", "Hit man's confessions Mob turncoat tells court of his blood-soaked life", "Telling Court He's Gay, Mob Informer Crosses Line", WISEGUY GETS LIFE FOR HIT ON GAY MOB BOSS, "Stenographer Investigated in Leaks to the Mob", The Star-Ledger: Mob Story - How a crime family turned dysfunctional, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Capo&oldid=1108593767, This page was last edited on 5 September 2022, at 08:04. As with all of Cosa Nostra in the last 20 to 30 years, the DeCavalcante Family has fallen prey to the Rat Fever permeating through the ranks of all the mobbut the beat goes on! Giuseppe "Pino" Schifilliti is a former prominent member of the DeCavalcante crime family since the 1980s, heavily involved in labor racketeering and extortion activities. During Guarino's time as an informant, fellow mobster Joseph Masella was gunned down on the orders of Vincent Palermo. That has never stopped, OMalley said. On September 11, 1989, Capo drove DeCavalcante mobsters Vincent Palermo and James Gallo to Weiss' apartment. In 1979, the imprisoned Rastelli who was still official boss of the family allegedly ordered Galante's murder. Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo is an Italian American former mobster who was de facto boss of the New Jersey DeCavalcante crime family before becoming a government witness in 1999. Copyright 2019-2023, Button Guys of The New York Mafia. It fell victim to its own hubris, and to new law enforcement technologies that allowed police and FBI agents to maintain relentless pressure on it. Nicknamed Sam the Plumber because of the plumbing supply store he operated as a business front, DeCavalcante was an ambitious Mafioso who managed to organize New Jerseys rackets like never before, and make them profitable. Delmore kept running the organization until he became ill in the early 1960s. The scene where the FBI breaks into Tonys basement to plant a bug was so realistic that an agent who happened to encounter two of the shows head writers at The Buffalo Club in Santa Monica asked where they got their information. "Telling Court He's Gay, Mob Informer Crosses Line", "Hit man's confessions Mob turncoat tells court of his blood-soaked life", WISEGUY GETS LIFE FOR HIT ON GAY MOB BOSS, "Racketeering Convictions Rejected for 3 in Mob Case", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_D%27Amato&oldid=1092821241, This page was last edited on 12 June 2022, at 20:33. U.S. District Judge William H. Walls on Tuesday sentenced Stango, 73, a reputed capo in the DeCavalcante crime family, to 10 years in federal prison for using a telephone to plot a murder. The DeCavalcante crime family is an Italian-American organized crime family that operates in Elizabeth, New Jersey and surrounding areas in the state and is part of the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). All Rights Reserved. The members include Vito Spatafore, who is killed after it becomes known he is gay, just as John DAmato was killed. An era has come to the end for the New Jersey mafia and the DeCavalcante crime family with the death of long time boss Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi. All rights reserved. This allowed the Family to control major construction projects in both New Jersey and New York. He relocated to Sicily and was replaced by Nicholas "Nick" Delmore. mafia in the catskills. It is not known who is the boss in his absence. As a favor to Gotti, the DeCavalcantes agreed to murder Weiss. 67. r/Mafia. . Mob Fireside Chat BGs Official YouTube Channel, The DeCavalcante Crime Family of New Jersey, Nicolas (Nicky Dell) Delmore An Early DeCavalcante Family Boss, Simone Rizzo DeCavalcante The Count Of New Jersey, John (John the Eagle) Riggi DeCalvacante Family Acting Boss, Francesco (Big Frank) Majuri The Underboss, Joseph (Joe Buff) La Selva Nutmeg Mafioso, Antonio (Tony the Fox) Caruso The Hidden Fox, Carmelo (Melio) Cocchiaro DeCavalcante Family Soldier, Frank (Big Frankie) Cocchiaro DeCavalcante Caporegime, Rudolph (Rudy) Farone This Tootsie Dont Roll, Pietro (Pete) Galletta This Zip Liked To Sleep, Umberto (Vadoo) Gallo The Longshore Loaner, Joseph Guerriero Pippy of Connecticut, Joe Lolordo Machine-Gun Killer and DeCavalcante Capo, Joseph (The Old Man) Miranda The Mob Turtle. . He retired to a high-rise condo in Florida when he was released and largely stayed out of Mafia business, although the FBI believed that he was still advising the family into the early 1990s. However, the familys declining fortunes coincided with the debit of the Sopranos, the hit television series depicting the lives of second-tier mafiosas operating out of New Jersey. Frank "Franky the Beast" Scarabino is a New York City mobster and former soldier in the North Jersey based DeCavalcante crime family. However, in the 1960s the New Jersey mob was riding high. She described swinging encounters that D'Amato had in Manhattan sex clubs with both women and men. He also claimed to be of Italian royal lineage, earning him the nickname "The Count". Tony Soprano is said to have been based on John Riggi (Image: NY Daily News via Getty Images) He appointed Gaetano Vastola to oversee the family while he was behind bars, but Vastola was subsequently arrested shortly afterwards as well. The capoplannedto paytwo motorcycle gang members $25,000 each to kill the Elizabeth man, but the hit never came. By 1990, Capo was working for John D'Amato and reputed capo Anthony Rotondo of the New York faction in labor racketeering, illegal gambling, extortion and loansharking activities. Capo also warned prosecutors that a stenographer working in the Manhattan office of the U.S. Attorney was passing sensitive information, including lists of suspects, to Giovanelli. Her husband called the office and DeCavalcante chatted with him while periodically muffling the phone and muttering encouraging endearments to her. He landed in prison after seeking to curry favor with John Gotti by arranging the murder of a former newspaper editor turned toxic-waste dumper and potential informant. Never mind that DeCavalcante had transformed a bunch of ever-warring factions into an immensely profitable operation. The plate number was written down by a witness who saw the hitman tossing the guns in a stream. The bosses of the five families on the other side of the Hudson River were busy hiding and pretending they were not in charge of anything when Guarraci strode right into Lennys Brick Oven Pizza in Washington Township, N.J. in August 2010 and announced that he was taking over the business. He was convicted on a variety of extortion and labor charges in 1992, and sentenced to twelve years in prison. You were screaming You had pearls on Everything was so screwed up Mary [his wife] woke me upsomething about pearls I dont remember.. Federal authorities yesterday called the DeCavalcante family one of the mob's most ruthless and paranoid crime groups, citing ''extreme and hair-trigger violence.''. [16] This resulted in the arrest of 12 more men less than a year later, [16] decimating the crime family's hierarchy and putting it on the brink of extinction. He gained much respect because he held a place on the infamous Commission, a governing body for the American Mafia which included the Five Families of New York, the Chicago, LA and Florida. Today's mobsters arent as sophisticated as Asian, Russian or African organized criminals conducting high-end internet fraudin New Jersey, according to O'Malley. As Capo described it in court testimony in 2003, "Nobody's going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business."[1]. Riggi was the leader of the "Elizabeth crew" in the family when he was a Caporegime. John "Johnny Boy" D'Amato was a New Jersey mobster and former acting boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. Whatever the truth of his lineage, DeCavalcante did have a certain courtly touch when he settled disputes or helped a younger mafioso through a rough patch in his marriage. He rose to power in 1964, and he was incarcerated in 1969. The Network also found documents identifying recent New Jersey ties tothe Bonnano and Gambino families. He also ran Roulette Records and golfed on occasion with Sammy Davis, Jr. Vastola then landed in prison and John DAmato became acting boss until the girlfriend he shared with another mobster revealed that he was bisexual. All five of the New York City crime families, plus the New Jersey DeCavalcantes and the Philadelphia mob have people placed in the port, according to Walter Arsenault, executive director of the. Anthony Carollo. He was a knockaround Jersey guy rising to power in the fictional DiMeo family, founded by Ercole DiMeo, who had been sent to prison just like Simone DeCavalcante. The vaunted five families were faring even worse, to the point of virtual extinction. His obituary reads, "John M. Riggi, Laborers Local 394 business agent, Army Air Corps veteran, dedicated his life to his family." [ Want to keep tabs on crime in New Jersey? The nightmares and panic attacks suffered by Tony Soprano as played by James Gandolfini seemed authentic enough to anybody who had listened to the FBI recordings of a real-life New Jersey mob boss in the 1960s. Their reward was to see their son enter Rutgers. Copyright 2019-2022. Fictional mob boss Tony Soprano, the protagonist of the HBO series The Sopranos, is said to be based upon Palermo. Underboss Frank Majuri was recorded telling Simone DeCavalcante that he shouldnt run around because Catena and Gambino dont. Majuri meant Gerardo Catena of the Genovese family and Carlo Gambino of the family of that name. Download the Asbury Park Press app today. Guarraci is 54. Crime bosses came and left, and the turnover meant that there was no true power center. He is the capo of the DeCavalcante family's crew in Miami, Florida, United States. Claiming descent from the Italian royal family, DeCavalcante was nicknamed "The Count". After being promoted caporegime during the 1980s by Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi, D'Amato became heavily involved in large labor and construction racketeering operations with prominent New Jersey mobsters Giacomo "Jake" Amari and Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo. [15] To gain complete control of the DeCavalcante family, Majuri decided that he should murder Vincent Palermo, leaving himself in charge of the family. ignored and then continued working, the indictment notes. Like Sam the Plumber, Riggi also had strong connections to the Five Families in New York as well; he had a particularly close relationship with John Gotti, boss of the Gambino Family. The popular Sopranos television series may helped make New Jerseys connections to the Mafia and organized crime a popular discussion topic at dinner tables across America. All five of the New York City crime families, plus the New Jersey DeCavalcantes and the Philadelphia mob have people placed in the port, according to Walter Arsenault, executive director of the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor. The Panel infuriated longtime captain Charles Majuri, who had been a hardworking member of the family since his teens and felt that he was wronged when he was not selected as the only acting boss. He had recently doubled the number of made members and he was taking full advantage of his native states remarkable propensity for corruption at all levels of government. Rotondo shared this information with underboss Giacomo Amari, and consigliere Stefano Vitabile. 20152016 "Milk" mentioned by Charles Stango in December 2012 wiretaps. The Mafia once infiltrated New Jerseys political system and some elements of law enforcement, according to Lee Seglem, executive director of the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, a 51-year-old arm of state government dedicated to rooting out organized crime and corruption. Simone Rizzo "Sam" DeCavalcante (1912-1997), known as "Sam the Plumber", was a member of the New Jersey Mafia. The one thing that they are is adaptable.. He owned Kenilworth Heating and Air Conditioning in Kenilworth, New Jersey as a legal front and source of taxable income, for which he gained the nickname "Sam the Plumber". The high turnover of mafia leadership that gave rise to the DeCavalcante family in the 1960s played a key part in its precipitous decline four decades later. After Amari's death in 1997, Riggi and Vitabile established a "Ruling Panel" to run the family. He had to meet death, concluded the reputedcaporegime, the Italian term for captain in the underworld. It operates on the other side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York, but it maintains strong relations with many of them, as well as with the . Famille de Philadelphie. [15], Using information provided by Guarino, US law enforcement launched a large scale arrest on December 2, 1999 of over 30 members and associates of the DeCavalcante crime family. The Genovese crime family, also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia. That all changed in the 1960s, when Simone Rizzo DeCavalcante came on the scene. UnderBoss: "Unknown" Consiglieri: Frank "Shipe" Nigro PATRIARCA FAMILY ( New England Mafia Family) Boss/Acting Boss: Carmen (The Cheeseman) DiNunzio UnderBoss: Matthew Guglielmetti Consiglieri: (?) An Amico Nostro is an Amico Nostro.. Formed in 1953 to combat corruption, in recent years the Waterfront Commission has fought against New Jersey withdrawing from the commission, which operates under a joint arrangement between New Jersey and New York. The criminal complaint alleges. It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. If you dont mind, Id rather not talk about it, she said. Mr. Rocco offers a story of his . The FBI surveilled DeCavalcante and several of his associates, built an effective case against him, and in 1969 he was convicted on a variety of racketeering charges. Stango pleaded guilty to using the telephone with the intent to commit murder and was sentenced in 2017 to 10 years in prison in connection to the planned killing. Pete Galletta was a "sleeper" DeCavalcante member who was involved in the Family's gambling rackets, yet unknown to law enforcement. If Guarraci is indeed an acting boss, it seems he is the only one still out there being a gangster a la the fictional Tony Soprano, at however small a scale. The DeCavalcante crime family is an organized crime family that operates in Elizabeth, New Jersey and surrounding areas in the state and is part of the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). John was active as a "wire-room" rigger for bookmaking rings throughout LI and Queens. Between 1986 and 1994. Nobodys going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business, Capo later testified. All may have seemed well, but trouble was brewing beneath. Instead, Gallo told Vincent about the plot. I dont mind your asking, but I hope you appreciate my feelings.. During prohibition and afterwards, several New Jersey families controlled their own city-wide networks, and crews associated with the Five Families in New York staked out a claim on rackets in Jersey as well. Which directive G.M. Gary Younge in New York. What follows below is a list of in-depth biographies for many of their more interesting members and associates. He led the organization from 1990 until his death on February 1, 2007. It was during Lucky Luciano's organization of the American Mafia after the Castellammarese War, following the assassinations of "Joe the Boss" Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, that the gang run by Joseph Profaci became recognized as the Profaci crime family. While incarcerated, Riggi attempted to maintain control of the DeCavalcante crime family, with uneven success. Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. But Guarraci and DeCavalcante and the others of that crime family are just criminals. Law enforcement authorities seized 3,200 pounds of cocaine valued at $77 million at Port Newark in late February, though they havent yet named who they suspect of importing the drugs. Join. Biography In his absence, a little known but extremely well-liked and capable caporegime stepped up, first as underboss, then acting boss, and ultimately to formally head the Family, John (The Eagle) Riggi, Sr., the well-groomed son of a veteran member named Emmanuel Riggi, had served the Family for decades as business agent of Local #394 Laborers & Hod Carriers Union (AFL-CIO) and several other labor unions. [23] [24] [25] Luigi Oliveri was charged with the possession of contraband cigarettes. With D'Amato sitting in the back seat, Capo turned and shot D'Amato four times, killing him. He would quickly utilize his position and popularity to help expand the influence and geographic reach of this borgata. They have generally maintained a varying degree of influence over many of the smaller mob families outside New York, including ties with the Philadelphia, Patriarca, and Buffalo crime families. Over the years, the DeCavalcante family earned a reputation for incompetence. Organized Crime Task Force. DeCavalcante would have loved to be considered their equal. The DeCavalcante crime family is an organized crime family that operates in Elizabeth, New Jersey and surrounding areas in the state and is part of the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). [16] This was the fourth indictment of the family since 1999. After college, the son discovered his calling. It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. The Mafia"capo"had an employeeproblem. When he took it over, that was when the FBI was naming families by who was in charge, so it became. Guarraci pleaded guilty and in January 2012 got off with six months of home confinement, followed by five years probation. It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. [2] He is believed by law enforcement to remain the boss, even though Riggi was released in November 2012, after 22 years in prison. 20122015 "Horse" mentioned by Charles Stango in December 2012 wiretaps. Unrelenting law enforcement pressure was further diminishing the power of the DeCavalcante crime family as well. He started hollering. 1 mo. Riggi was incarcerated at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Devens, Massachusetts, on extortion and labor racketeering convictions. While incarcerated, Riggi attempted to maintain control of the DeCavalcante crime family, with uneven success. 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