Angelo Ruggiero

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Angelo "Quack Quack" Ruggiero (1941 - 1989) was a New York mobster and member of the Gambino crime family.

A longtime associate of John Gotti, he participated in the 1985 gangland slaying of Gambino leader Paul Castellano with Anthony "Tony Roach" Rampino, John Carneglia and Gotti as well as his prior involvement with Gotti and Ralph Gallione in the 1973 murder of James McBratney and suspected in the 1980 disappearance of John Favara, a neighbor of John Gotti who had killed Gotti's 12 year-old son Frank in a car accident [1].

He also was the brother of drug trafficker Salvatore Ruggiero, who was killed in a plane crash in 1982, and the father of Angelo Ruggiero, Jr., convicted of grand larceny in May 1998 and sentenced to 1-3 years imprisonment [2].

He was later the subject of a government undercover investigation as mobster turned government informant Wilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson provided information including a layout for Ruggerio's home for bugs and wire taps to monitor his activities in narcotics [3] and later recorded conversations between he and Gene Gotti implicating themselves in Castellano's murder.

Ruggiero died of cancer in Howard Beach, Queens. He was 48 years old.

[edit] Further reading

  • Capeci, Jerry. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. ISBN 0-02-864225-2
  • Davis, John H. Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 0-06-016357-7
  • Jacobs, James B., Christopher Panarella and Jay Worthington. Busting the Mob: The United States Vs. Cosa Nostra. New York: NYU Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8147-4230-0
  • Maas, Peter. Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. ISBN 0-06-093096-9
  • Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: St. Martin Press, 2005. ISBN 0-312-30094-8
  • Willis, Clint (ed.) Wise Guys: Stories of Mobsters from Jersey to Vegas. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003. ISBN 1-56025-498-X