Joseph Luco Pagano

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Joseph Luco Pagano (b. 1928) was a New York mobster and member of the Genovese crime family.

Born in New York, he and his brother Pasquale Pagano joined the ranks of the Genovese family in the late-1940s. With an arrest record dating back to 1946, Pagano had previously been charged with robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and narcotics. Working with Joe Valachi within Anthony Strollo's organization, then one of the biggest distributors of heroin and cocaine in East Harlem, he participated in the gangland slaying of Eugenio Giannini and Steve Franse. In 1955, Pagano served a seven year jail term.

In 1977, the New York Times claimed a group of organized crime figues under the leadership of Pagano had ordered beatings and arson in an attempt to intimidate Bronx health facility operators into extorting thousands in a Medicade fraud.

[edit] Further reading

Goldstock, Ronald, Martin Marcus and Il Thacher. Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. New York: NYU Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8147-3034-5
Jacobs, James B., Coleen Friel and Robert Radick. Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime. New York: NYU Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8147-4247-5
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Profile of Organized Crime, Mid-Atlantic Region: Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. 1983. [1]