Anthony Indelicato
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Anthony Indelicato a.k.a. "Bruno" a.k.a. "Whack-Whack" (b. 1956 Little Italy, Manhattan) is one of the top caporegimes with the Bonanno crime family in New York City, and the son of Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato and stepson of Mary Elizabeth McFhadden. Anthony is also the nephew of Bonanno crime family capo Joseph Indelicato who is a salesman for a New Jersey-based garment factory and is also the son-in-law to Lucchese crime family mob associate Jimmy Burke and brother-in-law to Jesse James Burke and the late Frank James Burke. He is a nephew of Gerald Indelicato born c.a. 1946 Boston, Massachusetts, who was the Special Assistant for Educational Affairs to Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis from 1983 to 1986. Gerald was later appointed President of Bridgewater State College and served from 1986 to December of 1988. He is the nephew of small-time Boston hoodlum Edward Theodore Deegan and associate of James J. Bulger and Stephen Flemmi. He is also a relative of Castellammare del Golfo born convicted heroin smuggler and Bonanno crime family capo Giuseppe Indelicato.
[edit] Biography
Anthony B. (Bruno) Indelicato is suspected by authorities to have participated in the July 12, 1979 murder of Carmine "Lilo the Cigar" Galante that occurred while dining at a restaurant Bushwick, Brooklyn. After he was promoted to the rank of capo, he intended to inherit his father's loanshark and bookmaking rackets, and live off his prosperity. Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano immensely disliked the rival Bonanno crime family capo because of living off his father's reputation in the La Cosa Nostra. He was supposed to be murdered with his father, Alphonse, Philip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera on May 5, 1981, but was high on cocaine and was fortunately late for the "meeting". Convicted of Galante's murder during the historic Mafia Commission Trial in 1986, Indelicato was serving twelve years in a Lewisburg, Pennsylvania penitentary, when he met Catherine Burke, while visiting her incarcerated father Jimmy Burke in 1985 and were eventually married in 1992 while Indelicato was serving time in Terre Haute, Indiana for racketeering. Following his release in 1998, Indelicato resides with his wife in Howard Beach, Queens, while taking care of his father's old crew and is being one of the Bonanno crime family's biggest earners, with a murderous crew of at least fifteen of them are all listed as a made man or "street soldier". Since the murder of his brother Alphonse, Joseph Indelicato has become the capo over his nephew Anthony and formed relationships with Vincent Basciano. Additionally, information surfaced in early 2008 revealing that Anthony Indelicato is the second cousin of mobster and recording artist Danyael Shovera Caliberi, who is better known as Sho Caliberi.
[edit] Further reading
- 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
- 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
- Saggio, Frankie and Fred Rosen. Born to the Mob: The True-Life Story of the Only Man to Work for All Five of New York's Mafia Families. New York: Thunder Mouth Press, 2004. ISBN 1-56025-559-5
[edit] External links
- Anthony Indelicato, Petitioner vs. United States of America, In the Supreme Court of the United States: On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States of America, Appellee, vs. Anthony Indelicato, Defendant - Appellant, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- TIME.com - Hitting the Mafia by Ed Magnuson
