Philip Giaccone

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Philip Giaccone
Philip Giaccone on November 16, 1980.
Born July 12, 1932
Died May 5, 1981

Phillip Giaccone aka "Philly Lucky" and "The Priest" (July 12, 1932 Ridgewood, Queens - May 5th, 1981 Lindenwood, Queens was a Bonanno crime family capo.

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[edit] Power Struggle

On July 12, 1979 Giaccone, Dominick Trinchera, and Alphonse Indelicato murdered Bonanno acting boss Carmine Galante at an Italian-American restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn along with his bodyguard and restaurant owner. It is suspected that the heads of the other New York Five Families arranged Galante's death; they supposedly viewed Galante's greed and ambition as a threat to all their interests. After the Galante murder, a fight for control of the family started. On one side was mobster and aspiring Bonanno boss Philip Rastelli, on the other side were capos Trichera, Giaconne, and Indelicato. In May 1981, Rastelli ordered mobster mobster Donnie Brasco, who was actually undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, to murder Trichera in Miami, Florida. However, the contract was called off; Rastelli loyalist Dominick Napolitano wanted to kill all three capos at the same time so as to destroy the opposition to Rastelli.

[edit] The Three Capos Murder

On May 5, 1981 Giaccone, Trinchera, Indelicato, and Bonanno mobster Frank Lino went to a peace meeting with the Rastelli faction at the 20/20 Night Club in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Bonanno mobster Gerlando Sciascia met the men at the club and escorted them to a store room where Joseph Massino and other Bonanno gunmen were waiting to ambush them. As the men entered the room, Sciasca brushed his hand through his hair, giving Massino the prearranged signal. The gunmen rushed out and told the mobsters that it was a "stick up".

The bodies of the three capos were moved to a lot in Lindenwood, Queens, where Gambino crime family mobsters John Gotti and Gene Gotti arranged the burials. In December 2004, after some children discovered a body in the Lindenwood lot, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents (FBI) excavated the property and discovered the bodies of the three capos.

[edit] References

  • Saggio, Frank, and Rosen, Fred, Born to the Mob: The True-Life Story of the Only Man to Work for All Five of New York's Mafia Families, Thunder's Mouth Press (May 4, 2004) ISBN 1560255595

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