Genovese crime family

Genovese crime family

Imprisoned Acting Boss Danny Leo.
In	New York City
Founded by	"Joe the Boss" Masseria and Charlie "Lucky" Luciano named after Vito Genovese
Years active	1892-present
Territory	Various neighborhoods in New York City and throughout the USA.
Ethnicity	Made men (full members) are Italian or Italian-American. Criminals of other ethnicities are employed as "associates."
Membership	250 - 300 made members,[1] well over 1000 criminal associates[2]
Criminal activities	Racketeering, conspiracy, loansharking, money laundering, murder, drug trafficking, extortion, pornography, Prostitution, bookmaking, and illegal gambling,
Allies	Gambino, Bonanno, Colombo, and Lucchese crime families
Rivals	The Westies and various other gangs in New York City, including their allies

Sicilian Mafia
Commission · Sicilian Mafia clans · Sicilian Mafiosi Second Mafia War · History of the Sicilian Mafia
Antimafia
Italian Antimafia Commission · Addiopizzo · Maxi Trial
American Mafia (Commission)
Mafia crime families · Italian-American crime families Commission member families: Bonanno · Colombo · Gambino · Genovese · Lucchese · Chicago Outfit · Scarfo · DeCavalcante · Detroit Partnership Castellammarese War
Chain of Command
Commission Family (Cosca) Boss Underboss Consigliere (Advisor) Caporegime or capodecina (Captain) Soldato (Soldier) Associate
Codes
Made man · Omertà · Vendetta

The Genovese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that controls organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime. They are rivaled in size by only the Gambino crime family and Chicago Outfit and are unmatched in terms of power. They have generally maintained a varying degree of influence over many of the smaller mob families outside of New York, including ties with the Patriarca, the Buffalo, the Syracuse, the Albany and the Philadelphia crime families.

Finding new ways to make money in the 21st century, the Genovese family took advantage of lax due diligence by banks during the housing spike with a wave of mortgage frauds. Prosecutors say loan shark victims obtained home equity loans to pay off debts to their mob bankers. The family found ways to use new technology to improve on old reliable illegal gambling, with customers placing bets through offshore sites via the internet. Originally in control of the waterfront on the West Side of Manhattan (including the Fulton Fish Market), the family was run for years by "the Oddfather", Vincent " the Chin" Gigante, who feigned insanity by shuffling unshaven through New York’s Greenwich Village wearing a tattered bath robe and muttering to himself incoherently.

The Genovese family manipulated members of the Philadelphia crime family into murdering one time Boss Angelo Bruno so that they could gain control of their territory in Atlantic City. Although the leadership of the family seemed to have been in limbo since the death of Gigante in 2005, the family still appears to be the most organized family and remains powerful.^[3] The family, now named after Vito Genovese, has endured like no other. They also benefited from members following the code of Omertà. While many mobsters from across the country have testified against their crime families since the 1980s, the Genovese family has only had four members turn state's evidence in its history, Joseph Valachi (1963), Vincent "the Fish" Cafaro (1986), George Barone (2001), and Anthony Arillotta (2010).^[4]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Origins 1.2 The Castellammarese era 1.3 Luciano and the Commission 1.4 The Prime Minister 1.5 Genovese and Valachi 1.6 Front bosses and the ruling panels 1.7 The Oddfather 1.8 Current position and leadership 2 Historical leadership 2.1 Bosses (official and acting) 2.2 Front bosses and street bosses 2.3 Underbosses 2.4 Consigliere 2.5 Messaggero 2.6 Administrative capos 3 Current family members 3.1 Current administration 3.2 Capos 3.2.1 New York 3.2.2 New Jersey 3.3 Soldiers 3.3.1 New York 3.3.2 New Jersey 3.4 Other territories 3.5 Family crews 4 Former members 5 Hearings 6 In Popular Culture 7 References 8 External links

History

Origins

The Genovese crime family originated from the Morello crime family of East Harlem in Manhattan during the early years of the 20th century. The Morellos started arriving in New York from the village of Corleone, Sicily around 1892 and soon became involved in criminal activities. The family was run by brothers Tony, Nicolo, and Giuseppe Morello, and half brothers Vincenzo "Vincent" Terranova and Ciro "The Artichoke King" Terranova. By the early 1910s, the Morello family was involved with extortion and other traditional Mafia activities in Manhattan. During this period, the Morellos reportedly mentored young children of Italian immigrants into joining their organization. With the passage of Prohibition in 1920, the family built a lucrative bootlegging operation in Manhattan.

As the Morello family increased in power and influence, territorial conflicts arose with other criminal gangs in the city. Their new rivals were the Neapolitan Camorra organization of Brooklyn, run by Andrea Ricci, and several affiliated gangs run by Pellegrino Morano. Unlike the Sicilian Morellos, these three groups were composed of immigrants from Naples, Italy. Initially the Morellos and the Neopolitans collaborated to divide up criminal activities in Manhattan. However, disagreements and jealousies soon ensued between the two parties, resulting in the Mafia-Camorra War from 1914 to 1918. By 1918, law enforcement had sent many Neopolitan Camorra and gang members to prison, decimating the organizations and ending the war. Although the Morellos had won this gang conflict, they had suffered losses also, including the 1916 assassination of boss Nicolo Morello.

By the early 1920s, the Morello family no longer existed. Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria, a Morello enforcer, took control of the family from then boss Peter Morello. As the decade progressed, Masseria embarked on an ambitious campaign to gain control of all the Italian American criminal organizations in New York City.^[5]

The Castellammarese era

During the mid-1920s, Massaria continued to expand his bootlegging, extortion, loansharking and gambling rackets throughout New York. To operate and protect these rackets, Massaria recruited many ambitious young mobsters. These mobsters included future Cosa Nostra powers Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Frank Costello, Joseph "Joey A" Adonis, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia and Carlo Gambino. Masseria was willing to take all Sicilian-American recruits, no matter what region they came from in Sicily.

Masseria's strongest rival in New York was Salvatore Maranzano, leader of the Castellammare del Golfo Sicilian organization in Brooklyn. A recent arrival from Sicily, Maranzano had strong support from elements of the Sicilian mafia and was more of a traditionalist. His top lieutenants included future family bosses Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno, Joseph Profaci, and Stefano Magaddino. By 1928, the Castellammarese War between Masseria and Maranzano had begun. By the late 1920s, more than 60 mobsters on both sides had been murdered.^[5] On April 15, 1931, Masseria was murdered in a Coney Island restaurant, reportedly by members of Luciano's crew. Angry over broken promises from Masseria, Luciano secretly conspired with Maranzano to plot Masseria's assassination. On the day of the murder, Luciano was allegedly eating dinner with Masseria at the restaurant. After Luciano went to the restroom, his hitmen arrived and murdered Masseria. With Masseria's death, the Castellamarese War had ended.

Now in control of New York, Maranzano took several important steps to solidify his victory. He reorganized the Sicilian American gangs of New York into five new families, structured after the hierarchical and highly disciplined Mafia families of Sicily. Maranzano's second big change was to appoint himself as the boss of all the families. As part of this reorganization, Maranzano designated Luciano as boss of the old Morello/Masseria family. However, Luciano and other mob leaders privately objected to Maranzano's dictatorial role. Maranzano soon found out about Luciano's discontent and ordered his assassination. Discovering that he was in danger, Luciano plotted Maranzano's assassination with Maranzano trustee, Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese. On September 10, 1931, Jewish gangsters provided by Luciano ally Meyer Lansky shot and stabbed Maranzano to death in his Manhattan office. Luciano was now the most powerful mobster in the United States.^[6]

Luciano and the Commission

After Maranzano's murder, Luciano created a new governing body for the Cosa Nostra families, the Commission. The Commission consisted of representatives from each of the Five Families, the Chicago Outfit and the Buffalo crime family of Upstate New York. Luciano wanted the Commission to mediate disputes between the families and avoid future gang wars. Although nominally a democratic body, the Commission was actually controlled by Luciano and his allies throughout the 1930s. As head of the Luciano family, Luciano appointed Vito Genovese as his underboss, or second in command, and Frank Costello as Consigliere, or advisor. With the new structure in place, the five New York families would enjoy several decades of peace and growth.

In 1935, Luciano was indicted on pandering charges by New York district attorney Thomas Dewey. Many observers believed that Luciano would never have involved himself in supervising prostitutes, and that the case was fraudulent. During the trial, Luciano made a tactical mistake in taking the witness stand, where the prosecutor interrogated him for five hours about how he made his living. In 1936, Luciano was convicted and sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison. Although in prison, Luciano continued to run his crime family. His underboss Genovese now supervised the day-to-day family activities. In 1937, Genovese was indicted on murder charges and fled the country to Italy. After Genovese's departure, Frank Costello became the new acting boss of the Luciano family.

During World War II, federal agents asked Luciano for help in preventing enemy sabotage on the New York waterfront and other activities. Luciano agreed to help, but in reality provided insignificant assistance to the allied cause. After the end of the war, the arrangement with Luciano became public knowledge. To prevent further embarrassment, the government agreed to deport Luciano on condition that he never return to the United States. In 1946, Luciano was taken from prison and departed for Italy. Costello now became the effective boss of the Luciano family.

The Prime Minister

During the reign of Frank Costello, the Luciano family controlled much of the bookmaking, loansharking, illegal gambling and the labor racketeering in New York City. Costello was heavily fond of the financial sides of the Lucianos, and reportedly did not have much to do with the family "muscle". Nicknamed "The Prime Minister of the Underworld", Costello also controlled many of the docks in New York and was said to have so many political and judicial contacts that no state judge could be appointed in any case without his consent. Costello believed in diplomacy and discipline, and also started the Family's interests in Las Vegas during the early 1940s, by allowing his friends Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel to build the casinos there. Later Luciano allegedly sanctioned Siegel's murder. Costello ruled for 20 peaceful years until his underboss, Vito Genovese, returned from Italy and was acquitted in his murder trial.^[7]

While serving as the prominent boss of the Genovese crime family, Costello also, amazingly, saw a psychiatrist due to his depression and panic attacks during the 1950s, and was told to distance himself from all of his old associates, such as Vito Genovese, and spend time with politicians rather than gangsters. It was around this time that Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee began investigating organized crime in New York, and set up trials known as the Kefauver hearings. Costello agreed to testify at the hearings and not take the Fifth Amendment, in contrast to all the previous underworld figures to take the stand. The Special Committee and the television networks had agreed not to broadcast Frank Costello's face, only his hands. During the questioning, Costello nervously refused to answer certain questions and skirted around others. When asked by the committee, "What have you done for your country Mr. Costello?", his reply was, "Paid my tax!" Costello eventually walked out of the hearings.

Vito Genovese realized that he was still only the underboss and attempted to have Costello assassinated on May 2, 1957. The trigger-man Vincente "Chin" Gigante only shot him in the side of the head and Costello survived. Months later Albert Anastasia the boss of Mangano crime family and powerful ally of Costello was murdered. With Anastasia's death, Carlo Gambino seized control of the Mangano family. After the shootings, Costello quietly retired and left the Luciano family to Genovese.^[8]

Genovese and Valachi

Having taken control of what was now the Genovese crime family in 1957, Vito Genovese decided to organize a Cosa Nostra conference to solidify his position. Held on mobster Joseph Barbera's farm in Apalachin, New York, the Apalachin Meeting attracted over 100 mobsters from around the nation. Local law enforcement discovered the meeting by chance and quickly surrounded the farm. Genovese escaped capture by running through the woods, but many other high-ranking mafiosi were arrested. Cosa Nostra leaders were chagrined by the bad publicity generated by this meeting, and blamed the humiliated Genovese for the fiasco. Wary of Genovese's rising power in the Mafia Commission, Gambino boss Carlo Gambino used the aborted Apalchin Meeting as an excuse to move against Genovese. Gambino, former family bosses Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello, and Lucchese crime family boss Tommy Lucchese allegedly lured Genovese into a drug conspiracy indictment and conviction. In 1959, Genovese was sentenced to 15 years in prison on narcotics charges. Genovese, who saw himself as the most powerful Don in New York, had been effectively eliminated as a rival by Gambino.^[9]

The Genovese family was soon rocked by a second public embarrassment: the United States Senate McClellan Hearings. While incarcerated at a federal prison in Atlanta, Genovese family soldier Joseph "Joe Cargo" Valachi began acting strangely. Valachi's family had a history of mental illness, and he became delusional. On June 22, 1962, Valachi brutally murdered another inmate with a pipe, whom he mistook for Joseph "Joe Beck" DiPalermo, whom he imagined had come to kill him on the orders of Genovese. Valachi became the first member of the Genovese crime family, as well as the Mafia, to announce the existence of the syndicate and influence over various legal enterprises in aid of racketeering and other criminal activities to make huge profit. Valachi also made the name "Cosa Nostra" a household name. Although Valachi's testimony never led to any convictions, by revealing the many members within, the Genovese family was constantly scrutinized by law enforcement.

Front bosses and the ruling panels

After Genovese was sent to prison in 1959, the leadership of the Genovese family secretly established a "Ruling Panel" to run the family in his absence. This first panel included acting boss Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli, underboss Gerardo "Jerry" Catena, and Catena's protege Philip "Benny Squint" Lombardo. After Genovese died in prison in 1969, the family appointed several "Front Bosses" to masquerade as the official family boss. The aim of these deceptions were to confuse both law enforcement and rival families. In the late 1960s, Gambino boss Carlo Gambino loaned $4 million to Eboli in an attempt to gain control of the Genovese family. When Eboli failed to pay back his debt, Gambino with Commission approval murdered Eboli in 1972. With Eboli's death, Genovese capo and Gambino ally, Frank "Funzi" Tieri was appointed as the new official boss. In reality, the Genovese family created a new ruling panel to run the family. This second panel consisted of Gerardo "Jerry" Catena, Michele "Big Mike" Miranda, and Philip Lombardo. The real power on this panel lay with Lombardo. In 1981, Tieri became the first boss to be convicted under the new Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). In 1982, Tieri died.^[10]

After Tieri went to prison in 1981, the family reshuffled its leadership. The capo of the Manhattan faction, Anthony Salerno ("Fat Tony"), became the new front boss. Lombardo, the defacto boss of the family, retired and Vincent "Chin" Gigante took full control of the family.^[11] In 1985, Salerno was convicted in the Mafia Commission Trial and sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.

With the 1980 murder of Philadelphia crime family boss Angelo "Gentle Don" Bruno, the Genovese crime family members Vincent Gigante and Philip Lombardo began manipulating the rival factions of the war-angered Philadelphia family, and in the end supported Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, who in return gave them permission to operate in the Atlantic City faction of the Philadelphia crime family, in 1982.^[11]

The Oddfather

After Vincent Gigante took over the Genovese family, he instituted a new "administration" structure. With Vincent Cafaro outing Gigante as the real boss to the FBI and Salerno's conviction, Gigante replaced the front boss with a new street boss position. The job of the street boss was running the family operations on a daily basis. To insulate himself even further, Gigante communicated to his men through another new position, the messagario. As a result, Gigante primarily spoke with his sons, Vincent Esposito and Andrew Gigante, and a few close associates.

Another Gigante tactic to confuse law enforcement was pretending insanity. Gigante was frequently seen walking down streets in a bathrobe and mumbling incoherently. Gigante succeeded in convincing court-appointed psychiatrists that his mental illness was worsening, and avoided several criminal prosecutions. The New York media soon nicknamed Gigante "The Oddfather".^[12] Gigante reportedly operated from the Triangle Social Club in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. A night time, he would sneak away and conduct his business when FBI surveillance was more lax. Members of the Genovese family were also forbidden to speak his name under penalty of death. They were to only refer to him as "the chin" when necessary or point to their own chin when referring to him.

While the public and media were watching Gigante, other family leaders were running the day-to-day operations of the family. Underboss Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano operated out of Brooklyn and ran the family's Windows Case rackets. Consigliere Louis "Bobby" Manna, who operated out of the New Jersey faction of the family, as well as supervising four captains around that area during the 1980s.

In 1985, Gigante and other family bosses were shocked and enraged by the murder of Paul Castellano, the Gambino family boss. An ambitious Gambino capo, John Gotti, had capitalized on discontent in that family to murder Castellano and his underboss outside a Manhattan restaurant and become the new Gambino boss. Gotti had violated Cosa Nostra protocol by failing to obtain prior approval for the murder from The Commission. With Castellano dead, Gigante now controlled the Commission and he decided to kill Gotti. Gigante and Lucchese crime family boss Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso hatched a scheme to kill Gotti with a car bomb. On April 13, 1986, a bomb exploded in Gambino underboss Frank DiCicco's car, killing DeCicco. However, Gotti was not in DiCicco's car that day and escaped harm.^[12] Although Gigante eventually made peace with Gotti, he was still the boss of the most powerful crime family in New York. The Genovese family dominated construction and union rackets, gambling rackets, and operations at the Fulton Fish Market and the waterfront operations. During this period, Gigante used intimidation and murder to maintain control of the family.

During the early 1990s, law enforcement used several high profile government informants and witnesses to finally put Gigante in prison. Faced with criminal prosecution, in 1992 Gambino underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano agreed to testify against Gotti and other Cosa Nostra leaders, including Gigante. Philadelphia crime family underboss Phil Leonetti also became a government witness and testified that during the 1980s Gigante ordered the murders of several Philadelphia associates. Finally, Lucchese underboss Anthony Casso implicated Gigante in the 1986 plan to kill John Gotti, Frank DeCicco and Eugene "Gene" Gotti. In 1997, Gigante was convicted on racketeering and conspiracy charges and sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. While Gigante was in prison, the Genovese family was run by acting bosses Ernest Muscarella, Dominick Cirillo, and Gigante's brother Mario. On December 19, 2005, Gigante died in prison from heart disease.

Since the 1990s, infamous mobsters in top positions of the other Five Families of NYC have become informants and testified against as many as they can name, putting the Boss, Capos and Soldiers away on various criminal charges. This included Bonanno crime family Boss Joseph "Big Joe" Massino, who defected in 2005. Several top Genovese crime family figures like Underboss Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano, Consigliere Louis "Bobby" Manna, capo James Ida ("Little Jimmy") and street boss Liborio "Barney" Bellomo received lengthy prison sentences on murder, racketeering and conspiracy convictions. During the last decades, US law enforcement systematically broke down the Genovese crime family, as well as the other Mafia families. Despite these indictments the Genovese family remains a formidable power with as approximately 250 made men and 14 active crews as of 2005, according to Selwyn Raab.

Current position and leadership

When Vincent Gigante died in late 2005, the leadership went to Genovese capo Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo, who was apparently running the day-to-day activities of the Genovese crime family by 2006.^[13] In 2006 prominent crime family underboss and former Gigante loyalist, Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano was released from prison, while another former Gigante loyalist and prominent capo, the incarcerated Dominick Cirillo was allegedly promoted to consigliere and the Genovese family administration was believed to be whole again as of 2008.^[14]

In March 2008, Daniel Leo was sentenced to five years in prison for loansharking and extortion. Underboss Venero Mangano is reportedly one of the top leaders within the Manhattan faction of the Genovese crime family, and acting consigliere, Lawrence Dentico ("Little Larry") was leading the New Jersey faction of the family until convicted of racketeering, loansharking and extortion charges in 2006. He was released in 2009.

In July 2008 one time street boss for Vincent Gigante Liborio "Barney" Bellomo was paroled from prison after serving 12 years. What role he plays in the Genovese hierarchy is open to speculation, but he is likely to have a major say in the running of the family once his tight parole restrictions are over. Bellomo's main rival for power will be from longtime capo Tino Fiumara, the purported leader of the New Jersey interests of the Genoveses family. Since Fiumara's release, he has been reportedly gaining power and support to take over the family as boss.^[15]

A March 2009 article in the New York Post claimed Daniel Leo was still acting boss despite his incarceration. It also estimated that the family consists of around 270 "made" members.^[16] The Genovese family maintains power and influence in several areas of New York, New Jersey, Atlantic City and Florida. It is recognized as the most powerful Mafia family in the United States.^[3] Since Gigante's reign, the Genovese family has been so strong and successful because of their continued devotion to secrecy. According to the FBI, people within the family don't even know who each other are or who the leaders are, making it difficult for the FBI to pick up any information between them.^[17]

Law enforcement considers Danny Leo to be the head the family, although his title is unknown, illustrating the families continued devotion to secrecy. Venero Mangano and Dominick Cirillo round out the crime family administration as underboss and consigliere. According to the FBI, the family hasn't had an official boss since Gigante's death.^[15] The Genovese crime family is known for placing top caporegimes in leadership positions in order to aide the administration with running the day-to-day activities of the crime family. At present the group leaders or caporegimes within the Manhattan and Bronx factions of the crime family such as Liborio Bellomo, Ernest Muscarella, Dominick Cirillo, Tino Fiumara and Lawrence Dentico hold the greatest amount of influence within the crime family and currently play large roles in the crime family's administration.^[17] The Manhattan and Bronx factions have traditionally held the greatest amount of power, and for decades the faction leaders have often held top positions within the crime family's administration, something that continues to this day.

In 2010, the FBI was able to convince Anthony Arillotta to become a government informant and witness.^[4] This is only the fourth time in Genovese family history that a made man has agreed to do so.^[4] He is primarily being used by the government to convict mobsters involved in the murder of Angelo Sangiuolo, most notably acting capo Anthony Palumbo.^[18]

Historical leadership

Bosses (official and acting)

• 1892–1898 — Antonio Morello (1854–1898)
• 1898–1909 — Giuseppe Morello (1870–1930)
• 1910–1916 — Nicholas "Nick" Morello (1866–1916) (Born Nicolo Terranova, killed in Mafia-Camorra War)
• 1916–1920 — Vincenzo "Vincent" Terranova (1889–1922)
• 1920–1922 — Giuseppe "Peter the Clutch Hand" Morello (1880–1930) (In 1922, allowed Joe Masseria to become boss and served as underboss. Was killed on August 15, 1930 during Castellammarese War by the Maranzano-Bonventre-Bonanno faction.)
• 1922–1931 — Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria (Murdered in 1931 during the Castellammarese War)
• 1931–1946 — Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Imprisoned 1936, deported 1946)
• Acting — 1936-1937 – Vito Genovese (Fled to Italy)
• Acting — 1937-1946 – Frank "Frankie the Prime Minister" Costello (Became official boss after Luciano was deported to Italy)
• 1946–1957 — Frank "Frankie the Prime Minister" Costello
• 1957–1969 — Vito "Don Vito" Genovese (Imprisoned 1959, died in prison in 1969)
• Acting — 1959-1962 – Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo
• Acting — 1962-1965 – Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli (Became front boss in the mid-1960s diverting attention from new boss Lombardo.)
• Acting — 1965-1969 – Philip "Benny Squint" Lombardo (Became official boss after the death of Genovese)
• 1969–1981 — Philip "Benny Squint" Lombardo (Emerged as effective boss in mid-1960s)
• 1981–2005 — Vincent "Chin" Gigante (Imprisoned 1997, died 2005, was also boss of the Mafia Commission)^[19]
• Acting — 1990–1992 – Liborio "Barney" Bellomo (Promoted to street boss)
• Acting — 1997–1998 –Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (Suffered heart attack and resigned position)
• Acting — 1998–2005 – Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello (Indicted July 2005, pled 2006, sentenced May 2007, released April 2009)
• Acting — 2005–present — Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo ^[20] (Projected release date is October 7, 2011)

Front bosses and street bosses

After Philip Lombardo replaced Thomas Eboli as official boss in the mid-1960s, Lombardo decided that Eboli should continue as "front boss". Eboli would perform the outward functions of the boss while Lombardo secretly made all the decisions. The reason for this deception was to divert law enforcement attention from Lombardo to Eboli. The family maintained this "front boss" deception for the next 20 years. Even after government witness Vincent "Fish" Cafaro exposed this scam in 1988, the Genovese family continued with the front boss position. In 1992, the family created the position of "street boss". From 1998 to 2006, a committee of capos known as the "Administration" conducted decision making for the family.^[21]

• (Front boss) 1959–1972 — Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli (murdered in 1972)
• (Front boss) 1972–1974 — Carmine "Little Eli" Zeccardi
• (Front boss) 1974–1980 — Frank "Funzi" Tieri (indicted under RICO statues and resigned in 1980, died in 1981)
• (Front boss) 1981–1987 — Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno (imprisoned in 1987, died in prison in 1992)
• (Street boss) 1990–present — Liborio "Barney" Bellomo (imprisoned from 1996 to 2009)
• Acting 1998–2002 — Frank "Farby" Serpico
• Acting 2002–2003 — Ernest "Ernie" Muscarella
• Acting 2003–2005 — Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo
• Acting 2005–2008 — Mario Gigante

Underbosses

Underboss - the number two position in the family (after the boss). Also known as the "capo bastone", the underboss ensures that criminal profits flow up to the boss. The underboss also oversees the selection of caporegimes and soldiers to carry out murders and other crimes for the family. When the boss dies, the underboss assumes control until a new boss is chosen (which in some cases is the underboss).

• 1898–1910 - Ignazio Saietta (know as "Lupo/The Wolf", controlled Little Italy, Manhattan until his 1909 arrest for counterfeiting.)
• 1910-1916 - Vincenzo "Vincent" Terranova (Brooklyn leader in Morello gang)
• 1916-1920 – Ciro "The Artichoke King" Terranova (Manhattan/Bronx leader in Morello gang)
• 1920-1922 - Vincenzo "Vincent" Terranova (killed in Morello-Masseria-Valenti conflict on May 8, 1922)
• 1922-1930 – Giuseppe "Peter the Clutch Hand" Morello (killed August 15, 1930)
• 1930-1931 - Joseph Catania (murdered on February 3, 1931)^[22]
• 1931-1931 - Lucky Luciano (promoted to Boss April 1931)
• 1931-1936 — Vito Genovese (Promoted to acting boss in 1936, deported to Italy)
• 1936-1936 — Frank "Chee" Gusage
• 1937-1951 — Guarino "Willie" Moretti (also boss of New Jersey faction)
• 1951-1957 — Vito Genovese (second time as underboss)
• 1957-1972 — Gerardo "Jerry" Catena (also boss of New Jersey faction; jailed from 1970 to 1972)
• 1972-1974 - Frank "Funzi" Tieri (Promoted to front boss in 1974)
• 1974-1975 — Carmine "Little Eli" Zeccardi
• 1975-1980 — Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno
• 1980-1981 — Vincent "Chin" Gigante
• 1981-1986 — Saverio "Sammy" Santora
• 1987–present — Venero Mangano (imprisoned in 1991, released December 2006)
• Acting 1990-1997 — Michael "Mickey Dimino" Generoso
• Acting 1997-2003 - Joseph Zito
• Acting 2003-2005 — John "Johnny Sausage" Barbato

Consigliere

Consigliere - Also known as an advisor or "right-hand man," a consigliere provides counsel to the boss of the crime family. The consigliere ranks just below the boss in the family power structure, but does not have any family members reporting to him. Each family usually has one consigliere.

• 1931 - 1937 — Frank Costello (Promoted to Acting Boss in 1937)
• 1937 - 1957 — "Sandino" (mysterious figure mentioned once by Valachi)
• 1957 - 1972 — Michele "Mike" Miranda
• 1972 - 1975 — Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno
• 1975 - 1978 — Antonio "Buckaloo" Ferro
• Acting 1978 - 1980 — Dominick "Fat Dom" Alongi
• 1980 - 1981 — Dominick "Fat Dom" Alongi
• 1981 - 1989 — Louis "Bobby" Manna
• Acting 1989 - 1990 — James "Little Guy" Ida (Promoted to official consigliere in 1990)
• 1990 - 1996 — James "Little Guy" Ida (Serving life in prison)
• 2003 - 2005 — Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico
• 2008–present — Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo

Messaggero

Messaggero – The messaggero (messenger) functions as liaison between crime families. The messenger can reduce the need for sit-downs, or meetings, of the mob hierarchy, and thus limit the public exposure of the bosses. Boss Vincent Gigante was credited with inventing the messaggero position to avoid law enforcement attention.

• 1957-1970s - Michael "Mike" Genovese (Vito Genovese's younger brother)^[23][24][25]
• 1981-1997 - Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo
• 1997-2003 - Andrew Gigante

Administrative capos

If the official boss is imprisoned, deceased, or incapacitated, a ruling committee (or panel) of capos is occasionally assembled to help the acting boss, street boss, underboss, and consigliere run the family, and to divert attention from law enforcement.

• 1997-1998 -(eight-man committee) - Frank "Farby" Serpico, Ernest "Ernie" Muscarella, Pasquale "Patsy" Parello, Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico, John "Johnny Sausage" Barbato, Alan "Baldie" Longo, Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli and Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo
• 1998-2001 -(seven-man committee) - Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo, Ernest Muscarella, Pasquale Parello, Lawrence Dentico, John Barbato, Alan Longo and Daniel Leo
• 2001-2002 -(five-man committee) - Dominick Cirillo, Ernest Muscarella, Lawrence Dentico, John Barbato and Alan Longo
• 2002-2003 -(four-man committee) - Dominick Cirillo, Lawrence Dentico, John Barbato and Daniel Leo

Current family members

Current administration

• Boss Vacant

• Acting Boss Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo - was a member of the Purple Gang of East Harlem in the 1970s. In the late 1990s he joined Vincent Gigante's close circle of trusted capos and with the death of Gigante in 2005, was serving as the family's acting boss. In 2008, Leo was sentenced to five years in prison on loansharking and extortion. On January 10, 2010, Leo pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and in March 2010 received an additional 18 months in prison and fined $1.3 million. Leo is currently in prison.^[26][27][28]

• Street Boss Liborio Bellomo - replaced Front Boss Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno in 1992. Born in Sicily, Bellomo was the first Genovese family member to become street boss. Bellomo was imprisoned from 1996 until July 2008.

• Underboss Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano - became underboss in 1986 under boss Vincent Gigante . A staunch Gigante loyalist, Mangano belonged to the West Side Crew. Mangano was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in the 1991 "Windows Case". He was convicted of extortion and attempting to manipulate the bidding process of window replacements within municipal housing projects. Released from prison in November 2006, Mangano is reportedly a Manhattan faction leader.

• Consigliere Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo - Longtime capo and trusted aide to boss Vincent Gigante. Cirillo belonged to the West Side Crew and was known as one of the Four Doms, which included capos Dominick "Baldy Dom" Canterino, Dominick "The Sailor" DeQuarto and Dominick "Fat Dom" Alongi. Served as Acting Boss from 1997–98, but stepped down due to heart problems. In 2003, Cirillo allegedly resumed the job as acting boss until his 2006 imprisonment on loansharking charges. In August 2008, Cirillo was released from prison. Law enforcement believes that Cirillo is still active in the family.

• New Jersey Faction Boss Tino "the Greek" Fiumara - Longtime New Jersey capo of the Fiumara crew and supporter of boss Vincent Gigante. In 1999, Fiumara was jailed for violating his parole and released in 2005. With the 2005 death of family boss Vincent Gigante there is a power vacuum involving Fiumara and Liborio Bellomo to become the new boss.^[15][29]

Capos

New York

Bronx faction

• Liborio "Barney" Bellomo - capo and current Street Boss, was also the acting boss and protégé of Vincent Gigante. He controls one of the most influential crews within the crime family, as the Manhattan, East Harlem based 116th Street Crew merged in the 1990s back with the Bronx based crew. The crew was once controlled by Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno known as the Palma Boys Crew. Bellomo, in his early 50s, was released from prison in July 2008. As one of the youngest leaders is a top candidate to become the official boss only rivaling capo Tino Fiumara.^[30]

• Joseph "Joe D" Dente Jr. - capo, operating in the Bronx. In December 2001, Dente and other Genovese family capos Rosario Gangi and Pasquale Parrello were indicted in Manhattan on racketeering charges. He was released from prison on April 29, 2009.^[31][32][33]

Manhattan faction

• Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello - capo and former acting boss for Vincent Gigante, Ianniello is a longtime Manhattan faction leader who also operates in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut.^[34] Was imprisoned on extortion and racketeering charges and released on April 3, 2009.^[35]

• Alphonse "Allie Shades" Malangone - capo operating from Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was very powerful in the 1990s, controlling gambling, loan-sharking, waterfront rackets and extorting the Fulton Fish Market. Malangone also controlled some private sanitation companies in Brooklyn through Kings County Trade Waste Association and Greater New York Waste Paper Association. He was arrested in 2000, with Genovese and Gambino family members for their activities in the private waste industry.^[36][37]

• Rosario "Ross" Gangi - capo, operating Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. Gangi was involved in extorting Fulton Fish Market. Released from prison on August 8, 2008.^[38][39]

• John "Johnny Sausage" Barbato - capo and former driver of Venero Mangano, involved in labor and construction racketeering with capos from the Brooklyn faction. He was released from prison in 2008, after serving 4 years for extortion and racketeering charges.^[40][41]

• James "Jimmy from 8th Street" Messera - capo of the Little Italy Crew operating in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In the 1990s was involved in extorting a Mason Tenders union, and imprisoned on racketeering charges.^[42][43]

Brooklyn faction

• Anthony "Tico" Antico - capo, involved in labor and construction racketeering in Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2005, Antico and capos John Barbato and Lawrence Dentico were convicted of extortion charges. In 2007, Antico was released from prison.^[44][45] On March 6, 2010, he was charged with racketeering in connection with the 2008 robbery and murder of Staten Island jeweler Louis Antonelli.^[46]

• Frank "Punchy" Illiano - capo operating in Brooklyn and Staten Island . He was a high-ranking member of the Gallo crew in the Colombo crime family before switching to the Genovese family in the mid-1970s.

• Charles "Chuckie" Tuzzo - capo operating in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He was involved in pump and dump stock schemes with capo Liborio "Barney" Bellomo. Tuzzo and acting street boss Ernest Muscarella infiltrated a International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) local in order to extort waterfront companies operating from New York, New Jersey and Florida.^[47][48] On February 2, 2006, Tuzzo was released from prison after serving several years on racketeering and conspiracy charges.^[49]

Queens faction

• Anthony "Tough Tony" Federici - capo in the Queens faction with alleged money laundering, bribery and loansharking activities. Owner of a Queens restaurant, Federici was honored by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall for his community service.^[50]

New Jersey

The Genovese crime family has five crews that operate out of New Jersey.^[51] According to the State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation, several other New York Genovese family members run criminal activities in New Jersey. But traditionally, the family's power base has been in New York. In recent years some New Jersey members, have risen to acting positions within the family hierarchy, indicating the New Jersey faction's rising importance. The highest position ever held by a New Jersey family member was that of underboss during the Costello-Moretti regime of the 1940s.

• The Fiumara Crew - Acting Capo - Stephen Depiro - this crew operates from the Newark/Elizabeth Seaport and New Jersey counties of Union, Essex and Bergen. Depiro is controlling the illegal operations in the New Jersey docks for Fiumara.^[52]

• The Prisco Crew - Capo - Unknown - this crew operates from Hudson County, Bayonne/Jersey City Waterfront, Monmouth County, and Florida. The former capo was Angelo "The Horn" Prisco until he was sentenced to life in prison in 2009.

• The Bruschi Crew - Capo - Ludwig "Ninni" Bruschi - this crew members operate from South Jersey Counties of Ocean, Monmouth, Middlesex and North Jersey Counties of Hudson, Essex, Passaic and Union counties. Bruschi was indicted in June 2003 he was paroled in April 2010 from New Jersey State prison.^[53]

• The Gatto Crew - Capo - Unknown - this crew operate from Bergen and Passaic Counties in New Jersey. Joseph "The Eagle" Gatto ran this crew until his death in 2010.^[54]

• The DeVita Crew - Capo - Silvio P. DeVita - this crew operates from Essex County, New Jersey.

• The Dentico Crew - Capo - Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico - operating in South Jersey and Philadelphia. Served as acting consigliere from 2003-2005, was imprisoned on extortion, loansharking and racketeering charges. Released from prison on May 12, 2009.^[55][56]

Imprisoned Capos

• Angelo "The Horn" Prisco - capo of the New Jersey Prisco crew. In 2009, Prisco was sentenced to life in prison ^[57] and is currently serving his time at the United States Penitentiary I in Coleman, located in Central Florida.^[58]

Soldiers

New York

• Salvatore "Sammy Meatballs" Aparo – a former acting capo of the Gangi crew operated large loansharking and labor rackets in New York City. On October 11, 2002, Aparo was sentenced to five years in federal prison for racketeering.^[59] On May 25, 2006, Aparo was released from prison.

• Louis DiNapoli - soldier with in his brother Vincent DiNapoli 116th Sreet crew.

• Vincent "Vinny" DiNapoli - soldier, and former capo within the 116th Street Crew, is heavily involved in labor racketeering, earning himself and the family millions of dollars from extortion, bid rigging and loansharking. DiNapoli dominated the N.Y.C. District Council of Carpenters and used them to extort other contractors in New York. DiNapoli's other brother Joseph DiNapoli is a powerful capo in the Lucchese crime family.^[60][61]

• Mario Gigante - is an advisor, a former capo and acting street boss for his younger brother, boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante. He retired in 2007, from his Westchester crew that also maintained rackets in the Bronx and Manhattan's Garment District.

• Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli - soldier, heavily involved in loansharking, illegal gambling and bookmaking in the Queens/Brooklyn area. Giovanelli was charged with the January 1986 killing of Anthony Venditti, an undercover NYPD detective, but was eventually acquitted. One known soldier in Giovanelli's crew was Frank "Frankie California" Condo. In 2001, Giovanelli worked with soldier Ernest "Junior" Varacalli in a car theft ring.

• (In prison) Alan "Baldie" Longo – soldier a former acting capo of Malangone crew in the Manhattan & Brooklyn faction involved in stock fraud activities and white-collar crimes. Currently serving 11 years in prison on loansharking and racketeering charges, Longo's projected release date is November 24, 2010.^[62][63]

• Albert "Kid Blast" Gallo – soldier and acting capo of Illiano crew based in the South Brooklyn neighborhoods of Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, and Cobble Hill. Gallo runs gambling and loan sharking operations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island. In the mid-1970s, Gallo transferred from the Gallo crew of the Colombo crime family to the Genovese family and became a made member.

• Ernest "Ernie" Muscarella – soldier and former acting capo of the 116th Street crew in the Manhattan faction. Muscarella served as acting street boss for Vincent Gigante and Dominick Cirillo in 2002 until his racketeering conviction. He was released from prison on December 31, 2007, and is still active in the family.^[64]

• Daniel "Danny" Pagano - soldier, former acting capo of the Westchester County-Rockland County Crew. Pagano was involved in the 1980s bootleg gasoline scheme with Russian mobsters.^[65] In 2007, Pagano was released after serving 105 months in prison.^[66]

• Joseph Zito - soldier in the Manhattan faction (the West Side Crew) under capo Rosario Gangi. Zito was involved in bookmaking and loansharking business.^[67] Law enforcement labeled Zito as acting underboss from 1997–2003, but he was probably just a top lieutenant under official underboss Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano. In the mid 1990s, Zito frequently visited Mangano in prison after his conviction in the Windows Case. Zito relayed messages from Mangano to the rest of the family leadership.

New Jersey

• Anthony Palumbo - former acting capo in the New Jersey faction. He was promoted acting boss of the New Jersey faction by his close ally the Genovese family acting boss Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo. On February 2, 2009, he was released from prison.^[68][69]

Other territories

The Genovese family operates primarily in the New York City area, their main influence is in illegal gambling and labor racketeering.

• New York City - The five boroughs of New York (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island), along with Long Island. The Genovese family has targeted the counties of New York, Bronx, Queens, Nassau, Kings, Richmond, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Orange for decades. The crime family runs a number of businesses and rackets in these counties that specialize in the construction, trucking and waste hauling industries, and in illegal gambling, loansharking and extortion rackets, as well as health and insurance fraud. In the past, small Genovese crews or individuals have operated in Upstate New York areas such as Albany, Syracuse, Delaware County, and Utica. The Buffalo, Rochester and Utica crime families or factions traditionally controlled these areas.

• Massachusetts - Springfield, Massachusetts has been a Genovese territory since the family's earliest days. The most influential Genovese leaders from Springfield were Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Curfari, Francesco "Frankie Skyball" Scibelli, Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno (killed in 2003) and Anthony Arillotta (turned informant 2009).^[70] The most influential leaders of the Worcester crew were Frank Iaconi and Carlo Mastrototaro. In Boston, Massachusetts, the New England or Patriarca crime family, based in Providence, Rhode Island has long dominated the North End of Boston, but has been aligned with the Genovese family since the Prohibition era. In Rhode Island, Genovese crews have some operations

• Connecticut - The Genovese family has long held a presence in New Haven, Connecticut, where they specialize in the construction, trucking and waste hauling rackets. In 2006, influential Genovese capo Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello was indicted due to his involvement in the trash hauling rackets based in New Haven and Westchester County, New York.

• Las Vegas - The state of Nevada legalized gambling in 1931, but Sin City was without a doubt turned into a gambling mecca and paradise by the American Mafia. Once again, Genovese crime family members such as Frank Costello, Vincent Alo and associates Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel realized the opportunities that Las Vegas offered. Bugsy Siegel was one of the first New York mobsters sent out west in the 1930s to oversee the expansion of the Mob's race wire operations. By the mid 1940s various American mafia crime families, mainly New York's Genovese crime family and the Chicago Outfit were looking to invest heavily in new, swanky casinos and hotels. Soon other crime family leaders from Cleveland, Detroit, New England, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh came together in hopes of obtaining hidden ownership of a casino. This was always done through front men they chose to oversee the casino skim, usually Jewish associates or syndicate money men such as Morris "Moe" Dalitz and Joseph "Doc" Stacher. The Genovese crime family was one of the first to invest in Las Vegas casinos and the crime family maintained those investments through Lansky and his Jewish syndicate associates. By the 1960s the Chicago Outfit and the Cleveland Syndicate carried the most influence in Las Vegas, maintaining their casino investments well into the 1980s. To this day Las Vegas is recognized as an open city where all Cosa Nostra. crime families can operate, but today their interests are focused outside of the casino count room and not on casino ownership. The crime families still generate a great deal of profits from gambling, loansharking, extortion and narcotics rackets. They also invest in legitimate businesses such as nightclubs, strip-joints and restaurants, along with food and service industry operations such as pizza and sandwich shops, and catering companines.

Family crews

• 116th Street Crew - led by Liborio "Barney" Bellomo (crew operates in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx)
• Greenwich Village Crew - (former crew of Vincent Gigante ) (crew operates in Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan)
• Broadway Mob - (operated in Manhattan)
• West Side Crew - led by Joseph Zito (crew operates in Manhattan on the West Side)

Former members

• Joseph "The Eagle" Gatto Jr. - capo of the Gatto Crew in the Genovese Jersey faction until he died in April 2010 of natural causes.^[71]

Hearings

• Valachi hearings - (McClellan hearings) 1963.

The Vito Genovese Family Chart - of the Valachi hearings [72]
Boss: Vito Genovese, the successor to: Frank "Frankie the Prime Minister" Costello and Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Acting Boss: Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli, the successor to: Anthony "Tony Bender" Strollo
Underboss: Gerardo "Jerry" Catena
Consiglieri: Michele "Mike Miranda" Miranda
Messenger: Michael Genovese
Coppola Regime: Capo - Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola, the successor to: Ciro "The Artichoke King" Terranova; Soldiers-Buttons Charles Albero, Alfredo Cupola, Anthony DeMartino, Benjamin DeMartino, Theodore DeMartino, Pasquale Erra, Anthony Ferro, Joseph Lanza, Frank Livorsi, Philip "Benny Squint" Lombardo, Felix Monaco, Louis Pacella, Joseph Paterra, Joseph Rao, Al Rosato, Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, Anthony "Blackie" Salerno, Ferdinand Salerno, Angelo Salerno, Dan Scarglatta, Giovanni Schillaci, Frank Serpico, Joseph Stracci, Joseph Tortorici, and Joseph Gagliano
Eboli Regime: Capo - Pasquale "Patsy Ryan" Eboli, the successor to: Dominick "Dom the Sailor" DiQuatro; Soldiers-Buttons: Dominio Alongi, Joseph Bruno, Michael Barrese, Edward Capobianco, Steve Casertano, John DeBellis, Joseph DeNegris, Cosmo DiPietro, Alfred Faicco, Anthony Florio, Mario Gigante, Vincent "Chin" Gigante, Michael Maione, Vincent Mauro, Peter Mione, Pasquale Moccio, Gerardo Mosciello, Sabastian Ofrica, Joseph Pagano, Pasquale Pagano, Armando Perillo, Girolamo Santuccio, Fiore Siano, John Stopelli, and Joseph Valachi
Miranda Regime: Capo - Michele "Mike Miranda" Miranda- the current Consigliere; Soldiers-Buttons John Gregory Ardito, Lorenzo Brescia, Anthony Carillo, Frank Celano, Salvatore Celembrino, Alfred Criscuolo, Peter DeFeo, Joseph DeMarco, Joseph Lanza, Alfonso Marzano, Barney Miranda, Carmine Persico Jr., David Petillo, Mathew Principe, Frank Tieri, Eli Zaccardi, Joseph Agone, Philip Albanese, Ottilio Caruso, Mike Clemente, George Filippone, Joseph Lapi, George Nobile, Michael Spinella
Alo Regime: Capo - Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo, the successor to: Joseph "Joe Adonis" Doto; Soldiers-Buttons: of the Alo Regime Nicholas Belangi, Joseph Bernava, Lawrence Centore, Francesco Cucola, Aniello Ercole, Frank Galluccio, Angelo Iandosco, August Laietta, Gaetano Martino, Aldo Mazzarati, Louis Milo, Sabato Milo, Thomas Milo Sr., Rocco Perrotta, James Picarelli, Louis Pardo, Rudolph Prisco, Nicholas Ratenni, Satisto Salvo, George Smurra and Gaetano Somma
Boiardi Regime: Capo - Richard Boiardi; Soldiers-Buttons: of the Boiardi Regime Settimo Accardi, Albert Barrasso, Anthony Boiardi, Paul Bonadio, Thomas Campisi, Antonio Caponigro, Charles Tourine Sr., Peter LaPlaca, Ernest Lazzara, Andrew Lombardino, Paul Lombardino, Anthony Marchitto, Anthony Peter Real, Salvatore Chiri
Angelina Regime: Capo - James "Jimmy Angelina" Angelina, the successor to: Rocco "The old man" Pelligrino; Soldiers-Buttons Louis Barbella, Joseph Barra, Morris Barra, Earl Coralluzzo, Tobias DeMiccio, Mattew Fortunato, Paul Marchione, Michael Panetti, John Savino
Greco Regime: Capo - Thomas "Tommy Palmer" Greco; Soldiers-Buttons unknown
Former Caporegimes: John Biello, Generosos Del Duca, Gaetano Ricci, Guarino "Willie Moore" Moretti, Anthony "Little Augie Pisano" Carfano, and John De Noia [72]

In Popular Culture

• The 1991 film Mobsters Genovese family boss Charlie "Lucky" Luciano was played by actor Christian Slater, other key Genovese family mebers were played by Patrick Dempsey (as Meyer Lansky), Costas Mandylor (as Frank Costello) and Richard Grieco (as Bugsy Siegel). The film was about the formation of the Mafia Commission in the United States.^[73]

References

External links

• "Meet the Genovese Crime Family's New Boss". http://www.nysun.com/article/44363?page_no=2. 

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