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Friday, May 22nd, 2009“I know my father loved me, but I got to question how much, to put me with all these wolves.” “This is the world you put your kid in? So much treachery. … My father couldn’t have loved me, to push me into this life.” – John “Junior” Gotti
John “Junior” Gotti was born on February [...]
Carmine “Junior” Persico
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Carmine “Junior” Persico
Carmine John Persico, Jr. (born August 8, 1933 Brooklyn) also known as “Junior”, “The Snake” and “Immortal”, has been the Boss of the Colombo crime family since the beginning of the 1970s. Persico is currently serving life imprisonment at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Medium in North Carolina for murder and racketeering charges.
Carmine [...]
Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso (born May 21, 1942) is a New York mobster and the former powerful Underboss of the Lucchese crime family. Later he became a government informant.
Born in Brooklyn, Casso was the youngest of the four children of Michael and Margaret Casso (née Cucceullo). Each of Casso’s grandparents had emigrated from Naples, Italy, between [...]
Frank “Frankie Loc” LoCascio
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Frank “Frankie Loc” LoCascio (born 1933) is a New York mobster who became the Consigliere to the Gambino crime family, under Boss John Gotti. Locascio is the father of Salvatore LoCascio, a ranked caporegime (captain) in the same crime family. It is unknown if he is a relative of Colombo crime family mobster Enrico Locascio
Frank [...]
Leonard DiMaria
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Leonard “Lenny” DiMaria (born 1941), is a New York mobster and Caporegime in the Gambino crime family. He is considered by law enforcement to be a close associate of alleged Gambino Boss Nicholas “Little Nick” Corozzo and has served as his right-hand-man for over 30 years.
He was born to first generation emigrants form Moliterno, Italy. [...]
Liborio “Barney” Bellomo
Friday, May 22nd, 2009Liborio “Barney” Salvatore Bellomo (born January 8, 1957) is a high ranking caporegime, or captain, and one time acting boss of the Genovese crime family of New York City. Originally from Corleone, Sicily he is one of the fastest rising mafia members in the U.S today, becoming a Capo in his mid twenties. He was [...]
Giuseppe Antonio Doto Joe Adonis
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Joe Adonis (November 22, 1902 – November 26, 1971) was a New York mobster who was an important participant in the formation of the modern Cosa Nostra crime families.
Adonis was born Giuseppe Antonio Doto in the small town of Montemarano, Italy, near Naples. In 1915, Doto stowed away on an ocean liner to the United [...]
Joe Profaci
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Giuseppe “Joe” Profaci (October 2, 1897–June 7, 1962) was a New York Mafia boss who was the founder and head of the Profaci crime family (known today as the Colombo crime family) for over three decades.
Joseph Profaci was born in Villabate in the province of Palermo, Sicily. He immigrated to the United States and was [...]
Constantino Paul Castellano
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Constantino Paul Castellano (June 26, 1915 – December 16, 1985), better known as Paul Castellano (or PC to his family), was a mafia boss in New York. He succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family, then one of New York’s largest Mafia families. In early 1985, he was one of many Mafia [...]
Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich (The Brainy Don)
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich (June 30, 1946 in Kiev, Ukraine, in Russian Семен Могилевич, also written as Semyon) is a notorious organized crime boss who is believed to control the largest Russian Mafia syndicate in the world. His business activities are alleged to include arms dealing, drug trafficking, prostitution and money laundering. He is nicknamed [...]
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