]. U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey, Ten Members and Associates of Decavalcante Organized Crime Family Arrested, Third Circuit Vacates Child Abuse Sentences, Orders Resentencing and Reassignment, Pennsylvania Man Admits Robbing Two Camden County Banks, U.S. Attorney Sellinger Announces Implementation of New Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. He is believed by law enforcement to remain the boss, even though Riggi was released in November 2012, after 22 years in prison. Joseph La Selva was underboss of the DeCavalcante Family along with Frank Majuri, which was a rarity in a Cosa Nostra Family. The official criminal organization began with Simone DeCavalcante, known as "Sam the Plumber" and "The Count". 20122015 "Horse" mentioned by Charles Stango in December 2012 wiretaps. [32], A "street boss" will sometimes run several crews at once. Charles Stango was also charged along with his son, Anthony Stango, 33 of Brick, New Jersey, with conspiring with members of his New Jersey-based crew to distribute cocaine and run a prostitution business. Last edited by NYMafia; 04/03/23 07:16 PM. Riggi ran a well-structured borgata until he, too, fell afoul of law enforcement. families in New York - the boss, underboss, captains and soldiers are depicted on different levels of the chart Among them are street boss Andrew Russo and acting underboss Benjamin Castellazzo from the Colombo family, and Bartolemeo Vernace and Joseph Corozzo from the Gambino family. Ba-boom! Even so, legacymob activity in New Jersey is detailed in the records of recent federal prosecutions: The Port of New York and New Jersey is a longtime hotspot for organized crime, OMalley noted. DeCavalcante had hoped that he himself might get the honor and make his a sixth family. It maintains strong relations with many of them, as well as with the Philadelphia crime family and the Patriarca crime family of New England. The plate number was written down by a witness who saw the hitman tossing the guns in a stream. Madonna, who was the Lucchese family acting boss, and DiNapoli were indicted in 2010 for racketeering, leading an organized New Jersey-based crime ring and other crimes by a state grand jury as . The indictment reports that Guarraci then fired the general manager. Unrelenting law enforcement pressure was further diminishing the power of the DeCavalcante crime family as well. After one plot fell through, the murder was eventually called off. D'Amato was later revealed to have participated in homosexual acts and was murdered in 1992. The Decavalcantes are considered by some to be the "Sixth Family".[4][5]. Nobodys going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business, Capo later testified. It is also a message to La Cosa Nostra that FBI Newark will do everything possible within in its legal powers to eradicate La Cosa Nostra from New Jersey. But creator David Chase is said to have drawn inspiration from real-life figures. At the same time, a New York State report indicated that he and another Mafia family controlled 90-percent of the pornography stores in New York City. NEWARK, N.J. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today ruled that a former U.S. Army major and his wife, convicted for having endangered the welfare of CAMDEN, N.J. A Pennsylvania man today admitted robbing two banks in Camden County. He became a boss of acting as he played an acting boss. Northern New Jersey, but mainly in Newark and Elizabeth, which one cop likened to a Sopranos film set. The family also has its fingers in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Miami. In fact, the shows remarkable success could be attributed in part to it not being in the realm of The Godfather and the five families. Although a small membership, they had a reach into metropolitan New York City where they ran several regimes, Waterbury, Connecticut, where co-underboss Joseph (Joe Buff) LaSelva operated a crew, and South Florida where additional members lived and operated. Unlike New York's infamous Five Families, the Chicago mob consists of only one family, often referred to as the "Outfit.". Nicolas (Nicky Dell) Delmore - An Early DeCavalcante Family Boss Nicholas (Nicky Dell) Delmore was one of the original powers in Northern New Jersey's underworld - a very well-respected mafioso who eventually became boss. [6] The New York City families had crews operating in New Jersey: the Masseria family's New Jersey faction, and the Reina family's Jersey crew. The Commission did not recognize the DeCavalcantes as an autonomous crime family until the regime of Sam DeCavalcante. In one recent example, a Bonanno crime family captain was connected to a scheme in which a dirt broker trucked in demolition waste, including dirt tainted with a cancer-causing substance, to fill in backyards eroded by superstorm Sandy along the edge of Raritan Bay in the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, according to a 2017 report by the State Commission of Investigation. However, in many cases DeCavalcante crime family activities were even more colorful than the fiction they later inspired. Gay bosses, Sicilian recruits, FBI bugs. He doubled the number of made men within his family during the 60s. Download the Asbury Park Press app today. His mother, Santa, worked as a high school cafeteria chef. Stango, a captain in the DeCavalcante family, allegedly sought and obtained permission from Nigro, the crime familys consigliore or counsel and other upper-echelon members of the crime family, to kill a rival member living in New Jersey. Comello's attorney told theNetwork the incident is related to hate online, "including right-wing conspiracy websites and public comments made by politicians,Robert Gottlieb said. Reputed mob associate from Toms River pleads guilty to cocaine, gun charges. [16] This resulted in the arrest of 12 more men less than a year later,[16] decimating the crime family's hierarchy and putting it on the brink of extinction. Under his guidance, the DeCavalcante Family added dozens of made men to their ranks, and even gained a seat on the infamous Commission. The latest "organized crime spotlight" report issued by the state focused instead on the notoriously violent street gang MS-13. The writers just looked at each other and said nothing. [16] Palermo realized they would likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars and decided to cooperate with the FBI in exchange for a lenient sentence. This, right after the Valachi Hearings in 1963, was during an era of extreme exposure and crackdowns on organized crime figures in this country. The DeCavalcante family is known as the inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series " The Sopranos ." An investigation into Vella and another family associate culminated in the execution of a. The next issue of Your Midday Sun will soon be in your inbox. He also thanked the FBIs Las Vegas office and the Union County Prosecutors Office for their roles in the investigation. With the release of the Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark, its time to take a closer look at the DeCavalcante family. It was around the mid-1980s that Riggi fell increasingly under the influence of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti.[12]. Galli was already on supervised release after a 30-month stint for a 2016 conviction for conspiring to distribute more than a pound of drugs. Michael Daly on the primordial crew behind HBOs beloved Mafiosi. Today, the DeCavalcante Crime family is a shadow of its former self. Which directive G.M. Robert Occhipinti was a member of the DeCavalcante Family who ran into trouble when the infamous "Sam the Plumber" tapes were revealed. 3. He appointed Gaetano Vastola to oversee. Virgil Alessi was a very active DeCavalcante mobster who started his mob career as a phone-man for Jiggs Forlano. Never mind that DeCavalcante had transformed a bunch of ever-warring factions into an immensely profitable operation. An official website of the United States government. Facebook Dressed in cargo shorts and a T-shirt and. Francisco Frank Guarraci hailed from Simone DeCavalcantes ancestral hometown of Ribera. Joseph Guerriero was a smart and capable soldier in the DeCavalcante Family and a rackets boss of the New Britain section of Connecticut. La Cosa Nostras reign has waned in the last 10 to 15 years, diminished by prosecutions and infighting between criminal factions. Thats it.. Several customers became alarmed and exited the restaurant, without paying their bills. NEWARK, N.J. - Ten members and associates of the DeCavalcante organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra were arrested today and charged with various plots to commit murder, distribute drugs and run a prostitution business, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. 2023 Toronto Sun, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. The DeCavalcante crime family operates out of Elizabeth, NJ and was started by Simone DeCavalcante in the early to mid 1900s. He was born in 1913 and was involved in illegal gambling, murder, and racketeering for most of his life. His other advantage over the more high-profile families in New York was that law enforcement in New Jersey is more fragmented and less zealous. Antonio Caruso was a member of the DeCavalcante Family active in gambling operations on the Lower East Side with policy and card games. And that will continue as long as there are ships that are coming in from all over the world and the people here who know what the ships are bringing in.. District of New Jersey [16] This was the fourth indictment of the family since 1999. Mario Galli III, 28, from Toms River New Jersey and an associate of the DeCavalcante crime family has been sentenced to five years in federal prison and probably much more.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[320,100],'aboutthemafia_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_2',650,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-aboutthemafia_com-medrectangle-3-0'); In exchange for leniency, Galli plead guilty on Monday in the U.S. District Court in Trenton to possession of drugs and possession of a firearm during a drug crime, which were discovered during a search of his and another home by detectives from the Ocean County Prosecutors Office. The DeCavalcante family isnt the powerhouse it once was, and some in law enforcement argue the organizations criminal tool box hasnt kept pace with Asian, Russian, and African mobsters. Simone Rizzo DeCavalcante - The Count Of New Jersey It also helped send him to prison. [15], Toward the late 1990s, the Ruling Panel kept running the DeCavalcante crime family with Giovanni Riggi still behind bars as the boss. He started hollering. The Family was active in many of the traditional rackets such as gambling, shylocking, labor union racketeering and corruption, extortion, and narcotics. The government is represented by Senior Litigation Counsel V. Grady OMalley and Assistant U.S. Attorney James Donnelly of the U.S. Attorneys Offices Organized Crime/Gangs Unit. After the first season, a crew of remaining family members were recorded praising the shows realism and acting. Seglem explained they still make money with traditional ventures likelabor racketeering taking control of workers at a construction site and demanding a payout from the builders. Riggi continued to run the family throughout the 1980s, with underboss Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo and Stefano Vitabile as consigliere,[11] after Frank Majuri died of health problems. Between June 6, 2013, and Nov. 6, 2013, Oliveri bought multiple cases of untaxed cigarettes from undercover law enforcement officers. U.S. Attorney Fishman credited the members of the FBIs Organized Crime Task Force under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel in Newark; the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, under the direction of Executive Director Walter Arsenault; the Bayonne Police Department, under the direction of Chief Drew Niekrasz; and the N.J. State Commission of Investigation, under the direction of Chairman Joseph F. Scancarella, with the investigation leading to todays charges. My pop was good friends with a lot of guys and ran cigarettes for the DeCalvacantes. The FBI is confident this is a severe blow to the La Cosa Nostra family. Amanda Humphreys, 24, of Seaside Heights and Jason Vella, 37 of Berkeley Township who were also arrested. Delmore attended the infamous 1957 Apalachin Convention to represent the small New Jersey crime family, with underbosses of Elizabeth and Newark Frank Majuri and Louis "Fat Lou" LaRasso. The Familys real strength lie in their control and domination of several key union locals of the Laborers Union of America and the International Longshoremens Union (ILA), with several key Family soldiers holding official union posts such as business agent or secretary-treasurer. You just gotta put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life or somebody's gotta get a f----- jar of acid and throw it in his f----- face… Charles Beeps Stango said, according to a March 2015 federal court document alleging crimes by him and other accused members of the DeCavalcante crime family, the New Jersey mob outfit known as an inspiration for "The Sopranos" series on HBO. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. [29], In 2016, Anthony Stango Jr. was sentenced to 6 years in prison after pleading guilty to using a telephone in interstate commerce to conduct a prostitution operation, conspiring to distribute five grams or more of cocaine, distributing more than $70,000 worth of cocaine, and possessing a shotgun as a convicted felon. Hearing Impaired: 973-645-6227 The nightmares and panic attacks suffered by Tony Soprano as played by James Gandolfini seemed authentic enough to anybody who had listened to the FBI recordings of a real-life New Jersey mob boss in the 1960s. On Thursday, March 12, 2015, authorities arrested ten members and associates of the DeCavalcante crime family, including Stango and his son, and Frank Nigro, the family's consigliere. One noteworthy Sopranos moment was the 1992 murder of acting bossJohn Johnny Boy DAmato who was suspected of homosexual activity (a mob no-no). For the next several years, every single word spoken by Sam and his Mafia associates was recorded for posterity by the agents. New Jersey Mafia Road rage incident sends DeCavalcante mobster Jerry Balzano back to prison By DiMaiolo Santolo March 15, 2017 54 Comments Jerry Balzano a reputed soldier in the New Jersey mafia is back in prison after confronting a driver in a road rage incident according to a NY Daily News report. The USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey learned the state remains a hunting ground for mobsters tied to Philadelphia and New York City. Riggi, nicknamed Johnny the Eagle brought lucrative union and construction connections to the familys illicit portfolio. Read the room, Get the latest from Brad Hunter straight to your inbox. All five of the New York City crime families, plus the New Jersey DeCavalcantes and the Philadelphia mob have people placed in the port, according to Walter Arsenault, executive director of the. Button Guys of The New York Mafia. 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The people in New Jersey who are really worth admiring are people such as the actual family that gave us the actor who summoned their example of hard, honest work as he so brilliantly played the fictional gangster Tony Soprano. 1970s-1990s Organized Crime Jersey Style, After DeCavalcantes incarceration and apparent retirement, he appointed a trusted. See more ideas about crime family, crime, mobster. Carpenito also said that for the gun conviction, U.S. Judge Anne E. Thompson will add a mandatory five years to his sentence at a hearing scheduled for July 7 in Trenton. [72][73] The family was the subject of the CNBC program Mob Money, which aired on June 23, 2010,[74] and The Real Sopranos TV documentary directed by Thomas Viner for the UK production company Class Films.[75]. He wore a listening device and recorded conversations that mobsters would have about criminal business.