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Anthony "Tough Tony" Federici (July 28, 1940 – November 9, 2022) was a Queens, New York City, resident who was long accused by law enforcement of being a member of the Genovese crime family. Federici was incorrectly identified in 1988 by the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations as a Lucchese crime family soldier.
The five Mafia families in New York City are still active, albeit less powerful. The peak of the Mafia in the United States was during the 1940s and 50s, until the year 1970 when the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) was enacted, which aimed to stop the Mafia and organized crime as a whole. [ 23 ]
In September 1966, Carollo and other Mafia members attended a meeting at La Stella restaurant in Queens, New York. When the police raided the building, among those arrested were Carollo, Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante Jr. and Carlo Gambino. It has been alleged that this meeting was to resolve matters relating to the New Orleans crime family.
Vincent Asaro was born in Ozone Park, Queens on July 10, 1935, his father was Girolamo Asaro (1913-1977, Who his son is named after) and his mother was Josephine Valenti. [3] His father was the brother-in-law to Michael Zaffarano. [3] In 1979, after the murder of Bonanno boss Carmine Galante, Asaro became a capo of a Queens crew in the Bonanno ...
In December 2000, Trucchio and his son, Alphonse, were arrested along with most of the crew for operating a $30 million-a-year sports gambling enterprise in Ozone Park. Trucchio was also charged with failing to file New York State tax returns for the years 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Two of New York’s most storied Mafia families formed a secret gambling alliance — then suffered a whack to their profit streams with a round of arrests Tuesday morning.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed a slate of initiatives in response, including hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for more cameras. Protests have broken out in Rochester and Brooklyn ...
Park Side Restaurant is an Italian-American restaurant in the Corona neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. Founded by Anthony "Tough Tony" Federici in 1980, it was originally opened by his parents in 1960 as the Corona Supper Club. [2] Park Side Restaurant specializes in southern Italian and Sicilian cuisine. [3]