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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 ]
Irwin "The Fat Man" Schiff (January 5, 1937 – August 8, 1987) was a New York City businessman and mob associate. On paper, he was the head of Construction Coordinators Corp. of Queens that had neither a phone number nor office. [1] He has been said to be a loanshark linked to the Mafia and seen dining with Lucchese crime family boss Anthony ...
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.
Daniel Pagano (pronounced "Pah-GAH-noh") (born 1953) is a New York mobster and street boss in the Genovese crime family who was involved in a major gasoline bootlegging racket of the 1980s. Born in New York, Pagano is the son of Joe Pagano , a senior Genovese mobster.
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.
Alite was born on September 30, 1962, in the Queens borough of New York City and grew up in Woodhaven, Queens. [2] His grandparents were Albanian immigrants from Gjirokastër. [3] [4] Alite grew up in the same neighborhood as John Gotti's son, John A. Gotti, with whom he was boyhood friends. [2] He was Gotti's best man at his wedding in 1990. [5]
Daniel Sikkema, 54, was charged with one count of murder-for-hire resulting in death in connection with Jan. 14, 2024, death of his husband, Brent Sikkema, 75, who was found dead with 18 stab ...