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Carmine Avellino (born July 15, 1944) is a caporegime operating a crew in Long Island. He is the younger brother to mobster Salvatore Avellino.On April 20, 1983, the FBI recorded a conversation between Carmine and his brother Salvatore Avellino Jr. as they discussed a dispute over a craps game that Carmine had was operating because mobster Aniello Migliore complained to Underboss Salvatore ...
The early history of the Lucchese crime family can be traced back to the Morello crime family which was based in East Harlem and the Bronx. Durning the 1910s, the bosses of Morello family lost power and control which allowed Gaetano "Tommy" Reina, along with Salvatore D'Aquila and Joe Masseria, to split off and form their own crime families.
Schiro became the new head of the local mafia centered in Williamsburg in March 1912, replacing Sebastiano DiGaetano. [7]Secret Service informant Salvatore Clemente reported in November 1913 that Schiro was aligned with the Morello crime family in a war against fellow New York mafia boss, and capo dei capi, Salvatore D'Aquila. [8]
In 1920, both Morello and Lupo were released from prison and Brooklyn Mafia boss Salvatore D'Aquila ordered their murders. This is when Giuseppe "Joe" Masseria and Rocco Valenti, a former Brooklyn Camorra, began to fight for control of the Morello family. [15] On December 29, 1920, Masseria's men murdered Valenti's ally, Salvatore Mauro.
A few months later, Salvatore Clemente, a Secret Service informer who was a counterfeiter in the Morello gang was summoned to a meeting with DiGaetano. DiGaetano told Clemente to refrain from his counterfeiting activities until another mafioso, named Carmelo Codaro, who was suspected of disloyalty was "disposed of."
Salvatore Catalanotte, "Sam Sings in the Night" (born Salvatore Catalanotto, 1883–1930) Dominick Cataldo , "Little Dom" (1923–1997) Gerardo Catena , "Jerry" (1902–2000)
Salvatore Vespertino, 38, a "militant anarchist," was captured by police in Madrid early Saturday, police said in a statement, nearly two years after they say he "disappeared without a trace."
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 ]