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Russo was shot to death in Long Branch, New Jersey, on April 26, 1979, while on an Easter furlough from prison. [2] His killers were identified in FBI reports as Thomas "Pee Wee" DePhillips, a capo in the Genovese family, Anthony DeVingo, a soldier and enforcer in the Genovese family who controlled gambling and loansharking in parts of Essex County, and Joseph "Joe Z" Zarro, an alleged ...
Ettore Zappi (July 4, 1904 – July 1986), aka Anthony Russo, was an Italian-American mobster in the Gambino crime family who rose to the position of capo. Born in Naples , Campania , on July 4, 1904, Zappi was a cousin of Carlo Gambino .
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures that operate in the United States, ... Anthony Russo, "Chucky", "Little Pussy" (1916–1979) S
His cousin is William "Billy" Russo and his uncle was Andrew "Andy Mush" Russo. In the 1990s, during the third family war Anthony Russo worked closely with his now deceased cousin Joseph "JoJo" Russo in Brooklyn and Long Island. [217] Russo and his cousin "JoJo" Russo, were Persico loyalists who attempted to kill Victor Orena in June 1991. [218]
April 26 – Anthony "Little Pussy" Russo, a high-ranking member of the Genovese crime family who had risen from a chauffeur and bodyguard for Vito Genovese to become a Genovese capo in Monmouth County, New Jersey, is found shot to death in Long Branch, New Jersey. Russo's death may have been connected to an FBI surveillance operation in which ...
Investigators in the Inland Empire arrested five alleged gang members in the murder of a 41-year-old mother and wife of a Mexican mafia member.
Former Riverside County Sheriff's deputy Anthony Russo, 52, was found dead inside his Arrowbear Lake home Friday, the San Bernardino County Coroner's office confirmed. He was arrested earlier this ...
The New Jersey faction of the Genovese crime family is a group of Italian-American mobsters who control organized crime activities within the state of New Jersey.The New Jersey faction is divided into multiple crews each led by a different caporegime who oversees illegal criminal activities in labor racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking and extortion.