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Detective Rosario allegedly accepted bribes by the Bonanno family members in exchange for offering to arrange police raids of competing gambling locations. [149] He was charged with obstructing a grand jury investigation and lying to the FBI, and subsequently suspended without pay from the Police Department, and shortly thereafter, fired. [149 ...
Michael "The Nose" Mancuso (born July 18, 1955) is an American mobster. He is a member of the American Mafia and the boss of the Bonanno crime family, one of Five Families in New York City. [2] In June 2013, while imprisoned, Mancuso was picked as the new official boss of the Bonanno family. [2] On March 12, 2019, Mancuso was released from ...
April 1 – Michael Consolo former veteran Bonanno Crime Family member, having defected to the DiGregorio Faction was killed by his own men for speaking cordially to Bill Bonanno in front of the Manhattan courthouse; it was taken that he was re-defecting back to the Bonanno Crime Family. September 18 – Bonanno Crime Family underboss Frank ...
In March 2002, Graziano was indicted on separate racketeering charges in New York, Arizona and Florida. In September 2012, Graziano was indicted on federal racketeering and extortion charges, bookmaking, and murder based on recorded conversations with his son-in-law Hector Pagan (Junior) Jr. and conspiracy to commit murder. [2]
After Maranzano's death, Bonanno became boss–or as he called himself, "Father"–of the bulk of Maranzano's family. At the age of 26, Bonanno became one of the youngest-ever bosses of a crime family. Bonanno's role in the events leading up to Maranzano's death has been disputed. Years later, Bonanno wrote in his autobiography that he did not ...
Frank Coppa Sr. (September 11, 1941 – October 17, 2023) was an American gangster in the Bonanno crime family who was a close friend of Joseph Massino and Frank Lino and made large sums of money in stock fraud schemes.
In terms of numbers the Bonanno crime family had always been one of the smaller of the Five Families, but it was also one of the most cohesive and well structured crime families because most of its administration was family members related by blood or marriage. Sciacca hoped to at least mend the broken ties among members and re-align the three ...
Mike Sabella became a soldier for the Bonanno family serving under boss Joseph Bonanno in 1957. He was involved in gambling and loansharking during the 1950s. Before the Bonanno wars of the 1960s, Sabella had been a soldier first in the crew of fellow Castellammarese Carmine Galante and later under Joe Notaro , both top Joe Bonanno loyalists.