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Vincent Louis Gigante (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ ɡ æ n t i / jig-AN-tee, Italian: [dʒiˈɡante]; March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005.
BELLOMO became the Acting Boss of the Genovese Organized Crime Family in or about 1992, following the incarceration of Genovese Family Boss Vincent Gigante. In or about 1996, BELLOMO was himself incarcerated after being arrested on Federal criminal charges filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
1981–2005 – Vincent "Chin" Gigante – imprisoned in 1997, died in prison on December 19, 2005 [79] Acting 1989–1996 – Liborio "Barney" Bellomo – promoted to street boss Acting 1997–1998 – Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo – suffered heart attack and resigned
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante (.), boss of the Genovese crime family, walks with his brother, Father Louis Gigante, on March 15, 1988, near his apartment in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Lucy Fry as Stella Gigante, Vincent's rebellious daughter; Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Teddy Greene (season 1), an aspiring musician and Stella's boyfriend; Rafi Gavron as Ernie Nunzi (seasons 1–2), a violent associate of Vincent's and part of the Genovese crime family; Antoinette Crowe-Legacy as Elise Johnson, Bumpy's heroin-addicted daughter ...
Vincent Gotti – soldier in the Gambino family. Vincent is the youngest of the Gotti brothers and was inducted as a made man in 2002, the year his brother John died. In 2008, Vincent pled guilty to 8 years in prison for attempted murder and was released on February 22, 2015. Caesar Gurino – younger brother of former Gambino capo Anthony Gurino.
After Salerno's recovery from his stroke and the March 31, 1981, death of Genovese front boss Frank Tieri, Salerno succeeded him.Although law enforcement at the time thought that Salerno was the boss of the Genovese family, it was an open secret in New York Mafia circles that Salerno was merely a front man for the real boss, Vincent "the Chin" Gigante.
In perhaps the most famous case, mobster Vincent “The Chin” Gigante delayed his racketeering trial for years by acting strange — a move that garnered him a second nickname, “Oddfather ...