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The Lucchese crime family (pronounced [lukˈkeːze;-eːse]) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
In the 1990s, Santorelli led The Tanglewood Boys, a recruitment gang for the Lucchese family. [201] His son Alfred "Freddy Boy" Santorelli was a member of the gang. [ 203 ] In 1994, Santorelli was observed by an FBI agent, dumping something into a garbage can, which turned out to be clothes covered in blood. [ 201 ]
In 1951, Gagliano died of natural causes. As underboss and de facto street boss for two decades, Lucchese was the obvious successor, and the family was quickly renamed the Lucchese crime family. Lucchese appointed mobsters Stafano LaSalle as underboss and Vincenzo Rao as consigliere.
Maranzano reorganized the Italian American gangs in New York City into the Maranzano, Profaci, Mangano, Luciano, and Gagliano families, which are now known as the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families, respectively. Each family had a demarcated territory and an organizationally structured hierarchy and reported to the same ...
Craparotta, 56, was beaten to death by men with golf clubs at his Route 9 car lot in Toms River on June 12, 1984, reportedly to scare his nephews into paying tributes to the Lucchese crime family ...
In the 1990s, the gang began to rise in the public eye as a "farm team" led by Anthony Santorelli for the Lucchese crime family. [3] Many members of the gang were sons of made men, who grew up north of New York City. [1] The gang was involved in murders, assaults, armed robbery, arsons, and bookmaking operations in Westchester, the Bronx and ...
The outlet also reported that federal prosecutors described John Perna, the Lucchese Crime Family soldier, as a “mobster,” claiming that Perna’s wedding reception was held in August 2015 at ...
An unsealed federal indictment alleges that the gambling enterprise operated for 15 years under the protection of the Lucchese crime family. 5 charged in illegal gambling operation allegedly run ...