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The New Jersey faction of the Lucchese crime family, also known as the Jersey Crew, [2] is a powerful crew of Italian-American mobsters which operates throughout the Northern New Jersey area. During the 1970s into the late 1980s, the crew was led by Anthony Accetturo and his protégé Michael Taccetta. [2]
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.
Lucchese crime family - Chart 1991. Joseph "Joey" Giampa a former capo operating in the Bronx. [152] Giampa ran an auto shop on Boston Post Road in the Bronx. [152] Along with his brother Santo "Jay" Giampa, he ran a loan sharking racket in Hunts Point Markets in the Bronx. [152] In 1982, Giampa was inducted into the Lucchese family. [153]
Anthony "Tumac" Accetturo (born February 14, 1938) is an American former mobster who was caporegime of the New Jersey faction of the Lucchese crime family, popularly called "The Jersey Crew." Accetturo was demoted as leader of the Jersey Crew after falling affoul of Lucchese family leaders Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso.
A New Jersey resident and admitted “five-star general” in the Nine Trey Gangsters set of the Bloods — with ties to the New York-based Lucchese crime family — was indicted with a North ...
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 ...
Thomas Manzo, the ex-husband of The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Dina Manzo, has been sentenced to seven years behind bars.. In a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the ...
Michael Salvatore Taccetta (born September 16, 1947), also known as "Mad Dog," is an American mobster and high-ranking member of the Lucchese crime family, who controlled the family's New Jersey faction in the 1980s. [1]