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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 ...
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]
The Lucchese crime family operates mainly in The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. The family also maintains influence in Queens, Long Island, Staten Island, Westchester County, and Florida. Cutaia Crew operates in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction operates throughout New Jersey.
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 ...
Taccetta, 72, of Florham Park, a reputed soldier in the Lucchese crime family, is seeking a new trial based on claims that the state withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense during the trial.
Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
That's exactly what happened in mid-1980s New York, when two NYPD detectives, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, provided Lucchese and Gambino crime "bosses" with insider information on ...