A caporegime or capodecina, usually shortened to capo or informally referred to as "captain", "skipper" or "lieutenant", is a leadership position in the...
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underboss normally asks a caporegime to carry out the order. The caporegime runs the day-to-day operations of his crew. The caporegime's soldiers give part of...
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2000s, when the Lucchese family administration decided that Vario Crew Caporegime Domenico "Danny" Cutaia would also take control of the 19th Hole Crew...
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Dominick Napolitano (section Caporegime)
– August 17, 1981), also known as Sonny Black, was an American Mafia caporegime in the Bonanno crime family. He is known for unwittingly allowing FBI...
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Family were still loyal to the Anastasia/Scalice regime. The powerful caporegimes Aniello "The Lamb" Dellacroce and Armand "Tommy" Rava were about to go...
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mobster and Caporegime with the Gambino crime family who headed one of their factions in South Florida. In March 1999, after the death of caporegime Anthony...
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also known as "Big Al", was an Italian-born American mobster who was a caporegime with the Genovese crime family based in New York City, who ran the Springfield...
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only ones who can rise through the ranks of the Mafia, from soldier to caporegime, consigliere, underboss, and boss. Other common names for members include...
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mobster and former caporegime in the Colombo crime family and government informant. He is the son of hitman and fellow caporegime in the family Gregory...
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a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates based in Greenwich...
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(January 1, 1951 – April 16, 1984) was a Sicilian mobster who served as a caporegime in the Bonanno crime family, operating out of Knickerbocker Avenue in...
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Sorvino was particularly known for his roles as Lucchese crime family caporegime Paulie Cicero (based on real life gangster Paul Vario) in Martin Scorsese's...
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Alphonse D'Arco (section Caporegime)
became an associate in the Vario Crew, a Lucchese crew led by longtime caporegime Paul Vario and based in the Canarsie neighborhood. In 1959, D'Arco met...
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"Fritzy" Giovanelli (1932 – January 19, 2018) was a New York mobster and a caporegime in the Genovese crime family. Giovanelli began as a small time criminal...
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Bonanno crime family (section Caporegimes)
Underboss Carmine Galante Consigliere Frank Garafolo Caporegimes Joseph Notaro, other caporegimes unidentified Soldiers Michael Angelina, James Colletti...
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American mobster and made man in the Lucchese crime family. Vario was a caporegime and had his own crew of mobsters in Brooklyn, New York. Following the...
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1972), also known as "Crazy Joe", was an Italian-American mobster and Caporegime of the Colombo crime family of New York City, New York. In his youth,...
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Lucchese crime family (section Caporegimes)
Alfred "Freddy Boy" Santorelli – acting caporegime of his father's Bronx crew. Joseph "Joey Relay" Lubrano – caporegime operating in Bronx. In May 2010, Lubrano...
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(2003). He is perhaps best known for playing the fictional mobster and caporegime Carlo Gervasi in the hit television series The Sopranos. He appeared in...
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1988), better known as Nino Gaggi, was an American mobster who was a caporegime in the Gambino crime family. Based in Canarsie, Gaggi was a criminal mentor...
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– May 5, 1981), also known as Sonny Red, was an American mobster and caporegime in the Bonanno crime family who was murdered with Dominick Trinchera and...
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Don Corleone's funeral, Barzini has his mole in the Corleone family, caporegime Salvatore Tessio, approach Vito's successor, Michael Corleone, with a...
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3, 2023) was an Italian-American New York City mobster and a longtime caporegime of the Gambino crime family who successfully controlled lucrative trucking...
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(né Grillo; born May 27, 1951) is an American former mobster who was a caporegime in the Colombo crime family, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese...
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Colombo crime family (section Caporegimes)
three internal wars. The first war took place during the late 1950s, when caporegime Joe Gallo revolted against Profaci, but that conflict lost momentum in...
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Godfather is noteworthy for introducing Italian words like consigliere, caporegime, Cosa Nostra, and omertà to an English-speaking audience. It inspired...
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DeCavalcante crime family (section Caporegimes)
but that sentence was turned over in 2008. Charles "Beeps" Stango – caporegime operating in Elizabeth, New Jersey. On March 12, 2015, Stango was indicted...
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known as "Joe the Barber", was an Italian-American mobster who became caporegime of the Southern New York Tier territory of the Buffalo crime family, and...
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revitalize his fading career, Vito sends Hagen, accompanied by some of his caporegimes, to Hollywood to persuade Jack Woltz (John Marley), a powerful movie...
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was a Sicilian-American boxer, mobster, and eventually a made man and caporegime in Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. McGurn was born in July 1902 in Licata...
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