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    Rizzo DeCavalcante (April 30, 1912 – February 7, 1997), known as "Sam the Plumber", was an Italian-American mobster who was boss of the DeCavalcante crime...
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    2017. "Decavalcante Indictment". Ipsn.org. Archived from the original on 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2012-03-12. "DOJ Press release on DeCavalcante Indictment"...
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  • Vincent Palermo (category DeCavalcante crime family)
    1944) is an Italian-American former mobster who was the de facto boss of the DeCavalcante crime family of North Jersey before becoming a government...
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  • families, the sumptuous wedding had 3,000 guests. DeCavalcante crime family boss Sam DeCavalcante later remarked on Bonanno's poor treatment of Rosalie:...
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  • Louis LaRasso (category DeCavalcante crime family)
    in 1964, he appointed his nephew Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante to new boss of his family. DeCavalcante doubled the family's income and membership...
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  • action was taken based on FBI phone tapings in which DeCavalcante crime family boss Sam DeCavalcante suggested that Joseph Bonanno poisoned Magliocco. However...
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  • underboss with capo Aniello Dellacroce. Working with mobster Sam DeCavalcante of the DeCavalcante crime family, Biondo had gained a share of revenues from...
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  • Frank Polizzi (category DeCavalcante crime family)
    the DeCavalcante crime family in the late 1950s, and later ranked him as a soldier for reputed Boss Nicholas "Nick" Delmore, in Sam DeCavalcante's crew...
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  • 26 – Victor Riesel, New York organized crime journalist April 30 – Sam DeCavalcante "The Plumber", New Jersey mobster October 6 – Leonard Patrick, Chicago...
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    Martha Graham. In 1946 he made his Broadway debut in a revival of Cyrano de Bergerac which starred and was directed by José Ferrer. It was the first of...
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  • the most part. After becoming boss of the DeCavalcante crime family in New Jersey in 1962, Sam DeCavalcante altered longstanding parts in the induction...
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  • Gaetano Vastola (gangster) (category DeCavalcante crime family)
    (born May 20, 1928) is a New Jersey mobster who became a captain in the DeCavalcante crime family in New Jersey. In 1946, Vastola was arrested for burglary...
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  • (1912–1980) Gerardo Catena, "Jerry" (1902–2000) Angelo DeCarlo, "Gyp" (1902–1973) Sam DeCavalcante, "The Plumber" (1912–1997) Lawrence Dentico, "Larry Fab"...
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  • Frank Sindone – capo Salvatore Testa – capo Harry Riccobene – capo Sam DeCavalcante – boss (1964–1976) Giovanni Riggi – boss (1970s–2015) John D'Amato...
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  • Joseph Miranda (category DeCavalcante crime family)
    member of the New Jersey–based DeCavalcante crime family. A longtime "soldier" to Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and later boss Giovanni Riggi,...
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  • Joseph Masella (category People murdered by the DeCavalcante crime family)
    1998, in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn) was a mob associate in New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family and a friend of known mobster Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo...
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  • Giuseppe Schifilliti (category DeCavalcante crime family)
    Schifilliti was inducted into the DeCavalcante crime family, under the leadership of Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante and early underboss, Giovanni "John...
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  • (1932–2019) Michael DeBatt, "Mickey" (1949–1987) Angelo DeCarlo, "Gyp" (1902–1973) Sam DeCavalcante, "Sam the Plumber" (1913–1997) Frank DeCicco, "Frankie...
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  • Girolamo Palermo (category DeCavalcante crime family)
    the DeCavalcante family. With the retirement of boss Simone "Sam the Plumber" DeCavalcante, Riggi became the family boss and designated Palermo as his...
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    whereabout in The Times the following day. Born: Sam DeCavalcante, American gangster, leader of the DeCavalcante crime family; in Brooklyn, New York City, United...
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    DeCavalcantes came in the early sixties, when the F.B.I. planted a bug in the Kenilworth offices of the don, Simone Rizzo DeCavalcante, known as Sam the...
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  • Deaths in February 1997 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of American Samoa. John Baker, 59, British musician and composer. Sam DeCavalcante, 84, American mobster, heart attack. Allan Edwall, 72, Swedish actor...
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  • Spilotro January 2 – Sam Carlisi "Wings", Chicago Outfit boss May 31 – Johnny Papalia is murdered by Kenneth Murdock June 7 – Sam DeCavalcante "The Plumber"...
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  • John Riggi succeeds Sam DeCavalcante as boss of the New Jersey crime family. February 12 – Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, an enforcer for the Patriarca crime...
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    too much publicity. Joseph "Joe Pitts" Conigliaro, an associate of the DeCavalcante crime family who was paralyzed and reliant on a wheelchair as a result...
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  • Salad Oil Swindle, and investigation of mobster Simone Rizzo "Sam" DeCavalcante (alias "Sam The Plumber"); on the latter case, Satz worked with the F.B...
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  • American Mafia code of conduct. In 1992, John D'Amato, acting boss of the DeCavalcante family, was killed when he was suspected of engaging in homosexual activity...
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  • flees the country and his organization is taken over by Stefano Bedami (DeCavalcante), now answering to the Five Families of New York. May 11 – Gambler Ferdinand...
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  • central New Jersey waterfront labor racketeering and ally of Simone DeCavalcante January 23 – Salvatore Lima "Salvo", Italian politician and mafia associate...
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  • Gambino crime family leader December 29 – Charles Majuri "Big Ears", DeCavalcante crime family member James Feraco "Dizzy", New York (Brooklyn) racketeer...
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