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    Paul Vario (July 10, 1914 – May 3, 1988) was an American mobster and made man in the Lucchese crime family. Vario was a caporegime and had his own crew...
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  • Flatlands. The crew was controlled by Caporegime Paul Vario during the early 1960s into the early 1980s, when Vario, Jimmy Burke, and a number of other associates...
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    Lucchese crime family caporegime Paulie Cicero (based on real life gangster Paul Vario) in Martin Scorsese's 1990 gangster film Goodfellas and as NYPD Sergeant...
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  • up vario in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vario may refer to: Paul Vario (1914–1988), high-ranking member of the Lucchese crime family João Vário (1937–2007)...
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    Henry Hill (category Vario Crew)
    resulting in 50 convictions, including those of caporegime (captain) Paul Vario and fellow associate James Burke on multiple charges. He subsequently...
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  • parents.[citation needed] In 1965, Karen Friedman met Henry Hill through Paul Vario, who insisted that Hill accompany his son on a double date at Frank "Frankie...
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  • 1955, by working as a go-fer for Paul Vario, the local boss of Hill's working-class Irish/Italian neighborhood. Vario quickly "promoted" Hill to selling...
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  • Robert's Lounge (category Vario Crew)
    Ozone Park, Queens, New York City. The saloon was used as a hangout by Paul Vario. The basement was a graveyard for mob victims. A human leg bone and a...
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  • worked as a loan shark and as a chauffeur for capo Paul Vario. While working for capo Paul Vario, Cutaia also controlled some illegal gambling operations...
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  • James Burke (gangster) (category Vario Crew)
    Italian-American Mafia, so he was limited to being an associate under capo Paul Vario. During the 1950s, Burke was involved with various illegal activities...
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  • Thomas DeSimone (category Vario Crew)
    was aged 15, DeSimone was introduced to Paul Vario, a caporegime in the Lucchese crime family. Henry Hill, a Vario associate who was in his early 20s at...
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  • were altered for the film; Tommy "Two Gun" DeSimone became Tommy DeVito, Paul Vario became Paulie Cicero, and Jimmy "The Gent" Burke became Jimmy Conway,...
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    and writer Paul Varelans (1969–2021), American professional mixed martial artist Paul Vario (1914–1988), American mobster and made man Paul Verhoeven (disambiguation)...
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  • state's evidence and testified at the trials of both James Burke and Paul Vario. Charges were also being prepared against Burke for the murder of Bentvena...
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  • Goodfellas. In the movie, Lucchese family caporegime Paul Cicero (based on the real life counterpart Paul Vario) warns the main character Henry Hill against drug...
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  • at the age of 64. Paul Vario received four years for helping Henry Hill obtain a no-show job to get him paroled from prison. Vario was also later sentenced...
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    Alphonse D'Arco (category Vario Crew)
    1950s, D'Arco became an associate in the Vario Crew, a Lucchese crew led by longtime caporegime Paul Vario and based in the Canarsie neighborhood. In...
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  • Johnson was how The Vario Crew was avoiding FBI wiretaps and bugs. The crew was using a parked trailer in a junkyard owned by Paul Vario in Brooklyn. Johnson...
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  • Edwards' fingerprints and connected it to the robbery. Lucchese capo Paul Vario subsequently ordered DeSimone to kill Edwards. Once they found out where...
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  • cigarettes and tires. He became an associate of the Canarsie crew under Capo Paul Vario. On August 23, 1982, Daidone, Alphonse D'Arco and four other men were...
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  • Sanitation Industry Association. Next, with the help of Lucchese capo Paul Vario and his crew, Corallo would gain power at John F. Kennedy International...
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    Gambino crime family who ran The Ozone Park Boys crew during the 1990s. Paul Vario 16522-053 Held at USP Lewisburg from 1973 to 1975. Former Caporegime and...
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    January 11, 2014. MARK A. UHLIGPublished: May 5, 1988 (May 5, 1988). "Paul Vario, 73; Called a Leader Of Crime Group". The New York Times. Retrieved January...
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  • chief, Jimmy "the Gent" Burke. Burke was affiliated with Lucchese Capo Paul Vario. Burke selected six armed robbers from his Robert's Lounge Gang. On December...
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  • States from 2017 to 2021); and American Mafia leaders Anthony Scotto and Paul Vario. Critics called him a "medieval king holding court with his barons by...
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  • capo Michael Sabella, he and Dara met with Lucchese crime family capo Paul Vario and acting boss Ettore Coco in Miami in order to keep the peace between...
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    Russians." In 1988, Caporegime Paul Vario died in Federal Prison, and Amuso promoted Alphonse D'Arco to capo of The Vario Crew. In 1990, Amuso selected...
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    Gotti, who earlier, with DeCicco, had organized the murder of former boss Paul Castellano, without the permission of the Commission. Reportedly, Amuso and...
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  • brought into the scheme, after receiving approval from Lucchese family capo Paul Vario. Burke, through Hill, would front the money to pay the players, forwarding...
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  • Artichoke King" (1888–1938) Frank Tieri (1904–1981) Joe Valachi (1903–1971) Paul Vario (1914–1988) Frankie Yale (1893–1928) Angelo Bruno (1910–1980) Andrew Thomas...
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