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    Joseph Charles Massino (January 10, 1943 – September 14, 2023) was an American mobster. He was a member of the Mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family...
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  • the 1990s for the family to recover, a process overseen by new boss Joseph Massino. Despite these issues, by the dawn of the new millennium, the Bonanno...
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    government and testify against his brother-in-law, boss Joseph Massino, and in July 2004, Massino was convicted in a RICO case. Vitale had admitted to 11...
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  • Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero and Joseph "Big Joey" Massino in the mid 1970s. Santora became involved with the Bonanno family...
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    "Sonny Black". He was a close friend of future Bonanno crime family boss Joseph Massino; incarcerated boss Philip Rastelli knew Napolitano before he went to...
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    became acting boss of the Bonanno crime family after the arrest of Joseph Massino. Basciano was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility...
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    Brooklyn. Rizzuto came from Montreal with two Sicilian hitmen to join Joseph Massino, Salvatore Vitale, and Sciascia. Sciascia escorted the three rebellious...
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  • with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, Carmine Galante, Joseph Bonanno and Joseph Massino. On December 3, 1953, Rastelli and an associate allegedly...
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  • inquiry into the murder of Joe Gallo, but was released on $15,000 bail. Joseph Massino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another...
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  • American gangster in the Bonanno crime family who was a close friend of Joseph Massino and Frank Lino and made large sums of money in stock fraud schemes....
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    consolidate its power once again. The boss who led that resurgence, Joseph Massino, was convicted in 2004 of ordering Napolitano to be killed for allowing...
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  • 26 November 2011. DeStefano, Anthony M. (2006). The last godfather : Joseph Massino and the fall of the Bonanno crime family. New York: Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-2735-8...
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  • Massino may refer to: Massino Visconti, municipality in the Province of Novara, in the Italian region of Piedmont Joseph Massino, an American former mobster...
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  • line for initially allowing the infiltration. Mirra went into hiding. Joseph Massino ordered Mirra's two cousins D'Amico and Richard Cantarella, and their...
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    Canadian mobster to help Massino. Massino told the men to avoid shooting so that bullets wouldn't spray around the room. Massino also brought drop cloths...
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    Gotti befriended fellow mob hijacker and future Bonanno family boss Joseph Massino, and he was given the nicknames "Black John" and "Crazy Horse". It was...
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  • on the Commission and considered dissolving the family. According to Joseph Massino, former boss of the Bonanno family, the last known Commission meeting...
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  • Salvatore had a sitdown with Bonanno crime family members Steven Cannone, Joseph Massino, Salvatore Vitale over King Caterers. It was decided that Avellino would...
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    Mirra went into hiding. Joseph Massino ordered Mirra's uncle Alfred Embarrato and Mirra's two cousins, Richard Cantarella and Joseph D'Amico, to find and...
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    suspected serial killer Joseph Massino (1943–2023), former boss of Bonanno crime family Joseph Mengele (1911–1979), Nazi scientist Joseph Robert Miller (born...
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  • boss in November 2004, after Basciano was imprisoned. In May 2005, Joseph Massino implicated Mancuso in the 1999 murder of Gerlando Sciascia. In early...
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    States "MDC Brooklyn". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Correal, Annie; Goldstein, Joseph (February 9, 2019). "'It's Cold as Hell': Inside a Brooklyn Jail's Weeklong...
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    Bonanno family. One faction included capos Dominick Napolitano and Joseph Massino, who were loyal to Rastelli. The second faction, which included Indelicato's...
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  • weeks before in a Brooklyn night club store room by rival Bonanno capo Joseph Massino and his associates. In 2004, the bodies of Giaccone and Trinchera were...
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  • After the Galante murder, a fight for control of the family started. Joseph Massino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another...
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    the Godfathers: Joseph Massino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family by Anthony DeStefano. [1] King of the Godfathers: Joseph Massino and the Fall of...
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    Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino Berkley (2006) ISBN 0-425-20939-3 DeStefano, Anthony. The Last Godfather: Joey Massino & the Fall of the Bonanno Crime...
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    intersection of North 5th and Roebling streets in Brooklyn. One gunman, Antonio Massino, was arrested near the scene but another, Detroit mobster Giuseppe Buccellato...
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    though he was incarcerated at the time and Joseph Massino became underboss, although some believed Massino was the real power in the family. After Galante's...
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    retired Joseph Bonanno. In 1979, they received a boost when the official boss, Rastelli, sought Commission approval to kill Galante. Joseph Massino, a Bonanno...
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