The capoplannedto paytwo motorcycle gang members $25,000 each to kill the Elizabeth man, but the hit never came. Joined: Mar 2020 Posts: 151: Originally Posted by NYMafia "The Frank (Big Frankie) Cocchiaro Regime" You know, honesty and honorability, those things., Majuri replied, Yeah. Theyre now a low-grade fever, Seglem said. He retired to Florida upon his release. FAX: 609-989-2275. 20122015 "Horse" mentioned by Charles Stango in December 2012 wiretaps. Is this supposed to be us?. Facebook Dressed in cargo shorts and a T-shirt and. By far the smallest Mafia Family in the New York/New Jersey area, the tight-knit DeCavalcante mob, nonetheless, always maintained an inducted membership of anywhere from 35 to 50 made members and upwards of 100 close associates. Complaint The one thing that they are is adaptable.. John Riggi helmed the DeCavalcante ship with a steely resolve for nearly 35 years even while Gambino boss John Gotti sought to sink it. He is believed by law enforcement to remain the boss, even though Riggi was released in November 2012, after 22 years in prison. In 1935, Vincenzo Troia conspired to take over the Newark family and was murdered. 3. The bug also recorded the then-52-year-old DeCavalcante being robustly intimate with the secretary. Riggi ran a well-structured borgata until he, too, fell afoul of law enforcement. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. Under his guidance, the DeCavalcante Family added dozens of made men to their ranks, and even gained a seat on the infamous Commission. Do not over Speak the Don or Higher Ranks than you. 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. The Sopranos are fictional, the DeCavalcante crime family is not. [32], A "street boss" will sometimes run several crews at once. The opening sequence of the first episode in 1999 made clear that this was New Jersey. Name it. A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, Newark, West New York, and various other North Jersey cities and the surrounding areas in North Jersey. What characters, Rotondo said. The New York Mafia . Simone Rizzo DeCavalcante - The Count Of New Jersey The Network also found documents identifying recent New Jersey ties tothe Bonnano and Gambino families. Unfortunately for Sam the Plumber, his rise to power coincided with another development: more aggressive and sophisticated law enforcement efforts to take down organized crime. The Genovese family controls the New Jersey side, according to Arsenault. The DiMeo family had then been taken over by Jackie Aprile, who dies of cancer just like Jake Amari. Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. [27][28] Stango reportedly wanted Nigro and associate Paul Colella to get permission from the New Jersey hierarchy to kill Luigi Oliveri, but the murder was not committed because Stango did not get an answer. MEET THE REAL JERSEY MOB: DeCavalcantes ruled the Garden State, CBC's Gillian Findlay quits after 30-plus years over remote work dispute, CBC says it is pausing its use of Twitter, Kim Kardashian mocked over latest Photoshop fail: 'Why she got alien fingers? He died in 1964, and his nephew Simone DeCavalcante was installed as new boss of the officially recognized "DeCavalcante crime family" of North Jersey. Being that he was recorded saying this, it did little to improve his stature on the other side of the Hudson. Great acting.. DeGidio was sentenced to 1 years in prison, and Pali was sentenced to over 6 years. 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He has five sisters, including Claire and Nancy, and one brother. Like his predecessor before him, the law eventually caught up with Johnny the Eagle as well. Stango, Charles et al. ) or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. The North Jersey mob traces its origins to the 1900s, but it wasnt recognized by The Commission (organized crimes governing body) as its own entity until the reign of Simone Sam the Plumber DeCavalcate, which began in 1964. Virgil Alessi was a very active DeCavalcante mobster who started his mob career as a phone-man for Jiggs Forlano. Northern New Jersey, but mainly in Newark and Elizabeth, which one cop likened to a Sopranos film set. The family also has its fingers in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Miami. [15], Using information provided by Guarino, US law enforcement launched a large scale arrest on December 2, 1999 of over 30 members and associates of the DeCavalcante crime family. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Arsenault described mob activity at the port today similar to the problems that prompted the formation of the commission: theft of cargo and containers, extortion of port workers and importationand sale of drugs. He estimated up to 300 associates are active in the state, down from 800 at their peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Though its ranks have been thinned by countless convictions and its own internal bloodletting, traditional organized crime remains a real problem, U.S. Attorney Fishman said. The operators appealed the demand to DeCavalcante boss Sam DeCavalcante, who allegedly reduced the demand to $12,000 plus a negotiating fee of $3,800. A locked padlock Gregory "Georgie" Rago (born 1959) is a New Jersey mobster and "soldier" in the DeCavalcante crime family. Or at the very least, the mutt had to be maimed. He died of a heart attack in 1997 at age 84. Seglem explained they still make money with traditional ventures likelabor racketeering taking control of workers at a construction site and demanding a payout from the builders. It is part of the nationwide criminal network known as the American Mafia. [Colombo] sits like a baby next to Carl [Gambino] all the time, DeCavalcante said. If Guarraci is indeed an acting boss, it seems he is the only one still out there being a gangster a la the fictional Tony Soprano, at however small a scale. Under his guidance, the DeCavalcante Family added dozens of made men to their ranks, and even gained a seat on the infamous Commission. Official websites use .gov [21][22] Associates Rosario Pali and Nicholas DeGidio were convicted on April 4, 2017, after pleading guilty to distributing more than 500 grams of cocaine. [72][73] The family was the subject of the CNBC program Mob Money, which aired on June 23, 2010,[74] and The Real Sopranos TV documentary directed by Thomas Viner for the UK production company Class Films.[75]. Through deep-dive biographies and snapshots of mobsters to in-depth stories about mafia regimes and crews, youll uncover an underworld you might never have known existed maybe even in your own hometown! We got more DeCav's coming too. They were charged with various plots to commit murder, distribute drugs, and run a prostitution business. At the height of his power, DeCavalcantes crime family was reported to oversee illicit activities worth over $20 million a year. All Rights Reserved. [19] Longtime acting boss Francesco Guarraci died of cancer in 2016. Simone DeCavalcante was the boss of the crime family that bore his name and a FBI bug recorded his every word to his secretary when he arrived at his office one morning in 1964. Around the end of the first season, an actual FBI electronic device carried by an informant recorded members of the DeCavalcante family chatting about the show as they drove to a sit-down. The Mafia once infiltrated New Jerseys political system and some elements of law enforcement, according to Lee Seglem, executive director of the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, a 51-year-old arm of state government dedicated to rooting out organized crime and corruption. The scene where the FBI breaks into Tonys basement to plant a bug was so realistic that an agent who happened to encounter two of the shows head writers at The Buffalo Club in Santa Monica asked where they got their information. Important members over the years have included underboss Francesco (Big Frank) Majuri, capo di decina Luciano (Big Louie) Larasso, Frank (Frankie Coch) Cocchiaro, Vincent (Jimmy) Rotondo, and soldiers Robert (Bobby Basile) Occhipinti and the notorious Gaetano (Corky) Vastola. 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