[14] He led a successful truck hijacking crew, with the assistance of his brother-in-law Salvatore Vitale and carjacker Duane Leisenheimer, while fencing the stolen goods and running numbers using the lunch wagon as a front. To use this feature, use a newer browser. [149] They also hoped to find the body of John Favara, who accidentally killed Gotti's son, and the body of Tommy DeSimone. As further protection, Joe Massino dug into the playbook of Genovese family boss Vincent Gigante, instructing members to touch or point to their ears when referring to him. [65], During his meetings with Massino in prison, Vitale, on behalf of the Bonannos' capos, urged his brother-in-law to become boss in name as well as in fact. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Instead, they were to touch their ears when referring to him. [55], For his part in the hit, Massino had Vitale initiated into the Bonanno family. And he absolutely crushed anyone who went ag. Joseph Charles "Big Joey" Massino (born January 10, 1943), also known as "The Last Don", "The Horatio Alger of the Mob" and "The Ear", is an American mobster and former boss of the Bonanno crime family, who eventually turned government witness. The charges against Massino himself included ordering the 1981 murder of Napolitano. You dont forget how to make a living.. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. In May 1981, Massino heard that the three disgruntled captains were stocking up on weapons. By testifying for the government, he is seeking a sentence reduction . defendant in the Rastelli-Bonanno family trial.Credit: NY Daily News via Getty Images. [88] Gotti, however, was marginalized by his 1992 racketeering and murder conviction and consequent life imprisonment. [12][15] He also befriended another mob hijacker, future Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. [25][67], During Massino's imprisonment at Talladega Federal Prison for his 1986 conviction, Vitale functioned as his messenger, effectively becoming co-acting boss alongside Spero. [140], Immediately after his July 30 conviction, as court was adjourned, Massino requested a meeting with Judge Garaufis, where he made his first offer to cooperate. [115][116] Massino was denied bail,[117] and Vincent Basciano took over as acting boss in his absence. In 1995, consigliere Anthony Spero was sentenced to two years' imprisonment after being convicted of loansharking,[105] then to life imprisonment in 2002 for murder. You can always change this later in your Account settings. [63] Rastelli, also convicted and in poor health during the trial, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. He served two terms in prison, including a stretch in Sing Sing for stolen stock certificates in the early 1960s. Massino faced another superseding indictment for seven additional killings. In custody Massino again put out the word, to a receptive Bonanno family, that he wanted Vitale killed. Napolitano was greeted by captain Frank Coppa, then thrown down the stairs to the house's basement by Lino and shot to death. Weve updated the security on the site. Im still a mobster, but Im an outlaw, thats all. Joseph Massino Took Over in 1991 After the turbulent 1970s and 1980s, which saw many Mafia members end up dead or in prison, Massino took over and started running things very differently. The pear-shaped Massino will walk out of a secret federal prison in 60 days having served 10 years for eight gangland murders and into the witness protection program, where he will be. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. Unlike flashy Mafia contemporaries such as Gotti, who sauntered through the Little Italy streets with an entourage, DArco lived modestly and conservatively. He agreed to cooperate and testify against his brother-in-law. ). Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. [129] By this time, Time magazine had dubbed Massino as "the Last Don", in reference to his status as the only New York boss not serving a prison sentence at that point. There were no comares girlfriends on the side. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. [52] Massino was visited by many fellow mobsters, including Gotti,[53] and Vitale would secretly deliver cash to support him. Brasco was Joseph Pistone, an undercover FBI agent who had infiltrated the Bonannos in 1977. He was suspicious of Brasco and instructed his crew to stay away from him. "It's all. The three rebellious captains would be brought into a rear room of the club when they arrived for the meeting. On January 9, 2003, Joe Massino was arrested in a sweeping RICO indictment, including for the 1981 murder of Napolitano. [98], According to Capeci, the murder of Sciascia soured relations between the Bonanno and Rizzuto families. [32], Following the Galante hit, Massino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another Rastelli loyalist capo. Its like youre in the forest. In July 1981, Joseph Pistones FBI handlers withdrew him from his almost six-year undercover operation, creating another order of business for Joe Massino to deal with: Capo Dominick Sonny Black Napolitano. Crime is crime. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. He therefore decided to go after Massino with a rear-guard action. His residence was a government-subsidized apartment on Spring Street. The feds didnt even know much about him. He really built that bridge for others to cross.. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. In Massino's view, this would make it less likely that a capo would turn informer, since if that happened the defector's son would face almost certain death. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. [167] Massino had also been considered as a witness in the 2013 murder trial of Colombo acting boss Joel Cacace, but was dropped after he was unable to fully remember the meeting where he claimed Cacace indicated his involvement in the murder of NYPD officer Ralph Dols. [74] Unusually for bosses of his era, he actively encouraged his men to have their sons made as well. Please try again later. "[138] Vitale had admitted to 11 murders, but for his cooperation, was sentenced to time served in October 2010, and entered the witness protection program. Drag images here or select from your computer for Joseph F. Massino memorial. [49], On April 21, 1983, Rastelli was paroled,[21] and he and Massino ordered the murder of Bonanno soldier Cesare Bonventre. [3] He dropped out of Grover Cleveland High School in tenth grade. [28], On June 14, 1977, Massino was inducted into the Bonanno family along with Anthony Spero, Joseph Chilli Jr. and a group of other men in a ceremony conducted by Carmine Galante. Massino ordered Napolitanos murder, telling his brother in law, Salvatore Vitale, I have to give him the receipt for the Donnie Brasco situation, according to Independent.ie. His one detour into legitimacy came during an Army enlistment when he was shipped in 1951 to an airfield near the Arctic Circle in Alaska, where he did guard duty on a frozen tarmac watching over long-range bombers. Release from prison on June 25, 2021. Ever since then, the family has been . Now he is the president of the Arizona American Italian Club. Searching obituaries is a great place to start your family tree research. The U.S. Attorneys Office declined to comment. He was a member of the Mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family from 1991 until 2004, when he became the first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence . Try again. His weight gained him the nickname "Big Joey", and during a 1987 racketeering trial, when he asked FBI agent Joseph Pistone who was to play him in a film adaptation of his undercover work, Pistone joked that they could not find anyone fat enough. DArco, however, was not under indictment for anything. Until his death, he remained loyal to his wife, Dolores Pellegrino, who had swept him off his budding young gangster feet when theyd met at a Brooklyn nightclub on Flatbush Avenue in 1953. He held the Tri-County tournament basketball single game scoring record for multiple decades, with 39 points in one game.Joe enjoyed hunting, fishing, and spending time at his cabin in northern Wisconsin. When they both were arrested for conspiring to receive stolen merchandise from an interstate truck hijacking, Wean refused to cooperate out of fear, and Massino was subsequently acquitted. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. The huge Mafia Commission trial of 1986 had convicted all the ruling New York bosses. [161], Massino was conspicuously absent from the prosecution witnesses at the 2006 racketeering trial of Basciano, the prosecution deciding he was not yet needed;[162] he was also expected to testify against Vito Rizzuto regarding his role in the three capos murder, but the Montreal boss accepted a plea bargain in May 2007 before Rizzuto's case went to trial. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. [112] A third, Joseph D'Amico, subsequently turned state's evidence with the knowledge that Cantarella could implicate him for murder as well. FBIJoseph Pistone undercover as Donnie Brasco, circa 1980. [23][34] Lino escaped unscathed by running out the door. Neil Patmore is a former police officer, and private investigator. [65], In April 1987, Massino and Vitale went on trial for truck hijacking and conspiracy to commit the triple murder, defended by Samuel H. Dawson and Bruce Cutler respectively. Im still a mobster, he told prosecutors. Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, 920 Dore Dr., Hennepin, Illinois. This browser does not support getting your location. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. [103], The Bonanno squad's chief, Jack Stubing, was well aware of the measures Massino had taken to avoid scrutiny. And the worse defection of all was that of their once untouchable boss, Joe Massino. [121][123] He was followed in short order by Lino, knowing Vitale could implicate him in murder as well. [59], In 1985, Massino was indicted twice more, first as a co-conspirator with Rastelli in a labor racketeering case for controlling the Teamsters Local 814, then with a conspiracy charge for the Pastore murder that was added to the original three capos indictment. [46], Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero, who helped Pistone formally become a Bonanno associate, was also targeted, but was arrested en route to the meeting where he was expected to be murdered. Anthony "Tony Green" Urso - former capo and acting capo under Joseph Massino in the 1990s. Wikimedia CommonsAn FBI surveillance of Joe Massino in the 1980s. [74] Massino took a great number of precautions in regards to security and the possibility of anything incriminating being picked up on a wiretap. Joseph Charles Massino was born in Maspeth, Queens, on January 10, 1943. Joe Massinos standing in the family grew. Joseph "Mousie" Massimino the reputed underboss of the Philadelphia mafia has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison. He had spent most of his three decades in the Mafia as a close confidant to Massino, and his closeness to his brother-in-law allowed him to cover Massino's entire criminal history in his testimony. Mirra had gone into hiding upon Pistone's exposure but was ultimately betrayed and murdered by his protg and cousin, Joseph D'Amico. C. ColonelReb Banned . Mobster Joseph Massino. [60][61], The labor racketeering trial began in April 1986,[60] with Massino as one of 12 defendants including Rastelli and former underboss Nicholas Marangello. We've received your submission. That experience, along with a later federal conviction in the 1980s for heroin sales, served as a kind of graduate school for the aspiring gangster. 0 cemeteries found in Hennepin, Putnam County, Illinois, USA. [34] The hit further improved Massino's prestige, but was marred by both Lino's escape and the discovery of Indelicato's body on May 28. Joseph C. Massino, a former head of the Bonanno crime family, testifed in Brooklyn on Tuesday. [2] Raised in Maspeth, Queens,[2] Massino has admitted to being a juvenile delinquent by the age of 12 and claimed that at 14 he ran away from home to Florida. It had the opposite effect. Instead, most of the murders were an effort to eliminate potential rivals and seize their often lucrative crime operations. Inspired by Genovese boss Vincent Gigante, Massino forbade his men from saying his name out loud due to FBI surveillance. No one crew knew what the other was doing. [10], After he turned state's evidence, Massino claimed his first murder victim was a Bonanno crime family associate named Tommy Zummo, whom he shot dead some time in the 1960s. Just a few weeks earlier, Luchese soldiers had been dispatched to threaten the lives of the elderly parents of a mobster the bosses feared was turning on them. Massino testified twice for the government, helping to win a murder conviction against his acting boss Vincent Basciano in 2011, and was resentenced to time served in 2013, though he will be on supervised release for the rest of his life. Among those who tutored him was an old-school mobster named Vincenzo Jimmy Alto Altomari, who ran high-stakes crap games and whose headquarters was a cafe on Mott Street. In further testimony, according to The New York Times, Massino acknowledged he had forfeited $12 million to secure his government cooperation agreement. In 2004, Urso was imprisoned for extortion and loansharking. Wikimedia CommonsJoe Massinos rival Bonanno captain Dominick Trinchera, who he later had killed. Napolitano had endorsed Brasco and even considered him for Cosa Nostra membership an unforgivable breach of Mafia security. ", "A Mafia Family's Second Wind; Authorities Say Bonannos, All but Written Off, Are Back", "Boss rat Joseph Massino admits to court that Mafia Commission hasn't met in 25 years", "Mob Murder In Montreal Could Trigger Bloodshed In New York", "Canada's top mob boss gets 10 years in New York court", "Metropolitan Report Judge Nixes Gag Order In Louima Trial", "S.i. Born in north Brooklyn on July 28, 1932, Al DArco was raised a few blocks from the Navy Yard, then a hub of underworld hustles. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. He didnt provide details. On February 18, 1982, Anthony Mirra, the soldier who first "discovered" Pistone, was assassinated on Massino's orders. Joseph F. Massino, 83, of Hennepin passed away on Friday, November 13, 2020. Joseph Massino's Net Worth: $1-5 Million And he impressed agents with his photographic memory and powers of recall, often memorizing their license plates. But he was soon working for a local candy store operator whose sideline was gambling and peddling stolen goods. Thats what I am.. After killing anyone who was associated with Pistone and several rival claimants, Massino took exacting pains to ensure his success and longevity. [148], At his advice, that October the FBI revisited the Queens mob graveyard where Alphonse Indelicato's body was found, and unearthed the bodies of Trinchera and Giaccone as well. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. [114], On January 9, 2003, Massino was arrested and indicted, alongside Vitale, Frank Lino and capo Daniel Mongelli, in a comprehensive racketeering indictment. [9][130] The name stuck. Joseph F. Massino, 83, of Hennepin passed away on Friday, November 13, 2020. On April 3, 2018, police found the 59-year-old dead in his apartment . Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Joseph Massino to pay them a last tribute. McDonald, who was once a U.S. attorney who prosecuted Massino on a racketeering charge in 1986 and is now a private attorney defending him, said Massino was ill and had many health problems. He was a close friend of future Bonanno crime family boss Joseph Massino; incarcerated boss Philip Rastelli knew Napolitano before he went to prison. Joseph Charles Massino was born in Maspeth, Queens, on January 10, 1943. On one side were the captains loyal to Rastelli, including Joe Massino. Massino's formal education was complete by his sophomore year of high school, but his criminal one was just beginning. [124], With these defections, Massino was slapped with a superseding indictment charging him with seven additional murders: the three capos (this time for participation in the murder itself rather than conspiracy),[125] Mirra,[126] Bonventre, Infanti and Sciascia. [99], At the beginning of his reign as boss, Massino enjoyed the benefit of limited FBI attention. But as far as living day to day? Most of those subsequent defectors, including Gravano, were facing the likelihood of life in prison when they decided to cooperate. The hit was approved and executed on July 12, 1979; Rastelli subsequently took full control of the family and rewarded Massino's loyalty by promoting him to capo. [76] Remembering how Pistone's infiltration had damaged the family, he also decreed that all prospective made men had to have a working relationship with an incumbent member for at least eight years before becoming made, in hopes of ensuring new mafiosi were as reliable as possible. But he had a more immediate reason to want out: At the time, Little Al believed that the murderous chieftains at the top of the Luchese family hierarchy a duo of Vittorio Vic Amuso and Anthony Gaspipe Casso had marked him for death, a threat that extended to his wife and children as well. [41], Already skeptical of Napolitano's support of "Brasco",[41] Massino was deeply disturbed by the breach of security when he learned of the agent's true identity. Oops, something didn't work. Thanks for contacting us. Indeed, one of John Ashcroft's final acts as Attorney General was to order federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Massino. [16] Increasingly prosperous, Massino opened his own catering company, J&J Catering, which became another front for his activities. [27] He was scheduled to go on trial in 1977, but the charges were dropped after he successfully argued that he had not been properly mirandized, disqualifying statements Massino gave to police from being used in trial. [54], Through Gotti associate Angelo Ruggiero, Massino was able to meet with defense attorney John Pollok in 1984 to negotiate his surrender. [50][51] Pistone later speculated Massino also feared retaliation upon the revelation that his associate, Raymond Wean, had turned state's evidence. Shout Box: Site Links >Help Page >More Smilies >GBB on Facebook They agreed, and Galante was killed in the rear of a Bushwick, Brooklyn, restaurant in July 1979. He was a member of the Mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family from 1991 until 2004, when he became the first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence. Instead, he renamed it the Massino family, after himself. Richard Cantarella is the former captain of the Bonanno crime family in New York. The family has had a succession of at least six bosses since Joseph Massino was arrested in 2003 and decided to become the highest-ranking mob rat in history. [83][85], Before Massino became boss, John Gotti was one of his closest allies. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. [79] In the new structure of the family, Vitale lost the underboss's usual role as a go-between for the boss, as well as the share of the family's profits those duties entailed, and Massino made it clear to Vitale his unpopularity was a factor in these changes. [127], Massino's trial began on May 24, 2004, with judge Nicholas Garaufis presiding and Greg D. Andres and Robert Henoch heading the prosecution. Joseph Massino was born on January 10, 1943, in New York City. Patrick De Meulemeester will officiate. Massino steered them toward more labor union racketeering and away from high-profile hijackings that would raise the suspicion of the feds. On July 30, 2004, Joe Massino was found guilty on all counts. Prosecutors were pushing for a 20 year sentence and and didn't recieveRead More [109], Until 2002, the Bonannos had been the only family in the modern history of the New York Mafia (i. e., since the Castellammarese War) to have never had a made man turn informant or government witness. [62][63] On January 16, 1987, Massino was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, his first prison term. [9] By 2004, Massino was suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure as well. [151][152], By the end of January 2005, when Basciano was indicted for the Pizzolo murder, Massino was identified by news sources as the then-anonymous fellow mobster who secretly recorded his confession,[153][154] to the public disgust of Massino's family. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? He created a clandestine cell system for his crews, forbidding them from contacting one another and avoiding meeting their capos. Massino quoted Basciano as calling the dead man "a rat, a troublemaker, a bad kid." The dapper defendant, dressed in a well-tailored gray suit, sat chewing gum and could be seen mouthing the words . You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Jailed Mafia boss Joseph Massino secretly recorded his successor plotting the assassination of a federal prosecutor, becoming the first . Hands On History: Happy St. Patricks Day! Stubing believed that the threat of long prison sentences would be sufficient to get any conspirators to turn informer, and thus make it easier to trace how the money flowed to Massino. Massino affectionately called Rastelli Unc as his underworld mentor. [165] While Massino had not worked closely with Romanello, prosecutors decided to use him after another mobster-turned-witness was dropped;[166] the case ended in an acquittal. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod. JOSEPH MASSINO OBITUARY Joseph F. Massino Born: March 19, 1937 Died: November 13, 2020 Joseph F. Massino, 83, of Hennepin, passed away Friday, Nov. 13. In the legal motion, the office said it expected Massino to continue to provide assistance in future criminal cases. "[3], Massino testified again in the 2012 extortion trial of Genovese capo Anthony Romanello, primarily to provide background as an expert on the American Mafia. based on information from your browser. His cooperation was a key tool used by the feds in a decade long effort to dismantle La Cosa Nostra. [35][36][37], Massino quickly won Lino over to his side,[38] but Indelicato's son, Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, vowed revenge. Thanks for your help! [17] On February 23, 1974, at a meeting at the Americana Hotel in Manhattan, the Commission named Massino's mentor, Rastelli as boss. [79][80] Vitale remained loyal,[80] however, and helped Massino organize the March 18, 1999 murder of Gerlando Sciascia. DArco detailed the loan-shark arrangements, the union locals and the mobsters who controlled them, the monthly payoffs from construction companies, the hierarchies of each crime family, even a list of more than two dozen factions in the Sicilian Mafia. [147] It also marked the second time in a little more than a year that a New York boss had reached a plea bargain; Gigante had pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges in 2003 after prosecutors unmasked his long charade of feigning insanity. Knicks rout Nets 142-118 for 7th straight behind Brunsons 39 points, Kevin Durant makes Suns debut in return from knee injury, Baylor women showing they can win, even without Big 12 title, Defensive players again rising to top of NFLs draft class, McCarthy, GOP introduce measure to protect parents rights. Mr. Massino spoke at numerous baseball conventions and clinics in Illinois. Instead, Basciano had admitted to ordering the murder of another Bonanno associate in 2005. "[43] In his own testimony, Massino instead claimed Napolitano was targeted for trying to take over the Bonannos himself. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. The FBI would thus have no reason to be suspicious of him associating with Massino since they were brothers-in-law. GREAT NEWS! There are no volunteers for this cemetery. Joseph Massino former boss of the Bonanno crime family was the first official American Mafia boss to publicly testify against his fellow wiseguys. I told him it was a private party, DArco told us later. The U.S. Attorneys Office in Brooklyn, which described him as one of the most powerful members of the Mafia at the time of his arrest in 2003, had asked that his sentence be reduced. [122] On the day he was arraigned with Massino, Vitale decided to flip as soon as it was safe to do so; he formally reached a deal with prosecutors in February. He closed the family's longtime social clubs. [96] Wary of surveillance, Massino generally avoided meeting with members of other Mafia families[74] and encouraged his crews to operate independently as well. see also Recap: The Knick, Season 1, Episode 10, 3 positives to take from Jets loss to Patriots, Charles J. Orlando: An open letter to Jameis Winston, Camille Joseph Varlack, Chief of Staff to the Mayor of the City of, MLB Over/Under Bet of the Day: June 13, Royals. They call 'em the Massinos now", "With Gotti Away, the Genoveses Succeed the Leaderless Gambinos", "Fact file: Who is Joe Pistone a.k.a. [11] He worked as a soldier in James Galante's crew, and later worked in Philip "Phil Lucky" Giaccone's crew. Make sure that the file is a photo. I could be back to crime now, if I wanted it. But that was untrue. Aside from recalling meetings and murders, his testimony from the stand also sometimes lapsed into a kind of mob poetry. [151] While Massino was unable to extract an unambiguous confession regarding Andres, he did record Basciano freely admit to ordering the murder of associate Randolph Pizzolo. He surrendered after two years, was eventually found guilty of RICO racketeering charges, and sentenced in January 1987 to a 10-year prison term. [58] That year, Massino and Salvatore Vitale secured no-show jobs with the Long Island based King Caterers in exchange for protecting them from Lucchese extortion. Please reset your password. We have set your language to [64] With Rastelli in declining health, Massino was also reckoned as the operating head of the family, though consigliere Anthony "Old Man" Spero was nominally acting boss. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Joseph Massino was the highest ranking mobster ever to turn government informant, having served as boss of the infamous Bonanno family. As a freelance writer, he spends his time writing about true crime. He soon moved on to running a specialized crew of hijackers, overseeing the interception of high-value truck loads. However, after a tipoff, the remains were discovered on April 16, 1984, in a warehouse in Garfield, New Jersey, stuffed into two 55-gallon glue drums. Starting with a numbers and loan sharking operation that he ran from a lunch truck, Massino displayed the traits essential for a long career in the Mafia: intelligence, the ability to earn, and a willingness to murder. 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