And he also had ties to Frankie Valli, right? Apartment rent in Lower Vailsburg has increased by 1.9% in the past year. In that case, Lacey says now, I found conditions shockingand I hadn't con sidered myself at all naive. They were oddly contrasting types. Between The Sopranos and constant fawning in the tabloids, it's not like this is underreported turf, right? Former mob hitman Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski is shown in this February 2003 file photo in state Superior Court during a hearing to enter a guilty plea in the 1980 killing of NYPD Detective Peter Calabro in Upper Saddle River. After the conviction of Anthony Corallo in 1986, and the murder of his protg Anthony "Buddy" Luongo, Brooklyn, New York faction leaders Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso chose themselves as the new Lucchese bosses. Class of 1987. There, lifesize and in full color on a life size white horse, sits a stone Richie in all his splendor, while around and below him, mounted on stone pedestals, are some nine bustsalso in full, glorious colorof mem bers of his family. Crystal Tomlin. I flatly state that it will not even go into a muncipality unless and until it has bought its protection against raids and arrests.. In the past, all too many judges have con sidered such offenders to be small fry of little consequence and have imposed only minor fines; but Lacey argues that their activities are basic to the system that pours an es timated $50billion into the coffers of the crime syndicate each year. Taccetta graduated from Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark at nineteen years old and attended one semester at Johnson & Wales University School of Business in Providence, Rhode Island. More than 120 alleged members and associates of seven organized crime families were arrested today in a series of simultaneous, early morning raids spanning from Brooklyn to New Jersey, on charges. We called him up to find out why New York gangsters get all the hype, who the lesser known (and most dynamic) New Jersey mobsters were, and, more recently, whoif anyoneThe Sopranos were really based on. After 18 years on death row, the state Supreme Court vacated DiFrisco's death sentence because of what prosecutors described as changes in the appeals process. Peter Calabro's 1980 slaying in Saddle River was linked years later to an infamous hitman for the Gambino crime family. When took this job, I gave a com mitment to Senator Case and Attorney General Mitchell that I would stay as long as I could afford to do so financially, or until I felt I had the office organized and matters well in hand. Frank ly, I don't care. OK, so some of them may have been caught on tape comparing themselves to 'The Sopranos'. At trial in 1993, prosecutors produced evidence that Craparotta had tried to protect his nephews from being forced to pay extortion money to the mob from their video machine business. VICE: Why explore the rise of the mob in New Jersey? The one thing about the New Jersey mafioso is that generally a lot of them have done most of their work in New York. Lawrence Ricci, an alleged associate of the Genovese family, disappeared in 2005 amid his trial in Brooklyn on a federal racketeering indictment. 'Sopranos' mobster gets 10 years in murder-for-hire plot targeting rival, Reputed mobster admits offering undercover FBI agents $50K for killing, Mob arrests show wiseguys still at work in N.J., feds say. Fed eral prosecutors, he believes, can set standards, can goad and stimulate, but in the final analysis the bulk of the burden must be borne by local and state agencies. In February 2003, Kuklinski who was already serving 60 years to life for other killings pleaded guilty to murder under a deal with the prosecutors office that saw him receive a 30-year prison term. Ive always thought that a good overall history of the mob in New Jersey was lacking in Mafia literature. Theres been tons of books on New York, but theres really only been a handful of books written about New Jerseys mob. According to Russo, the late Thomas (ThreeFinger Brown) Luch ese, for years the ruler of one of New York's five Mafia families, used to turn over the bodies of his victims to Boiardo for burning. His grand father was at one time a Re publican Freeholder in Essex County; his father was New ark police chief for eight years; his mother still lives in the Vailsburg section of New ark, where he was born and went to school. Taccetta returned to New Jersey and enrolled in Essex County College School of Business for a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management, receiving grades of C and D. He later worked as a laborer with his father and younger brother at the family construction supply firm. Michael was first arrested for assault at the age of twelve and was sent to Boys Town, a Catholic youth facility. When he reaches an especially dra matic point, he rests his right elbow on a corner of the lectern, his lower arm and pointed finger stabbing at the jury. Martin has since had his release overturned and is serving a life sentence at New Jersey State Prison. Part of the West Ward, its elevation is 280 feet (85 m). 1972. Four Lucchese family members ultimately were charged with racketeering offenses related to Craparotta's killing. The path of an underworld chief tain is never smooth, however, and so it was with Longie. What you might have accomplished in a few years as U. S. Attorney could well be the one thing in your life would be proud of., This conversation with Sutherland, Lacey says, pried my thinking and had a lot to do with changing my mind.. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. In that event, City Councilman An thony Imperiale, the karate in structor and white militant in the heavily Italian North Ward, is seen as the probable white candidate against Ken neth A. Gibson, the Negro former city engineer. The late William O'Dwyer, who rode to glory on that expos, con tented himself with sending to the electric chair the expendable strong arms of gangdom; he never touched their bosses, Joe Adonis and the late Albert Anastasia. Thirty nine years later, no one has been charged in Russo's killing. Authorities also said Depiro controlled an overseas sports betting operation, while Dehmer allegedly ran an illegal poker club in Kenilworth. He was sentenced to prison around 1970 and pardoned by President Richard Nixon two years into his sentence. Those defendants were charged with collecting "Christmas tribute" money from dockworkers after they received annual year-end bonuses. NEWARK Federal prosecutors have announced the arrest of 10 members and associates of the DeCavalcante organized crime family in New Jersey. So the vital question raised by the current Newark probe is this: Will the public be stirred from its decadeslong apathy by the flood of indict ments and the insidethemob revelations? Though the commission did not go into specifics, its blast at Newark touched off wide spread reaction. A longtime mob associate with reputed ties to both the Genovese family in New Jersey and the Patriarcha family in New England, Lardiere known as "Johnny Coca-Cola" was gunned down in the parking lot of a motel in Bridgewater early Easter morning in 1977 by a killer who sped off in a waiting car, authorities said at the time. The guy goes down and comes up. Its like The Godfatherwho was he based on? I think The Sopranos are kind of an amalgamation of different characters in the New Jersey underworld. In 1993, the state Attorney Generals Office obtained an indictment against Louis Auricchio, a Genovese family member, accusing him of killing DiGilio to increase his own stature in the organization. What made him so remarkable, even iconic? When he took it over, that was when the FBI was naming families by who was in charge, so it became known as the DeCavalcante family after Sam the Plumber. When the trial ended in acquittals, Accetturo returned to Florida for his own safety. But he wasn't just a gangster, right? During the trial, both Taccetta and Accetturo agreed that it wasn't the right time for a war. Throughout the nine teenforties and into the fifties until the Kefauver investi gation threw a wrench into the machinery the Mafia families of New York and New Jersey had run a verita ble capital of crime in nuke's Restaurant, opposite the Pali sade Amusement Park. ", By Ted Sherman and Steve Strunsky/The Star-Ledger. One of the main reasons were that Accetturo had promoted his son, Anthony Accetturo, Jr. to reorganize the Jersey crew upon his retirement, which Taccetta had been eager to take over since the early 1980s. Stunningly, unlike the Mafia Commission Trial, in the case of Taccetta and Accetturo and their associates, all 20 defendants were acquitted on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act predicates, but as the trial was overdue, rivalry developed in the Jersey Crew.[4]. FindNJ.com on Facebook. But he generally flies under the radar when people think of influential Jewish mobsters. Vincent Craparotta was beaten to death with golf clubs at a car dealership in Toms River after he tried to protect his nephews from a mob extortion scheme. I have so many notes. The judge nods and Lacey wheels the lectern to a spot front and center, before the jury box. Nine yearslater, four bullets ensured Russo then the target of a state grand jury probe would never say a word to anyone. The mobster, Nicholas Virgilio, was angered by the 12- to 15-year sentence he ultimately received, and shot Helfant multiple times as the 51-year-old judge sat with his wife in the cocktail. After decades of scandals, after the sputtering of innumerable exposs that have fizzled like pieces of punk in a cloudburst, Newark has once more been propelled into the spotlight as a graphic study in mob rule and politi cal corruption. One day baffled newsmen had difficulty get ting the point, and one of them said: Oh, don't mind him. Helfant himself was on trial in Trenton at the time on charges he had accepted $700 to fix an assault and battery case a decade earlier, The Star-Ledger reported. He swivels around in his chair at the defense table, turning his back on Lacey with a kind of bored indifference, his tight lips twisted in a hard trav esty of a smile while the cold remote eyes, devoid of any trace of humor, stare out at the courtroom spectators with never a blink. That changed in 1988, as Taccetta declared war on Accetturo, and the North Jersey crew split into two factions. Why the mob still holds sway at the port. Four days after he disappeared in 1983, police in Hillside discovered his bullet-riddled body wrapped in plastic inside the trunk of his Lincoln Continental parked of Route 22. This no conviction refrain became familiar in Newark as scandal after scandal whim pered to a silent and forgotten end. An early Jewish organized crime figure, Schultz ran afoul of his criminal associates in 1935 when he asked the mob for permission to kill Thomas Dewey, a famed prosecutor who later would be elected governor of New York. The Lilley commission's report in February, 1968, was a shocker. Summoned to a meeting in Brooklyn with Amuso, the entire North Jersey faction, who were fearful of being massacred, went into hiding. Before you go up there DECARLO: The big iron grate. EVEN Lacey concedes that the reaction to his probe falls short of the universal cry of outrage he might have wish ed. He became the boss of New Jerseys only homegrown mafia family, the Elizabeth-area family. On Jan. 7, 1963, according to the F.B.I. He was eventually arrested in Miami, Florida. For one thing, there was still cash in the register when officers arrived. More than 120 alleged members and associates of seven organized crime families were arrested today in a series of simultaneous, early morning raids spanning from Brooklyn to New Jersey, on charges ranging from murder to loansharking some involving crimes dating back 20 years or more. Neither do we. He captures and holds all eyes. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. On the one hand, he has been highly praised by re sponsible citizens, and an en couraging number of tips have come from the public. Sources later told the Jersey Journal and The New York Times that Ricci may have been killedat the direction of a Genovese boss in New Jersey for refusing to take a plea deal in the case. Longie Zwillman might come up from Newark; Frank Costello from New York; Meyer Lansky from Florida. Re: last name in new jersey [ Re: Alfanosgirl ] #800648. Reportedly, around this time law enforcement started seeing the Jersey faction as an independent family. So I got a crowbar this big, Ray. ", Thomas Cammarata, the attorney for Leonardis and the ILA local, said, "Obviously hes pleading not guilty.". I think part of it too is [that] New York City is a large iconic brand in and of itself. People get taken out and they find ways get reconstitute their leadership. Next, Lacey continues, I was as sured I would have a free hand in selecting staff and in the direction we would go. Law enforcement officials later told reporters that Calabro, a former member of an auto theft unit in Queens, had been among NYPD officers who sold information to organized crime figures. (The Star-Ledger). There are a lot of theories as to who might have killed him and why. The police investigatedbut, of course, found no proof. During their trial in Brooklyn federal court, however, Ricci went missing. It destroys the officeholder, and therefore destroys the confidence of the public in its government and representatives. He was close to Meyer Lansky, had ties to New Jersey and New York mobsters. As father and husband, he attended the Holy Family Parish with his family. On July 12 of that year the predomi nantly Negro Central Ward exploded in one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. He was sentenced in 1994 to 30 years in prison. Third, it corrupts the business man. Taccetta, also known as "Mike T," was born in the Vailsburg neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey on September 16, 1947. Anthony Alfano, 76, of Union, and Tonino Colantonio, 32, John Hartmann, 41, and Guiseppe Pugliese, 32, all of Kenilworth, were charged with conspiracy counts linked to illegal gambling. ", Press release and list of defendants (PDF), Indictment filed in Newark federal court (PDF). While DiGilios defense attorney questioned law enforcements description of his 55-year-old client as a mobster, investigators publicly linked him to a long string of assaults and alleged mob killings. The People v. the Mob; Or, Who Rules New Jersey? The scuttlebutt of the times was that Longie Zwillman requested just one little favor from gubernatori al candidates who benefited from his largesse the right to name, or at least to approve, the new Attorney General. Manzo a large man who bore the nickname "Tiny" was a politically active businessman who owned both a popular banquet hall and a restaurant in Paterson. Lacey's other proposals in clude the adoption of a state antitrust law modeled after the Federal Sherman Anti trust Act; it would give the state the power to act in cases in which gangland money has infiltrated legiti mate business and then, by extortion and threat, driven out all competition. Then all I want to do is to return to my private trial practice in New York and New Jersey.. Ray, I seen too many, said Little Pussy. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. In 1976, the newly made boss of the Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo decided to strengthen his New Jersey faction, inducting Accetturo, Taccetta and several others into the Lucchese crime family that year. Perhaps it is just a coinci dence, but during these dec ades when the law and the courts seemed unable to fight their way out of a paper bag, the buddybuddy relationship of the underworld with New ark's politicians remained one of the world's worst kept secrets. It spoke much about the political climate in Newark that gangsters and politicians mingled in discriminately; among the politicians present were a former U.S. Commis sioner, a candidate for the State Assembly andmost unfortunately Paul Moore, a Democrat who was running for Congress. Coppola wassentenced later that year to 16 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of racketeering charges. The two cousins were described as being 'inseparable' during the 1960s. SUCH is the scenario. He was kind of a well-known character on the nightclub scene in New York and New Jersey. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. This is what I think is happening in our society to day.. Accetturo later relocated his business interests to Miami and Hollywood, Florida, but remained the official chief of New Jersey. It is one that will be repeated almost endlessly in the coming months as U. S. Attor ney Lacey and his young assistants wade through a mushrooming pile of indictments that, on their face, out line the most complete network of crime and official corruption that has yet to be brought to trial in an American courtroom. Moore commit ted the indiscretion of having his pic ture taken with the Boot and his belt buckle. Brandishing an old cargo hook once carried by longshoremen in the days before containerization, Leonardis said the program "only further tars the industry as mob-influenced" an image he said was as outdated as the cargo hook. The love affair proba bly never received greater public exposure than at the wedding of Tony Boy Boiardo in 1950. In a 53-count superseding indictment, Cernadas, 75, of Union Township; Nunzio LaGrasso, 60, of Florham Park, the Vice President of ILA Local 1478; and Richard Dehmer, 75, of Springfield, were charged with conspiring to extort ILA members on the New Jersey piers, bookmaking, and loansharking. (FBI photo). The tran scripts are records of conversations in which DeCarlo and his associates brag about having a stranglehold on the city of Newark and much of New Jersey. Despite his exclusion, Taccetta kept operating in North Jersey. Mobsters were rarely inconvenienced in New Jersey, and the state became increas ingly a haven for gangsters. Back in 1952 A.D. Vailsburg was a very quiet peaceful place to live .Anyone could go anywhere, anytime, even late at night without the fear of compromising one's safety. "Its a louder message because all of us are doing it at the same time," he said. He was known as the Al Capone of Newark. (The Star-Ledger). It went like this: TONY BOY: How about the time we hit the little Jew RAY: As little as they are they struggle. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. When a gunman walked into Jack's Pizzas in Maplewood in August 1986 and shot the store's 37-year-old owner four times, police told The Star-Ledger it was the township's first homicide in 20 years. Top 5 Jersey Cosa Nostra Mob Hits. Accetturo later returned to run his Newark operations with Taccetta in early 1975.[3]. The takedowns and court proceedings that followed played out across the New York metropolitan region like something out of the film Goodfellas, replete with the kind of colorful, made-for-tabloid names that included guys known as Mush, Nooch, Big Mike, Baby Fat Larry, Junior Lollipops, The Claw and Fat Dennis. Robert Buccino, a New Jersey organized crime expert, said that Taccetta and Ricciardi ran with a gang that thought nothing of "beating up someone 10 to 1". News never stops. Prosecutors described the tribute money as mob kickbacks. Schultz had taken up residence at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark in an attempt to avoid Dewey's scrutiny, and wanted the prosecutor out of his way. He had a lot of powerful political connections and he was able to able to leverage them in his gangster career. Meyer Lansky immediately comes to the top, but Zwillman was very powerful and he lived his entire life in New Jersey. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (User Agreement updated 1/1/21. Meanwhile, some questioned whether the case was as dramatic as the numbers portrayed. On December 23, 1971, Taccetta was convicted of conspiracy to operate a lottery and numbers, for which he was sentenced to less than two years in prison, and fined $1,000. In our schools and col leges, he said, we teach po litical science in terms of defining the powers of vari ous offices and officeholders, the requirements to vote and so forthand all of this is largely irrelevant. [3], During the early 1970s, Accetturo, who currently worked as Taccetta's mentor, was indicted on illegal gambling charges in Newark, New Jersey, and decided to avoid prosecution by escaping to Florida. Fearing his declining mental state would lead him to say too much, Moretti's associates ultimately silenced him with gunfire on Oct. 4, 1951, as he dined at Joe's Elbow Room in Cliffside Park. Joseph Cocozza of the Essex County Prosecutor's staff testified, that he and his wife often dined with the Boot and the latter's wife, and he added: We have never con nected him with any gang in our work. The deputy police chief in Newark and the sergeant in charge of the morals squad added their voices to the chorus, testify ing that Richie was simply trying to earn an honest living.. Richie the Boot's private citadel is a great stone mansion (built in part with slabs his wrecking company crews had torn from the old Newark Post Office when it was demolished) that sits upon a wooded plot of several acres in Livingston, N. J. Ricciardi later won early release from prison in 2001 by working as a police informant, providing information about cases, including a case involving a fire at Seton Hall University that killed three students. (The Jersey Journal). He kind of carried himself with a little bit of sophistication if you look at the way he dressed. Manzo's daughter-in-law, Caroline Manzo known to television audiences from "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" has said she takes offense at the suggestion her father-in-law had ties to organized crime, arguing nobody knows the "hows and whys" of his killing. He spit at me and said, You .. 09/05/14 04:31 PM. Wire services reported Russo's lawyer and staff at the Harbor Island Spa in Long Branch found the 62-year-old covered in blood and surrounded by stuffed cats and pictures of real ones when they entered his room on April 26, 1979. This book builds on that canon of work. Newsmen interviewing Newark residents came up with some who ex pressed shock and indignation, but others were like the man who shrugged his shoulders and said: This has been go ing on for a long time. . In one case, Colombo crime family members allegedly defrauded consumers with poor credit histories. In this perspective, the current Jersey in vestigation harbors a far more explo sive potential. He became known as the Democratic boss of Newark's old Third Ward and his money helped to finance many a state gubernatorial campaign. His roots go deep in Newark. During the mid-1960s, both Michael and Martin Taccetta started with Accetturo in illegal gambling and loansharking on the orders of Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese. 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