[3], In 1986, prosecutions which resulted in the Mafia Commission Trial were set up in New York, to try Anthony Corallo and the entire administration of the Lucchese crime family. Before you go up there DECARLO: The big iron grate. And, capping all, William J. Brennan 3d (the son of the Supreme Court Justice) remarked in a speech in December, 1968, that number of legislators were entirely too comfortable with organized crime. The most infamous mafia murders in New Jersey history. The reve lation came when of the boys got together in Sam's of fice to talk over the finer points of murder. Few peo ple in Newark had any doubt that the witch who had per formed this magical deed was Longie Zwillman, and there was a terrific hullabaloo that included a number of indict ments. He was sentenced in 1994 to 30 years in prison. During the mid-1960s, both Michael and Martin Taccetta started with Accetturo in illegal gambling and loansharking on the orders of Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese. Before the day is out, Judge Shaw will make the transcript public. His fatal fall from power came in 1951, after Morettis criminal associates became worried about his chattiness during an appearance before a U.S. Senate committee investigating organized crime. 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. Also named was Stephen Depiro, who prosecutors say is a soldier in the Genovese organized crime family. Afterthe Soprano crime family made its debut on HBO 19 years ago, Tony and company's malicious streak drew rebukes from some critics who argued the show was too violent. 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. In the early 1950s, Morretti was a top member of the Genovese crime family well known for his rumored affiliation with Hoboken-born crooner Frank Sinatra. 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containerization, Leonardis said the program "only further tars the industry as mob-influenced" an image he said was as outdated as the cargo hook. Garden State Gangland describes a cornucopia of corrupted businessmen, mobsters, unions, and politicians, many of whom have since passed away, but who nonetheless left a legacy that resulted in the state being labeled "the most corrupt in the country." As for the future, he says flatly: I do not entertain any political ambitions. Certainly, by the 1960s when the FBI started taking a better look at organized crime in New Jersey, The Boot was one of the first guys they really started concentrating on. Women started reporting that they were being followed by a strange looking man. The jurors are brought in. Scott M. Deitche: My whole life and formative years were [spent] in New Jersey. I don't really care.. Martin has since had his release overturned and is serving a life sentence at New Jersey State Prison. He had a lot of powerful political connections and he was able to able to leverage them in his gangster career. A lot of the New Jersey wise guys who might have had a lot of influence and might have been a lot more powerful just kind of stayed under the radar a bit. All rights reserved (About Us). DeCarlo's favor ite racket over the years has been loansharking, and he and three asso ciates are on trial for having tried to collect thousands of dollars week in vigorish Ithe loan shark's term for usurious interest) from Saperstein, allegedly beating him in the process until his face turned purple and his tongue bulged out.. The Nixon Adminis tration came to office on the cry of law and order and a pledge to fight crime. Who was he and why was he whacked? Taccetta, also known as "Mike T," was born in the Vailsburg neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey on September 16, 1947. Far less so is the old bromide that Lacey hears time and again: You are always go ing to have crime and corrup tion. The implicit corollary to that is, of course, So why are you getting so excited about it?. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. But officially, it's one of the great unsolved mob hits. So I got a crowbar this big, Ray. 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. The money for this gambit in high finance all cashhad been obtained, Lacey says, from Angelo DeCarlo, variously known as Ray and the Gyp, who is identified as a capo in the Jersey Mafia family formerly headed by the late Vito Genovese. In 1983, Taccetta's wife, Carol Ann, won $611,979 from the New Jersey State Lottery. 09/05/14 04:31 PM. Police later told reporters they believed Manzo's killing may have been related to illegal business activities separate from his two restaurants, The Star-Ledger reported. 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. I was struck by Angelo Gyp Decarlo in part because of his relationship to Richard Nixon, which reminds us that politicians like him weren't always so afraid of being up front about this stuff. A year later, imprisoned mob informer Patrick Pizuto told The Star-Ledger that Russo his mentor had been killed because of "indiscretions" recorded by telephone taps and listening devices. Trudy J Pitts-womack. He lived in this huge mansion in Livingston, New Jersey, that supposedly had a place where bodies were disposed of, likely his enemies. Maybe the most lasting non-Sopranos-related image in the annals of the New Jersey mob is the photo of the Willie Moretti hit. Thomas Leonardis, the current president of ILA Local 1235, who was charged with extortion, had protested last September in legislative hearings in Trenton against a new program to fight organized crime in the New York harbor region which he claimed would raise the cost of doing business and threaten thousands of jobs. A year later, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office charged Anthony DiFrisco with murder in Potcher's killing, alleging he had confessed to accepting $2,500 from a New York organized crime associate named Anthony Franciotti to carry out the shooting. As he rose in power, so did a rival, Ruggiero (Richie the Boot) Boiardo. 09/05/14 04:31 PM. New Jersey State Police wiretap recordings later played in state Superior Court revealed Russo had been captured discussing a scheme to shake down Monmouth County restaurant owners by creating a threat to unionize their employees. 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". Stefano Badami, John D'Amato, Louis LaRasso, Joe "Nodder" Sodano. This book builds on that canon of work. 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. It destroys the officeholder, and therefore destroys the confidence of the public in its government and representatives. 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. Third, it corrupts the business man. by Thomas Moriarty | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, (Clockwise from top left) John Lardiere, Edwin Helfant, Peter Calabro and Anthony Russo are just some of those believed to have been killed as a result of mob disputes in the Garden State. And there was no love lost between them. New York detectives, Internal Revenue agents and Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents were aware of the pivotal importance of Duke's Restau rant, but when they tried to go over to New Jersey for a little sleuthing, they were often chased out of town by local policemen. Is that just a function of the media concentration in the city? Follow him on Twitter at@ThomasDMoriarty. Coppola had fled his Spring Lake home in 1996 when investigators sought to take a DNA sample from him after an informant reported Coppola bragging of Lardiere's killing. 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. It went like this: TONY BOY: How about the time we hit the little Jew RAY: As little as they are they struggle. Four Lucchese family members ultimately were charged with racketeering offenses related to Craparotta's killing. His brother Martin then served as acting boss on behalf of Taccetta in the mid-1980s. The one thing about the New Jersey mafioso is that generally a lot of them have done most of their work in New York. 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. Then all I want to do is to return to my private trial practice in New York and New Jersey.. On Tuesdays, the council met with some of the top czars of the national syndi cate. After Zwillman committed suicide in 1959, Catena rose in power and is now reputed to be the ruler of the Jersey wing of the Genovese family. Most of the top leadership is now gone. Five New Jersey men, including three from Morris County, linked to the New York-based Genovese organized crime family pleaded guilty Wednesday for their roles in a loansharking, unlicensed. Support NJ.com, Press release and list of defendants (PDF), Indictment filed in Newark federal court (PDF), Quiet Kenilworth neighborhood sees arrest of soldier in the Genovese crime family, three others in organized crime sweep, Fourteen N.J. residents are among suspected mobsters arrested today in federal operation, FBI arrests more than 100 suspected mobsters in N.J., New York City. 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. his mother still lives in the Vailsburg section of New ark, where he was born and . 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. Apartment rent in Lower Vailsburg has increased by 1.9% in the past year. Some of the tips obviously come from crackpots, but there have been, nevertheless, what would regard as a startling number of good leads., This is encouraging. I have so many notes. The judge nods and Lacey wheels the lectern to a spot front and center, before the jury box. Thirty nine years later, no one has been charged in Russo's killing. Jan. 20, 2011 -- More than 800 federal, state and local agents arrested over 100 suspected mobsters today from New York City to Italy in the single largest operation against the mob in the . Vic Amuso and Anthony Casso, a man of great fear and reportedly with dozens of murders on his hands, announced his order, "Whack Jersey". Top 5 Jersey Cosa Nostra Mob Hits. OK, so some of them may have been caught on tape comparing themselves to 'The Sopranos'. The prosecutor is the kind of man who does his pushups every morning to keep in shape. Zwillman's under world rivals seemed to meet their Maker in the most gory fashion, but the mob ruler himself was always leagues removed from the awful deed. In addition to the mobs continued infiltration of the waterfront, the indictments sketched out a myriad of fraudulent schemes. The Jersey Journal prominently displayed Associated Press coverage of Willie Moretti's slaying in its Oct. 4, 1951 edition. The magnitude of the Zwillman operation may be gleaned from official estimates that his mob reaped a $50million bonanza from bootlegging between 1926 and 1931, and that at the peak of its operation it was importing about 40 per cent of the bootleg liquor flowing across the nation's borders. Though this shabby industrial city of some 407,000 is estimated to be more than 60 per cent Ne gro and Spanishspeaking, there are many who feel that Imperiale just might win in such a contesta result that would certainly intensify the racial polarization of Newark. Class of 1987. Moore commit ted the indiscretion of having his pic ture taken with the Boot and his belt buckle. "Its a louder message because all of us are doing it at the same time," he said. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. Depiro, 55, of Kenilworth, known as "Beach," was first indicted in New York last April on racketeering charges in connection with the "Christmas tribute" payments. Consigliere Nicodemo Scarfo, then fighting the remnants of the Casella faction to maintain control of the Philadelphia family. 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. 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. The case Lacey outlines to the Newark jury on this particular day deals with the international financial machinations of a shady Newark insurance broker, Louis Saperstein, who departed this world in late November, 1968, mysteriously loaded with enough arsenic to kill a mule. It is a tale that involves literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in an international stock scheme. 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. When his case was called for trial in Newark, DiFrisco pleaded guilty to murder and opted to face the judge alone rather than a jury for the penalty phase of his capital case. Nine years before he was gunned down at a resort in Monmouth County, Genovese crime family member Anthony Russo had refused to testify about mob activity before the State Commission of Investigation. Prof. Henry S. Ruth, who had been deputy staff director of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, touched sensitive political nerves when he declared that, in his opinion, Official cor ruption in New Jersey is so bad that organized crime can get almost anything it de sires. Another expert witness assured flabbergasted officials that Professor Ruth was ab solutely right. (Amanda Brown/The Star-Ledger), FBI agents escort one of more than 100 suspects arrested in New Jersey, New York and other locations on the East Coast in January 2011 as part of the largest national-level organized crime takedown in the bureau's history. If our system is to survive, there must also be people who are willing to fight, willing to op pose, this kind of corrup tion. , See the article in its original context from. The man who takes these attitudes remains something of a conundrum to many. They're listed with nicknames like "Knuckles" and . More than 20 indictments have been returned against public officials over the years; officials have been criticized and censured; business firms and contractors doing busi ness with the city have been indicted. THE headlinemaking trial begins. The shot that almost certainly would have killed him, rip ping through his intestines, hit that belt buckle and ricocheted away, says a man who remembers the incident. He was eventually arrested in Miami, Florida. Sixteen slugs perforated Boiardo's anatomy, and his life was probably saved by his $5,000 diamond belt buckle. Crystal Tomlin. Little Pussy and Ray the Gyp agreed that Richie the Boot was a nut because he disposed of not only the bodies that resulted from his own business endeavors, but also those that any other mob chief chose to pass on. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. He was head of the Genovese family [in] New York City [and] thats [what hes] associated with. Despite the high body count, the arrests were not part of a single, unified operation aimed at a vast conspiracy, and none of the names were well-known. But suddenly this all changed. 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. Frank ly, I don't care. He was supposedly the guy that got Frank Sinatra out of his contract with Tommy Dorsey [as immortalized in The Godfather]. It goes through the murders, Louie Luciano, Candido Trueba, William Kimbrough. He was one of the first Mafia bosses to be bugged by the FBIat his headquarters, which was a plumbing and heating company in Kenilworth, New Jersey. SUCH is the scenario. There was never any proof of such a deal, but events frequently lent credence to the rumors. The mansion is ap proached by a drive at least two city blocks long, and at one turn the startled visitor comes upon a monument to megalomania. In the DeCaval cante tapes, the real story of Richie the Boot, still active at 80, began to emerge. TONY BOY: The Boot hit him with a hammer. Charlie "Bug" Workman was convicted of the fatal shooting in 1941 on what the Trenton Evening Times reported was largely the testimony of two former mob enforcers. Even today, large sections of the Central Ward stand in blackened, boardedup ruins, resembling nothing so much as the gaping chasms left in a city destroyed by war. The prosecutor shakes his head in vexation and retorts: To that, I say, Yes, but you are always going to have to have people who are will ing to fight it. And Gerald Mass who was a truly innocent victim. The picture that emerges from the transcripts contra dicts the blard contentions of Newark policemen that Richie the Boot was an estimable character trying to earn an honest living. Because of the bad relations between the two factions in Philadelphia's crime family, and Taccetta and Accetturo exploiting the situation, the relationship between Philadelphia and the Five Families worsened. "I guarantee you, he needs his hands to work. Throughout the drama of Lacey's speech, Angelo DeCarlo sits impas sively, to all appearances the most unflappable man in the courtroom. Michael was first arrested for assault at the age of twelve and was sent to Boys Town, a Catholic youth facility. There are a lot of theories as to who might have killed him and why. There was, however, nothing benevolent about him when the issue was a test of underworld power; and this fact Richie the Boot Boiardo was to learn at great expense. 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. He specialized in trial work was generally considered brilliant at it and represented some of the largest corporations in the nation in especially diffi cult cases. They were oddly contrasting types. 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.. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/01/archives/the-people-v-the-mob-or-who-rules-new-jersey-the-people-v-the-mob.html. 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. Mobsters were rarely inconvenienced in New Jersey, and the state became increas ingly a haven for gangsters. But he generally flies under the radar when people think of influential Jewish mobsters. As father and husband, he attended the Holy Family Parish with his family. But there is nothing cherubic about him now. Between The Sopranos and constant fawning in the tabloids, it's not like this is underreported turf, right? He told people that he was self-employed. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement updated 7/1/2022). 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. He was packed off to Trenton State Prison in March, 1931. Like the late John Lardiere, Genovese family member Anthony "Little Pussy" Russo had spent time behind bars forrefusing to testify before the State Commission of Investigation. The new administration was Michael Taccetta as the boss of faction, Michael Perna as the underboss and Martin Taccetta as the official consigliere. He became the boss of New Jerseys only homegrown mafia family, the Elizabeth-area family. Authorities quickly feared the worst, and weeks later, the former boxer wasfound floating in a bag in the Hackensack River with gunshot wounds to the back of his head. [5], With Accetturo out of the way, Michael and Martin Taccetta were reportedly the leaders of the New Jersey faction, as Taccetta started cooperating with the head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti, through Gambino caporegime, Thomas "Tommy" Gambino. On Jan. 7, 1963, according to the F.B.I. Justice Department officials said those charged were connected to all five New York-based crime families: the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese families, along with the New Jersey-based Decavalcante family and New Englands Patriarca crime family. 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. (Times of Trenton). John "Johnny Coca-Cola" Lardiere, shown at left in this newspaper clipping, was gunned down on Easter morning in 1977 in the parking lot of a motel in Bridgewater. Underboss Casso was allowed wide control by his friend Amuso and became paranoid, murdering several mobsters he feared were disloyal. 'Guys like that don't get wiped out in a day.' Bergen County authorities later dropped their case against Gravano in the Calabro slaying, and the former mobster was released from prison last year. Lacey, as a young lawyer, had had one direct and shocking confrontation with bigleague New Jersey crime. When Richie recovered, he was sent to prison for 2 years because he had been car rying a gun himself when he was put upon on Broad Street. Ive always thought that a good overall history of the mob in New Jersey was lacking in Mafia literature. This no conviction refrain became familiar in Newark as scandal after scandal whim pered to a silent and forgotten end. "This is an organization that continues to regenerate itself like a snake. Taccetta was chosen by Accetturo to run day-to-day activities in Newark. I think The Sopranos are kind of an amalgamation of different characters in the New Jersey underworld. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Also charged in the case were Robert Ruiz, 52, of Watchung, Michael Trueba, 75, of Kearny, Ramiro Quintans, 52, of Basking Ridge, Salvatore LaGrosso, 60, of Edison, all on extortion counts. He was kind of a well-known character on the nightclub scene in New York and New Jersey. 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 later established a similar soup kitchen at a Catholic church. 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. ", Press release and list of defendants (PDF), Indictment filed in Newark federal court (PDF). First, he explains, there is one theory that a U. S. Attorney should simply prosecute the cases handed to him by Federal investigative agencies; Lacey thinks a U. S. Attorney should be aggressive and actively develop cases if the situation seems to warrant it. But I had never encountered the broad evidence of corrup tion of public bodies, business and labor unions. I was making big money, really big money at the time, he says, and he didn't see how he could take the $29,000a year U. S. Attorney's post. THE tapes released at De Carlo's trial Jan. 6 add another startling dimension to the picture. (Star-Ledger archive photos). In this perspective, the current Jersey in vestigation harbors a far more explo sive potential. In the blackest pit of the Depression, he reached into his bootleg millions and paid the cost of running a soup kitchen for the im poverished in Newark's Military Park. 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. He was tied in with Newark Mayor Hugh Addonizio as well as Hudson County politician named John Kenny. He was sentenced to prison around 1970 and pardoned by President Richard Nixon two years into his sentence. There are people in the Lucchese family and the DeCavalcante family that could fit [the bill] for the characters. There is indignation in Newark, and there is also indifference. In the subsequent hearings, some high police of ficials testified to Boiardo's estimable character. He had married into society; he knew how to conduct himself like a gentleman, and his heart bled all over his public sleeve for the poor. In Florida, 83-year-old Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, who prosecutors say was a longtime Rhode Island mob boss, was arrested and charged with extorting protection payments from Providence strip clubs, including the Satin Doll and the Cadillac Lounge. 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. Here are some of the most notorious instances where organized crime has been blamed for bloodshed in the Garden State: The killing of mobster Dutch Schultz in Newark captured headlines across the country in 1935. Great memories, Great times.great friends (some gone but will never be forgotten). 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. He spit at me and said, You .. His roots go deep in Newark. 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. In abrazen attack at the Palace Chop Housethat October, which madeheadlines nationwide, gunmen fatally wounded Schultz and three other men. In Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey, out next month from Rowman & Littlefield, Mafia historian Scott M. Deitchewho we talked to about the bonds between cocktails and organized crime in 2015provides a comprehensive survey of the mob in the state. And so he has proposed a series of remedial laws for New Jersey. 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. 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. Part of the West Ward, its elevation is 280 feet (85 m). What was interesting about Decarlo was that he was wiretapped at his headquarters, which was known as the Barn, for almost three years between 1961 and 1963. 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. 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