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News and Stories about the Bonanno Crime Family
Criminals aren’t complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he’s after – Bruce Wayne, The Dark Knight Pizza Connection During the 1970s, the Sicilian mafia began smuggling drugs into the United States. The narcotics reached their destination—New York—after detouring across the Midwest. At which point, members of the American…...
Part 2 The Sicilians Salvatore “Toto” Catalano shared Carmine Galante’s dream of building a heroin pipeline from Sicily to New York. There was only one thing stopping him from being on the receiving end of that pipeline: Carmine Galante. Catalano, a Sicilian native, despised the fact that Galante, an American,…...
In 1984, police found the body of a woman sprawled on a bench outside Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx. A short time later, the victim’s identity became known, Evelina Mancuso. An autopsy revealed she had two gunshot wounds to her head. The murder investigation focused on the victim’s husband, Michael…...
Part 1 “Not since the days of Vito Genovese has there been a more ruthless and feared individual” – Police Lieutenant Remo Franceschini Camillo Galante was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City in 1910. Nicknamed Lilo, Sicilian slang for cigar, a name which he lived up…...
An Ordered Hit Participating in the 1999 murder of Gerlando “George from Canada” Sciascia, John “Johnny Joe” Spirito along with Patrick “Patty from the Bronx” DeFilippo admitted their guilt in the homicide. Sciascia, born in the province of Agrigento, Sicily immigrated to Canada in 1955. At the time of his…...
