Word: bonannos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pizza connection" case, 17 mobsters were convicted of selling tons of heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. In December, eight of New York's powerful crime bosses were convicted of running a vast network of criminal activities. Last October, Philip Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and eight co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering. Last year mob leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City were jailed for skimming profits from Las Vegas casinos...
...page list of verdicts. The most infamous defendant was Gaetano ("the Uncle") Badalamenti, 63, former chief of the Sicilian Mafia, who faces up to 30 years in prison, and Salvatore ("the Baker") Catalano, 46, a Queens bakery owner who prosecutors say is a powerful capo in the Bonanno family. He could get life imprisonment. Fifteen other defendants were found guilty of conspiracy. Badalamenti's son Vito was found innocent of his only charge of conspiracy, $ and another defendant was convicted of federal currency violations. To U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani it was a "tremendous victory." Said he: "No one case...
...acted as his own defense attorney, received a separate 39-year sentence last week for an earlier racketeering conviction; his top aide, Colombo Underboss Gennaro (Gerry Lang) Langella, 47, was convicted in the commission case and sentenced to 65 years in the earlier one. A fourth crime family, the Bonannos, was hit by the conviction of one of its captains, Anthony (Bruno) Indelicato, 30. The jury found that Indelicato had been one of the gunmen who had executed former Bonanno Boss Carmine Galante in the garden of a Brooklyn restaurant in 1979. The Gambinos, the fifth of the New York...
...Bonanno. Joseph Messina, 43, is already acting as boss of the family, according to Franceschini. He had been a capo for only four years, when his superior, Philip Rastelli, 68, was indicted in the commission case. (Rastelli has a heart condition and will stand trial alone when his health permits.) Messina promptly took over Rastelli's role...
Much more sinister conspiracies will be described by Government witnesses in the trial. The prosecutors will contend that the Commission approved three murders and directed loan-sharking and an extensive extortion scheme against the New York City construction industry. The killings involve the 1979 rubout of Bonanno Boss Carmine Galante and two associates. Bonanno Soldier Anthony Indelicato, 30, and alleged current Bonanno Boss Philip (Rusty) Rastelli, 68, are accused of plotting the hit, with the Commission's blessing, to prevent Galante from seizing control of the Gambino family. (Rastelli, already engaged in a separate racketeering case, will face trial later...