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...Cirillo, now in prison on a narcotics conviction. When Nargi failed to repay the money on time, Masselli, who had no construction experience, appropriated Nargi's equipment, hired his workers and muscled the owner aside. This was protested by Salvatore ("Sally Blind") Frascone, a soldier in the rival Bonanno Mob family and an in-law of Nargi's wife...
...intra-Mafia dispute was settled in Masselli's favor in a Bonanno-Genovese "sitdown." But Frascone continued to object, and Masselli ordered him killed, according to last week's indictments. The admitted killer was Mike Orlando, a former grade school teacher who had switched to an exciting and dangerous double vocation: he was Masselli's top bodyguard and an FBI informer. Now a protected federal witness in other cases, Orlando claims he shot Frascone on Sept. 22, 1978, after the victim was fingered for him in The Bronx by Joe ("Bugs") Bugliarelli, a local bookie. The getaway...
...probe that culminated in last week's roundup originated nearly a decade ago when the Federal Bureau of Investigation began looking into the activities of the New York Mafia "family" of Joseph Bonanno. The inquiry shed light on a faction headed by Salvatore Catalano, a Queens, N.Y., baker and entrepreneur who seemed to be doing more than selling pizza at his Al Dente pizza parlor. It gathered momentum when investigators obtained evidence that couriers for Catalano's group were transferring enormous amounts of cash through investment houses and banks in New York, Italy and Switzerland...
...also been doing better as it has stepped up its attack on organized crime. According to FBI Director William Webster, narcotics investigations alone produced 700 convictions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 1983. Justice Department investigations have produced such minor victories as the 1980 conviction of Joseph Bonanno for trying to thwart a grand jury investigation, the 1980 conviction of Crime Family Boss Frank Tieri for racketeering, and the 1981 conviction of New Orleans Crime Chief Carlos Marcello for conspiracy in a bribery and kickback scheme...
...from Castellammare del Golfo at the age of 17, he had few skills beyond a natural ability with a lupara, a sawed-off shotgun. But he was quick and good-looking, and he did have some connections: his uncle Peter was a founding member of New York's Bonanno crime family and his uncle Giovanni was one of the family's leading underbosses. Bonventre was impatient; so when he tired of the construction job his "family" had found for him, he sought and got something better. He and his pal Baldassare Amato were taken on as bodyguards...