Word: capo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aria da Capo-Explosives "B" Cabaret, Science Center...
...that all the thieves and witnesses are in great danger. The reason: the successors of the deceased Tommy Lucchese, who led a New York Mafia family, are believed to have planned the crime and to be holding most of the loot. The FBI theory is that Joseph DiPalermo, a capo in the Lucchese group, supervised the plot and the disposition of the money and jewels. The authorities believe that the mob got the cooperation of Lufthansa employees on the inside by the time-honored method of inducing them to gamble, pressuring them to pay up, loaning them money at exorbitant...
...Lufthansa conspiracy included not only six stickup men but three airline employees and one "coach," who directed rehearsals for the operation. The ten were to receive fees ranging from $10,000 to Werner's $300,000. The rest of the loot apparently went to DiPalermo and another Lucchese capo, Paul Vario, one of the regulars at the old Roberts Lounge, who supervises rackets at Kennedy Airport for the mob. By now, the FBI suspects the money probably has been effectively dispersed through a maze of Mafia business channels...
...threats to Galante grew out of incessant rivalry among the five Mafia clans based in New York City, where the most powerful don is usually looked on by Mafiosi elsewhere in the U.S. as the capo with the most respect...
...Ariz. Galante was immediately challenged by Aniello Dellacroce (translation: Little Lamb of the Cross), who is one of the Mob's most feared executioners and longtime second in command to Carlo Gambino. The wily Dellacroce, 63, paid his respects to Gambino's memory by letting the late capo's brother-in-law, Paul Castellano, remain titular head of the family, while Dellacroce was elevated to the Mafia's ruling commission last summer. He emerged as the most powerful U.S. mobster...