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...York Mob boss JOSEPH MASSINO, head of the Bonanno crime family and known as the Last Don, reportedly betrayed a subordinate and fed evidence to the FBI. According to court papers, federal investigators, with help from "a high-ranking member" of the family--presumed to be Massino--secretly tape-recorded Vincent Basciano, the family's acting boss, as he plotted the murder, never accomplished, of a federal prosecutor. Massino is the first boss of a New York family to cooperate with the FBI. The last don, indeed...
CONVICTED. JOSEPH (Big Joey) MASSINO, 61, the once powerful Bonanno Mob boss; of racketeering, arson, extortion and money laundering; in New York City. The former 400-pounder--dubbed "the Last Don" for evading prison while the heads of New York's other four Mafia families were behind bars--was also found guilty of having a role in the slaying of Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano, who let FBI agent Joe Pistone (posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco) infiltrate the family...
...Criminal Conglomerate The profile of Mafia don Joseph (Big Joey) Massino referred to the vision some members have of La Cosa Nostra as a "grand old society that the New World corrupted" [CRIME, March 29]. That sentimental view is not supported by a brief history of the Mob we published...
...Last Don Joseph Massino, the only New York Mafia boss who isn't doing hard time, now faces a murder trial. An in-depth report...
...Breitbart, there are two villains in the case. One is Vitale. The defense will argue that Vitale is a Judas, ready to fabricate any accusation to save himself and ruin Massino. The other malefactor--and here the attorney joins a chorus that includes civil libertarians, the baseball players union and Martha Stewart fans--is Attorney General John Ashcroft. "He's been bitching and moaning lately that not enough people are seeking the death penalty," Breitbart charges. "Ashcroft is dying to stick a needle in some white guy's arm." The first Mob lord executed by the state was Murder...