Word: rastelli
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...arrived to arrest him, Dellacroce claimed to be sick and was taken to Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He joined Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, 72, boss of the Lucchese family, who had anticipated his imminent arrest and checked in earlier, claiming to be suffering from chest pains. Philip ("Rusty") Rastelli, 67, the Bonanno family don, complained in court that he too felt chest pains and was rushed to Beekman Downtown Hospital, where doctors found him well enough to return to jail. Ralph Scopo, 56, a reputed soldier in the Colombo family and regional president of a concrete workers' union...
After being paroled in 1974, Galante took over control of the Mafia family once run by Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, who retired to Tucson, Ariz., in 1964. At first, Interim Boss Philip Rastelli was unwilling to step aside. Gunmen killed his stepson, James Fernandes, on a Brooklyn street. Rastelli...