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...Aniello Dellacroce, which in Italian means "little lamb of the cross," and he took pleasure in killing people. "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death," a federal agent once said of the Mafia chieftain. As underboss of the Gambino clan, the most powerful of New York's five families, he was a member and chief enforcer of "the Commission," the 11-member council that reputedly oversees organized crime around the U.S. Occasionally disguised as a priest under the alias of Father O'Neill, a play...
...that the caption failed to point out that Dellacroce had been acquitted of the 1974 killing. Editors at the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune blue- penciled mention of the Calise murder. The Daily News, for example, simply called Dellacroce "underboss of Gambino family," a designation the paper based on past testimony by federal prosecutors...
...aging leaders of the Mafia's New York crime families, the clean sheets of a hospital room looked much more inviting last week than the cold bars of the Metropolitan Correctional Center. FBI agents watching the Staten Island home of Aniello Dellacroce, 70, saw the longtime underboss of the Gambino family moving normally about the residence. But when agents 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...
...most of the Mob's muscle is concentrated. After a five-year investigation, a Brooklyn-based federal organized- crime strike force headed by Edward McDonald brought indictments against the Lucchese family and two officers of Mafia-dominated Teamsters Union locals. The indictment charges that Salvatore Santoro, 69, a Lucchese underboss, other gang members and Teamster officials extorted more than $246,000 from companies handling air freight at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The gangsters allegedly bragged that "we rule the airport," and shook down the trucking firms in return for promises of peaceful labor relations...
...Palm Springs, Calif., retreat. The four, according to investigators, were Accardo, 79, the longtime Chicago boss, who suffers from cancer and heart trouble; Joseph Aiuppa, 77, the operating chief, who has a bad heart and is rumored to suffer from throat cancer; John (Jackie) Cerone, 70, the Chicago underboss, who has been indicted with Aiuppa for allegedly skimming Las Vegas casino profits; and Joseph ("Joe Nagaul") Ferriola, 58, who heads the Mob's gambling operations in Chicago and has had heart-bypass surgery...