John “The Eagle” Riggi the longtime reputed boss of the New Jersey mafia family known as the DeCavalcante Crime Family passed away on Monday at the age of 90.
John Riggi had a long history in Cosa Nostra dating all the way back to the 1940’s when he became a member of the DeCavalcante family. He functioned as a captain in the New Jersey mob in control of the families Elizabeth crew for years. He held the rank of acting boss during the 1970’s taking over the position officially around 1980. Riggi was a business agent for Laborers Local 394 for years and was described by many as a gentleman.
“John Riggi“
During his reign as boss he was known to have close ties to families of the New York Mafia specifically the Gambino Crime Family and now deceased boss John Gotti. He ran the family following the old school traditions of the mafia establishing very lucrative construction and labor rackets, illegal gambling and loan sharking operations, and even vast amounts of legit income. Until 1989 when Riggi along with several other DeCavalcante family mobsters were indicted on labor racketeering charges which led to his conviction. He continued to run the family while in prison through a ruling panel.
The New Jersey Mafia family would begin to crumble after Riggi’s imprisonment behind immense law enforcement pressure and internal problems. He would be released in 2012 after a two decade long prison stint that seen him hit with further charges while surving his original sentence. He remained the “official boss” of the DeCavalcante family although in name only as the family is now being run by heir apparent Sicilian born mobster Frank Guarraci.
Some say guarraci stood down and they voted Charlie majuri in as boss , either way there still structured and very active , in the recent indictment Charlie stagno was indicted as a captain and frank nigro was the new consigliere , replacing Stefano vitabile
Dom look at my post on gangster bb its people talking rubbish Charles is a capo he is 75 years old. The wiretaps in 2015 Charles stagno indictment say the sicilans are in charge and the 2010 shake down indicment against frank guarraci said this aswell.
The hierarchy of the organization is Frank gurraci as boss the consgliere is frank nigro the capos are joey merlo, loui consalvo, Charles stagno, Charles majuir and one unidentified capo but in the charles stagno indicments on tape Charles stagno wanted to kill him and a soldier who is now thought to be by Jerry capeci lugi “dog” olveri a made guy frank gurraci through frank nigro gave permission for charles to kill the soldier Luigi but declined killing the capo because there was no one to replace him with. Lugi insulted frank guarraci in front of a load mobsters part of the reason they tried to kill him
That hierarchy definitely makes most sense and seems to fit most of the information out there.
Guarraci would make the most sense , he has been acting boss for a while and they r under the gambinos , guaracci and the gambinos r Sicilian
Frank is the bossn the state police confirmed it twice in a 2006 and 2010 and the feds in 2015 majuir is 75 and a old man who is taking a step back everyday a capo that’s it
Have seen chatter of both he and Majuri being boss as well as a power sharing type/ruling panel situation in Jersey now. I agree and think Guarraci seems like he holds the power in the family now and is most likely the new boss or soon to be officially. His Sicilian links to the Gambino’s etc make more sense then Majuri who as TM mentioned seems to be stepping away some and not looking to move up due to age.
Dom what happened they banned me I thought you were sorting things out
Your kidding , why wot happened ?? They wouldn’t ban u for nothing , unless u were abusive or something , that’s just strange
I did not do anything it said I was a troll Dom ask them what I did I emailed them I don’t have a clue what I did it is ridiculous because I was new
Dom ask the guy who is in charge say that I am not the hacker. I was just talking to serp then it went
Dom say to the guys what happened the board they will listen to you it said “get your trolling crap out of here” what did I do to troll anyone
I will try and sort it out
Thanks I appreciate that if you can get the message to serp he knows who I am he will tell them aswell
Ok to put this out there charles majuri is not the boss that was rubbish that some reporter wrote proof?
http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-nj/legacy/2015/03/12/Stango%2C%20Charles%20et%20al.%20Complaint.pdf
Here is the charles stagno 2015 indicment now if you go past the first few pages you see the wiretaps Charles stagno says the boss of the family is called “milk” now milk is frank gurraci nickname and he says the siclians are in charge of the family he says they have history in the family going back to the beginning of the family they say he is old school and like the siclilans from the old days.
Scott on his gangster report site says Frank is boss
http://gangsterreport.com/beep-beep-nj-mob-capo-beeps-stango-decalvacante-consigliere-nigo-indicted/
Jerry capeci says frank is boss I can’t post that it’s against the rules.
In 2010 frank gurraci was charged with extortion he was confirmed as boss then he got 6 months
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/08/head_of_mob_crime_family_nj_ma.html
The gambino family is run by sicilians according to the tapes the decavacate family is run under them it makes sense that both leaderships sicilians with strong connections are close.
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State police confirmed in 2006 in a interview that they believed Joe miranda had stepped down and Frank guarraci was boss
Guaracci is being backed by the gambinos , majuri has backing in the family and has strong support from the lucchese and genovese families in northern Jersey . I think ultimately guaracci will come out on top but with riggi now dead , majuri might fancy the top spot , as u all prob know he is a wily old bastard
majuri i don’t think wants it i mean he is 75 but like you said he is sneaky guy and if he is the same guy from the 90s well then he will want it i mean the guy was planning on whacking those guys back in the 90s he would love the top spot but like you said i think frank will be boss and the westide might back him but he is too old anyway he is 75 frank is early 60s right age for the job frank will end up on top unless he gets indicted which is a possibility they are looking at him and the decavancte family
I 100% think majuri is gonna make a play for boss , I think he wants to emulate his father . Yeah he is mid 70s but so what , look at the powers in the genovese family and sonny franseze and Albert facchiano , age is a number . Solly D delaurentis is older and has just been installed as boss of the Chicago outfit .
true solly D situation is differant they asked him to be boss he did not ask for it but your right It is normal for the westside for the powers to be 73+ He could make a play for it but if he does he will end up dead the family is under gambinos for a reason if he tries to change things could defo get messy and the capos wont back him either stagno was saying how old school frank is and the respect he has but does majuri have the following ? sure he was close with couple guys who are with the westside so what louie consalvo for instance he used to operate in Manhatten for the decavs he has MAJOR connections to the five familys and he backs frank. Phil Abramo in prison backs frank phil has been promised underboss. Joey merlo i am unsure who he backs but doubt it is majuri when he i very close with louie and phil who both back frank. Frank Nigro backs frank gurraci which means stagno also backs frank gurraci.
Maybe the capo descirbed in the stagno tapes will back him i hope he does not make it to the top he is bad news franks been the top guy since 2006 he turned 60 recently he has a future he knows the streets and the people majuri is a trouble maker who if at 75 he still wants the job who in the 90s nearlly got whacked who sneaks out of everything then my opionen of the decavacntes are alot lower i think the gambinos would go nuts as well if majuri tried anything
did you hear about the trouble riggi caused when he got out haha made me laugh most of those guys were in diapers when riggi
was the boss i mean the decavantes have a lot of young kids at the moment i bet riggi hardly even recognized the family like frank was only made in 1997
riggi caused chaos when inducted lugi olveri into the family haha the old guy could not stay out of the game 89 nearly blind and he inducted the guy into the family the guys on the street who are active eg Charles stagno went nuts riggi was the official boss so in theory he was allowed to do that but he was making no decisions on the street the guys were fuming its why stagno did not value is inducton