The last remaining case from the large New York mafia take down nearly four years ago is set to end with multiple plea deals.
Genovese crime family soldier Stephen Depiro along with two former International Longshoremen’s executives have agreed to plea deals for racketeering and extortion conspiracy charges. They were involved in a scheme run by Genovese family to collect “Christmas tribute” payments from hard working longshoremen in excessive of $3 Million dollars dating all way back to early 1980’s. It has been a long-running tradition for union controlled thugs to collect these mob Christmas tribute extortion payments from workers bonus checks known as “container royalty fund” checks.
“Stephen Depiro”
Depiro took over the waterfront shakedown scheme back in 2005 after former Genovese soldier Lawrence Ricci was whacked. Ricci was targeted for death by one time powerful Genovese capo Tino Fiumara who died of cancer back in 2010 who then appointed Depiro in his place. The feds began the current case into the Christmas tribute scheme after mob capo Michael “Mikey Cigars” Coppola was caught on a secret recording with a union member about the scheme and its history.
“Tino Fiumara”
Prosecutors also had taped conversations recorded back in 1998 between Fiumara and Depiro linking Depiro to the extortion payoffs. Court filings also show that prosecutors had lined up more then 25 longshoremen who had agreed to testify about the payments being made which often were made unwillingly under a threat of violence. The payments which were often up to $2000 per longshoremen were collected by mobbed up union officials and then passed along to Depiro and other Genovese family mobsters.
Santa’s bag of gifts is sure to be a little smaller this year for the Genovese family.
this makes me wonder what does the New York families control espissicaly the genovese and gambbinio familys.
Your right they def seem to be able to adapt on the fly and when hit in one area find another to latch on to. They have had control of multiple unions for years and even though the feds have done a lot of work and cleaned up many of them we still even today see certain families holding on to links to some very large unions and making money there. It is getting slimmer and slimmer but still there is mob influence all the same.
they have got rid of alot of the mob ifluence of 70s,80s but if ou lookat the early 2000s they got rid of quite a few mob controlled unions but thing that surprises me is if i had to say is the mob stronger now than it was ten years ago i would say now(i am only talking about NewYork here)
Oddly enough i think your probably right. I think most of the NY Families except for the Colombo’s have kind of re-established themselves a bit over last 5-10 years and are in better spots then they were then esp with less prying eyes from feds, now cutting back on OC task forces for terrorism. We see stable leadership now for the Gambino , Lucchese, and Genovese families and the Bonanno’s seem to be getting things together slowly having a little more trouble then those other 3.
year the bonannos after Joe Massimo fllipped i thought they were in big trouble but they have rebuilt themselves same kind of thing happenened after the donnie Brasco incident.
They are on track to recovring the reason i would still put them behind the other three is that Michael Mancuso who is the boss now is leading from prison meaning an unstable leadership
the colmbos are still a mess i thought they could be reorganizing but they keep losing top guys to informers
I am very fascinated with the Italian mafia, especially the Genovese family. I read a lot about all the families
The genovese family is one of the strongest of all the families because of the lackof rats they have had. They are also a very ruthless family. The genovese are one of the familys thats power has increased from the early 2000s. In the early 2000s alot of top guys were arrested and Vincent”chin” Gigante was leading the family from prison.The genovese family is very good at not getting in the press
As “The mafia” has pointed out one of the most powerful of the New York mafia families and really have adapted to doing business in this day and age better then most mob families. No surprise they were nicknamed the “Ivy League” of organized crime. Easily one of the more interesting groups.
I found this list of members its supposed to be current
2014 list Genovese
Boss:
Unknown
Acting Boss:
Unknown
Underboss:
Venero Mangano† (possibly retired)
Consiglieri:
Unknown
Caporegimes:
Antico,
Anthony
Aparo,
Salvatore†
Barbato,
John
Bellomo,
Liborio†
Bruschi,
Ludwig
Cirillo,
Dominick†
Coppola,
Michael†
De Vita,
Silvio
Dente,
Joseph Jr.
Dentico,
Lawrence†
Falcetti,
Pasquale
Gallo,
Albert†
Gangi,
Rosario†
Ianniello,
Conrad
Illiano,
Frank
La Scala,
Joseph† (Acting for Angelo Prisco)
Leo, Daniel
Longo, Alan†
Messera,
James
Muscarella,
Ernest
Parello,
Pasquale
Romanello,
Anthony
Tuzzo,
Charles†
Soldiers:
Albanese,
Elio
Alberti,
Vincent
Alfisi,
Steven
Andretta,
Steven
Aparo,
Vincent
Arena,
Steven
Auletta,
Nicholas
Balsamo,
Ralph
Battaglia,
Salvatore
Bellomo,
Liborio T.
Bernardone,
James
Bilella,
Joseph
Bonadonna,
Philip†
Buscemi,
Steve
Cappola,
Dominick†
Carbone,
Robert
Carollo,
Anthony
Casciano,
Louis
Centrullo,
Salvatore
Cerruto,
Alex
Cestaro,
Thomas
Cinciolli,
Junior
Colleti,
Victor
Conigliaro,
Alex
Conigliaro,
Anthony
Coraluzzo,
Orlando*†
Crincoli,
Michael
Curcio, Gus
De Froscia,
John
De Lio,
James
De Luca,
Michael
De Luca,
Pasquale
De Meo,
Frank
De Meo,
Salvatore
De Piro,
Joseph
De Vito,
Dominick
Dellacava,
Carmine
Dellisanti,
Daniel
Di Chiara,
Peter
Di Napoli,
Louis†
Di Salvo,
Vito†
Esposito,
Jerry
Esposito,
Salvatore†
Esposito,
Vincent
Fazio,
Anthony
Federici,
Anthony†
Franco,
Carmine
Frustaci,
Nicholas†
Fusco,
Emilio
Galizia,
Lawrence
Gagliardi,
John
Gargiulo,
Anthony
Generoso,
Michael†
Geraci, Paul
Geraci,
Salvatore
Giangrande,
John
Giardina,
Joseph Jr.
Gigante,
Mario*†
Giglio, John
Giovanelli,
Frederico†
Giovinco,
Frank
Grecco, Alan
Grecco,
Peter
Grisante,
Michael
Griziosi,
Michael
Gruttadauria,
Nicholas
Guadagno,
Gerard
Ida, James†
Ida, Joseph
La Puma,
Dominick†
Lapi,
Angelo†
Larca,
Salvatore
Leconte,
Peter
Macchio,
Onofrio
Malangone,
Alphonse†
Malangone,
Frank
Maltese,
Steven
Manna,
Louis*†
Manzi,
Giuseppe
Marino,
Ralph
Marrone,
John
Martino,
James
Miceli,
Ronald
Milano,
Robert
Montevecchi,
Ernest
Monti,
Frank†
Negri,
Anthony
Nicastro,
Dominick
Nigro,
Arthur
Olivieri,
Junior
Pagano,
Daniel†
Palumbo,
Anthony†
Perrone,
James
Perrotta,
Ciro
Petrozza,
Rocco
Pietranico,
Dominick
Pisapa,
Anthony
Pontoriero,
Joseph
Prisco,
Angelo
Pucciarello,
Anthony
Pugliano,
Frank
Quardiria,
Nicholas
Queli,
Joseph
Ragusa,
Michael
Rizzo, Louis
Jr.
Rogina, Paul
Romano,
Carmine†
Romano,
Vincent
Rotolo,
Anthony
Ruggiero,
Louis
Russo,
Carmine
Saggese,
Colombo
Salzano,
Charles
Santobello,
Rudolph†
Sarcinella,
Joseph
Scaffidi,
Michael
Sciarra,
Michael
Trentacosta,
Charles
Varicchicho,
Robert
Vasfailo,
Frank
Vigorito,
Fred†
Zanfardino,
Michael
Zarzana,
Salvatore
Zito,
Salvatore
Zitto, Joseph
there is a list of the knowen Genovese family members on this website in the mafia family leadership charts at the top of the page but yes thanks for the information.
i think the boss is either
Daniel Leo
or
Liborio Bellomo
Bellomo def holds a ton of power and influence inside the Genovese family and would think he has a say in many of the decisions made if he isn’t officially the boss. Have to give the Genovese family credit over last few years for staying low key and quiet enough to have everyone guessing as to who is really calling the shots, these days that goes a long way to keeping those guys on streets and not being as big a target for the feds.
From wot the Feds think , the genovese family r being run by a 6 man rotating panel consisting of , liborio bellomo , Daniel Leo , ernie muscarella , john barbeto. , Dominic cirillo and Larry dentico
I have seen that report as well and seems like that is prob the case although the way the Genovese family stays low key its hard to know for sure if one voice like that of maybe Bellomo doesn’t stand above the rest per say when comes down to a final call.
Yeah defo sharp , my bet either bellomo or muscarella
Bellomo is defo the power in the family , but how much of a hands on guy he is , is debatable . It’s been said that bellomo has pulled bak a lot from genovese family business since the death of his wife at a young age a few years ago
yearh he likes to stay in the shadows so would not be susprised if he would rather let some one else take the police scrutiny of being the boss
The smart guys always want to stay off the radar no doubt about it. Lot of guys in quite a few families on the rise we have yet to hear about i think because they are smart enough to not make waves for as long as possible.
I think he may not be in a hurry to actually hold an official rank of a leadership position knowing full well it makes him a bigger target but i would imagine he holds the same influences and power with in the family as he would of he were under boss or boss etc. Def one of the families top guys on the streets.
Yeah bellomo was made at a very young age , he was made in 77 in the same ceremony as allie shades , Angelo prisco , punchy illiano and Albert Gallo
Thanks for checking in mobfan and that seems to be a pretty indepth list. The Genovese family is definitely hard to track leadership wise because they do such a great job staying low key and off the radar. For past few years they have played a kind of musical chairs thing keeping everyone somewhat guessing as who is officially the boss of the family or perhaps if its being run by a leadership group or panel.