Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles.
January - Commission Case The Bosses of the 5 New York Families
- The Commission - are sentenced. All 8 defendants return to court
to hear Judge Richard Owen hand down the sentences. All 6 Bosses,
Genovese Boss (Front Boss) Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno-100 years,
Lucchese Boss Antonio "Tony Ducks" Corallo-100 years, Lucchese
Underboss Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro-100 years, Lucchese
Consigliere Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari-100 years, Colombo
Boss Carmine Junior" Persico-100 years, Colombo Acting
Boss/Underboss Gennaro "Jerry Lang" Langella-100 years. The other 2
Colombo soldier Ralph Scopo-100 years, Bonanno soldier Anthony
"Bruno" Indelicato-45 years
January 15 - Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, Boss of the
Philadelphia crime family, is
arrested and charged with planning an extortion scheme with a city
councilman. Scarfo is ordered by Federal Magistrate Edwin E.
Naythons to be held without bail as public danger pending his
eventual trial.
January 16 - Bonanno crime family Boss Philip "Rusty" Rastelli is convicted of
labor racketeering over a 20 year period between 1964 until 1985
and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.
January 20 - Former Teamsters Union President Roy L. Williams' appeal before the U.S. Parole Commission on the grounds of
ill health is denied, ordering the 71-year-old former labor union
leader to serve his full prison term. Williams, who had been
imprisoned for conspiring to bribe a U.S. Senator, will eventually
be released from prison on May 31, 1992.
February - Pasquale "Paddy Bulldog" Varriale, a minor gambler
and con artist, is killed after receiving $10,000 from the Bonanno
crime family, and later backing out of, an agreement to bribe a
juror connected to the Pizza Connection case. His brother
Carmine Varriale, a made
man within the Lucchese crime family, would be
murdered in September.
March 2 - The defendants of the "Pizza Connection" are officially
convicted of drug trafficking after being found guilty by a New
York jury. Another 175 mobsters and their Sicilian counterparts are
eventually indicted in the aftermath of the federal investigation.
In Italy, only Vito Badalamenti, the son of Sicialian
mafioso and former Cupola chairman and Capo di tutti
capiGaetano "Don Tano" Badalamenti, would be
acquitted.
March 10 - After four years as a government informant,
Cleveland mobster Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo's prison sentence
is reduced to time served by U.S. District Court Judge John Mandos
and is released on 5 years probation.
March 12 - Illario "Larry Baiona" Zannino, Consigliere of the
Patriarca crime family, is
sentenced to a consecutive 30 years imprisonment on illegal
gambling and extortion charges. During the trial Zannino publicly
threatened, and later apologized to the jurors.
April 29 - William Ciccone, a mentally ill Ozone Park, Queens
resident, fired a shot at Gambino crime family boss John Gotti outside the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club.
Ciccone was apprehended, taken to a Staten Island candy store and
tortured and murdered by associate Joe Watts. Former soldier
Dominic "Fat Dom" Borghese testified that Watts pumped six bullets
into Ciccone's head.
May 19 - A U.S. District Court clerk, Mildred Carmella Russo,
is indicted by a Federal grand jury and charged with supplying
information to members of the Gambino crime family for more than
a decade.
August 4 - Philadelphia mobster Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, along with
6 associates, pled not guilty to charges of conspiracy and murder
in 1 of 3 gangland slayings, including the July 1985 murder of
Frank "Flowers" D'Alfonso.
October 21 - Sicilian mafioso and nephew of Gaetano
Badalamenti, Pietro Alfano, whose Oregon, Illinois pizzeria was the
center of Midwest drug trafficking operations for the Pizza
Connection, was convicted for narcotics conspiracy and
sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Among those convicted include
Salvatore Lamberti and Giuseppe Lamberti who each receive twenty
years.
Wikis
Map
Search
