 As head of the Local 359 USW, Lanza threatened wholesalers with delays in loading and unloading perishable goods resulting in profits of $20 million from the Fulton Fish Market alone.He is the father of Colombo crime family mob associate Harry Lanza born May 4, 1950 who died in 2007 in Hyde Park, New York.Although convicted of labor racketeering in 1938, Lanza became an important figure in safeguarding New York's waterfront during the early 1940s.