 Vittorio Amuso was born November 4, 1934 and grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn.In the late 1940s, he was introduced to Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, a prominent "caporegime" in the Gagliano crime family, a forerunner of the Lucchese crime family.Amuso acted as a bodyguard and chauffeur for Carmine Tramunti.