What was the real name of Frankie Breeze whom Nicholas Calabrese testified against along with Joseph Lombardo and James Marcello.
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Nicholas Calabrese Nicholas W. Calabrese (born November 30, 1942) is the first made man ever to testify against the Chicago Outfit. His testimony and cooperation with federal prosecutors helped result in the 2007 murder convictions of mobsters Joseph Lombardo, James Marcello and his brother, Frank Calabrese Sr.
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Frank Calabrese Sr. Frank Calabrese Sr. (March 17, 1937 – December 25, 2012), also known as "Frankie Breeze", was a made man and a caporegime who ran major loansharking and illegal gambling operations for the Chicago Outfit. He is best known as a central figure in Operation Family Secrets and the subsequent Federal trial. Calabrese, who was battling a myriad of ailments, died on Christmas Day 2012 at the Federal Medical Center, Butner, in North Carolina.
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Mario Riccobene Mario "Sonny" Riccobene (1933-1993, New Jersey) was a member of the Philadelphia crime family. He later became a federal witness after his son committed suicide with the fear of being killed from Nicodemo Scarfo and his fellow gangsters. He later returned to his old lifestyle and in 1993 murdered by his old associates. Riccobene had been in the witness protection program but eventually removed from the program because he was unable to follow the rules.
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Francesco Marino Mannoia Francesco Marino Mannoia (born March 5, 1951) is a former member of the Sicilian Mafia who became a pentito (government witness) in 1989. His nickname was "Mozzarella". He is considered to be one of the most reliable government witnesses against the Mafia. Antimafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone, who was first to interrogate him, recalled Marino Mannoia as an intelligent and reliable witness.
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Angelo DeCarlo Angelo "Gyp" DeCarlo (September 2, 1902 – October 20, 1973) was a member of the New York City Genovese crime family who dominated loansharking operations in New Jersey during the 1960s.
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Vito Genovese Vito "Don Vitone" Genovese (November 27, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-American mobster who rose to power during Prohibition as an enforcer in the American Mafia. A long time associate of Charles Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped shape the rise of the Mafia and organized crime in the United States. He would later lead Luciano's crime family, which was renamed the Genovese crime family, for 12 years.
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Frankie Carbo Paul John Carbo (born Paolo Giovanni Carbo on August 10, 1904 – died November 22, 1976), better known as "Frankie Carbo", was a New York City Mafia soldier in the Lucchese crime family, who operated as a boxing promoter and a gunman with Murder, Inc.
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Frankie Brady Frankie Brady is a fictional character on the American soap opera "Days of Our Lives".
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Mafia–Camorra War The Mafia–Camorra War was a gang war in New York City that lasted from 1915-1917. On one side was the originally Sicilian Morello crime family of Manhattan, on the other side were gangs originally from Naples and the surrounding Campania region, based in Navy Street in Brooklyn and Coney Island referred to as the Camorra. The fight over the control of the New York rackets started after the killing of Giosue Gallucci, the undisputed "King of Little Italy", and his son on May 17, 1915. The trials that followed in 1918 completely smashed the Camorra gangs, the protection that they enjoyed was demolished from the testimonies of their own men. It was the end of the Camorra in New York and the rise in power of American-based Sicilian Mafia groups.
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John Franzese Jr. John Franzese Jr. is a former associate of the Colombo crime family and son of underboss John Franzese. He is notable for being the first New York mobster's son to turn state's evidence and testify against his father. Part of the agreement he made with the FBI prior to agreeing to testify is that he wouldn't profit from his story as a mafia figure. He was allegedly also responsible for his father's fourth parole violation, but was accepted back into his confidence after denying the allegations in tears, saying, "I would never do that, no matter what kind of trouble I had."
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Frank Coppa Anthony Coppa Sr. (born September 11, 1941) is a Sicilian-American gangster in the Bonanno crime family who was a close friend of Joseph Massino and Frank Lino and made large sums of money in stock fraud schemes. In 2002, Coppa became the first Bonanno made man to turn state's evidence.
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Carlos Marcello Carlos Marcello, also known as The Godfather and "The Little Man" Marcello (February 6, 1910 – March 2, 1993), was a Sicilian-American mafioso who became the boss of the New Orleans crime family during the 1940s and held this position for the next thirty years.
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George Appo George Washington Appo (born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 4, 1856; died in New York City on May 17, 1930) was a pickpocket and fraudster whose manner of speech in a testimony became influential in depictions of criminals. George himself wrote an autobiography, unpublished, and became the subject of a book. His father was a criminally insane Chinese American called "Quimbo Appo", Chinese name "Lee Ah Bow", while his mother, Catherine Fitzpatrick, was an Irish American. The origins of this criminal led a Louis Beck to present Appo as a story warning against "miscegenation".
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Pasquale Conte Pasquale Conte (born March 12, 1925), also known as "Patsy", was a New York mobster who became a caporegime with the Gambino crime family Conte was replaced by Domenico Cefalu as capo in 1994 and was subsequently "shelved" by the administration.
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Joseph Corozzo Joseph "Jo Jo" Corozzo, Sr. (born in1942 on Pitkin Avenue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn) is a New York mobster who was the reputed consigliere of the Gambino crime family.
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James Napoli James "Jimmy Nap" Napoli (November 4, 1911 – December 29, 1992) was a New York mobster who was a Caporegime in the Genovese crime family. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he controlled one of the largest illegal gambling operations in the United States.
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Domenico Libri Domenico Libri (Reggio Calabria, May 24, 1934 – Naples, May 1, 2006), also known as Don Mico, was an Italian criminal and a member of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria. He was a fugitive since June 1989 and included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy until his capture in September 1992. At the time he was considered to be the 'Ndrangheta’s number one.
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Phillip Kastel Phillip "Dandy Phil" Kastel (April 2, 1893 – August 16, 1962) was an American mobster, gambler, and longtime associate of the Genovese crime family.
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Jackie DiNorscio Giacomo "Jackie" DiNorscio (July 20, 1940 – November 14, 2004) was a member of the Philadelphia and later the Lucchese crime families. DiNorscio died near the end of the shooting of the film "Find Me Guilty", which portrayed his participation as his own lawyer (pro se) in "United States v. Anthony Accetturo et al." RICO trial, famous for being the longest federal trial in history (at 21 months). This trial was conducted while DiNorscio was already incarcerated on separate drug charges. He was ultimately found not guilty (as well as his fellow co-defendants) after a short deliberation of the jury. After the trial, DiNorscio went back to prison; he was released on November 23, 2002, after serving 17.5 years of a 30-year sentence.
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Joseph Cantalupo Joseph "Joey" Cantalupo was an American Mafia associate from the Colombo Crime Family and later for being government informant.
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Leonard DiMaria Leonard "Lenny" DiMaria (born 1941), also known as "Prateek" and "the Conductor", is a New York mobster and Caporegime in the Gambino crime family. He is considered by law enforcement to be a close associate of Nicholas Corozzo and has served as his right-hand-man for almost 30 years.
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Frank Palermo Frank "Blinky" Palermo (1905–1996) was an organized crime figure who surreptitiously owned prize-fighters and fixed fights; he was best known for fixing the Jake LaMotta-Billy Fox fight in 1947. An associate of the Philadelphia crime family, Palermo also ran the City of Brotherly Love's biggest numbers racket.