See more ideas about Crime family, Mobster, Mafia. "Mob Money", originally airing on CNBC on June 23, 2010. [16] In retaliation, Vincent Palermo decided to have Majuri murdered. DeCavalcante oversaw illegal gambling, loansharking, and labor racketeering in New Jersey. Circa 1965-1995. Goldstock, Ronald, Martin Marcus and II Thacher. [17] This was the fourth indictment of the family since 1999. [26][27] Stango reportedly wanted Nigro and associate Paul Colella to get permission from the New Jersey hierarchy to kill Luigi Oliveri, but the murder was not committed because Stango did not get an answer. Having only served one short prison term in his long underworld career, I dare say that “Sam the Count”, by my account and that of many, lived a charmed life as a top mafioso….. RIP Sam! Simone Rizzo DeCavalcante (1912 - 1997), known as Sam the Plumber, was a member of the New Jersey mafia. The Commission decided to divide up his territory among the Five Families and Badami's Elizabeth family.[10]. Longtime soldier Joseph Miranda took over the family as acting boss around early 2005. The official criminal organization began with Simone DeCavalcante, known as "Sam the Plumber" and "The Count". [12] In retaliation, Vincent Palermo decided to have Majuri murdered. He would live very comfortably in semi-retirement in the coming decades, occasionally traveling back up to New Jersey to visit blood family and check on how his other “Family” was doing, collecting his tithe in the process. D'Amato was later revealed to have participated in homosexual acts and was murdered in 1992. For the next year or so, the Fee-Bee’s would listen to every single word spoken between Sam, his partner and secretary Harriet (who, by the way, happened to be Sam’s mistress) and a gaggle of mafiosi, corrupt policemen, local politicians, and businessmen who looked to curry favor with Sam. The borgata’s headquarters was situated in the town of Elizabeth, and the Family’s main power base had always been Local # 394 – Hod Carriers of the Laborers Union of North America. Simone DeCavalcante, a.k.a. The government complied! [1] The Kefauver hearings later named his crime family the DeCavalcante crime family since he was the boss of the family at the time of those hearings. Indictment Names 20, https://covert-history.wikia.org/wiki/DeCavalcante_crime_family?oldid=5477. He testified before a congressional committee – and the world – about a nefarious entity known as the Mafia – and only a few years after the infamous underworld barbecue at Apalachin in 1957 where 62 of the country’s most notorious mafiosi were apprehended. Later, it compounded tenfold inadvertently by Sam’s lawyers, who while fighting a criminal case for him, demanded all evidence the government had (so-called “discovery material”) which they were entitled to. He doubled the number of made men within his family during the 60s. [5], Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, The Mafia in New Jersey – Cosa Nostra – State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation 1970 Report, Midnight Plumbers: Famous Plumbers – Sam Decavalcante, List of Italian-American mobsters by organization, Collaborations between the United States government and Italian Mafia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam_DeCavalcante&oldid=985093756, People from Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 October 2020, at 22:31. [14], In 2001, 20 mobsters were charged with racketeering, seven murders, 14 murder conspiracies, attempted murder, extortion in the construction industry and stock fraud. During Guarino's time as an informant, fellow mobster Joseph Masella was gunned down on the orders of Vincent Palermo. Template:Pp-semi The downfall of the DeCavalcante family was precipitated in 1998, when an associate named Ralph Guarino became an FBI informant, in an effort to avoid a long prison sentence in connection with taking part with two others in a heist of $1.6 million from the World Trade Center. Entire transcripts of tapes of the secret recordings were printed for the public to read…. As Delmore kept running the organization before he became ill in the early 1960s, the rebellious times of New Jersey had finally ended. Nick Delmore later died in 1964, and his nephew Simone DeCavalcante was quickly installed as new boss of the newly official recognized "DeCavalcante crime family" of North Jersey. View and manage file attachments for this page. In 1969, after compiling almost 2,300 transcript pages of taped conversations, the FBI released them to the public.[3]. Infighting, jealousy and murder plots among the membership would also eat away at this once proud Cosa Nostra Family. Since then, several other top mobsters agreed to become government witnesses in exchange for being given lenient or no sentences at all. He was also known as “The Count”. He rose to power in 1964, and he was incarcerated in 1969. [13] Palermo realized that they would likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars and decided to cooperate with the FBI in exchange for a lenient sentence. The business of crime: Italians and syndicate crime in the United States. After acting boss Amari's death, Riggi organized a three man ruling panel in 1998 to run the day-to-day business of the crime family. 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His activities included policy, bookmaking, shylocking, labor union rackets, extortion, dice and card games, bribery and official corruption, and strong-arm. Humbert S. Nelli. He would reside for the rest of his days. It was a smooth, bloodless transition of power, somewhat unique to Cosa Nostra. Organized Crime in America: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. Washington, D.C.: U.S. [17] This resulted in the arrest of 12 more men less than a year later. In 1965, the FBI would surreptitiously install a hidden microphone in Sam’s plumbing company office. Living in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, but working in Newark, DeCavalcante commanded around 60 mafiosi. There was also Abner Zwillman, a Jewish gangster operating in Newark, and the Philadelphia crime family operating in South Jersey. He owned Kenilworth Heating and Air Conditioning in Kenilworth, New Jersey as a legal front and source of taxable income, for which he gained the nickname "Sam the Plumber". He relocated to Sicily and was replaced by Nicholas "Nick" Delmore. All was seemingly settled until Amari became ill and died slowly of stomach cancer in 1997. DeCavalcante stepped down as Boss officially in 1980, passing leadership to Riggi,[7] who had been a business agent of the "International Association of Laborers and Hod Carriers", in New Jersey for years. [19] With the decline of the DeCavalcante family, New York's Five Families have taken over many of the rackets in northern New Jersey.