Does anyone have any info of this guy other than he was nicky barnes supplier and later was on the lucheses administration before crea took over.I know hes done a fuckload of prison time and and was in for murder when he met Nicky Barnes then did 20 years for drugs and is now has more charges to fight with dinapoli over that gambling ring

Can you guys imagine how much money MM made in the 70s.Basicly every black junkie who shot up was using his specific heroin..I think he got his H from carmine galante

I think hes a capo or something before he was arrested.

when he was arrested was a an associate,when come out of jail became soldier in 1998 e short after became a capo.

He is a real stand up guy

From wikipedia

Matthew Madonna (November 2, 1935Selden, New York) is a caporegime with the Lucchese crime family who was heavily involved in narcotics trafficking and bribery of government officials
In 1959, while serving a sentence at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in Upstate New York, Madonna became acquainted with Nicky Barnes, a young drug dealer from Harlem.
After their release from prison, Madonna started supplying large quantities of heroin to Barnes. Madonna would drop off a car with a trunk full of heroin at a Manhattan parking lot. Barnes would pick up the heroin later and exchange it for cash. A few days later, Madonna would return to pick up the car with the cash. Madonna and Barnes continued this arrangement until 1975, when Madonna was arrested for drug trafficking.On December 21, 1976, Madonna was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
In December 1981, while still in prison, Madonna received a summons to testify before a grand jury about narcotics activity in the New York area. In two appearances before the grand jury, Madonna refused to testify, even after being granted immunity from self-incrimination. The judge finally held Madonna in contempt of court. Madonna received an extra 528 days added to his sentence.

In 1995, after serving 20 years in prison, Madonna was released from Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. Around 1998, Madonna was inducted into the Lucchese crime family as a reward for his silence and to assist his return to earning money for the family.Shortly thereafter, Madonna became a capo. Madonna was sent to prison again, but released in September 2003.
After the convictions of family leaders Steven Crea, Louis Daidone, Dominic Truscello and the cooperation of former acting boss Joseph DeFede, the Luccheses established a three-man ruling panel to govern the family. Madonna, along with Aniello Migliore and Joseph DiNapoli headed the panel. After the release of Crea from prison, the panel was disbanded so that Crea can take over the family.

Current position

On December 18, 2007, New Jersey law enforcement indicted and arrested Madonna and 32 other members and associates of the Lucchese family. In a year-long investigation titled "Operation Heat" law enforcement agencies uncovered a $2.2 billion dollar illegal gambling, money laundering and racketeering ring. The scheme involved collecting bets from of gamblers on basketball, football, greyhound races and the lottery. The mob collected bets over the Internet and by phone from a location in Costa Rica.Along with Madonna ruling panel member Joseph DiNapoli and top New Jersey Faction capos Ralph V. Perna and Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. were indicted.

In 2008, the Village Voice reported that Madonna was an employee of Big Geyser, Inc, New York's largest distributor of healthy and cutting-edge beverages. It was speculated that this was a "no show" position for Madonna.

On October 1, 2009 Madonna was indicted along with Joseph DiNapoli and 27 others in a large racketeering scheme. The indictment stated that Madonna was a key player in a vast operation that grossed approximately $400 million from illegal gambling, loansharking, gun trafficking and extortion.A second part of the indictment charged that Madonna and other Lucchese mobsters ran a bribery scheme among New York City building inspectors.On June 28, 2010, Madonna and the other defendants pleaded not guilty to all charges.
As of August 2011, Madonna is on trial for both the 2007 and 2009 indictments. He is free on bail.

Furio, thanks for the concise and comprehensive post!!!

lol.big geyser...that company has switched hands more times than i can count.lol.

in all seriousness,mattys a serious guy. and yes, your right about buying his drugs from galante. during those days there were maybe two guys who moved that kind of weight.

He wasnt supplied by galante. Madonna was arrested and convicted between 1975-76 and Galante had only just been released in 74 so they wouldnt have been working together considering that barnes and madonna had been operating since the late 1960s when galante was still in prison.

Well think about this has jail ever stopped these grinders wether he's in the can or on the street ppl do his bidding...an jail has never slowed him down if he was on the street his ppl would have done the deals for him or in prison

Just saying I don't no facts

Galante moved more H from jail back in the '60s and early '70s, just on his name, than you can possibly fathom.

the two probably never even met. Madonna was importing the stuff himself or was working with the french connection, Galante really only reached his peak during the late 70s but then he was killed. Madonna was actually convicted of importation himself and ive read a few articles where he was referred to as a smuggler.Also i dont think galante liked that black gangster like barnes had taken over the heroin business within the city.

Galante hated Blacks. Well known fact.

exactly
Galante would have seen madonna as more of an enemy.Barnes was buying heroin wholesale and then cutting it up for retail sales on the street which pushed alot of middle men out, most likely italians who would have been selling it after stepping on it a bunch of times to blacks on the street level. I think that galante would have resented that.

It's funny how guys like Matthew Madonna and John Gambino ran these huge heroin Empires and still saw the light of day. It seems a lot of kingpins are getting life now for that shit

you know he wasnt supplied by galante but you cant say who exactly? thats a dumb arguement.i couldnt tell you an exact number,but i know for a fact he was able to sell five keys every two to three weeks.just to one customer. during the time galante was in that business. he was number one.

I dont understand how thats a dumb argument(if it is even an argument). All i was saying was that madonna was not getting his heroin from galante.

galante had his whole crew selling weight.whether he was in prison or not, he sold to madonna.

Madonna had connections to pleasant avenue and his brother frank was also a heroin supplier since the 1950s. In harlem you had guys like carmine tramunti, louis inglese who were all convicted of heroin smuggling during the early 1970s so the idea that galante was the sole supplier of heroin to new york at that time before he was released is a bit far fetched.

not what i said.needless to say some of those 'pleasant avenue' guys got there product from 'knickerbocker ave'.

Some??

I ain't laughing at you, Sit. Just at the way you understated it .

See what i mean there is very little on MM other than he was a big time heroin dealer.Even the guys that flipped in the lucheses could never explain how MM became a capo in such a short period of time considering he was made in the late 90s then within a decade he is on the ruiling panel.Im guessing he was stricly a junk man and had no need to do scores or run book.

Is this guy married or have kids or is he like dom cefulu.

By far one of the most interesting gangsters.but dont worry mobsters is probably working on another 6 gotti episodes because the other 256813235 documentries about him isnt enough lol

he became skipper because he was close to the right people and he is stand up. making tons of money helps too.lol.

Stood up is an under statement how much time did he actually do

He proved he was no rat I think I read he did 25 all.together

I guess you could be right. He was probably wholesaling whilst in prison and then when he came out he was trying to take over all the distribution networks on the street which is what led to his feuds with the gambinos and then assassination. Madonna definatley would have been an enemy considering he was supplying barnes who had locked down harlem which was basically the largest market in the city.

According to this article, found in the Utica Press Dec 22, 1976, Madonna imported his heroin from Bangkok, Thailand. At least that was what he was convicted of.

"Convicted Man Draws Maximum Term"

"A 41- year-old Bronx man
convicted with two others
of conspiring to smuggle 12
pounds of heroin from
Bangkok to New York, was
sentenced Tuesday to a
maximum term of 30 years
in prison and fined
$50 000.
In imposing the sentence
on Matthew Madonna,
Judge Robert L Carter
said it was the "hardest
sentence I have ever inflicted
and hope never to
have to impose again".
The sentence consisted
of 15 years each on two
counts to run consecutive
and a $25,000 fine on each
count and was the maximum
the court could have
imposed.
Salvatore Larca 32, also
of the Bronx who Judge
Carter characterized as a
"junior partner" in the
conspiracy, also received
two 15 year terms but to
run concurrently
The third man, Richard
Klinger 34 of Orange-
Calif, was sentenced to six
months in prison and
placed on probation for 18
months. The judge said
there was no evidence
Klinger had been involved
in a large scale operation."

HA! Knew i was right .

All that dope coming in with fallen soldiers; Frank Lucas was a liar but he did do a lot of big time shit. In the movie doesn't he just go up to Nicky Barnes in the middle of the street and blow his head off lol. If you watch Nicky Barnes or his younger protege on Netflix the tv serious American Gangster its pretty funny the superflhy music and pictures of the black fam all chillin all dudded up

That was actually a black vietnam vet named ike atkinson who was bringing the heroin using his army connects, and he was based in north carolina, Lucas was just one of his customers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Atkinson
you should watch mr untouchable on netflix its barnes documentary in which he stars.

Furio would you rat if you got sentenced to 30 years I bet 90% of the guys do nowadays