Artie and Petey Tortorello, aka; Artie and Petey Todd, were Brooklyn-based guys who were both directly under capo Carmine Lombardozzi for decades. In fact "Artie Todd" was largely considered Carmine's righthand man.

He and Carmine were deeply enmeshed in stock thefts, and big money stock manipulation fraud rackets (boiler rooms) long before that phrase became common knowledge and terminology.

Both became inducted members under Lombardozzi's sponsorship and were placed directly in his crew. The Tortorello brothers were both used as strong-arm guys when required, but Artie had the bigger name. Petey mostly remained lower keyed and subordinate to his older brother.

These fellas hung around their "Lombardozzi regime" associates 90% of the time, and did not affiliate much with any guys outside of Brooklyn. Among their closer associates were such Gambino/Anastasia stalwarts as; Sabato (Little Sammy) Muro, John Lombardozzi, George (Blue Eyes) Martinelli, Accursio (Swifty) Marinelli, and many Jewish hoodlums and schemers under their flag who helped facilitate stock and business schemes.

They were into shylocking, strong-arm, extortion and shakedowns, stock thefts and fraud, business infiltration, and other types of theft schemes. Artie had a very long criminal record for these types of offenses. But gambling, narcotics, and other types of rackets were never really their thing.

Artie Tortorello's fortunes largely rose and fell in league with Carmine's. He was not the sharpest pencil in the box.