April 18, 2025 — Ex-Genovese mob consigliere Bobby Manna will be able to die at home with his loved ones, not in a cage. After years fighting for a compassionate release related to his failing health, on Friday morning, the 95-year old Westsider was finally granted the right to live out his final days in home confinement by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Kirsh, proving once and for all, despite his elderly, frail medical condition, Manna remains alive and kicking.

Locked up since 1989 on racketeering and murder charges, Manna was based out of Hoboken, New Jersey, but also spent a good deal of time down in Greenwich Village, Ground Zero for Genovese crime family leadership in the Gigante era. Persistent rumors of Manna’s death circulated in late 2024 and then again last month, rebutted both times, first by Manna’s attorneys and then Manna himself. He’s been imprisoned in a Rochester, Minnesota federal-correctional facility medical unit for the past several years.

Building a reputation for craftiness, street smarts and business acumen during his mafia prime, Manna was consigliere of the Genovese crime family for most of the 1980s under legendary NYC don Vincent (The Chin) Gigante, traveling between the Garden State and Manhattan on a regular basis so he could act as Gigante’s primary order giver and message relay lieutenant. Manna’s headquarter was Casella’s Italian Restaurant, known locally as simply, “The Cage” for its fortress-like floor plans. His own dad, Mauro (Mickey Morris) Manna was a Genovese mob shot caller on the Jersey waterfront in the 1950s.

During his prosecution, FBI agents revealed Manna’s attempt to kill iconic Gambino mob don John Gotti (d. 2002 in the can) and his brother, Queens mafia capo and drug trafficker Gene Gotti (released from prison in 2018 after 30 years as a guest of the government). Manna’s crew gunned down big-earning New York mob associate Irving (Fat Irv) Schiff inside a fancy Upper Eastside Manhattan bistro on the night of August 8, 1987 for skimming profits from the mafia’s famous “Concrete Club” extortion scheme.