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He is 95 years old and with so many diseases that finally get out.
The date on the release paper is april 16.

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.

He walked a very tough road those last 3+ (almost 4 decades). But he stood up like a man and didn't waffle one iota. Like him or not, you've gotta respect the dedication and resolve he displayed. There a lot of guys who couldn't walk that walk...especially nowadays,

Like NYMafia said;

Gotta respect him for going inside the can (As a 60 year old man) and coming out 35 years later without "snitching"..

I have never written about compassion for any imprisoned mobster, except Bobby Manna. I do think he got the royal screwing all because of his reputation. I don't have any issue whatsoever with him going away for a time, but 35 years for what he wa convicted of is an injustice and was clearly done out of spite by the feds. Hopefully he's like Sonny Franzese and lives a few years, make it 100 and enjoy some time at home.

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Bobby Manna. How powerful was he in the New Jersey faction?? That man was old when he got life.... How did he get close to Chin?

Bobby Manna: Still Alive At 95; He'll Be Back In New Jersey Soon
Gang Land Exclusive! Louis MannaThe oldest federal prison inmate in the United States is 95 years old, has 36 years behind bars under his belt, and is dying of cancer. This past September, he suffered a stroke and landed inside a 24-hour prison hospital "Full Watch" room, where the feds wanted him to die.

But former Genovese consigliere Louis (Bobby) Manna will return to New Jersey soon, as early as tomorrow, to live with flesh and blood family members, Gang Land has learned. The wiseguy stands alone as the oldest of the 155,979 inmates currently housed by the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Manna, sentenced to 80 years for the storied 1987 murder of mob-linked millionaire businessman Irwin (The Fatman) Schiff as he dined in an Upper East Side restaurant, and for plotting to kill Gambino boss John Gotti and his brother Gene, received the good news last week. It came five months after several social media reports had wrongly given the sickly goodfellow his last rites.

Is he alert and competent or just surviving and not functional as a normal person?

It would be great to listen to him and Kid Blast talk about the "Old Days"!

I'm betting Manna is not doing much talking these days

Is DeSciscio still alive?

Richard DeSciscio, left, and Louis Manna were sentenced in 1989 to 75 and 80 years, respectively.

Manna was born and raised in Hoboken, like Frank Sinatra.

Yes.

Name: RICHARD DESCISCIO

Register Number: 09219-050

Age: 82
Race: White
Sex: Male

Release Date: 07/06/2051

Located At: FCI Allenwood Medium

Think he'll make it?

For sure after Manna release his lawyers are working for make free.

Trump his sister sentenced him, maybe Trump's First Step Act helps him now.

First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018. The act enacted several changes in U.S. federal criminal law aimed at reforming federal prisons and sentencing laws in order to reduce recidivism, decreasing the federal inmate population, and maintaining public safety.[1]

Rumour has it he reported to Don Vito? Any truth to this?

Hollander,
you sure he was born in hoboken? I thought I read he was born on the lower east side of NYC. Also, where did he grow up?

Manna was the son of Morris Manna, known as the “kingpin of the present Jersey City dock mob” in the 1950s. At Bobby's trial a former Hoboken police officer (1946-1973) Daniello testified.

An article about his release also says Manna worked out of Jersey City and Hoboken.

Thats where Manna grew up and operated out of pretty much his entire lifetime. His father, Morris Manna, was a wiseguy from the North Jersey section. So that area had always been their stomping grounds from way back when.

PS: I didn't see the post you made above. Thats correct, Hollander. Both father and son lived and operated around Hoboken and the surrounding towns all their lives.

The Jersey waterfront along the Hudson river was and still is huge, very interesting how the Dutch created an area in the 17th century up to the Hudson Valley. Dutch continued to be spoken for 200 years in the Hudson Valley because the area remained more ethnically Dutch and had fewer outside influences than New York City.

Hey, the Dutch settled Manhattan, right?... New Amsterdam.

Jersey Dutch ! The last speaker died in the 1940s I believe.

That's right and everybody knows the Roosevelt Dynasty. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were Dutch patriots.