wow...even wikipedia the most worthless source of info has this on him!

Christopher Furnari was born to first generation Sicilian-Italian emigrants from Furnari, a commune in the Province of Messina in the Italan region of Sicily. Furnari by the age of fifteen was earnings money from his loanshark operation in Brooklyn and northern New Jersey. In 1943, Furnari was nineteen and had already served two prison terms for armed robbery. Furnari was sentenced to fifteen to thirty years for his involvement in the gang rape of a sixteen-year-old girl whose broken body Furnari dumped out onto a muddy road.
In 1956, Furnari was released on parole. Furnari became an associate of Gaetano "Tommy Brown" Lucchese's crime family through his connection with Anthony Corallo. During the late 1950s, Furnari became involved in heroin trafficking, illegal gambling and loansharking. Furnari became an influential member of the Brooklyn faction in the Lucchese crime family and was earning $25,000 a day. In 1962, at the age of thirty eight Furnari became a made man in the Lucchese crime family.
In 1964, Furnari had become a caporegime in the family. The Lucchese powerbase was traditionally the Bronx; the first three bosses of the crime family, Gaetano "Tom" Reina, Gaetano "Tommy" Gagliano, and Lucchese were all based in the Bronx. In contrast, Furnari belonged to the Brooklyn faction of the Lucchese family and operated from Bensonhurst at the 19th Hole, a nondescript bar and mob social club. Furnari oversaw a crew involved in gambling, loansharking, extortion, burglary, narcotics dealing, and the occasional murder contract. At this time, Furnari's criminal record included convictions for assault and sex offenses. He is the father of Christopher Furnari Jr., a.k.a. "Jumbo". Before he was incarcerated he lived in Oak Ridge, New Jersey.
Christopher Furnari independently dominated and controlled New York District Council 9, which represented the more than six thousand workers who did the painting and decorating for all the finest hotels, city bridges, and subway stations. He managed this through the union's secretary and treasurer, James Bishop and his associate, Frank Arnold. They would pick up cash payments from the contractors, who would charge a ten to fifteen percent tax on all major commercial painting jobs in the New York metropolitan area. He was skilled in the art of human dismemberment and would dispose of his murder victims at the 19th Hole. After his imprisonment Furnari's criminal enterprise was taken over by capo Peter Chiodo. here's just a little info on his early stuff