Originally Posted By: pmac
this was a great doc maybe the best. but that cop sounds so jealous of these guys. i got alot of questions its seems like non of this guys got long sentences. i bet no one got more then 5 yrs or paroled quick. he calls one guy a capo then anther .was this just one big crew. i thought bobby manna was the head of all 5 crews in jersey during the 80tys he didnt get mention. i think he did get alot of made guys but i think it was just 1 big crew and alot of there associates. i bet this capo andy who recently died, died a multi millionaire at home in jersey and this ex bitter cop probaly gets ssi check for a grand a month in kansas,who did better in life+ these mob guys could taste and smell there pasta. are there any of these guys around some looked young be cool to get a update on this big gambling case. thats a waste of time for police


Non of the mobsters recieved any significant jail time. If memory serves me right, Andy Gerardo was either sentenced to three years or released after three years on parole. Jomo Calabrese was out after two years on parole.

It´s kinda funny, but Gerardo was sentenced to jail in 1969 for failing to pay taxes on 1,1 million dollars his gruop had earned from running an illegal lottery game. How did he get caught? Well, a special agent Germano, from of the Internal Revenue Service, conducted an undercover operation and posed as a bettor several times. He observed the workings of the operation which eventually led to raids. During these raids, agents seized gambling paraphernalia in the form of betting slips and betting records.

I don´t know where the "Manna ruled the NJ faction for the Genoveses" originates from. Unless the Genoveses had a similiar power set up like the Gambinos (Castellano-Dellacroce), (and no proper source indicate this), I´m not too keen to accept this as a fact. Having a consigliere run big parts of a crime Family certainly undermines the boss´s authority. It´s the boss´s job to appoint captains, whether the crews are based in NY, NJ or elsewhere.
Pmac, as I stated before, Gerardo was the group leader of this crew. He was the captain. The crew was huge and the numbers was a result of Richie Boiardo´s powerful leadership. The crew was passed on to Gerardo and it is said that the crew is run by Silvio DeVita today.

If anybody finds this interesting, here´s a list of the made guys (to my knowledge) who were part of Gerardo´s crew back in mid 1980s. Their year of death in parantheses:

- William "Si" Rega (1986)
- Albert Barrasso (1988)
- Luigi DiBenedetto (?)
- Peter Silvio Cavanna (1995)
- Vincent "Jimmy; Jomo" Calabrese (1994)
- Tony "Ambrose" D´Ambrosio (?)
- Emilio "the Count" Delio (1998) (possibly a member of the crew)
- Ernest Lazzara (2001)
- Tony "Cheese" Marchitto (1997)
- Angelo Sica (2009)
- Ralph Vicaro (1989)
- Anthony DeVingo (1989)
- Michael Cordella (?)
- Salvatore Cetrulo (?)
- Tommy "Pee Wee" DePhillips (1997)
- Michael DelGuercio (?)
- Silvio DeVita (possibly a member of the crew)
- Nino Maccioli (2011)
- Mario Mauriello (?)
- Joe "Z" Zarra (1998)

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