Philip Rastelli´s wife, Connie was very much involved with her husbands rackets. She was charged in 1954 with trying to bribe and threaten a withess against her husband just before the witness, Michael Russo was killed. Connie had previously been arrested on Sullivan Law charges and was also known as a loanshark! She was gunned down in the 1960s, allegedly because she had informed the FBI that Rastelli was a drug trafficker.