Saverio "Sibby" Maimone (2003) was my grandfather....I would love to get any info I can on him....he hid that part of his life from most of us. I get stories from uncles, but would love to learn more. Please feel free to email me.
There was a case against him a year after Apalachin.
http://ny.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19591116_0046938.NY.htm/qxThe FBI had a page on him from MAFIA: United States Treasury Department of Narcotics. I don't have a scanner so you'll have to order the book online. The gist of it is your grandfather was a partner of 'John Ormento' and 'Salvatore Giordano'. The law often recorded him hanging out in produce shops, some of which he owned. Some of his charges (1993 - 1959) were robbery, assault and robbery, and hijacking. In 1959 he was convicted of Narcotics laws, and at that point he was probably at the height of his power. Through his connections at the Brooklyn waterfront, he was receiving huge shipments of smuggled narcotics, and his pipeline went from Brooklyn to Boston, Washington (doesn't specify) and Philly. You'll probably want to order the book though, there's mentions of his relatives, etc.
Maimone´s address was listed at 1757 58th Street which is located in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. But he mainly operated out of the South Brooklyn area. In the 1940s, he was the owner of a restaurant and cafe located at 233 Columbia Street. Ten years later, he was the owner of Manny´s Fruit Store at 244 Columbia Street. It is my personal belief that Maimone was made into the Lucchese crime Family sometimes around the mid 1950s and was later put under Christy "Tick" Furnari. He doesn´t seem to have been elevated above the rank of an ordinary soldier.
In 1945 he was shot through his both shoulders. But he refused to identify his assailants.
- From The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Oct 17, 1945:
"CAFE OWNER SHOT, HIS TWO STORIES CLASH"
"Police are investigating the mysterous shooting of Saverio Maimone, 32 of 1757 58th Street, who walked into Israel Zion Hospital with bullet wounds in both shoulders early today and told conflicting stories of an attempt to kill him. Maimone, the owner of a restaurant at 233 Columbia Street, on the Brooklyn waterfront, first told Detective Thomas O´Brien of the Butler Street station that he was shot by unidentified man in the elevated station of the BMT 62nd street and New Utrecht Avenue as he alighted from a train. After police checked the story and found no witnesses, Maimone came up with another version. He said he was driving his automobil along Henry Street when he was forced to the curb at Kane Street and an occupant of the other car jumped out and shot him. In great pain, he declared, he drove to the 37th street and Fort Hamilton Parkway.
Second Version Seems True
His own car broke down, he said, so he hailed a cab and was driven to the hospital. The second version apparently was true as a car was found deserted at the spot Maimone said he left his. Maimone's wife, reached at their home, could give no reason for the shooting and police said they had found no definite motive. Officials at the hospital reported Maimone told various versions of the shooting when he walked in. First claiming he was held up, and later telling of the attack in his automobil. Maimone was transfered to Kings County Hospital where his condition was reported as fair.
No Link to Dock Strike
Police said the shooting had no connection with the longshoremen's strike. The mystery was increased through an apparent attempt by Maimone to keep his address secret, for he used the name Emanuel, not Saverio, in his restaurant and telephone listings."
///Interesting...his father´s name was Emanuel.
In 1947, Maimone, together with five others, was convicted for their involvement in a truck hijacking case.
In this next article, note the name of Salvatore Imperiale who the FBI later listed as a soldier in the Colombo Family.
- From The Brooklyn Eagle Oct, 21 1947:
"Six Truck Hijackers Convicted In US Court"
"Sentences will be imposed Oct. 30 on six Brooklyn men convicted last night of hijacking by a jury of five men and seven women in Brooklyn Federal Court before Judge Harold M. Kennedy.
Joe Sherman, 36, of 42 Harrison Ave., and Frank Whalen, 35, who is being held at Raymond St. Jail on another charge, were found guilty of stealing from a truck with 41 bales of cotton buck canvas on March. 5, 1946, at Pier 18, at the foot of Montague Street.
Salvatore Maimone, 34, of 1757 58th St., William Mostramarino, 28, of 915 40th St.; Vincent J. Grimaldi, 32, of 165 13th Ave., and Paul Impirello, 46, of 1122 Blake Court, were convicted of receiving and possessing goods stolen from an interstate shipment. All six were convicted of conspiracy to steal from an interstate shipment. Salvatore Imperiale, 34, brought from Sing Sing, where he is serving time on another charge, and Alphonse Salzano, 26, pleaded guilty to the indictment last Wednesday when the trial began.
Two other defendants in the case last Wednesday were granted a severance of trial. They are Ernest Oliva, 27,. of 254 5th Ave., and Romeo Garafola, 39, who is serving a sentence in a Federal penitentiary in a different case. The jury recommended clemency for Mastramarino because of his service record."
///In the 1950s, Maimone was engaged in narcotics trafficking. He got busted in 1958, together with other (mainly) Lucchese members and associates who at the time were indicted in several narcotics cases. Tony Mirra, who was a Bonanno associate at the time, was also indicted in the Maimone case.
After an unsuccessful appeal, Maimone was sentenced to a four and a half year prison term in 1959. Barrett (the poster in here) have linked to the case, described on the very useful Find a case site. The details of the appeal are described in this next article.
- From the Long Island City Star Journal Oct 20, 1959:
"A Forest Hills man, now serving time in Attica State Prison, is one of 12 men who were ordered to serve jail terms for participating in an international narcotics peddling conspiracy.
The Supreme Court yesterday refused to review the 1958 convictions and let stand the prior actions of the Federal District Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City. The court's action yesterday meant that the 12 defendants must serve terms ranging from two-and-one-half to five years in Federal prisons.
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Among the defendants was Nathan Behrmann, 45, of 64-34 102nd street, Forest Hills, who was sentenced to five years on April 24. 1958, for his part in the global $20,000,000-a-year ring. Also given a five-year sentence was Harry (Nig Rosen) Stromberg who has figured in congressional hearings on rackets and crime in Philadelphia and New York. Stromberg, besides his five year sentence, was fined $10,000, by the trial court.
The case grew out of an indictment charging 46 individuals with participating in a six and a-half -year conspiracy through which narcotics were purchased abroad and smuggled into the United States. Testimony showed the ring's operations centered in New York and extended into other cities.
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Ninteen of the accused conspirators were tried at the same time. One of them was acquitted by the trial court and convictions of three custom officials, two of which lived in Queens, Saul Snyder, 47, of 91-41 Queens boulevard, Forest Hills, and Herman Samnick, 46, of 143-17 Hoover avenue, Jamaica, were ordered reversed by the U. S. Court of Appeals.
Twelve of the other defendants asked the high court for the review. They attacked the "masstrial" procedure on grounds it denied them a fair trial.
The defendants also claimed that the government based its case partly on the unsupported testimony of a well-paid government informer who gained the confidence of some of the conspirators and partly on testimony of two of the gang members themselves who should not have been trusted as witnesses.
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They further contended that improper procedures objected, among other things, to an anti-crime speech made by the government prosecutor during the time of the trial and said some of the jurors read newspaper accounts of the speech.
In addition to Behrmann and Stromberg, the defendants were: Martin Lessa, Martin DeSaverio, both five years; Salvatore Maimone, four and a half years; Steve Puco, Nicholas Lessa, Henry Teitelbaum and Jean Aron, four years; Anthony Mirra and George Brisbois, three and a half years and Leo Seto, two and a half years. Brisbois also received a $ 10,000 fine."
///Sometimes Maimone´s first name is given as Salvatore. Perhaps Salvatore was his middle name? In his Social Security Death Index, however, his name is only listed as Saverio Maimone:
Name: Saverio Maimone
State of Issue: New York
Date of Birth: Thursday April 03, 1913
Date of Death: Wednesday July 30, 2003
Est. Age at Death: 90 years, 3 months, 27 days
Confirmation: Verified
Last known residence:
City: Pompano Beach; Coconut Creek; Margate County: Broward
State: Florida
ZIP Code: 33063
///You might, if you want to, make a FBI FOIA request on Maimone. I´m sure the FBI has got some files on him.
http://www.fbi.gov/foia/
