Neil Dellacroce crew 1960s (made guys)

The crew was originally led by Armand Rava. After Rava´s murder in late 1957, the crew split between Neil Dellacroce and Anthony Rizzo. Guys like Petey "Pumps" Ferrara, Jimmy "Brown" Failla and Salvatore "Toddo" Aurello ended up under Rizzo. But these guys listed below reported to Dellacroce (there may have been others but these are the ones I know about):

* Frank "Frankie Martin" Barranca (1928- ) Son of Stefano Barranca, made guy in the Bonanno Family. Frank Barranca was once put on a hit list by Larry Gallo due to a conflict in the numbers operation. Barranca and his brother operated out of Red Hook, Brooklyn, same territory as the Gallo brothers. In 1969, An informant said that Barranca was Dellacroce´s number one guy. The informant had knowledge of a meeting taking place down in Florida in 1969 between Barranca, Tony Plate and Santo Trafficante for the purpose of discussing a purchase of a hospital complex located in North Dade, Florida. Barranca lived at 228 Warren Street, Brooklyn. He may be still alive today.

* Joseph S. Barranca (Dec 29, 1929 - ) The brother of Frank. Lived at 475 Henry Street, Brooklyn. He was listed by the FBI as a made Gambino member in the 1960s, but not listed on LE charts later in the 1980s. May be still alive today.

* Joseph Vincent Bisogno (Dec 18, 1931 - Aug, 1969) Before moving to Miami, Florida, Bisogno lived in Flushing, Queens. He was known as an enforcer. In addition to a federal narcotic conviction, Bisogno also had arrests for assaults and murder. In 1968. Secret Service agents raided a hotel room in Miami, occupied by Bisogno, and seized 300.000 US dollars in counterfeit money. Bisogno was arrested, indicted, convicted and sentenced to a 10 year prison term in 1969. Bisogno may have been murdered, I have no details of his death.

* Michael "Mike Tally" Caiazza (March 23, 1912 - April 28, 1994) Lived in Richmond, Staten Island. Caiazza owned bakeries on 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn. He took over the crew when Dellacroce was bumped up to underboss. Interestingly enough, Caiazza was demoted as crew leader by Dellacroce later in 1985 when Caiazza took counsel from Castellano on who to temporarily put in charge of his crew, which made Dellacroce furious.

* Michael Vincent Catalano (Feb 7, 1918 - May 15, 1998) One of the crew members who lived in close vicinity of Dellacroce´s Social club at Mulberry Street, just across the street actually. While already in jail for extortion, he was indicted 1n 1970, with Dellacroce and Angelo Bruno, the Philadelphia boss, on charges of criminal contempt. Later, also this time with Dellacroce, he was indicted on tax evasion conspiracy charges and was found guilty. He received a two year prison term.

* Michael Cirelli (March 1, 1908 - Feb 19, 1988) Cirelli was the owner of the apartment above The Ravenite that was used in the late 1980s by Gotti for secret talks.

* Edward Rocco "Eddie Ottawa" Consalvo (May 11, 1920 - Feb, 1981) Before moving to Richmond, Staten Island, Consalvo resided at 215 Mott Street. He was once employed as a longshoreman. He was probably the uncle of Carmine and Frank Consalvo, two brothers who both met mysterious deaths in 1975. Received a suspended sentence and placed on a two year probation in 1952 for possession of untaxed alcohol. In 1956, Consalvo was a suspect in the Abe Telvi murder. According to informants, Consalvo was driving the getaway car. If I´m not mistaken, Lucchese mobster Jimmy Plumeri was the godfather of Consalvo´s son Anthony.

* William Charles Cottone (April 14, 1915 - Feb, 1985) Lived at 10 Elizabeth Street and was a regular at a social club located at 121 Mulberry Street, owned by Gambino captain Joe Gennaro. This seems to suggest that Cottone was a Gennaro crew member but later (after Gennaro´s death) likely transfered to Dellacroce´s crew.

* Ettore Luigi "Eddie" DeCurtis (June 21, 1913 - July 1985) A prolific money maker, DeCurtis was a financier of pornographic lierature, films and homosexual bars. He ran several crap games throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island and was also known as a bookmaker. Lived at 185 West Houston Street. Three years after his death, DeCurtis´ son Gregory was shot to death while sitting in a stretched limo.

* Guido Mario "Dolls" DeCurtis (1914 - March 16, 1977) A brother of Eddie and a partner of his in numerous rackets. Guido was shot to death on Lexington Avenue near East 27th street on March 16, 1977.

* Carmine Dellacroce (Dec 2, 1905 - Jan 1969) Brother of Neil. Lived in Valley Stream, Nassau, LI. In 1937, Carmine Dellacroce was accused of hitting a man on the head with a hammer during a fight and sentenced to a 6 months prison term.

* Anthony "Tony West" DeLutro (Apr 9, 1927 - March 26, 1997) Another crew member who lived close by the Ravenite. In 1965, Tony DeLutro with eight others, was convicted of looting NJ post offices. It was said that the burglaries cost the government more than 158.000 US dollars in stolen postage stamps and blank money orders. DeLutro was given a two year prison term. Also in 1965, DeLutro was caught up in the big heroin case emanated from the Patsy Luca case. But I don´t know if he was found guilty or acquitted. In 1975, DeLutro was indicted in the same heroin case as Frank Lucas, found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

* Cataldo "Charlie The Animal" DeLutro (Nov 27, 1916 - April 14, 1987) A brother of Anthony, known as a shylock collector with a fearsome reputation. With Dellacroce, muscled in on various establishments when the owners could not repay loans. One of these establishments was The Jazzland, a night spot located in Midtown Manhattan. In 1970, DeLutro was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment, but I can´t find any details about the case. He lived at 55 East Houston Street in Manhattan.

* Carmine "Charley Wagons" Fatico (Jan 19, 1910 - Aug, 1991) Known as a hijacker who controlled gambling activities for the Gambino Family/Dellacroce faction in the East New York/Brownsville sections of Brooklyn. Fatico was given a crew to run probably sometime in the early 1970s and inducted the Gotti brothers and Angelo "Quack-Quack" Ruggiero amongst a few others. Lived in west Islip, out on Long Island.

* Donato "Danny Wagons" Fatico (July 10, 1920 - March 24, 2006) Brother of Charley Wagons. His rapsheet is pretty extensive and includes unlawful entry, convictions for assault, bookmaking, operating an illicit still and numerous gambling offenses. In 1977, Danny Wagons was sentenced to 3 years in prison after been convicted of operating a high stakes crap game. In the 1980s, Danny lived at 97-11 Lefferts Boulevard, Queens. (Ozone Park section.)

* Giacomo Morelli (May 13, 1912 - ?) A crew member who lived close to the Ravenite, at 235 Mulberry Street.

* Anthony "Fat Andy" Ruggiano (Aug 16, 1926 - March 19, 1999) Ruggiano was big into gambling, loansharking and drugs. Like Carmine Fatico, Ruggiano was given a crew to run probably in the early 1970s and inducted the Corozzo brothers and others. In 1987, Ruggiano pleaded guilty on racketeering charges and received 17 years in prison. He was released in 1997.

* Vincent J. Yacono Sr (Sep 8, 1926 - July 29, 1992) Yacono was caught up in the big French Connection case back in the late 1950s. He lived in the same South Brooklyn neighborhood as the Barrancas (at 503 Henry street). As a youth, Yacone was arrested for grand larceny after stealing 308 pounds of Italian cheese. He was also arrested for supplying two hoods with a 38 caliber revolver, used when the hoods hijacked a police officer´s patrol car.

Hairy great fucking post bro. Great breakdown on each guy too. I had no idea how many crews had ties to dellacroce. I remember always hearing about how much influence he had over the so called blue collar faction but this really expands into that well. The Aurelio crew, gennaro crew, petey pumps crew, ruggiano and Fatico crews all were at the very least influenced by Neil no wonder caste llano felt he needed to make him underboss. I would compare him to Nicky corozzo today, very similar amount of influence considering all the capos now who came up under the brothers. All in all great post man

Not positive but I think Angelo Ruggieros father is named Salvatore.

Thanks bro! It´s fun doing these kind of posts.



You may be right. Frankie Reno, mentioned above, may have been an uncle of Quack-Quack.

Do you know if Anthony rizzo is related to john rizzo? The one who took over joe the blondes crew?

Yes he is. Rizzo´s father, John Rizzo Sr, was Anthony Rizzo´s son.

Thank you for this

Good list. i knew the fatico brother were close to dellacroce but didnt realize they were originally from Neil's crew

Good list but why was the crew split between Neil Dellacroce and Anthony Rizzo.

Great list Hairy thanks again,i love these type of lists from you like the Colombo war casualties list and the Vic and Gas murders lists, keep itup please . As Skinny said i'm also surprised about the amount of crews that started from Neils crew, i remember people talking about the Greenwich Village and 116th street crews being split up but this seems different since the guys under him became capo while he was still alive.

Hard to say. It may have been a result from negotiations between Dellacroce and Gambino. The Dellacroce faction wanted more of their guys into positions of power.

Another reason may be that the guys who ended up under Rizzo, resented Rava´s powerplay in the first place and were scared of serving under Dellacroce. By letting Rizzo head this group, they were protected by Gambino. This makes sense actually because it was rumored that some members of Rizzo´s crew were the ones who some years later were behind the Dellacroce murder attempt when somebody fired shots into The Ravenite Social Club.

It could also have been a typical Gambino Machiavellian move of divide and conquer. By splitting up the former Rava crew, Gambino took in Rizzo´s crew in his fold, making Dellacroce weaker.

One interesting thing to note is that the members who ended up under Rizzo, were based out of/around Bensonhurst, Brooklyn while the ones under Dellacroce were based out of other parts of Brooklyn (East NY/Brownswille/South Brooklyn) and the Little Italy section of Manhattan. The split may have come simply out of geographical proximity. Perhaps the crew members based in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn were not keen on reporting to a guy who was based in Manhattan?



You´re welcome buddy. I think it was all negotiations between Dellacroce and Gambino (and later Castellano) that resulted in Dellacroce having more of his guys in positions of power. That way the power was divided so that the members (particularly the ones in Dellacroce´s faction) would feel more secure.

good information

Great info Hairy, thanks for your efforts.

I have mentioned before an assassination attempt on Dellacroce. Found a couple of articles dealing with this. The first one, published in Niagara Falls Gazette in Feb 1970, deals with Dellacroce´s attempt to dethrone Gambino from his position.
The second one, published in Oswego Palladium in Sep 1972, deals with the murder attempt on Dellacroce. If somebody has more details on the murder attempt, and the circumstances surrounding it, please share!

Very interesting story about Dellacroce's alleged attempt to dethrone Carlo.

I've seen very little written about this. But if true, it would help explain why Neil was overlooked for the top spot, in lieu of one of Carlo's trusted relative.

Yes. It puzzles me that this, regardless if it´s true or not, is something that is not mentioned or discussed in Mafia books for example, to a greater extent. If true, I´m thinking Joe N. Gallo, the consigliere at the time, must have played a great part in convincing the two factions to settle the problem peacefully. Another Gambino member who may have played a similar part is Jimmy "Brown" Failla. He pops up as an acting underboss to Castellano in between Gambino´s deathbed wish and the elevation of Castellano to official boss. (Failla was originally an Armand Rava crew member, just like Dellacroce.)

It could have been disinformation from the FBI or simply a misinterpretation of evidence. The committee didn't reveal its source so we won't know who told it.

I think if Gambino wanted Dellacroce dead then he would have been killed or disappeared. If Gambino ordered someone to tell this Lombardo guy to shoot up the Ravenite, then it seems to me Lombardo would have been protected, not killed for doing what he was told. It is an interesting story though.

Can anyone get anything on a Peter Monteleone...he was a made man in the Bonanno crime family and very good friends with Anthony"Old Man"Spero and Benjamin Ruggiero

You could be right. I wish there were more info on this though.

That is the first time I've seen that too. Would love to find more of it if possible.

Very interesting stuff, good post

Always been interested in learning more on Joe N. Gallo and Dellacroce's days as a powerful capo

theres a book, i forget the title southend, but i think it was mainly abt gotti castellano hit etc and they had a few chpterd devoted to not crazy joe gallo, he ended his life with a nice coffee,sepresso shop, running book and as consigliere. were almost neighbors now it seems, im in the berkshires currently,so anytime ya come this way let me know,we will have a deca-hella fun day

hairy, great post, awesome, in fact if this article is half true, which i assume it is because the AP/FBI wouldn't lie,(sarcasm) it shows why mr. niel didnt get the top spot, but looking back, gotti at the time was a punk, compared to castelllano, who wanted to change w the times,white collar stuff and gotti ,a,street guy couldn't grasp that! he (paul) knew the days of hijacking trucks was numbered,and new endeavors were on the horizon,it woulda changed the future of the gambinos

HairyKnuckles,I loved the newspaper articles you posted. Hats off to a fine research job. Stuff like this is what makes me a forum junkie.
I got a kick out of the description of Gambino as having a "chronic cardiac condition". Reminds me of Hyman Roth "dying of the same heart attack for twenty years". Also mentioned was the deportation order that Gambino was under and which was still in effect when he died.
The stuff regarding Neil's beating and the attempts on his life was new to me. We see Dellacroce as the feared, ruthless killer that everyone was afraid of,but it's a nice reminder that at one time,he was no different than any thug on the street.
Again thanks for the good work!

You´re welcome guys and thanks for all the positive feedback.

Thinking about the (alleged) Dellacroce murder attempt, I´m starting to lean towrds what Faithful posted. Stories like that would come out occasionally, planted by law enforcement, investigatotors or sometimes newspapers just to make a splash. These kind of stories sometimes helped LE to gather information and newspapers gladly printed them, because they helped sell papers.

Gambino or Dellacroce?

I've been scratching my head over why crime historians haven't discussed this article, even if to say that it's incorrect.

For 1970 standards, it was pretty detailed. You would figure that authors, like S. Raab and John Davis, would have included this story in their books. As it stands, there aren't many theories on why Dellacroce was passed over.

When I google the story, nothing comes up.

After reading about that murder attempt, I searched some more and found this article:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w_4sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rswFAAAAIBAJ&pg=952,3184192&dq=dellacroce&hl=en

I know I don't know enough like I should, but what role did they have in killing Galante or is that article just wrong?

Dellacroce definitely had a role in killing Galante because Bruno Indelicato was spotted at the Ravenite after the hit.

I knew Bruno was in on it, but I thought it was all Bonanno guys? Do we know what role the guys at the Ravenite played in it? I know the article says there was a meeting with Dellacroce 45 minutes after the hit outside the club. I don't remember reading anything about the Gambino's being in on it in the Donnie Brasco book, but of course he didn't know everything either. Would love to hear more if anyone has anything on it.

Here is one more that intrigues me, it says the NYPD said Dellacroce ORDERED the hit on Galante.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rptJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nwwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1254,7518518&dq=dellacroce&hl=en

Probably just confirming with Neil that the hit went off. It was most likely Commission approved so I am assuming that the Ravenite was just a convenient place for Bruno to go for confirmation with Neil.

Knuckles...i have a NY Times article dated Oct 18 1972 that says Lombardi was shooting at Carmine Consalvo who the article said was an associate of Dellacroce. The shooting was at the Ravenite and happened on aug 1 1972. He missed and they beat the crap out of him. He then returned on Aug 8 with a machinegun. The gun jammed and he took off. 2 days later Lombardi was shot twice in the head with a .38 as he was driving with his girlfriend on Route 17 in Thompson NY.

No mention though of Dellacroce being the target in the 2 shootings at the Ravenite but it did say that Lombardi was "feuding" with Neil.

Another NY Times article on May 3, 1972 said that Gambino was semi retired then and that Dellacroce was basically running the family. It said in 1972 he was considered to be the most powerful mobster in the state of NY.

No mention of Big Paul who in reality was running most things for Gambino in 72 when Carlo was sick.

Giancarlo I've noticed that too. It seems that a lot of newspapers claimed he was even running the family instead of Castellano when he was boss.

Yeah Dixie...these old articles are a trip. In another NY Times article from the early 1970's that i posted on another forum a few months ago it said Gambino wanted to reduce the number of families in NYC from 5 to 3 and possibly to one. Most guys over there said they thought it was just FBI bullshit which it probably was.

Thanks for posting the articles. I wonder if these were written by general or specialized crime reporters?

What was meant by FBI bullshit? Does that mean the FBI didn't know what was going on....or was the FBI purposely having the NYT write articles with incorrect information?

Everyone seemed to think the NY Times story about Gambino wanting to merge families and possibly reduce the number of NYC families to 2 or 3 (and possibly 1) was a bullshit story the FBI fed the NY Times reporter just to stir up shit. Who knows.

Has the footage of Bruno meeting Dellacroce outside the Ravenite after the Galante hit ever been released? I've seen a quick 3 second clip of it on a Galante documentary but that's it.

Here's a part of a Apr 12, 1972 NY Times article that was on the Gallo-Profaci conflict. Joe Gallo punched Dellacroce in the eye and Gambino gave Gallo a pass on it. I bet Dellacroce wasn't too happy with that.

I agree the fbi would/does feed bs to reporters for stories like that. I think they do it to stir up information, get guys talking on wire taps, even if they're not going to get anything useable in court they could get confirmation on the going's on in that world by hearing guys gossip on the phone "oh did you see the article in the times that said guy a was doing this, that's total crap it's really guy b because of x, y and z"

I'm not a gambino expert but when I first read that artile of dellacroce trying to usurp carlo, like the rest of you I thought "what?". As others have researched (great work by everybody to) it is most likely nonsense. Although I do disagree with the notion that this lombardi would have been protected if he had just been carrying out orders. It wouldn't be out of the question, especially in a move that big, for the hitter to be killed if he failed. It's a way for the puppet masters to cover their tracks, and as punishment to the guy for screwing up.

Thanks guys for the additional articles. They are cool to read and it´s fun sharing thoughts.

You would think this Lombardi would have disappeared immediately after his first failed attempt at shooting Consalvo, not allowed to return with an automatic eventhough that attempt also failed miserably lol

These are great articles, keep them coming.

The contradictions are unreal. In one article, Dellacroce is the strongest mobster in the city, ready to make a power grab for Carlo's crown. Then, we have an amateur punk trying to take out Neil's crew with a machine gun in his social club. Now, we have Crazy Joe bitch smacking Neil with no consequences.

The last sentence of the article indicated that Carlo made Dellacroce accept his public humiliation because he breached mafia tradition by siding with Profaci....what?!

I read that as Niel was meddling in the gallo wars on the side of profaci which is against mob protocal because you're not supposed to go meddling in the affairs of other families unless the boss asks the other family's boss for help. Carlo wanted to stay out of it and dellacroce got involved. gallo humiliated dellacroce in public, dellacroce wants to do something about it and carlo tells him no because he's still trying to stay out of profaci's war.

Profaci was the don. Neil was supposedly helping the don. Not sure how that could be against mob protocol.

Now, if Neil was sponsoring the insurgents, then I could see how that would ruffle feathers.

Thats the only footage i've ever seen of it...too bad there wasn't audio with it.

If my memory is correct one of the cops on the documentary said they were high fiving each other and joked if they had a football they probably would of spiked it.

Neil wasn't the don of his family however. If Carlo wanted to publicly remain neutral, then Neil would be in trouble for helping out either side. Profaci would have to ask Gambino to get Dellacroce's help. So Dellacroce was either usurping Carlo or going behind his back by helping out Profaci, neither of which would be good for him.

One of the articles posted above was written by Ralph Blumenthal. He is a recognized crime reporter and author. He was the one who wrote Last days of the Sicilians published in 1988.

Regarding the Dellacroce beating...I´ve heard it was the opposite. Two younger members of the Gallo gang (Joe Gallo was not present) started an argument with Neil inside the Luna Restaurant on Mulberry Street. Two ex boxers and friends of Neil, who were standing outside, saw the commotion, jumped inside and gave the Gallo gang members a severe beating.

Knuckles i remember reading about that somewhere, but i can't remember where. Seems to be 2 versions out there of what happened but the one that says Dellacroce caught a beating seems to be the more accepted...but i really don't know which version is the truth.

Has Dellacroce's FBI files ever been released?

You can request to see them through the Freedom of Information Act. Be forewarned though, they will most likely be heavily redacted.

I hate when they do that...probably half or more of Carlo Gambino's files were unreadable or redacted.

I know a few times a year the FBI releases files on different people on their website but i don't recall ever seeing Dellacroce's. You can make a FOIA request but it usually takes a long time and i think they might charge you per page...not positive on that though.

I think the ones they release on their website are frequently requested subjects.

Working with government records, I can say that it is a pain in the ass to go through documents and redact names, addresses, etc. so the cost is probably justifiable.

No doubt it takes time to go through the stuff and it must be a pain in the ass to do. My only complaint would be paying per page and then seeing 90% of it redacted or unreadable. I'd be more then happy to pay them double or more and get the untouched files....but unfortunately that isn't an option they make available.

Another thing i'd love to get is access to the fed mugshots. They must have tons of good pics of the hoodlums that we've never seen.

Was just reading a few more of those old NY Times articles and a couple years after Gambino died the NYPD still thought that Dellacroce was the boss but the Feds knew it was Castellano.

Some of the more interesting articles were right after Gambino passed away and everyone was trying to figure out what was happening. One article said there was a debate going between law enforcement who was the most powerful mob guy in the country and some thought it was Joe Bonanno while others said Frank Tieri. Still others insisted it was Neil while others said it was Paul. It sounds like it was pretty confusing.

Another article said Carlo was trying to keep the books shut but was too physically weak to stop it. It said out of respect to Carlo while he was still alive they limited it to 10 guys per family but after he died the papers speculated that the floodgates would be open and how some guys were waiting a long time to be made. It said Gambino warned them about making too many new guys and he actually wanted to reduce the numbers not increase them. Sounds like he was worried about the new guys getting made.

This is why the previous articles posted in this thread might have been written incorrectly, but honestly. Back then, the intel was much harder to come by. For example, whoever thought Joe Bonanno was the strongest mobster back in '78 was way off.

Looks like it was the NYPD who thought Bonanno was the top guy. Heres the part where Bonanno is mentioned. The article is dated Aug 6, 1978.

Sounds like Galante before his parole was violated tried to get the commission to back him as boss of bosses. lol...that guy had balls.

Info was seemingly so unreliable back then, they couldn't even agree on who the dons were. Some thought it was Galante, others thought Bonanno....when it was really Rastelli. Ditto with Castellano and Dellacroce.

And again with the boss of bosses stuff....the media was waiting for someone to "consolidate the five families", lol. Can I assume that shortly afterward, the media crowned Castellano the boss of bosses? I know he wasn't, but there was both a book and a movie by that name.

I thought by 78 it was pretty well known that Paul took over the family from Gambino but it sure seems that some guys still thought it was Dellacroce. The NYPD seems to be the ones that got it wrong.

The part on Galante if true is funny. That guy walked out of prison and basically declared himself the top guy. He dared the others to stop him...which they finally did in 79.

Yea it's like when the bully struts around the school yard daring kids to pop him in the mouth, until he runs across that one little kid that is not afraid of anything and knocks his ass slam out.

According to a poster overthere, Frankie Ruggiero was a member of Terry Zappi´s crew. So I have deleted him from the list in the original post. Also according to the same poster, Bisogno was murdered. He may have been, I don´t know.

do we know who was Dellacroce's sponsor into the family back then? and how old he was at the time?

I think it was Albert.

My dad was Joseph vincent Bisogno. He was murdered (shot numerous times and while he was in a car trunk). He was found 7 days later in very bad condition. The whole thing was brushed under the rug, he could not be identified except for his wallet and jewelry. I never believed it was him, he had just been sentenced to 15 years for tax evasion and suddenly showed up dead. It was never researched and when I tried to was stopped dead in my tracks for one reason or another. I have many crazy stories about my dad.

If this is true then im sorry for your loss. I would like to hear more about your experience if you dont mind telling

Thank You for the reply, I am not a good story teller, nor a good writer. I would hate to put a bunch of info out there only to find it in a book somewhere. My family has been involved with the Mafia all my earlier life it seems. My uncle John Daniello is in the "Governments secret file on organized crime" along with my dad. Also Frank Gagliardi dated my mom for 5 years and lived in my home for the same amount of time. He is not in that book but pictures can be found of him on ebay with my mom and brother in them.

That was a real good post..wish you had some more info on anthony rizzo...

In 1964, two years after Rizzo´s death, an informant advised the FBI that Rizzo had been a captain in the Gambino Family and had sponsored his son John into the Family. Rizzo had a very close association with Tommy Rava, possibly he was the one who sponsored Rava into the Family. Rizzo was born on May 16, 1887 in Palermo, Sicily and entered the US in 1906. He died on August 20, 1962 and was succeeded as a captain by Petey "Pumps" Ferrara. His last residence was at 1348 77th Street in Brooklyn (Dyker Heights). He worked as a jeweler and had his own store on Canal Street on Manhattan. He was arrested in 1937 in connection with a still operation. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison.

Alex, where are you from?

That's a lot of info.Thank you very much.I am from Novi Sad,Serbia..know anybody here?

another dellacroce guy from the 60s. Michael "Rizzi" Rizatello.
Was with neils crew through late 50s-early 60s. was allegedly a shooter in the deaths of two profaci soldiers, John Guariglia and Paul Ricci at the Hi Fi Lounge (Hi Way bar??)in Brooklyn on Nov 11 1961. Involved in this shooting were also Salvatore Mangiameli and tommy Riccardi. He was wounded and left shortly after for LA.
Rizzatello later left for LA and became a made member of that family in 1976.
Don't know if perhaps dellacroce was offering more than just verbal support to the profaci/gallo thing, resulting in the Luna restraunt incident later..maybe?

Thanks DiMaggio. But listed in OP are only the made guys.

I´m now confused about Edward Consalvo. I´ve seen a document, dated in the early 1960s, stating that he was a Dellacroce soldier. But pretty recently, I saw a document, dated in mid 1970s, stating Consalvo was a Genovese member under Pete DeFeo. So his place on the list in OP is debatable I guess.

Nice analogy Dixie - very true .

I know this is off topic but when these guys went to clip a guy and they got injured themselves in the process possibly shot - where did they go to get patched up? You wouldn't go to the hospital cause then you could be implicated in the shooting. Did they have doctors on call at their own homes?

Yeah, the Mafia certainly had their own doctors they used when it was convenient for them. The also had doctors within their ranks as made guys. Off the top of my head, the Bonannos had Mario Tagliagambe (now dead, so don´t confuse him with another doctor with the same name) and the Genoveses (or the DeCavalcantes) had Philip Noto.

"Like Carmine Fatico, Ruggiano was given a crew to run probably in the early 1970s"

It looks like I was wrong about Ruggiano. He never was an official captain but may have been acting for Fatico in the 1970s. He is often mentioned as an official skipper, particularly in the 1980s, but him being a captain actually doesn´t seems to be the case.

So, Dellacroce´s crew was split only two ways (between Caiazza and Fatico) and not as I previously said in the OP between Caiazza, Fatico and Ruggiano. Sorry about that.

Eduardo Aronica.. another member of Dellacroce crew.

Also Tony Plate.

Remember that story about Dellacroce being a rat, the story went something like..a police officer walked into his social club and said listen you're going to work for me, Dellacroce said okay and was then a paid informant :Lol: Some retards on here actually believed it.

.originally i thought tony plate was in neils crew but it turns out he was in the napolitano crew. I think hairyknuckles confirmed this and he is pretty accuate

Is Plate his real name? Does anybody know anything about him?

Am i wrong in saying plate was killed down in fla.,,on gotti's orders..or am i repeating what everybody knows?

I'm sorry ,i just got home from a 14 hr. shift..my heads up my ass,..i work very hard 4 my meager $$..

Plate was killed on the orders of Neil dellacroce , plate was on trial with dellacroce and he thought he stood a better chance of beating the trial if he wasn't sat next to the intimidating looking plate , this is one murder that John gotti might have actually been a shooter in

His real name was Anthony "Tony Plate" Plata I think. He was born in 1913 and was a longtime enforcer/solider in the Gambino crew. In the 60's and 70's he operated mostly out in Miami as a loanshark. He was basically a psycho and he was known as "The PitBull". In the late 60's he got in a altercation with a debtor and he threatened to bit chunks out of his face. There are some really interesting stories about how he set up shop in the Diplomat Hotel. In 1974 he murdered Charles "Charlie Bear" Calise after dispute from loansharking and because they thought he was an informer. Neil dellacroce supposedly ordered the hit. In May 1979 Neil and Plate were indicted for the murder. In August 1979 Plate disappeared. Willie Boy Johnson was supposedly the one who killed Plate along with assiatance from Ruggiero and maybe Gotti.

So he must have been a part of that family when it was run by mangano then? He's on the valachi chart

There was a Diplomat Mall and a Hotel. I grew up in that area in the 1970's. There were wiseguys everywhere. You could throw a rock in the air and hit one there where so many.

Terry Zappi owned all the Bobby Rubinos rib joints. There used to be over a dozen locations , I think there might only be one maybe two left. Its a shame they had great food.

Sal

exactly salvi. I wish i could find the link of the article that details the diplomat and how tony plate intimidated many workers there. I will try and search for it