Alfonso “Funzy” Mosca.

Other than a little info on those cites,there is no real info about this guy.Hes picked up at the wire tap at Pauls house.He was big in the unions.Where was his crew based out of?Where was he from?Didnt see he was mentioned on this forum ever,so i thought it would be interesting.

Alex any realtion to Ralphie or Peter Mosca?

Ralphie was known as Funzy too.

Think Peter Mosca was his son,and was made in 1977.Dont know if Ralph and Alfonso were the same guy or what...?
He is mentioned in this article about Paul https://books.google.rs/books?id=VekCAAA...ano&f=false
Dominick Lofaro rated Mosca out.

Alex, I found this on Mafia wiki. Looks like Ralph is his name and he goes by Funzie and Rakphie Bones too,

"Ralph "Ralphie Bones" Mosca, (pronounced "MOSS-kah") also known as Funzie, was a Queens/Bronx-based Gambino crime family caporegime. Mosca's crew was involved in labor racketeering, specifically through the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, loan sharking and gambling, and was responsible for receiving tribute payments from Greek-American gangsters operating in Astoria.

Mosca's bagmen in the Carpenters Union were his son Peter, a soldier who was inducted into the family in 1977 the same night as future boss John Gotti, and associate Dominick LoFaro, who eventually flipped and wore a wire in meetings with Mosca, soldier Carmine Fiore, and Genovese crime family associate Attilio Bitondo. He is the brother of Gambino crime family mobster Louis Mosca born 1946.

On September 20, 1991, Mosca was indicted for operating a massive gambling business in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, New Jersey and Upstate New York since the 1980s."

He was a go between bagman guy for big paul, his liason to union reps i believe.

Alex I pretty sure this guys alphose funzi died in the late 80tys he was indicted with fat tony and a few heavyweights. He was the bambino concrete bag guy. He's picked up at big Paul's house. Theres a before and after picture in Paul's boom the cancer hit him hard in a year in jail for federal contempt. Think the guy bones was probably his brother and capo. But there 2,different men. But I think related. HK could help if he sees the post. Funzi was caught in a lot of convos at Paul's house with dibernardo another huge earner. Think both soldiers. Very powerful with there connections. Almost like funzi was the conduit to all westside guys in the concrete. Think he was photo at that weird commission meeting on Staten island were they got photoed living house.
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I liked the boss of bosses book on big Paul very informative. First mafia book I read and still a page turner today.

they were both put on the shelf by gotti sr.

Seems like Gotti put a lot of big earners on the shelf. Why did he shelve Funzy? Also, I seem to recall in some book they showed a pic of funzy before jail and after spending some time in jail to show the effect it had on him.

What does on the self mean?

From a NY Post article describing "on the shelf" in mob speak...

“It means ‘pay him no mind,’ ” a law enforcement official said. “He has no mob responsibilities, and he can’t earn. They’re not ‘unmaking’ him, but it means he’s not active.”

Shelving someone; putting them on the shelf just like you'd do with a book. You're not throwing it away but you're putting it on the shelf and forgetting about it, not caring much for it.

I'm pretty sure Alphonse Funzi Mosca and Ralphie Bones Mosca were different people from the photos. I've never heard of Ralphie Bones being called Funzi before.


This is the Alphonse Funzi Mosca photo in the book Boss of Bosses written by the two FBI agents


This is the Ralphie Bones Mosca photo from the famous FBI chart in the book Gangland by Howard Blum.

That was the Boss of Bosses book. Funzi Mosca didn't attend that meeting. It was Ralph Scopo the concrete union guy from the Colombos. The rest were bosses and underbosses I believe.

Alphonse Mosca was indicted with Fat Tony and others in a separate concrete racketeering case in 1986.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/22/nyregi...ing-counts.html

Personally I think the first picture is of Peter Mosca,Alphonse's son.He was the one that was made in '77.Think i saw that pic sonewhere.

Agreed. Funzi is a well known nickname for people called Alphonse or Alphonso.

Louis “Bo” Filippelli was one posible member of Moscas crew.His crew(Mosca) was active in Queens and NJ,and I think Dominick Lofaro testified against them in 84.Theres a docu about him,I think its caled Mafia rats or Mob rats.Read it of another forum,written by Pogo.

I thought Filapelli was with Funzi Sisca?

Very posible,I dont know.Remmember reading that Bo was indicted with Sisca and arnold squiggy squitieri,other than that im not sure.This reminds me,arnold squiggy squitieri was a Jersy,Bronx or East harlem guy?Does anybody know?
His address is listed as 42 Hickory St, Englewood Cliffs, NJ but I doubt he grew up there.Also I remmember reading that he shot some guy in the street in East Harlem in front of the cop or something like that,latter he sends Sisca to pay the cop of.

Filapelli, Squittieri and Sisca were all indicted in the Falcone case. Squittieri and Sisca are very close. Squittieri does live in NJ. He was close to Gotti, and that Filapelli maybe Squittieris nephew.

ALex, here is a good article about Arnold Squittieri;

"Meanwhile, he lived in a comfortable white brick house on a leafy street in Englewood Cliffs and sent his children to Catholic schools. Squitieri gained notoriety in the era of the Knapp Commission on police corruption, when he was accused of bribing three patrolmen in the 25th Precinct to release him after he shot a man dead. The bribe, rather than the killing, became the focus of headlines. On Aug. 18, 1970, Squitieri shot 31-year-old garment cutter Desiderio Caban five times at First Ave. and 117th St. A cop heard the shots, responded and saw a gold-colored Cadillac speeding away. Squitieri was captured after a wild, six-block car chase. Later that day, $5,000 allegedly was offered to the arresting officer and two other cops. They released Squitieri and omitted his name from reports on the Caban killing. The three cops were accused of dividing an initial $2,000 payment; they were indicted and acquitted but dismissed from the force after a departmental hearing. Squitieri, meanwhile, went on the lam and became the subject of a 13-state alarm. He surrendered in January 1972,"

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news...rticle-1.477014

That's wierd Beans just read the same article myself 10 min ago.Does look like they were both Jersey guys.

Remember reading that old guy ralphie bones and I think his kid were indicted in the early 90tys and disregarded johns no plea bargain law and he broke em. The guy funzi was indicted with fat tony and died in 87 88 he was only in his 50tys. The guy ralphie looks old like he could be his father or older brother. Funzi mosca got caught on the white house tales a lot saying funny shit. Sammy the bull mentions him in his book and doesn't shit on him. Think when gotti took over funzi was locked up on contempt and died shortly after. He did own a concrete company so he was probably worth a ton. So the mystery is who was his capo in the 80tys. I read d.b. was a special soldier where he answers defect to big Paul maybe funzi to. Just give Paul his cut direct no capo cut.

Squitieri and the others were east harlem guys. Thats where they grew up, englewood is right over the GW and so is harlem.
Most east harlem guys went to jersey or the bronx/ westchester.
Other than Rao's and Patsy's, i dont know if there is anything italian in east harlem? Am i wrong?

Bo is with Sisca, I believe Sisca and Arnold are brothers in law.

Where did you hear they were both EH guys?Not sayin' that they are not or puttin' in question what you said,just Interested that's all.I know NJ is just over the bridge.
Reading the story above,I got the inpression that they were from NJ.
They were both in Tony C's crew wich belonged to Joe Paterno before him.Bot of THOSE guys were from NJ.

Joe" the indian" lived in newark, those guys are not newark guys. I dont think they were in his crew either, that would be strange (geographically).
Arnold was involved with the east harlem heroin crew.

You dont think that Zeke was in Tony C crew?That may be but in the late 90s he was capo of the same crew.Who was Zeke squitieri with in that East Harlem crew?Remmember PB talking about how Louie bracciole having a club on E115th st across the street from the church.Maybe he was with that guy.
What do you think?

Thats a great question Alex, i am not sure, PB is an east harlem/ bronx expert. He may know.
Zeke is a bit of a mystery, not much known. Also, a may be wrong about him being an east harlem heroin guy. He was part of the angelo ruggiero/ gene gotti ring that got busted. That i do know but i thought i remember reading about east harlem.

Both Squitieri and Sisca were originally East Harlem guys but Squitieri later moved to NJ. When he was made, he was put under Tony Carminati and took over his crew when Carminati died in 1998.

As for the Moscas, I believe they came up under Angelo Mascia. It´s possible that they were under Locascio after Mascia´s death and that Ralphie Bones was the captain of the crew before Tory Locascio took it over in the early/mid 1990s.

There were a bunch of Moscas in the Gambino Family but I don´t know exactly how they were related (if related at all, Mosca is a pretty common Italian name). But Funzi´s father (also named Alfonso) was also made, died in 1984. There were also a Frank and Peter (made in same ceremony as John Gotti in 1977) and of course Ralphie Bones.

First class info,I knew you will come trough.That's were we were cofused with the Mosca's.There's just to many of them.I'm curious to find out when did Mascia die and Frankie Loc got the crew.Can you help me?Also Asked who was Zeke with before he went to jail in the early 70s,is known or not?Thanks HK,as always.

Mascia died in 1986 but he was probably in a semi retired mode at least a couple of years before that. I´m not sure if Frank Locascio was the one who took over the crew, but it´s possible.

I don´t know who Squitieri was under in the 1970s but he was very close to Sisca already back then. (Both of them were made later in 1986.)

Yes,you are right about Sisca they were close.If we go by the story,he was the one that paid the cop of for Zeke.But is it safe to say that Sisca was with Zeke being that he's younger than Zeke at least 6 years.Don't you agree?
As for who was Zeke with before jail,someone will tell as eventually..Thank you.

Just to clarify, parts of Carminati´s crew ended up under Megale who had originally been under Tommy Gambino.