Frank Cali's Circus Fruits

Interesting PDF I found about Silvestro LoVerde and Frank Cali's wholesale fruit and vegetable business "Circus Fruits". Looks like they got denied on their application to become a Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable business at the NYC Terminal Produce Cooperative market back in 2009.

It has a ton of information about cali and some of the other 18th ave guys. Definitely worth a read...


https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/bic/downloads/pdf/denials/markets/deny_RandSCircusProduce.pdf

He was La Costra Nostra through and through a real serious guy

Interesting! Thanks for posting!

Cali is mentioned with that guy that was reported to be 3rd guy in admin Mike Paridiso or something multiple times. So I guess he was in with the Sicilian faction.

Thanks for the post on Circus Fruits. Interesting read.

Any updates on the Cali murder? Is it pretty much decided that this was *not* mob related, merely a freak incident involving unstable individual Anthony Comello?

´U Frankie´ turned out to be a real businessman but in his younger years he was known to be a killer.

I realize that Hollander is an extremely knowledgeable poster, especially on Canadian affairs and 'Ndrangheta. But I recall reading a comment from Mikey "Scars" DiLeonardo not so long ago, to the effect that Cali was not a killer, but that Lorenzo Mannino is

My bad, I confused Cali with his Sicilian associate Gianni Nicchi.

It seems he made a fortune, we will never know how much but tens of millions at least, with money laundering for several Palermo families in particular from the town of Villabate.

yaeh everthing i read on the guy, brilliant business man made millions legit and was ahead of the scams like the phone cards. mike scars said he never touched drugs i believe it. he probaly was into white colar stuff. and wasnt a violent guy. probaly got in the family threw his earning and family connections

This article says Calis fruit came from Palermo and Trapani land.....





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Relationships, business and strange journeys Frank Calì's Sicilian ties

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Written by Riccardo Lo Around March 14, 2019 - 16:30
PALERMO
Relationships, business and strange journeys
Frank Calì's Sicilian ties

The head of the new dome, Settimo Mineo, was going to America. Contact with the Inzerillo
PALERMO - They kill a mafia boss, Frank Calì, in New York, and the sound of gunshots is also heard in Sicily. The liaison magistrate between Italy and the United States immediately activated to acquire information. It is the investigations in progress in Sicily that are being watched with the utmost attention. There are family ties, ongoing business, planned and missed trips at the last moment that need to be analyzed. Certainly Franky boy had contacts with the mafia families of Palermo, Trapani and Agrigento.


First of all there are family relationships. The victim had married Rosaria Inzerillo, sister of Pietro, one of the escaped to America during a war of mafia wanted by corleonesi. On January 14, 1982, a New Jersey police officer received an anonymous phone call. A voice told him to go to the Hilton hotel in Mount Laurel because there was a bomb inside a car. And instead in the trunk they found the frozen corpse of Pietro Inzerillo, brother-in-law of Frank Calì.

Over the years, the Inzerillo family returned to the Passo di Rigano area of ​​Palermo, not without fibrillation. In 1997 Francesco Inzerillo, known as u truttaturi, son of Pietro, was expelled from the United States and forcibly returned to Italy. In 2014 also his cousin Tommaso returned to Palermo. Both were arrested in the 2006 Gotha blitz. Francis was released from prison in October 2011 and Tommaso was released in November 2013.

The escape season is now closed if it is true that Settimo Mineo, the elderly boss of Pagliarelli who presided over the new dome of Cosa Nostra which met last May, has recently met the Inzerillo cousins. To make matters worse, Mineo, two months before the police arrested him, planned a trip to America. On 15 October, the bugs intercepted him while he was talking about a passport and asked a travel agent what was needed to obtain an entry visa to the United States. What were his plans? Did he want to talk to the American bosses of the new Cosa Nostra after Riina?

The truth is that Francesco Paolo Augusto Calì- this is the full name of Frank Calì - born in America, he has always kept in mind his Sicilian origins. In 2007, Frank Fappiano, collaborator of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said that as early as 1999 he had been presented as "wiseguy", that is "man of honor". In 2003 another collaborator, Micheal Di Leonardo, added that he had discussed the Gambino business with him. Dirty business, such as drugs, and seemingly legitimate business in large-scale distribution and fruit import export. It starts from the cultivation of land between the provinces of Agrigento and Trapani and arrives in the United States. A millionaire business that could have created deep tensions.

It is still early to understand if there is a connection between the events of the Sicilian mafia and those that led to the murder of Frank Calì, riddled with bullets in front of his Staten Island home. But it is certain that America is less distant than it may seem.

In New York, Ferdinando Freddy Gallina has been held for a year and a half . He had taken refuge in America and is now close to extradition. In the first instance, the green light came back to Italy. There are those who tremble because they fear that Gallina, on whom hangs the heavy accusation of murder, may decide to collaborate with justice. Gallina was a loyalist of Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the boss of San Lorenzo who sponsored the return of escapes overseas.