It had guys like Paul Ragusa,Anthony Aiello and Vito Guzzo and it was controled by Baldo Amato.They were a farm team for the Bonnanos and Colombos.

What about the Tanglewood boys these guys were Luchase associated farm team.I read some stuff on them and these guys were mostly sons of mobsters but the gianni crew were probably more orginised and disciplined.

What other young gangs are there for each of the families and is each gang in a certain area kick up to the capo of that turf

I dont know any info on these guys above but in South Philly, the 10th and O (Oregon) gang is a mostly italian american gang mostly dealing with drugs and gambling. They often worked with the mob and against them. When Long John Martarano was murdered it was rumored that he was trying to work with the 10th and O gang again to take over Uncle Joe. They have gone to war with them and worked with them. They did the same with the Pagans. Actually, the former leader of the pagans, Steve Mondergine (wrong spellin), use to be an enforcer for Joey Merlinos crew as well. He was just locked up again last week. Google it. They found some weapons so they won't let him out on bail. The pagans, the mob and 10th and O have always either worked for or against each other. There are still a younger and older crew today. Not sure though how much activity they have with Uncle Joes crew. I dont think any.

I read some stuff about the Giannini crew, they are defunct now. Some went to prison, some of them flipped, some just left the life I guess. Anthony Aiello became a made member in the Bonnano family. He took part in the Randy Pizzolo hit ordered by Vinny Basciano, he might have been the actual trigger man. I think he took a plea and got a bunch of years for it.

Anthony Aiello got made really young and was being groomed by Amato maybe to be a capo one day but his rise was cut short and copped 30 year prison sentence.Even though ragusa and guzzo were more violant i guess older made guys saw something in aiello

Here is a pretty good article on the subject...


" Bonanno soldier Anthony "Ace" Aiello was born into a life of crime in 1976. He honed his wiseguy skills on the mean streets of Middle Village, Queens. So last month, when he suspected he was about to be hit with federal murder charges, Aiello knew exactly what to do.

He took a page from a lesson he learned from his old man when he was 8 and his father, Antonino, was a major heroin trafficker: He took off and never looked back.

Aiello, 28, is the object of an international manhunt by FBI agents looking to arrest him for the execution slaying of mob associate Randolph "Randy" Pizzolo, whose bullet-riddled body was found in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn on December 1.

Aiello's ability to avoid arrest was aided by a questionable strategic decision by the feds, one that tipped Aiello off that he was liable to be arrested and enabled him to flee, much the same way his father did two decades ago.

Aiello, who was released from federal prison in July 2001 after serving 39 months for a 1997 armed robbery, obviously had no desire to go back - especially for a murder charge that could mean life behind bars, or even the possibility of a death sentence.

He disappeared on January 28, sources say. That was a day after Bonanno boss Joseph Massino was identified as a turncoat, and capo Dominick Cicale and acting boss Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano were charged in a murder indictment with Pizzolo's murder.

Federal prosecutors did not seek to charge Aiello with murder until a week later, even though Basciano had identified Aiello as one of the killers during the same tape-recorded discussions with Massino in which he fingered Cicale, according to court papers.

By the time the FBI began looking to arrest him, Aiello was long gone. Last week, when the FBI could not develop any solid information regarding his whereabouts, federal prosecutors publicly proclaimed him to be a fugitive. His last known address was 69-34 66 Rd. in Middle Village.

According to an arrest warrant filed by FBI agent Jeffrey Sallet in Brooklyn Federal Court, Basciano reported to Massino on January 3 that he had given instructions "who to use" in the murder and that he believed "Dominick and Ace" had done the job.

Four days later, said the warrant, "Basciano reiterated his belief [to Massino] that the murder was carried out by 'Ace,' meaning Aiello."

In a taped conversation 13 months earlier with another informer, Basciano had praised Ace as a "tough kid" whom Basciano was schooling, the warrant said. Basciano also noted that Baldo Amato, a Sicilian-born Bonanno soldier, had known Aiello for "for eight or nine years" and had groomed him to be a wiseguy during the 1990s, when Ace was still in his teens.

"Anthony was a nice kid growing up, but he had punk tendencies," an old friend told Gang Land, recalling that young Aiello often hung out on the corner of 78th Avenue and 74th Street in Glendale, flexing his muscles and trying to impress girls at Junior High School 119. "He worked at Hot Bagels on Metropolitan Avenue for a while, but he ran with the punks in the Giannini crew and the Middle Village Boys."

At the time, the Giannini crew included dozens of wannabe wiseguys who were loosely connected to three crime families, according to court records. Amato owned the crew's base of operations, the Caffe Giannini in Ridgewood, and Aiello, like many Sicilian-born hoodlums and sons of Sicilian gangsters and drug dealers, gravitated to Amato.

Even though Aiello was a Middle Village Boy - each neighborhood had its own gang with distinct jackets - he was at ease on the Ridgewood Boys' turf. The Caffe Giannini was a couple of doors away from the Cafe Aiello, a restaurant that had doubled as his father's headquarters when he was trafficking in heroin during the early 1980s.

Antonino Aiello,a heavyset and muscular man, also owned four pizzerias around the city and was called commerciante, or businessman, by his heroin-dealing colleagues. He was a millionaire several times over. Agents had seen him meeting Bonanno capo Salvatore Catalano and other major heroin traffickers at the Cafe Aiello during the massive FBI-DEA Pizza Connection investigation, but for tactical reasons they opted not to nab Antonino in April 1984 when they rounded up Catalano and 30 others.

Seven months later, on November 14, 1984, when a task force of detectives and federal agents raided his Middle Village home, they seized nine rifles and handguns and $91,000, but not Antonino. He wasn't at his father's home either, where agents seized $900,000 and $30,000 in "buy money" that an undercover cop had used to purchase heroin at a Harlem pizzeria that he owned, Tony's Pizza Parlor. They arrested his father, Vito, who would serve eight months in prison for holding the cash and guns for his son.

Two years later, on November 16, 1986, cops and FBI agents nabbed Antonino, who had changed his name, lost weight, grown a beard, and dyed his hair, in Patchogue, L.I. They also arrested his wife, Elizabeth, who was later convicted of harboring a fugitive and sentenced to three years' probation.

Antonino was convicted in 1988 as a heroin kingpin. Today, at age 66, he is serving life plus 140 years at Marion Federal Penitentiary. Several appeals of his conviction and severe sentence have failed, and in a landmark 1990 ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a forfeiture of more than $5 million in cash, jewelry, businesses, and properties.

At least he had those last two years of freedom.

Meanwhile, his son Anthony, who authorities say has much less money than his father had 20 years ago when he became a fugitive, has a long way to go before he can match his father's effort, let alone improve on it.

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In another father-and-son affair, Gambino capo Salvatore "Tore" Locascio and five cohorts in a $700 million phone-sex and Internet-porn rip-off copped guilty pleas Monday that call for Tore to serve seven years in prison and his co-defendants to receive terms of two to 10 years.

The pleas were entered after the feds arranged for Tore to confer with his father, Frank, in a highly unusual telephone call to a prison hospital in Massachusetts where the elder Locascio is serving a life sentence on a disputed conviction for a 1990 murder that was authorized by John Gotti.

Next week, Frank Locascio's lawyer in his 1992 trial, Anthony Cardinale, is scheduled to testify at a hearing that he did less than his best for Locascio at trial because Gotti threatened to kill him if he didn't make Gotti his primary focus.

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In another Gambino family affair, capo Vincent "Vinny Butch" Corrao, who took over his late father Joseph "Joe Butch" Corrao's rackets when he passed away in 2001, pleaded guilty last week to racketeering and related loan sharking and extortion charges.

As part of his plea bargain, Vincent, 38, will receive up to 63 months in prison to cover a potpourri of charges, including threats of violence he lodged against a gambler who had the temerity to insist that Corrao fork over $75,000 the gambler had won from Corrao.

Corrao's plea also covers shakedowns of a nightclub in Fort Lee and a restaurant in Brooklyn, as well as a beating he gave to a loanshark customer who fell behind on his payments to the gangster. "

By JERRY CAPECI

Anthony "Ace" Aiello's release date is May 6, 2031. He will be 54. Young enough to become boss and take over the New York underworld.

Who knows what the New York underworld will look like in 2031?

Just look at 1991 compared to 2011. In '91, you still had a few throwbacks to the golden age of the mob. Today, in 2011, not so much.

So by 2031?

Yeah, wiseguys will always be around, because people will always want to gamble and borrow money, but to predict what kind of shape American Cosa Nostra will be in by then is really going out on a limb.

The five families will be there. Joseph Corozzo III will be running The Gambinos, Alphonse Persico IV will be running the Colombos, Domenico Cutaia III will run the Lucheses, Andrew Gigante Jr. will be running The Genoveses and of course, Anthony "Ace" Aiello will run the Bonannos with Vinny Basciano Jr. as underboss.

Any chance you know whose gonna win the super bowl this year to? How bout tonights pick 6? lol

Alphonse Persico IV will be running the Colombos only after the fourth Colombo War takes place when Victor Orena III seeks revenge for the third Colombo War and botches a hit on Allie Persico IV. Alphonse Persico the jailed for life Colombo Boss, then tells his son Allie Persico IV to wipe out the upstart Orena faction...

You guys also seem to forget that Carmine Gotti Agnello will soon get in the life and be made by 2015 then by 2020 he will be a captain and the in 2031 he will make a powerplay and take out Joseph Corozzo III

Yes but Joseph Corozzo III has one ace up his sleeve...Sonny Franzese! Yes Sonny will be out in 2031, stronger than ever!, still the Colombo underboss! and he just so happens to owe Joseph Corozzo II a big favor. This is why Carmine Gotti Agnello won't stand a chance to make this powerplay and he, along with his crew will be executed on Christmas Eve 2031 in a hit that will resemble the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The aging Jerry Capeci will liken the bloodshed to a masterpiece and refer to it as "Sonny's Mona Lisa".

Sonny!!!!! Come back and save "This Things of Ours" from all the informants, even your son Michael is writing a new book on your release in 2031, what kind of son is that? time to take back La Cosa Nostra and the Colombo Family rename it the Franzese Crime Family...

the hit will take place on the boardwalk in jersey shore

Anthony aiello must really believe in the life.He was only 28 and sentenced to 30 years prison and didnt flip.He will probably never have a family and is going to be in his 50s when he gets out.Doesnt matter how good u have it inside jail still takes a toll on you he will look and feel much older than his age.Imagine how he felt knowing he did what the boss told him to do and then he got ratted on by the guy who gave him the order and he will basicly be his fathers age when he gets freedom

You know what? I don't think it will be so bad. 2031. 20 years from now. The equivalent of the current old school guys (1940 and further back I guess) will be those born around 1950's or 60's). These are still guys who grew up in and around a criminal syndicate that, whilst not as powerful as in its past, was still a far-reaching, powerful and cash-rich organization. And it still is today.
Of course, the new young guys, the new 'Italian-Americans' couldn't even tell you if Sicily is a fucking island or not, so my guess is that either LCN is gonna continue in its current form more or less (doing okay, not the glory days, but not reduced to little more than a street gang) or its gonna get so badly infested with rats, one-dimensional thugs and generally men of weak character that its gonna almost sink. Before picking itself up once more, perhaps learning its lessons somewhat.

I went to grade school with a bunch of the Giannini crew in Ridgewood. But I never knew Ace Aiello. Where and when was he finally caught?

Looking back, most of those guys had legit family businesses that they inherited and didn't need to get involved in crime.

Tabbita had Momma Mia Pizza. Ragusa had the bakery. They could have been legit but chose a life of crime.

I think Paul Ragusa's father was somehow involved in The Pizza Connection. I remember seeing surveillance photos of his dad, taken in Sicily.

Funny. I was just talking with someone on here about Ragusa. I didn't know this thread existed. I grew up in Ridgewood, Queens. Around the corner from Ragusa. We went to school together, until he got kicked out for good. He'd get a hold of me when I'd be by myself on the block, and him and a friend of his would beat me up. I remember one time, his friend held my arms behind my back, while Paulie punched my stomach over and over til I threw up. He was a real bad seed, beating up girls seemed to give him a lot of satisfaction. Or maybe it was just me he liked to beat up. He also popped me in the eye with an aluminum baseball bat once. I'll never forget it was my 10th birthday and I had a huge black eye/cheek. Eventually he moved onto bigger and better things to do with his time. That guy messed up a lot of my childhood in Ridgewood.
Wonder where he is today.

Oh he's not out yet? For some reason I thought he was. I wish I could get a hold of this fucking guy today. I have a lot of unsettled stuff in my head cause of him, but I'll save that for the shrink. lol

Well, then send him an angry letter. Write it while you're on your mensies.

That'll show him .

Thats fucked up. If hes married he probably does the same stuff at home. Guys like that just enjoy violence.

I remember reading an article about a crew who were like a sort of street gang connected to one of the five families but i forgot now. one of them allegdly pushed his girlfriend down some stairs because she was pregnant, thats all i can remeber from it though. think it was during the 90s or something.

Looks like Carmela is safe for at least another 5 years. What kind of person beats up on girls like that?

Don't worry about Carmela. She can take care of herself .

I heard that!
I wonder if I can hire her as a bodyguard?!?
Maybe that inmate guy better watch out?!?

I did get my bit of revenge once. He was by himself, stopped me while i was on my way to the store, and grabbed my arm, took my money..the usual. So, when he turned around, I saw a big piece of wood in the street with a nail hanging out of it. I picked it up and drove that son of a bitch right into his arm. Then I ran.
My parents really didn't know what to do about him at the time. Pretty much my mom told me, 'learn to take care of yourself, or stay in the house'.

I think I recall hearing that when he finally turned himself in, it was because his sister was arrested for dealing heroin. The Feds threatened to charge the whole family if he didn't surrender. He's gotta be in close to 15 years now. I don't know what happened to his sister.

If I were him ! I would stay locked up . If he does get out and Carmela gets a chance at him I want a front row ticket !

Interesting to see Ragusa is getting out of jail in five years. He'll probably just go into some legit business like bakery or pizza.

Tabbita turning on them is amazing. He's a free man living in Florida.