John Pappa is the son of Gerard Pappa,Genovese mede man killed in 1980, in spite of this he decided to become part of the mafia and became an associate of the Colombo family. Apart from the famous cases as the son of John Gotti,Junior Gotti, Nick Scarfo Jr. or Patriarca jr or the two sons of Sonny Franzese ,Do you know someone else of the sons or grandsons of made man who have attempted or succeeded in making a career in the mafia ?

Here a list





John Pappa son of Gerard,Colombo associate,had proven that he was a capable man and fit for Mafia membership during the Colombo war of 1991-93. Pappa was an efficient and bloodthirsty hit man who roamed south Brooklyn armed with an arsenal.Pappa is currently serving four life-without-parole terms plus 45 years for drug dealing and other miscellaneous charges.


Michael Franzese (born May 27, 1951), is a former New York mobster with the Colombo crime family who was heavily involved in the gasoline tax rackets in the 1980s. Since then, he has publicly renounced organized crime, created a foundation for helping youth and become a motivational speaker.



John Franzese Jr is a former associate of the Colombo crime family and son of underboss John Franzese. He is notable for being the first son to turn states evidence and testify against his father.Part of the agreement he made with the FBI prior to agreeing to testify is that he wouldn't profit from his story as a mafia figure.He was allegedly also responsible for his fathers fourth parole violation but was accepted back into his confidence after denying the allegations in tears say "I would never do that, no matter what kind of trouble I had."

Raymond J. Patriarca Jr. (born February 24, 1945) a.k.a. "Ray Junior" a.k.a. "Junior" is a Providence, Rhode Island, mobster who succeeded his father, Raymond Patriarca, as head of the Patriarca crime family in 1984.

Patriarca Jr. was born to Raymond Patriarca. and Rit. His mother died in 1965 and Raymond married a former nightclub hostess moved in with her in a home in Johnston, Rhode Island Although supported by the majority of family in favor of Boston racketeer Gennaro Anguilo, Patriarca's reign was considerably weaker compared to his father's leadership. Within the family, Angiulo was demoted and underboss William Grosso was later killed. With the support of the New York Gambino crime family, Patriarca managed to maintain stability within the family over the next several years.

In 1989, Patriarca and the entire family leadership was recorded by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents as they conducted a Mafia induction ceremony for four new members. This was the first such ceremony that the FBI had captured. Based largely on these tapes, federal prosecutors were able to convict Patriarca, Nicholas Bianco, Joseph Russo, Robert Carozza and other members of the crime family on racketeering-related charges.
Upon his release from prison, Patriarca retired from mob work



FBI Surveillance photos of the Making Ceremony in 1989. Patriarca (Left) Mercurio (right).

pappa 's son was not fit for the mafia..he was a nut..killed his own friends

list list of fathers, sons,grandfathers great grandfathers is very long..nepotism and blood lines are the first way you get in..today is easier without blood lines.

Nice pic, looks like they're looking right at the camera.

Tumacs entire crew brought their sons into the life. Scarfos has another son not in the life. Angelo Ruggiero, Lou Gatto, Andy Gerards son in law, Toner Borrelli, Joe Falco, Joe butch, Joe Dente, Joe Pagano, Mikey Sciara, Pussy Russo, Boot Biardo, John Macaluso, Buddy Sciandra, Gerry Chilli, Joe Paterno, Sclafani, list is too long. Even queens guys off the top of my head, Frank Roccaforte, Dragonetti, Asaros..... Blood gets u in faster than money does.

That photo was in medford right after the ceromony...of patriarca

the famous Giacomo "Jackie Dee" DiNorscio was a son of Philly mob made man Dominick Dinorscio

The Cherry Hill Gambinos

Rosario "Sal" Gambino





http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/cases/irontower-ii



giovanni " John " Gambino

The Gambino family eventually made their way to New Jersey. Although they entered the country illegally in 1962, they were granted permanent residency in 1966. The brothers later joined the Gambino crime family and were made members of the criminal organization in 1975 by Paul Castellano. Older brother Giovanni (who Americanized his name to John) was named a caporegime (captain) in the crime family and Rosario and Giuseppe (who Americanized his name to Joseph) were his top lieutenants. Together the brothers formed a crew known as the "Cherry Hill Gambinos", named after their city of operation, Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[4]

Together Rosario and Joseph ran a chain of restaurants called "Father and Son Pizza". They also ran pizza shops in Philadelphia and Camden, and, with a cousin, pizzerias as far south as Dover, Delaware. The two brothers were also suspects in a string of arsons in the 1980s. Despite his considerable earnings, Rosario reported little money on his income tax return. According to government reports:

"...one finds a financial picture which is simply not credible. His own attorney was unable to identify his occupation when asked to do so by the court. During the last few years, he has reported moderate amounts of income, approximately $20,000 in his 1982 U. S. Individual Income Tax Return and approximately $21,000 in his 1983 Income Tax Return. Yet he lives in a lavish home which is insured for $150,000 and for which he makes mortgage payments of $1,087.00 each month. Moreover, during the calendar year 1983, he made deposits totaling just under $35,000 in his checking account. He testified that he was unemployed from December 31, 1983, until his arrest on March 16, 1984. Although he allegedly had no source of income, he stated he left untouched the $20,000 in cash he had accumulated from his pizzeria. Still he was able to meet his living expenses, gamble in the casinos and pay $1,697.00 in cash to have fountain lights installed in front of his house during this time period."[5]

In 1983, Louis Eppolito – a former New York Police Department (NYPD) police detective who worked on behalf of the New York Mafia – was suspected in a corruption case that he had provided NYPD intelligence reports on to Rosario.[6] Rosario was also linked to the Pizza Connection probe, where dealers would sell drugs from pizzarias,[7]

Some of that info on Giuseppe Gambino is wrong. I am 100% positive Giuseppe "Joe" Gambino is alive and well living in Staten Island NY. He was released from prison in 2005 and is currently in his brother John Gambino's crew.

He was at that meeting taped by Stefanelli along with his brother John and Lorenzo Mannino when they met with the leaders of the Philly LCN a couple years ago.

In 1993 or 94 Joe and John Gambino took a plea deal of 15 years in prison, they were released in 2005.

Their brother Rosario in 1984 was sentenced to 45 years for dealing in heroin. He was released and deported in 2009 back to Italy. He currently lives in the Passo di Rigano section of Palermo where his family was originally from before they moved to the US.

yes giancarlo,thanks for the informations.

That pic of Jr and Sonny was taken in RI, not in Medford, fyi..

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Jerry Capeci.Organized Crime Expert
Posted: August 24, 2009 12:45 AM

Another Corozzo Earns A Trip To The Big House

The feds say he's a mob associate who engineered a sophisticated $100,000 tax fraud scheme. His lawyer, who happens to be his cousin, says he's just a hard-working, hard-luck guy who strayed off the straight and narrow a few years ago when his ice cream parlor business went belly up.

Meet Nicholas Corozzo of Howard Beach, Queens, the fourth member of the Corozzo clan to earn a trip to the Big House for one reason or another since last year.

Corozzo, 31, is the son of Gambino soldier Blaise Corozzo, one of three wiseguy brothers currently behind bars. Blaise, 61, is serving a one-to-three year sentence in state prison for being part of a lucrative mob gambling operation that was busted last year by the Queens District Attorney's office.

Young Corozzo is also the nephew of imprisoned family consigliere Joseph (JoJo) Corozzo and capo Nicholas (Little Nick) Corozzo. Both are doing time for more serious federal convictions. JoJo, 67, is serving 46 months for racketeering, and due out in 2011; Little Nick, 69, is in for murder and set for release in 2020.

Early this year, the IRS hit young Nicholas Corozzo with tax fraud charges for providing phony W2 forms to dozens of cohorts who agreed to use the documents to obtain quick and bogus tax refunds from the IRS, and then share the loot with Corozzo.

All told, young Corozzo and his crew earned over $100,000 in the scheme, which ran from January 1 to February 14 of 2004, said assistant U.S. attorney Elizabeth Geddes. The prosecutor also cited his "family" connections and asked Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Carol Amon for prison time between 27 and 33 months.

Not so fast, said cousin Joseph Corozzo - the lawyer son of the crime family's consigliere. He calculated the loss at less than $80,000, and urged the judge to impose a sentence between 15 and 21 months, the range that the attorney and the prosecutor had agreed to when they negotiated a plea deal in the case.

The lawyer, long tainted by his family name, also argued that his cousin Nicholas had nothing to do with any organized crime activities that his relatives may be involved in, and was being unfairly smeared as a mob associate in a minor tax fraud case that would likely have meant probation for most defendants.

Judge Amon came down closer to where the Corozzos - both the lawyer and the defendant - had hoped she would land. On August 14 she gave Corozzo 21 months behind bars, and agreed to a plea by the lawyer to let his cousin begin his prison term after he celebrates the Christmas holidays with his wife and two young children.

Meanwhile, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are still investigating numerous allegations of criminal activity by attorney Corozzo, whom the feds have called House Counsel to the Gambino crime family - and much worse over the years.

In court papers, filed in his cousin's tax fraud case - and in the pending racketeering-murder indictment against several Colombo gangsters charged with the 1997 murder of police officer Ralph Dols - prosecutors say Corozzo is the "subject of multiple pending investigations" by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn.

In the filings, the feds accuse Corozzo of being "involved in the Gambino family's illegal activities, including the collection of extortion money" and with using his "status as an attorney to further...acts of violence or threatened violence" by wiseguys and mob associates alike.

Last year, the feds asserted that in 2004 his father proposed him for membership in the Gambino family. In the late 1980s, the feds say, Corozzo ordered a low level mob associate he was out drinking with to shoot the driver of a car who was involved in a road rage incident with Corozzo.

"This has been ongoing since 1993," said Corozzo, a graduate of Brooklyn Law School who passed the state bar, and became an attorney in 1991. In 1993, he began defending his father against state racketeering charges - two years later, he won an acquittal for his old man. In 1993, Corozzo also began visiting, and representing, the crime family's imprisoned boss, the late John Gotti.

In his cousin's case, and the Dols murder case, the government alerted each defendant of the ongoing investigations of their attorney and asked them to waive any future claim that those probes had a negative impact on Corozzo's efforts on their behalf.

Both defendants agreed to waive any potential conflict of interest between them and their lawyer, so Corozzo didn't lose either client. He told Gang Land, however, that the continuing investigations, as you might expect, have not been a good thing.

"It affects my business," said Corozzo. Thus far, he says, "about half a dozen have left me" after learning that he was under investigation. But he can't begin to estimate how many other clients he has lost over the years, he said, since many people who read or hear about his status, "are dissuaded from hiring me, or even contacting me."

"It's somewhat confusing to clients too," said Corozzo, "because of the inherent contradictions in the two positions the government takes in these cases. On the one hand, they say that I might sell out my clients to curry favor with the government because I am under investigation. At the same time they say I'm alleged to be involved in illegal conduct and will do things that are out of bounds in order to help my clients."

Corozzo says the government's never-ending investigation "is a familial thing. It's similar to what they said about my cousin when they said he was a Gambino associate because his name is Corozzo."

As for how long he thinks the investigation will continue?

"As long I am related to the people I am related to, I'll have to deal with it. So in that sense I hope it lasts a very long time."




My 666th Post

Considering mercurio was a rat HE prolly was

http://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Salvatore_%22Sal%22_Marino



Salvatore Marino was the son of San Jose Family boss Angelo Marino and a former capo. He was first arrested for stabbing a man in a bar fight on October 8, 1967. The fight happened at King's Drive-In on First and Alma streets. He was one of 13 arrested. The case was thrown out of court after the victim refused to testify. Salvatore was indicted by the Santa Clara County Grand Jury for shooting George Von Gunden in the foot on August 29, 1968. A witness said Salvatore threw his gun over a fence and fled the shooting scene. Charges were soon dropped in exchange for a no-contest plea on another shooting six months later. This time he was sent to the California Youth Authority for the shooting of a Santa Clara man. The victim, Dan Edward Pearce, was shot in the chest and back. Pearce was shot over an unpaid debt. Salvatore fired two slugs from a .38-caliber revolver into the man while he was in his bed. He was released from CYA on parole on July 15, 1972. His next meeting with the law came on May 28, 1974. At that time police said he fired four shots through the open door of the home of Steven Garrity. No one was injured.

Catelli MurderEditSalvatore and his father were suspected of murdering Peter Catelli and wounding Catelli's father in October 1977. The two Catelli's were found in the trunk of a Cadillac that had been abandoned in San Francisco. They were found guilty of second-degree murder and attempted murder in July 1980. But the convictions were overturned on appeals and the two were released. On July 22, 1982, the murder case was reopened. Salvatore was convicted for a second time and sentenced to nine years in prison.

Later YearsEditOn September 4, 1986, a federal court judge cleared the way for his release when finding out that three jurors committed "prejudicial errors" during deliberations in the 1982 trial. Two of the jurors admitted using a dictionary definition of the term "malice," rather than a legal definition. Salvatore sued his three sisters to overturn the sale of his father's cheese business, which was sold for $11.5 million two months before his release from Folsom Prison. On May 2, 1989, Salvatore was arrested after police found eight handguns, rifles and shotguns in his home. Salvatore was found guilty in 1994 and was sentenced to four years in San Quentin Prison. In 1998 Salvatore Marino was released from prison. It's not known if he is still involved in organized crime.

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Junior Plays Hide and Seek as Gotti IV Goes to the Jury

Two weeks ago, the show in Manhattan Federal Court was ‘Blowing Up Gotti,’ as matriarch Victoria (Mama) Gotti blew a gut at the judge, accusing him of lynching her son. Last week’s episode could be dubbed ‘Showing Up Gotti’ since it was John (Junior) Gotti himself who threw a snit, refusing to leave his jail cell, and delaying his trial for two hours.

In the end, after some cajoling from his exasperated defense attorney, Gotti decided to put in an appearance for his lawyer’s closing remarks, along with those of the prosecution. Junior also was present yesterday as a panel of anonymous jurors began its deliberations in his case.

The next installment could come as early as today. If it’s an acquittal, count on plenty of crowing from the Gotti clan. If not … well … some throwing could be involved.

For more than two hours last Tuesday, until the former Junior Don took his seat at the defense table wearing a short-sleeved shirt and an angry scowl, his appearance was an open question, even though lawyer Charles Carnesi — after visiting his client at his federal lockup across the street – had assured the judge that Gotti was on his way.

Eventually, Gotti heard Carnesi rip key prosecution witness John Alite as a “treacherous, manipulative criminal” who took bits and pieces of the truth — often crimes that he committed — and twisted them to earn a “ride on the Gotti freedom train out of prison.”

The defense attorney reminded jurors of the testimony of a minor prosecution witness — Alite loanshark victim Joseph DeLuca, a former New York Mets employee who had been befriended by Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez — and argued that what DeLuca did to Hernandez was exactly what Alite had done to Gotti, albeit on a much grander scale.

DeLuca, said Carnesi, “used the name of Keith Hernandez to place large bets that would not otherwise have been accepted from him. He knew Hernandez, and they were friends, but he had no idea what Joe DeLuca was doing. That’s John Alite, trading on John Gotti’s name.”

The cornerstone of Gotti’s defense is that he quit the mob when he pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in 1999. Toward that end, Carnesi offered a moving account of how Junior, some 11 years after he willingly joined the Gambino family, visited his jailed-for-life father and said he was giving up “the life” to be a father to his own kids.

Recalling a videotaped meeting between Junior and the elder John Gotti that jury had seen the day before, Carnesi told the jury that what his client was telling his dad, whom he had “idolized,” was: “I can’t do this anymore. This is your life. This is not my life.”

In his rebuttal, assistant U.S. attorney Elie Honig told the jury that Gotti’s “I quit the mob” defense was a “made up claim” that sought to earn him a pass on a lifetime of crime by blaming his late father for his life of crime.

Honig took a page from the closing remarks of prosecutor Victor Hou in Gotti III, citing 14 reasons why Junior’s so-called withdrawal defense was a “complete fabrication.” Several allegations, including messages from prison to mob cronies about guns and loanshark debts, as well as taking profits from real estate deals, were also on Hou’s “Top 20 Reasons Gotti Never Withdrew.”

The co-prosecutor in Gotti III, Miriam Rocah — who now heads the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s organized crime unit — showed up for the summations, as did the lead prosecutor in Gotti I and II, Michael McGovern. Also putting in appearances were the two former leaders of the FBI’s Gambino squad, Philip Scala and Rita Steiner, who joined many prosecution pundits in the courtroom for the closings.

Another interested spectator on the government side of the room was Curtis Sliwa, whose 1992 shooting in a Manhattan cab was the centerpiece of the first three trials. Sliwa’s taxi-ride from hell is also an allegation in Gotti IV. The talk show host told Gang Land that Honig “connected all the dots” in his closing. “You’d have to be brain dead not to make the connections and find Gotti guilty,” said Sliwa.

Gotti’s mother, who exploded in anger last week when Judge P. Kevin Castel dismissed a juror who was viewed as pro-defense, returned to the trial and sat in the middle of the first row of Junior’s supporters. Alongside were her son Peter and daughters Angel and Victoria. Cousin John DiGiorgio, a onetime snitch who agreed to testify for the defense at an earlier trial, was also part of the group.

In an obvious expression of anger with Castel, Mrs. Gotti remained seated when the judge entered and left the courtroom instead of standing in the tradition of respect for the bench. And when Honig began his final remarks, she stood up and led her row of relatives out of the courtroom. They remained outside until he was done.

On the defense side, Seth Ginsberg, who represented Gotti in his first three trials, expressed confidence in the outcome for his former client. “Even the brief snippet of John’s prison meeting with his father that the judge allowed the defense to play shows that John left that life in 1999,” he said. “The best proof of that is the government’s feeble attempt to prove otherwise with a convoluted legal theory about the ownership of a rental property that he used to support his family.”