I posted this over at the real deal as well and wanted to see what people thought about this guy.This guy gets out September 25th and I was wondering if anybody thinks he might himself in the admin in the future? or retain his original rank as Captain since he was a stand up guy and was originally made by the Bronx faction just like Crea. I was looking into this guy's past and then found out there was a falling out with him and Crew over a table at Rao's and Capeci wrote about it last year. It all started when the Genovese claimed a table that belonged to Bowat at Rao's and Genovese Capo Buster Ardito pushed for Bellomo (who was in the can) to rule the table was his as opposed to other Genoevse wiseguys.
"A major topic of discussion during the investigation was a long-running dispute between Ardito and several Genovese wiseguys over a table at Rao's, the legendary East Harlem eatery where dining while rubbing elbows with wiseguys is a favored pastime of ex-cops, lawyers, politicians, and celebrities.
According to numerous convoluted conversations, the Genoveses claimed a table that had belonged to imprisoned Luchese capo Anthony "Bowat" Barratta, and Ardito steadfastly pushed Peluso to coerce and cajole Muscarella, Cirillo, and Bellomo to rule that Buster, not a slew of family pretenders, deserved use of the table every other week.
After meeting with the imprisoned Bellomo, who's been incarcerated since 1996, Peluso reported back that Barney, who had just been hit with racketeering charges while serving a sentence for extortion, was incensed at being drawn into such a trivial matter.
"I don't know what the hell's going on out there. But I'll tell you one thing, they're all going to get pinched [if] they want to make issues and sit-downs over issues like this," Bellomo said, according to an affidavit by Mr. Inzerillo.
Ultimately, according to the affidavits and other sources, Mario Gigante, the family's latest acting boss - and an older brother of the late Vincent "Chin" Gigante - settled the issue by giving back the table to the Luchese family in the person of Steven Crea, who's due out of prison in two months.
Meanwhile, Peluso, the family's trusted mob "counselor" who delivered messages for family elders going back to Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, secretly pleaded guilty and switched sides. He is waiting to back up the government's latest salvo from the witness stand."
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/buster-ardito-hunts-for-bugs/34885/"A ROW AT RAO'S
Everybody from Gov. Pataki to Mariah Carey vies for seats at Rao's.
So it's no wonder some real-life wiseguys have been having a (surf 'n') turf war over a table at the tiny East Harlem restaurant.
According to wiretaps, former acting Lucchese family boss Anthony (Bowat) Baratta, imprisoned for drug dealing, sent word to current acting boss Steve Crea that he should let Baratta's son use his table at Rao's. Crea sent word back that Baratta's son was "off the wall" to ask for such a thing. But former Daily News columnist Jerry Capeci reports on Ganglandnews.com that Baratta's son complained to his father, who enlisted another jailed Lucchese boss, Joseph (Little Joe) DeFede, to lean on Crea.
"What the [bleep] is it they want?" an exasperated Crea asked Lucchese soldier Dominick Truscello in a taped phone conversation.
"They want the table," said Truscello.
Capeci reports that a sit-down has now resolved the dispute: Baratta's son gets the table three weeks a month, while Crea has it every fourth week.
Rao's owner Frank Pellegrino, who plays FBI Agent Cubitoso on "The Sopranos," tells us, "I have no knowledge of any of this.""
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-10-14/gossip/18366915_1_friend-nora-kaye-divorce/2"Mobster Gets Old 'Killer Smile' Back With Help From BOP from Ganglandnews"
It took him awhile, but 72-year-old Luchese capo Anthony (Bowat) Baratta finally figured out what’s hot and what’s not when you’re behind bars doing time for drug trafficking.
In the “not” category is selling heroin to an informer. That turned out badly for him in the mid-1990s, costing him eight more years in prison. More recently, as his “get-out-of-jail” date neared, he hit on a “hot” idea, one that he used to get back the “killer smile” he had in his heyday when he served on a panel of capos who ran the Lucheses.
Courtesy of the federal government’s Bureau of Prisons, the once-wealthy mobster got himself a brand new set of choppers.
It wasn’t only for cosmetic purposes, his friends insist. Sources say Baratta, who’s due to be released from the federal prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania next year, like many men in his age group, had a definite need for his new dentures. Bowat also suffered the same pain and torture that most patients endure during the long process from extractions to implants to fittings for new dentures – “only worse,” say his pals.
Bowat began the process more than two years ago, and was “virtually toothless and in constant pain for many months,” said one source. These days, sources tell Gang Land, he’s pain free, has gotten his implants, and has gone through several sessions to have his new dentures fitted.
“I hear he’s looking pretty good,” said one knowledgeable Gang Land source who says he is eager to see Baratta.
Bowat had a lot of time to chew on his dental problems. He’s resided in one BOP facility or another since 1992. Rather than go up against acting underboss Alfonso (Little Al) D’Arco and a gaggle of lesser-ranked family turncoats prepared to testify against him, he decided to cop a plea deal to a slew of charges that were lodged against him in two separate indictments.
Baratta, who allegedly drove a crash car in the 1989 slayings of two brothers-in-law who bucked the Luchese crime family by operating a garbage collecting business on Long Island, got14 years. Then he had eight years added to his prison time after getting sucked into a heroin deal in 1998.
His new dentures will also serve another important function for Baratta when – and if – he ever gets back to dining every week at Rao’s, the legendary East Harlem restaurant that is a favored eatery for wiseguys as well as politicians, actors and other celebrities.
A former resident of Pleasant Avenue, the same block where Rao’s is located, Baratta controlled the family’s reservation there before he went to prison, according to tape recorded conversations picked up by an NYPD wiretap.
As Gang Land reported back in 2001, the imprisoned Bowat did pretty well when Luchese capo Steven (Stevie Wonder) Crea was tape recorded trashing Bowat and tried to take him off the family’s table in a nasty dispute. At a sitdown, however, cooler heads prevailed, and Crea got it one week a month, while Baratta retained the crime family’s table for three weeks a month.
These days, however, Stevie Wonder is the gangster who most people say is currently the family’s most powerful mobster. Hopefully, cooler heads will again prevail, and both Bowat and Stevie Wonder will be able to co-exist at the tiny 10-and-a-half table restaurant.
According to an FBI report that Gang Land obtained recently, the battered and bruised Lucheses – as well as the Gambinos and Genoveses – now have twice-a-week reservations at Rao’s, which is only open weekdays. “If you can’t make it in five, you can’t do it in seven,” is one of co-owner Frank (Frankie No) Pellegrino’s favorite throwaway lines whenever he is asked how come he doesn’t open on Saturdays and Sundays.
The crime families each have one of the bigger tables in the middle of the restaurant, but the most powerful Genovese clan’s is closest to the bar, while the Lucheses, the smallest and least influential of the three borghatas, is situated closest to the opposite wall.
Things could obviously be much worse. At least they have a regular reserved table. For the most part, members of the Bonanno and Colombo families need a favor from a rival wiseguy to get a reservation, but owner-host Pellegrino – despite his ominous “Frankie No” handle – does make exceptions. Some times."
In May 1990, after Lucchese crime family boss Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and underboss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso were indicted on labor racketeering, extortion, drug trafficking and murder, they went into hiding, leaving Alphonse "Little Al" D'Arco as Acting Boss.
In 1991, Baratta serving as Acting Underboss viewed a Genovese family list of proposed new members, he commented to D'Arco, after seeing the name Ralph Desimone "He is a rat.". A sitdown was arranged between the two family's. The Genovese family Acting Boss Liborio Bellomo, Acting Underboss Michael Generoso and Consigliere James Ida attended the meeting to discuss "Ralph Desimone" with Lucchese family Acting Boss Alphonse D'Arco and Baratta as Acting Underboss. The Genovese leaders asked Baratta about Desimone he said "Desimone had been a government witness", the Genovese leaders leave saying "will take care of it". On June 13, 1991 Desimone's dead body was found in a truck of a car at LaGuardia Airport.
