He was a Lucchese soldier and a big earner for the Lucchese family in the New York Garment Center. He worked with Thomas Gambino and also run a bookmaking operation and owned half a vending machine company.
He went to prison in 1980, he had been given ten years. Upon his release he was summoned to a meeting with Casso but never went, instead he fled to Los Angeles but was tracked down and killed in a parking garage in 1990.
