Longtime Genovese Family Power Who Took Lie Detector Test Dies
Former Genovese underboss Michele “Mickey Dimino” Generoso died this week, on November 24, of natural causes, sources told Cosa Nostra News. Barney Bellomo, left, and Mickey "Dimino" His funeral took place at Brooklyn's Peter C. Labella funeral home and he was buried on Staten Island's Resurrection Cemetery. Age 97, Generoso was inducted when Charlie "Lucky" Luciano was a New York mob boss. In 1997, when he was indicted in a major murder and racketeering case. The first major criminal prosecution he ever faced. He'd been active on the street until about two years ago, despite reports to the contrary, said our source. Our source, a Queens-based former mobster, also provided an update on the Commission, which was erroneously declared defunct by newspaper reports beginning in the late 1990s. As per our source, the Commission was only effectively abolished in recent years. Still, the crime families "have their way of doing things," t