Cosa Nostra News

While reputed Bonanno street boss/official underboss Joseph (Joe C) Cammarano and alleged consiglieri John (Porky) Zancocchio face the full weight of the federal government’s case against them on racketeering charges in Manhattan’s Southern District, the Bronx-based crew of the Bonanno crime family anxiously await the full-time return of the boss. Michael (Nose) Mancuso returns full-time this month. Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso, who is due out one week from next Tuesday, allegedly has been visiting various parts of the Bronx since he was moved to a halfway house last summer. In December 2008, when Mancuso was acting boss, he was sentenced to 15 years for ordering the 2004 murder of Randolph Pizzolo. He and Anthony (Ace) Aiello, who was sentenced to 30 years, also were called “two worthless lives” by Connie Pizzolo, the victim’s daughter, inside a Brooklyn federal courtroom just prior to sentencing. Mancuso had faced life in prison under the original indictment, but followi...

Before the bloody 1985 coup, John Gotti was capo at the Queens-based Bergin Hunt and Fish Club, where he'd run sitdowns. One sitdown was triggered when Bronx-based members of a crime family visited the wife of a wiseguy at home when the wiseguy was in prison for drug charges. Somehow it involved the Gambinos. “I wish it was me,” Gotti told them, apparently identifying with whoever was being detained. “You would never be safe if you stopped and spoke to my wife while I was locked up.” “You tell your skipper I said, ‘You ever go to a guy’s house while he is in jail, I’ll kill you.’" In the summer of 2009, Anthony Seccafico's wife had just given birth to twins. Seccafico, a construction worker and member of Local 79 of the Construction and General Building Laborers’ Union, commuted to Manhattan from his Staten Island home during the week. So as he did every week day, at around 4:30 a.m. on July 02, 2009, he stood at a deserted Staten Island bus stop ...

There once was a New York mobster named Vincent Spinelli. He was considered a dangerous man. A truck hijacker and gun-runner, he was tied to two crime families (the Bonannos and Lucheses ) and he operated a swag-filled warehouse. Luchese soldier John Donnadio, left,  Vincent Spinelli on the right. He was known for his nice gold watches and good suits. He also preferred driving around in a Mercedes. In reality, his name was not Vincent Spinelli, and he was far from being a criminal; in fact, he was an NYPD officer working undercover. The operation lasted three years and led to 42 arrests (21 were reputed Bonanno mobsters, the rest presumably were Luchese members, plus assorted associates -- plus there was at least one grandmother who lived in a social club in The Bronx).