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COSA NOSTRA NEWS   EXCLUSIVE  The Genovese family has tapped a longtime, largely unknown veteran to "service" (or assist in various capacities) the official boss of the organization, which has been described as the most powerful Mafia family in the United States. Chin Gigante died in December 2005. Michael (Mickey) Ragusa, 54--a longtime confidant of boss Liborio (Barney) Bellomo , who has built an extremely low profile over the years (we found no photos of him)  -- is the Genovese family's new street boss, Cosa Nostra News has learned. Genovese street bosses have been known to relay the boss's orders to family capos and soldiers, as well as personally divert away from the boss any incoming fire (figuratively and literally) from the likes of law enforcement, potential enemies, and the unforgiving, relentless New York City media. Hailing from Pleasantville, Ragusa was promoted recently (though the formal appointment may have been largely ceremonia...

EXCLUSIVE Longtime Genovese crime family capo Peter (Petey Red) DiChiara, who reputedly was the street boss, or front boss, for Liborio Bellomo, died Friday (March 2), two separate sources confirmed. Petey Red. DiChiara, who allegedly also was the Genovese crime family's consiglieri, had diabetes and other medical problems associated with the disease. DiChiara, 75, ran a social club in Lower Manhattan at 73 Market Street, which has been around since the 1990s. Except for the five-year period when DiChiara was serving time for a federal racketeering beef thanks to the associate with the funny Rolex, the club was known to have been a busy place, though the patrons reportedly had grown to ecompass more than members of Petey Red's crew, supposedly a sign of DiChiara's rise in the hierarchy to draw fire away from Bellomo, the official boss. (Bellomo was named to the acting slot in the 1980s by Vincent "Chin" Gigante himself.) In January 2016, DiChi...