Criminal Justice? Separate Verdicts in Gangland Hit
One evening in November 1994, mob associate Michael (Cookie) Durso stopped by the San Giuseppe Social Club in Brooklyn's Williamsburg -- and quite literally all hell broke loose. A ticking time bomb also was set in motion that night , and while the detonation wasn't as deadly, the reverberations were extensive enough to knock down more than 70 Genovese wiseguys, and for the first time, substantially wound the crime family's boss. The San Guiseppe, which no longer stands, previously may have been Sonny Black's Motion Lounge. ( Source ) The San Giuseppe, located on Graham Ave., was frequented by Genovese crime family members, associates and knock-around guys. ( The San Giuseppe seems to have been located where the Motion Lounge once stood. The Motion Lounge was formerly owned by Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, a Bonanno crime family capo killed decades ago over the Donnie Brasco case .)