"This is an organization that continues to regenerate itself like a snake. In a series of trials just beginning, jury after jury will be asked to decide cases which, in their cumulative effect, are ex pected to provide the most graphic study in American criminal annals of the complete subversion of a city and, indeed, of much of a state by the money and muscle of the underworld. He was one of the few bosses who was able to come out the backside [of crime] without dying in jail or being killed. In a 53-count superseding indictment, Cernadas, 75, of Union Township; Nunzio LaGrasso, 60, of Florham Park, the Vice President of ILA Local 1478; and Richard Dehmer, 75, of Springfield, were charged with conspiring to extort ILA members on the New Jersey piers, bookmaking, and loansharking. We called him up to find out why New York gangsters get all the hype, who the lesser known (and most dynamic) New Jersey mobsters were, and, more recently, whoif anyoneThe Sopranos were really based on. If Richie the Boot thought that the twoday wassail had made Longie Zwillman his bosom pal, he was soon to be disabused of the notion. FindNJ.com on Facebook. (The Jersey Journal). To address the elephant in the room, experts and Mafia pundits have joked for years who The Sopranos are really based on, with the DeCavalcante family often described as the obvious answer. Women started reporting that they were being followed by a strange looking man. Comparisons of DNA samples collected from Coppola after his arrest and evidence from the scene proved inconclusive, anda Superior Court judge in 2009 dismissed the murder complaint against him after state prosecutors took too long to obtain an indictment. (The Star-Ledger). More than 20 indictments have been returned against public officials over the years; officials have been criticized and censured; business firms and contractors doing busi ness with the city have been indicted. An alleged Genovese family boss, Michael Coppola, was arrested in Lardiere's murder more than 30 years later. The judge sentenced him to death. Reportedly, Taccetta sent messages to Amuso in Brooklyn, asking for a contract on Accetturo's life. First, he explains, there is one theory that a U. S. Attorney should simply prosecute the cases handed to him by Federal investigative agencies; Lacey thinks a U. S. Attorney should be aggressive and actively develop cases if the situation seems to warrant it. Taccetta stands at 5'7" and weighs close to 225 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Attorneys from New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island, representatives of the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies. He owned a pretty wide portfolio of businesses by the time of death in the late 50s. Afterthe Soprano crime family made its debut on HBO 19 years ago, Tony and company's malicious streak drew rebukes from some critics who argued the show was too violent. It spoke much about the political climate in Newark that gangsters and politicians mingled in discriminately; among the politicians present were a former U.S. Commis sioner, a candidate for the State Assembly andmost unfortunately Paul Moore, a Democrat who was running for Congress. Lacey, as a young lawyer, had had one direct and shocking confrontation with bigleague New Jersey crime. As Lacey speaks, there reposes in the courtroom behind the prosecu tion table what can only be described as a time bomb. Authorities also said Depiro controlled an overseas sports betting operation, while Dehmer allegedly ran an illegal poker club in Kenilworth. Taccetta, also known as "Mike T," was born in the Vailsburg neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey on September 16, 1947. Also named was Stephen Depiro, who prosecutors say is a soldier in the Genovese organized crime family. But even as the mobs time-honored rackets started to run dry and The Sopranos convinced your baby-boomer parents to subscribe to HBO, New Jersey's real-life mafiosos remained a poorly understood bunch. Median house prices in Upper Vailsburg, Newark, NJ are $245,683, meaning Upper Vailsburg homes are less expensive than the US median of . He captures and holds all eyes. When the bid came from Washington, he went down to the capital to discuss the pro position with Attorney Gen eral John N. Mitchell. The mansion is ap proached by a drive at least two city blocks long, and at one turn the startled visitor comes upon a monument to megalomania. Investigators said DiFrisco refused to help them bring charges against Franciotti, and they were unable to obtain enough evidence to secure an indictment against the alleged mobster. Lacey's other proposals in clude the adoption of a state antitrust law modeled after the Federal Sherman Anti trust Act; it would give the state the power to act in cases in which gangland money has infiltrated legiti mate business and then, by extortion and threat, driven out all competition. Stunningly, unlike the Mafia Commission Trial, in the case of Taccetta and Accetturo and their associates, all 20 defendants were acquitted on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act predicates, but as the trial was overdue, rivalry developed in the Jersey Crew.[4]. Organized crime can not operate without corrupt ing lawenforcement person nel. An early Jewish organized crime figure, Schultz ran afoul of his criminal associates in 1935 when he asked the mob for permission to kill Thomas Dewey, a famed prosecutor who later would be elected governor of New York. Paul J. Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, said the cases were put together to show the breadth and scope that organized crime still is able to muster. Thomas Leonardis, the current president of ILA Local 1235, who was charged with extortion, had protested last September in legislative hearings in Trenton against a new program to fight organized crime in the New York harbor region which he claimed would raise the cost of doing business and threaten thousands of jobs. 1972. Trudy J Pitts-womack. Of course, the DeCavalcante family was caught on an FBI wiretap comparing themselves and certain people in their crime family to Sopranos characters, so I think the DeCavalcantes being a smaller hometown, New Jersey Mafia family kind of mirrors The Sopranos in that sense. Danielle Sacko. Carol was deemed the '100th Millionaire' by the State Lottery Commission, since it began holding the lottery in 1969. In February 1973, Accetturo was indicted for loansharking and extortion. TONY BOY: The Boot hit him with a hammer. At a press conference in the U.S. Attorneys office in Brooklyn, some 25 television cameras and at least 50 newspeople crowded a conference room, where Holder and New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced the arrests, flanked by the U.S. And Gerald Mass who was a truly innocent victim. The great question: Will the Newark probes stir the public from decades long apathy? He was kind of a well-known character on the nightclub scene in New York and New Jersey. Vincent Craparotta was beaten to death with golf clubs at a car dealership in Toms River after he tried to protect his nephews from a mob extortion scheme. Calabro, a New York Police Department detective, was fatally shot near his home in Saddle River in 1980 in what authorities alleged was a hit ordered by Sammy The Bull Gravano, an underboss in the Gambino crime family. But officially, it's one of the great unsolved mob hits. Underboss Casso was allowed wide control by his friend Amuso and became paranoid, murdering several mobsters he feared were disloyal. I flatly state that it will not even go into a muncipality unless and until it has bought its protection against raids and arrests.. Also, some of your larger than life gangstersJohn Gotti, Carlo Gambino, and Frank Costellowere all out of New York City. Reportedly, around this time law enforcement started seeing the Jersey faction as an independent family. Russo: That's what I'm try ing to tell you! There was, however, nothing benevolent about him when the issue was a test of underworld power; and this fact Richie the Boot Boiardo was to learn at great expense. Between The Sopranos and constant fawning in the tabloids, it's not like this is underreported turf, right? N.J. wants out of mob watchdog agency. Nine years before he was gunned down at a resort in Monmouth County, Genovese crime family member Anthony Russo had refused to testify about mob activity before the State Commission of Investigation. Law enforcement officials investigating the killing intimated Manzo had been associated with organized crime figures, and formed a special task force to probe the case. He speaks in a deep, resonant voice, clearly and distinctly, leaning casual ly across the lectern toward the jury. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. Governor Hughes, who left office Jan. 20, and many legal experts and con cerned citizens have been aroused by this action, ap palled at the damage that may be done to innocent persons through the publi cation of the chitchat of gangsters. One of the main reasons were that Accetturo had promoted his son, Anthony Accetturo, Jr. to reorganize the Jersey crew upon his retirement, which Taccetta had been eager to take over since the early 1980s. Meyer Lansky immediately comes to the top, but Zwillman was very powerful and he lived his entire life in New Jersey. (Star-Ledger photos). When Zwillman wasn't pres ent, his proxy was voted by Gerardo (Jerry) Catena. The Jersey Journal prominently displayed Associated Press coverage of Willie Moretti's slaying in its Oct. 4, 1951 edition. He entered the federal witness protection program after his release from prison. The area we know as Vailsburg was once part of Clinton Township and later it became part of South Orange Township. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. It took place during the day. Here working crime council held daily conclave. Charlie "Bug" Workman was convicted of the fatal shooting in 1941 on what the Trenton Evening Times reported was largely the testimony of two former mob enforcers. Racketeer Willie Moretti lies in his own blood after being shot to death at Joe's Restaurant inCliffside Park, NewJersey, in 1951. OK, so some of them may have been caught on tape comparing themselves to 'The Sopranos'. All rights reserved (About Us). However though regulations provided that prisoners must serve at least onethird of their sen tences before they could be considered for less rigorous confinementRichie the Boot was whisked away to the minimum security Borden town Prison Farm after only four months. When the lid finally blew off, under the threat of a Fed eral investigation, it caused a scandal that rocked the New Jersey State House. 09/05/14 04:31 PM. The A.B.C. In February 2003, Kuklinski who was already serving 60 years to life for other killings pleaded guilty to murder under a deal with the prosecutors office that saw him receive a 30-year prison term. Manzo's daughter-in-law, Caroline Manzo known to television audiences from "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" has said she takes offense at the suggestion her father-in-law had ties to organized crime, arguing nobody knows the "hows and whys" of his killing. Major federal busts of the Bonanno and Gambino families earlier this month and the DeCavalcante family in 2015 suggest theres theres still a fair amount of Mafia activity in New York and New Jersey. Four days after he disappeared in 1983, police in Hillside discovered his bullet-riddled body wrapped in plastic inside the trunk of his Lincoln Continental parked of Route 22. Because of the bad relations between the two factions in Philadelphia's crime family, and Taccetta and Accetturo exploiting the situation, the relationship between Philadelphia and the Five Families worsened. tapes to apprise them of the facts of life, but still there were events that seemed to speak for them selves. In that case, Lacey says now, I found conditions shockingand I hadn't con sidered myself at all naive. No one has ever been charged in the case. [citation needed], On January 6, 1984, Taccetta was excluded from New Jersey casinos, stemming from his prior convictions in the 1970s. While Moretti told the Senate he made his living legally, he admitted being acquainted with other organized crime figures whom he said were not bad people.. Of course, back in 1939 the police did not have F.B.I. Perhaps it is just a coinci dence, but during these dec ades when the law and the courts seemed unable to fight their way out of a paper bag, the buddybuddy relationship of the underworld with New ark's politicians remained one of the world's worst kept secrets. Follow him on Twitter at@ThomasDMoriarty. [7][8] Taccetta reportedly went on to control the Jersey Crew, while he was serving his sentence in Atlanta.[9][10]. The mobster, Nicholas Virgilio, was angered by the 12- to 15-year sentence he ultimately received, and shot Helfant multiple times as the 51-year-old judge sat with his wife in the cocktail. The tran scripts are records of conversations in which DeCarlo and his associates brag about having a stranglehold on the city of Newark and much of New Jersey. Garden State Gangland describes a cornucopia of corrupted businessmen, mobsters, unions, and politicians, many of whom have since passed away, but who nonetheless left a legacy that resulted in the state being labeled "the most corrupt in the country." I was kind of in that Northern New Jersey sphere of influence, not too far outside New York City. Like the late John Lardiere, Genovese family member Anthony "Little Pussy" Russo had spent time behind bars forrefusing to testify before the State Commission of Investigation. Frank ly, I don't care. In a recent interview, he ex plained his philosophy. Ray, I seen too many, said Little Pussy. Rather, there were 16 separate indictments involving many different cases which officials said all came together at about the same time, including the arrest of the entire leadership of the Colombo family. A twomonth publicopinion poll in which a group known as Focus on Newark questioned 4,000 persons indicated that if Mayor Addonizio had been running for reeleotion in No vember or December he would have been favored, 2 to 1, over his nearest rival. Theres been tons of books on New York, but theres really only been a handful of books written about New Jerseys mob. Such rapidly accumulated millions catapulted Zwillman into a position of enormous (and not too secret) political power. Accetturo later returned to run his Newark operations with Taccetta in early 1975.[3]. Richie the Boot's private citadel is a great stone mansion (built in part with slabs his wrecking company crews had torn from the old Newark Post Office when it was demolished) that sits upon a wooded plot of several acres in Livingston, N. J. Here are some of the most notorious instances where organized crime has been blamed for bloodshed in the Garden State: The killing of mobster Dutch Schultz in Newark captured headlines across the country in 1935. The reve lation came when of the boys got together in Sam's of fice to talk over the finer points of murder. In the past, all too many judges have con sidered such offenders to be small fry of little consequence and have imposed only minor fines; but Lacey argues that their activities are basic to the system that pours an es timated $50billion into the coffers of the crime syndicate each year. His grand father was at one time a Re publican Freeholder in Essex County; his father was New ark police chief for eight years; his mother still lives in the Vailsburg section of New ark, where he was born and went to school. The arrests marked the largest federal mob takedown in history. Brennan's remark almost prostrated the New Jersey Legislature, but events were to vindicate the young pros ecutor. It consisted of Joe Adonis, Frank Cos tello's partner, as chairman of the board; Albert Anas tasia, the enforcer; the Moretti brothers, Willie and Solly, and Anthony (Tony Bender) Strol lo, the right arm of Vito Geno vese. Chrishele Luchey. Justice Department officials said those charged were connected to all five New York-based crime families: the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese families, along with the New Jersey-based Decavalcante family and New Englands Patriarca crime family. 1969, John Perna born c.a. [5], With Accetturo out of the way, Michael and Martin Taccetta were reportedly the leaders of the New Jersey faction, as Taccetta started cooperating with the head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti, through Gambino caporegime, Thomas "Tommy" Gambino. It became my fixed and firm conviction that organized crime was tak ing us over. What do you think he finally did to me? Bergen County authorities later dropped their case against Gravano in the Calabro slaying, and the former mobster was released from prison last year. (Star-Ledger archive photos). His fatal fall from power came in 1951, after Morettis criminal associates became worried about his chattiness during an appearance before a U.S. Senate committee investigating organized crime. The prosecutor is the kind of man who does his pushups every morning to keep in shape. Police later told reporters they believed Manzo's killing may have been related to illegal business activities separate from his two restaurants, The Star-Ledger reported. The case Lacey outlines to the Newark jury on this particular day deals with the international financial machinations of a shady Newark insurance broker, Louis Saperstein, who departed this world in late November, 1968, mysteriously loaded with enough arsenic to kill a mule. It is a tale that involves literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in an international stock scheme. The new administration was Michael Taccetta as the boss of faction, Michael Perna as the underboss and Martin Taccetta as the official consigliere. A reputed capo, or captain, of a northern New Jersey crew of the Genovese crime family, Ricci was indicted along with three longshoremen on allegations they had steered contracts from longshoremens health care and welfare funds to companies that benefited mob associates. Abner "Longy" Zwillman was a very powerful Jewish mobster about a century ago who most Americans probably don't know about. He died in prison in 1995. And he also had ties to Frankie Valli, right? As recently as 2015, FBI wiretaps and recordings by an undercover agent captured members of the Elizabeth-grown DeCavalcante crime family discussing a plot to kill a rival. Scott M. Deitche: My whole life and formative years were [spent] in New Jersey. So the vital question raised by the current Newark probe is this: Will the public be stirred from its decadeslong apathy by the flood of indict ments and the insidethemob revelations? They were oddly contrasting types. A lot of the New Jersey wise guys who might have had a lot of influence and might have been a lot more powerful just kind of stayed under the radar a bit. Coppola had fled his Spring Lake home in 1996 when investigators sought to take a DNA sample from him after an informant reported Coppola bragging of Lardiere's killing. Acting Capt. 1977 and Ralph Perna Junior born c.a. Thomas Moriarty may be reached attmoriarty@njadvancemedia.com. Great memories, Great times.great friends (some gone but will never be forgotten). Taccetta married his long-time girlfriend, Carol Ann Nozdrovicky, whom he had met at Newark Preparatory in his early twenties. Other charges alleged the shakedown of a concrete industry labor union in New York. Vailsburg mobsters As of November 2022, the average apartment rent in Lower Vailsburg is $940 for a studio, $1,024 for one bedroom, $1,319 for two bedrooms, and $800 for three bedrooms. Few peo ple in Newark had any doubt that the witch who had per formed this magical deed was Longie Zwillman, and there was a terrific hullabaloo that included a number of indict ments. Most of the top leadership is now gone. Wire services reported Russo's lawyer and staff at the Harbor Island Spa in Long Branch found the 62-year-old covered in blood and surrounded by stuffed cats and pictures of real ones when they entered his room on April 26, 1979. I was struck by Angelo Gyp Decarlo in part because of his relationship to Richard Nixon, which reminds us that politicians like him weren't always so afraid of being up front about this stuff. And, capping all, William J. Brennan 3d (the son of the Supreme Court Justice) remarked in a speech in December, 1968, that number of legislators were entirely too comfortable with organized crime. There are people in the Lucchese family and the DeCavalcante family that could fit [the bill] for the characters. There has been nothing remotely comparable to this since the Murder, Inc., trials of 1940; and by comparison even Murder, Inc., was pallid stuff. During the trial, both Taccetta and Accetturo agreed that it wasn't the right time for a war. 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