by Antiliar » Sat Oct 22, 2022 12:23 pm
Do you mean Lucky's nephew Anthony Lucania? Lucky didn't have any children, so he couldn't have had any grandchildren. Or do you mean the guy who called himself Thomas Gambino and said he was related to Lucky?
Anyways, my info on Anthony is that he was born on August 5, 1922 to Giuseppe (Joseph) Lucania, Lucky's older brother. Anthony died in Brooklyn on December 22, 2009. In 2004 he was arrested with Gambino soldier Eugene Giannelli in a sting that involved gambling and gun trafficking charges. He admitted to making straw purchases of 16 guns in Florida for $11,500. He admitted the guns were supposed to have been resold on the streets and he was to get a cut of the profits. At the time it was reported he was a made member of the Genovese crime family.
This record of appeal gives a little background:
Cavera, a septuagenarian army veteran with residences in New York and Florida, was arrested by the FBI with the aid of a confidential informant. Beginning in July 2003, the informant purchased guns illegally in New York City on several occasions from a man named Peter Abbadessa. Abbadessa told the confidential informant that his uncle, Anthony Lucania, had a friend named Gerry (Cavera), who acted as Abbadessa's Florida gun supplier. In April 2004, the confidential informant flew to Florida, along with Abbadessa and Lucania, for the express purpose of procuring firearms. At the FBI's direction, the informant paid Lucania $11,500 for sixteen guns. Abbadessa and Lucania then went to Cavera's residence in Deerfield Beach, Florida, where they gave Cavera money in exchange for two boxes containing sixteen firearms. The boxes were later given to the informant, who turned them over to the FBI. Abbadessa, Lucania, and the confidential informant returned to New York on separate flights.
On June 23, 2004, a grand jury returned an indictment charging Cavera, Abbadessa, and Lucania with various violations of the federal gun trafficking laws. Cavera pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to deal in and to transport firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1390709.html
Jerry Capeci, as opposed to the Newsday or Daily News article I used as a source above, says that Lucania was an associate:
July 15, 2004- The name Anthony Lucania is not well known in the history of organized crime. “Tony L”, as he is nicknamed, is not even a “made guy”. But he doesn't need to be, he's already a member of a Mafia royal family.
Lucania, 82, is the nephew of Charles “Lucky” Luciano, the mafia don whose real name was Salvatore Lucania, the same who was crowned one of the best businessmen of the 20th century by Time Magazine in 1998 , alongside Bill Gates and Henry Ford.
Even if "Tony L" did not manage to rise as high as his uncle in the mafia hierarchy, he is indeed in criminal matters. In July 2004, the octogenarian was arrested on suspicion of being part of a Mafia-linked gang, whose main activities are armed robbery, and the distribution of high quality handguns in the streets of New York.
Anthony Lucania's first arrest dates back to 1939, when he was arrested for burglary. He was also arrested for organizing illegal gambling (1973) and corruption (1974).
But even though Lucania has managed to keep a low profile, that doesn't mean the Mafia doesn't recognize him as a man of respect.
In 1997, Lucania's superior, Genovese Family soldier Ernest “Butch” Montevecchi, hosted a reception in honor of "Tony L" at El Caribe Beach Club, Brooklyn, in the same reception hall where John Gotti chose to throw a Christmas party for his debut as leader of the Gambino Family.
The FBI describes Lucania as "Butch's right-hand man", a solid man who plays by the rules and is a driver for Montevecchi on occasion.
Sources on both sides of the law say Lucania was a longtime associate of the Family his famous uncle Lucky Luciano led, until he was replaced by Frank Costello – and later Vito Genovese – after he be arrested for pimping and sentenced to exile in Italy.
And while "Tony L" isn't conventionally a full member of the Family, he's not shy about letting people know what royal status he belongs to. “Lucania is an arrogant bastard,” an FBI agent once said.
According to federal court in Brooklyn, Lucania and an acolyte went down to Deerfield, Florida on April 8, 2004 to obtain a supply of 16 handguns including four Smith and Wesson 38 calibers, a Colt 45 caliber, two 357s and seven nines. millimeter.
While listening to tape conversations made by an informant, identified as John Doe #1, "Tony L" often introduces Peter Abbadessa, another criminal, as his "nephew" and Abbadessa, 40, calls Lucania his uncle". In fact, the two men are cousins.
Doe, the owner of a grocery store in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, carried a microphone for the FBI, recording hundreds of conversations that charged 11 people with numerous charges including illegal gambling and usury.
From January 3, 2004 to March 18, 2004, "Tony L" met with Doe six times to discuss Doe's purchase of 16 pistols. Sources say five of the six conversations took place at a social club owned by a good friend of Lucania's, 81-year-old Bonanno family soldier John "Johnny Green" Faraci.
From August 9, 2003 through April 20, 2004, Lucania, Abbadessa, and Florida Gambino Family associate Gerard “Gerry Lake” Cavera, sold Doe 23 handguns for a total of $19,600, including a nine millimeter made by Germany's oldest arms manufacturer, Sig Sauer.
The investigation, which initially concerned Gambino Family usury and betting, culminated in Genovese Family arms trafficking when Abbadessa offered Doe the sale of handguns on July 29, 2003, a discussion that unfolded in Doe's grocery store.
The sale closed, the court said, two months after Abbadessa and two other mobsters, George Vellios and Frank “Frankie Dogs” Chinnici, 39, won $200,000 in cash, jewelry and other merchandise in robbing apartments on the East Side in New York.
Abbadessa was declared by the courts to be a danger to society. FBI agents found loaded weapons, a police badge, NYPD caps similar to those used by the burglars, and a fur coat belonging to one of the victims in his home. Lucania, Vellios and Cavera were released on bail ranging from $300,000 to $500,000.
“Frankie Dogs” Chinnici, a resident of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, is currently on the loose.Do you mean Lucky's nephew Anthony Lucania? Lucky didn't have any children, so he couldn't have had any grandchildren. Or do you mean the guy who called himself Thomas Gambino and said he was related to Lucky?
Anyways, my info on Anthony is that he was born on August 5, 1922 to Giuseppe (Joseph) Lucania, Lucky's older brother. Anthony died in Brooklyn on December 22, 2009. In 2004 he was arrested with Gambino soldier Eugene Giannelli in a sting that involved gambling and gun trafficking charges. He admitted to making straw purchases of 16 guns in Florida for $11,500. He admitted the guns were supposed to have been resold on the streets and he was to get a cut of the profits. At the time it was reported he was a made member of the Genovese crime family.
This record of appeal gives a little background:
[i]Cavera, a septuagenarian army veteran with residences in New York and Florida, was arrested by the FBI with the aid of a confidential informant. Beginning in July 2003, the informant purchased guns illegally in New York City on several occasions from a man named Peter Abbadessa. Abbadessa told the confidential informant that his uncle, Anthony Lucania, had a friend named Gerry (Cavera), who acted as Abbadessa's Florida gun supplier. In April 2004, the confidential informant flew to Florida, along with Abbadessa and Lucania, for the express purpose of procuring firearms. At the FBI's direction, the informant paid Lucania $11,500 for sixteen guns. Abbadessa and Lucania then went to Cavera's residence in Deerfield Beach, Florida, where they gave Cavera money in exchange for two boxes containing sixteen firearms. The boxes were later given to the informant, who turned them over to the FBI. Abbadessa, Lucania, and the confidential informant returned to New York on separate flights.
On June 23, 2004, a grand jury returned an indictment charging Cavera, Abbadessa, and Lucania with various violations of the federal gun trafficking laws. Cavera pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to deal in and to transport firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371.[/i]
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1390709.html
Jerry Capeci, as opposed to the Newsday or Daily News article I used as a source above, says that Lucania was an associate:
[i]July 15, 2004- The name Anthony Lucania is not well known in the history of organized crime. “Tony L”, as he is nicknamed, is not even a “made guy”. But he doesn't need to be, he's already a member of a Mafia royal family.
Lucania, 82, is the nephew of Charles “Lucky” Luciano, the mafia don whose real name was Salvatore Lucania, the same who was crowned one of the best businessmen of the 20th century by Time Magazine in 1998 , alongside Bill Gates and Henry Ford.
Even if "Tony L" did not manage to rise as high as his uncle in the mafia hierarchy, he is indeed in criminal matters. In July 2004, the octogenarian was arrested on suspicion of being part of a Mafia-linked gang, whose main activities are armed robbery, and the distribution of high quality handguns in the streets of New York.
Anthony Lucania's first arrest dates back to 1939, when he was arrested for burglary. He was also arrested for organizing illegal gambling (1973) and corruption (1974).
But even though Lucania has managed to keep a low profile, that doesn't mean the Mafia doesn't recognize him as a man of respect.
In 1997, Lucania's superior, Genovese Family soldier Ernest “Butch” Montevecchi, hosted a reception in honor of "Tony L" at El Caribe Beach Club, Brooklyn, in the same reception hall where John Gotti chose to throw a Christmas party for his debut as leader of the Gambino Family.
The FBI describes Lucania as "Butch's right-hand man", a solid man who plays by the rules and is a driver for Montevecchi on occasion.
Sources on both sides of the law say Lucania was a longtime associate of the Family his famous uncle Lucky Luciano led, until he was replaced by Frank Costello – and later Vito Genovese – after he be arrested for pimping and sentenced to exile in Italy.
And while "Tony L" isn't conventionally a full member of the Family, he's not shy about letting people know what royal status he belongs to. “Lucania is an arrogant bastard,” an FBI agent once said.
According to federal court in Brooklyn, Lucania and an acolyte went down to Deerfield, Florida on April 8, 2004 to obtain a supply of 16 handguns including four Smith and Wesson 38 calibers, a Colt 45 caliber, two 357s and seven nines. millimeter.
While listening to tape conversations made by an informant, identified as John Doe #1, "Tony L" often introduces Peter Abbadessa, another criminal, as his "nephew" and Abbadessa, 40, calls Lucania his uncle". In fact, the two men are cousins.
Doe, the owner of a grocery store in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, carried a microphone for the FBI, recording hundreds of conversations that charged 11 people with numerous charges including illegal gambling and usury.
From January 3, 2004 to March 18, 2004, "Tony L" met with Doe six times to discuss Doe's purchase of 16 pistols. Sources say five of the six conversations took place at a social club owned by a good friend of Lucania's, 81-year-old Bonanno family soldier John "Johnny Green" Faraci.
From August 9, 2003 through April 20, 2004, Lucania, Abbadessa, and Florida Gambino Family associate Gerard “Gerry Lake” Cavera, sold Doe 23 handguns for a total of $19,600, including a nine millimeter made by Germany's oldest arms manufacturer, Sig Sauer.
The investigation, which initially concerned Gambino Family usury and betting, culminated in Genovese Family arms trafficking when Abbadessa offered Doe the sale of handguns on July 29, 2003, a discussion that unfolded in Doe's grocery store.
The sale closed, the court said, two months after Abbadessa and two other mobsters, George Vellios and Frank “Frankie Dogs” Chinnici, 39, won $200,000 in cash, jewelry and other merchandise in robbing apartments on the East Side in New York.
Abbadessa was declared by the courts to be a danger to society. FBI agents found loaded weapons, a police badge, NYPD caps similar to those used by the burglars, and a fur coat belonging to one of the victims in his home. Lucania, Vellios and Cavera were released on bail ranging from $300,000 to $500,000.
“Frankie Dogs” Chinnici, a resident of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, is currently on the loose.[/i]