by Wiseguy » Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:53 am
slimshady_007 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:40 am
Anyone know who’s in this guy’s crew? Who was he acting capo for? Lastly, I read he was put in charge of NJ in 2006, so I think its likely he held an administration role or was on some type of panel at the time.. anyone else agree on that?
Stumbled across this, which may answer some questions about Palumbo. Still leaves other questions regarding the Jersey side of the family.
C. Anthony Palumbo’s Involvement In The Genovese Organized Crime Family
As alleged in this case, Palumbo has been a long-time and powerful Soldier and Acting Capo in the Genovese Organized Crime Family. If the Government had proceeded to trial, multiple cooperating witnesses would have testified to Palumbo’s involvement in the Genovese Crime Family dating back to at least the late 1980s and early 1990s. The evidence would have established that Palumbo was allied closely with the powerful “Westside” of the Genovese Crime Family. The Westside crew was the power hub of the Crime Family, and was comprised of captains who were loyal to and reported directly to Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, the then boss of the Genovese family. These captains effectively ran the administration of the Genovese family and represented the Genovese Family at meetings with other LCN families in Gigante’s absence. Former Acting Boss Dominick “Quiet Dom” Cirillo was one of the Westside captains to whom Palumbo was particularly close.
As a result of his relationship to the leadership of the Genovese Crime Family, in or about 1992, following the death of Genovese Capo James Napoli, a/k/a “Jimmy Nap,” Palumbo was placed in charge of Napoli’s crew in Brooklyn, which included mobsters such as James Tenaglia, a/k/a “Jimmy T,” who operated a highly profitable loansharking, gambling, and numbers business in Brooklyn, and Felice Masullo, who was one of Tenaglia’s right-hand men. In supervising that crew, Palumbo oversaw its members’ criminal activities, including loansharking, extortion and gambling. In the years prior to Masullo and Palumbo’s arrest in this case, Palumbo had Masullo function as his driver, accompanying Palumbo to meetings with other high ranking members of the Genovese Crime Family, and as an intermediary, delivering messages between Palumbo and other members of the Genovese Family. This not only revealed Masullo’s rising star in the Genovese Crime Family, it confirmed Palumbo’s status as a powerful player as well. Further confirming Palumbo’s position in the Genovese Family are the other mobsters with whom Palumbo frequently met, including in an approximately one month period,leaders in the New Jersey and New York wings of the Genovese Family, such as Frank “Punchy” Illiano, a powerful Genovese Capo formerly on the ruling panel of the Genovese Family; Daniel Leo, an Acting Boss of the Genovese Crime Family; as well as Silvio Devita and Joseph Gatto, both Genovese Captains in New Jersey.
http://files.courthousenews.com/2011/05 ... mo%201.pdf[quote=slimshady_007 post_id=155015 time=1591364408 user_id=5611]
Anyone know who’s in this guy’s crew? Who was he acting capo for? Lastly, I read he was put in charge of NJ in 2006, so I think its likely he held an administration role or was on some type of panel at the time.. anyone else agree on that?
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Stumbled across this, which may answer some questions about Palumbo. Still leaves other questions regarding the Jersey side of the family.
[b]C. Anthony Palumbo’s Involvement In The Genovese Organized Crime Family[/b]
As alleged in this case, Palumbo has been a long-time and powerful Soldier and Acting Capo in the Genovese Organized Crime Family. If the Government had proceeded to trial, multiple cooperating witnesses would have testified to Palumbo’s involvement in the Genovese Crime Family dating back to at least the late 1980s and early 1990s. The evidence would have established that Palumbo was allied closely with the powerful “Westside” of the Genovese Crime Family. The Westside crew was the power hub of the Crime Family, and was comprised of captains who were loyal to and reported directly to Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, the then boss of the Genovese family. These captains effectively ran the administration of the Genovese family and represented the Genovese Family at meetings with other LCN families in Gigante’s absence. Former Acting Boss Dominick “Quiet Dom” Cirillo was one of the Westside captains to whom Palumbo was particularly close.
As a result of his relationship to the leadership of the Genovese Crime Family, in or about 1992, following the death of Genovese Capo James Napoli, a/k/a “Jimmy Nap,” Palumbo was placed in charge of Napoli’s crew in Brooklyn, which included mobsters such as James Tenaglia, a/k/a “Jimmy T,” who operated a highly profitable loansharking, gambling, and numbers business in Brooklyn, and Felice Masullo, who was one of Tenaglia’s right-hand men. In supervising that crew, Palumbo oversaw its members’ criminal activities, including loansharking, extortion and gambling. In the years prior to Masullo and Palumbo’s arrest in this case, Palumbo had Masullo function as his driver, accompanying Palumbo to meetings with other high ranking members of the Genovese Crime Family, and as an intermediary, delivering messages between Palumbo and other members of the Genovese Family. This not only revealed Masullo’s rising star in the Genovese Crime Family, it confirmed Palumbo’s status as a powerful player as well. Further confirming Palumbo’s position in the Genovese Family are the other mobsters with whom Palumbo frequently met, including in an approximately one month period,leaders in the New Jersey and New York wings of the Genovese Family, such as Frank “Punchy” Illiano, a powerful Genovese Capo formerly on the ruling panel of the Genovese Family; Daniel Leo, an Acting Boss of the Genovese Crime Family; as well as Silvio Devita and Joseph Gatto, both Genovese Captains in New Jersey.
http://files.courthousenews.com/2011/05/05/Palumbo%20pros%20memo%201.pdf