Anthony Palumbo

[slimshady_007]

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?

[Wiseguy]

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

[Shellackhead]

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

Punchy Illiano, the guy who was a Gallo loyalist during the first 2 Colombo wars? I wonder what made the Genovese recruit some members of that renegade crew, sorry for asking something out of topic.

[Wiseguy]

Punchy Illiano, the guy who was a Gallo loyalist during the first 2 Colombo wars?

Yes, same guy.

[Tonyd621]

The Masullo brothers too. There is 3 of them. All young under 50 or about that age. We havent even begun to be able to crack the surface on here in terms of power and strength of the "westside" imo. Somebody on here posted a while ago... whenever they take a pinch its always like 5 yrs or less. It speaks to how they operate and I believe they know and have a strategy for who takes the fall for what indictment. Palumbo got 10 yrs in for a hit that was not approved.

[TommyNoto]

Great post and pretty recent as most of these guys are out and still alive

You have to think Masullo is or will be made. Joe Leo too ?

Palumbo could be a sleeper for an admin spot

If I were to wager , I would say the Westside has really moved up In the Brooklyn rackets lately. Seems like they have all kinds of shit going on there, perhaps gobbling up as the other families weaken. Real sleepers too , barely hear a peep

[TallGuy19]

Was Albert Gallo connected to a higher-up in the Genovese family that was willing to vouch for him, or did they take him and his guys in just to get the war over with?

[Pogo The Clown]

I believe they had connection to Genovese member Toddo Marino (Capo?). He got them transferred to the Grnovese family and then made.


Pogo

[johnny_scootch]

Toddo was based in Park Slope and right across the Gowanus canal were the Gallo's in Red Hook.

[Super]

The gallo crew was also close to chin strollo and quiet dom sure i read somewhere.