Unlikely Mafia Professions / Trades

[B.]

Limiting this list to made members. Keeping this separate from the threads about Mafia Doctors and Mafia Politicians.

Russ Andaloro - West Coast Bonanno member who worked professionally as a music teacher.

Nick Guastella - Bonanno / San Jose member who was a sculpture artist.

Nino Giuffre - Agriculture instructor who became capomandamento of Caccamo.

Accursio Dimino - Current Sciacca boss who works professionally as a gym teacher.

FNU LNU - College professor identified as a made member in Rochester circa 1970s. Unknown if his membership stems from Buffalo family, as Rochester was unrecognized as a family.

[thekiduknow]

I'm doing a little more digging on Andaloro, turns out he unsuccessfully ran for the Arizona state legislature in 1960.

I wonder how he got hooked up with Bonanno? He was originally from Pittson, went to school in New York, before moving out to Arizona in the 50s. I could be wrong, but he doesn't seem like he would be involved in even minor crimes like gambling or loansharking? At least he was never busted for it that appeared in the major newspapers. Russ's son spoke at Joseph's 90th birthday party, and sounds like Bonanno was a sort of mentor to him so the families stayed close after Russ died.

[B.]

Good to know, re: attempt at politics. Just a wholesome music teacher looking to make the world a better place... who also took a blood oath to kill for Don Peppino.

The Genoveses also used to live in the Pittston area (Old Forge) and moved to Arizona. They maintained ties to others in Pittston, wouldn't be a surprise if Andaloro got hooked up with the Bonannos through them. The Andaloros were from Caltanissetta like most of the Pittston family, so maybe he or other relatives were members there like Joe Genovese before he transferred.

[Extortion]

Michelle navarro from corleone was a doctor before leggio killed him

[Eld]

Joseph Saraceno - Bufalino member who worked as a teacher at the Wyoming area school district. His wife was the daughter of Santo Volpe Sr one of the early members of the family.

[Villain]

Lots of "equestrians" or experts on (racing) horses within the old Mob...guys like Jim Ammirato or Teets Battaglia

[johnny_scootch]

I'd have to say Priest is most unlikely profession for a Mafioso, I believe there were a couple of examples of this phenomenon in Sicily over the years.

[Pogo The Clown]

If I remember right Joe Bonanno said one of the early Bonnano members was a priest.


Pogo

[PolackTony]

Chicago rappresentante Tony D’Andrea was a priest (in an independent Catholic church), but left the priesthood to marry. I would assume that when he was a priest he was already made, but who knows. D’Andrea apparently worked later as a language teacher and translator.

[B.]

Joseph Saraceno - Bufalino member who worked as a teacher at the Wyoming area school district. His wife was the daughter of Santo Volpe Sr one of the early members of the family.

Great info. Appears teachers weren't necessarily common, but not entirely uncommon in traditional families.

Makes me think of the guy in Buffalo who was recently identified as an associate and possible member but works as a school teacher.

I'd have to say Priest is most unlikely profession for a Mafioso, I believe there were a couple of examples of this phenomenon in Sicily over the years.

Antiliar, CC, and I have had some good conversations about this... we don't have names, but there is evidence in early Italian investigations that priests weren't rare in the early Sicilian mafia. There was a priest in Burgio, Agrigento, who may have been a leader of a mafia group early on in the 1800s and John Dickie talks about a suspected mafioso priest who shot and killed his own cousin in a vendetta. There are other references as well that raise some eyebrows.

A member CI (Carmine Taglialatella if I remember right) said he heard there were even priests made in NYC. No evidence has surfaced to back it up but I believe it could have been true early on.

Then as Pogo said there's Joe Bonanno saying priests were members.

Chicago rappresentante Tony D’Andrea was a priest (in an independent Catholic church), but left the priesthood to marry. I would assume that when he was a priest he was already made, but who knows. D’Andrea apparently worked later as a language teacher and translator.

He covers the whole spectrum. He ran for politics as well, right?

Salvatore Maranzano also studied to become a priest. It's entirely possible he would have become a mafia member regardless of whether he chose the pious route or not.

[Dwalin2014]

Vincenzo Di Carlo, the boss of Raffadali in Sicily until the 1960s, initially worked as a school teacher, then later became a justice of peace and at the same time was also the local secretary of the Christian Democratic political party (and earlier, of the Fascist one), apart from being an occasional police informant. Quite a busy guy with so many jobs

There was also priest who was a 'ndrangheta boss in the Calabrian town of Africo, named Giovanni Stilo; he hid the Sicilian mafia boss Antonino Salamone when he was a fugitive, was arrested and convicted (later acquitted) in the 1980s.

[sdeitche]

Al Scaglione - ran a fishing camp on Tampa Bay

[JoeCamel]

Joseph Saraceno - Bufalino member who worked as a teacher at the Wyoming area school district. His wife was the daughter of Santo Volpe Sr one of the early members of the family.

Great info. Appears teachers weren't necessarily common, but not entirely uncommon in traditional families.

Makes me think of the guy in Buffalo who was recently identified as an associate and possible member but works as a school teacher.

I'd have to say Priest is most unlikely profession for a Mafioso, I believe there were a couple of examples of this phenomenon in Sicily over the years.

Antiliar, CC, and I have had some good conversations about this... we don't have names, but there is evidence in early Italian investigations that priests weren't rare in the early Sicilian mafia. There was a priest in Burgio, Agrigento, who may have been a leader of a mafia group early on in the 1800s and John Dickie talks about a suspected mafioso priest who shot and killed his own cousin in a vendetta. There are other references as well that raise some eyebrows.

A member CI (Carmine Taglialatella if I remember right) said he heard there were even priests made in NYC. No evidence has surfaced to back it up but I believe it could have been true early on.

Then as Pogo said there's Joe Bonanno saying priests were members.

Chicago rappresentante Tony D’Andrea was a priest (in an independent Catholic church), but left the priesthood to marry. I would assume that when he was a priest he was already made, but who knows. D’Andrea apparently worked later as a language teacher and translator.

He covers the whole spectrum. He ran for politics as well, right?

Salvatore Maranzano also studied to become a priest. It's entirely possible he would have become a mafia member regardless of whether he chose the pious route or not.

Hey you think any chance Father Gigante was made? I wouldn’t be surprised. Maybe they made him for the negotiation and protection aspect. I mean he swung some big deals and obviously had the family behind him, but I could see him being made, made.

[Pmac2]

That's crazy a school teacher being a made guy. Why not thou

[Grouchy Sinatra]

Accursio Dimino - Current Sciacca boss who works professionally as a gym teacher.

Is this him?


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