John Bologna 302 notes

[chin_gigante]

I'll post the documents themselves in the FBI section. They're not comprehensive and some of them aren't completely in order, but there's a lot more there than what I included here. There's particularly some extra interesting tidbits about construction and the Albanians.

17 November 1996:
- Anthony Ciccone has taken over from James Failla’s captain spot on 86th Street in Brooklyn
- Joseph Gambino has taken over ‘Little Tony’s’ (Carminati?) spot in New Jersey
- Gambino is ‘head captain’ out of Connecticut with Louis Ricco and Anthony Megale
- Michael DiLeonardo has taken over for Daniel Marino in Brooklyn
- Vincent Carrao has taken over his father’s spot
- Craig DePalma has taken over for his father
- All four crews are gathering strength to knock down John Gotti Jr because he is considered trouble and not smart enough to perform his job

11 February 2000:
- Pasquale Parrello, a captain, has Robert Milano take money to Dominick Cirillo every day
- Milano meets Cirillo on the upper West Side of Manhattan around 116th Street

9 July 2001:
- Jason Halpern of Halpern Construction has been with Gambino member Edward Garafola for about three years after working on a construction site in Staten Island
- Halpern is known to jump between different crews and families
- Guy Balso and Joseph Dente Jr brought Halpern to Parrello
- Parrello controls most of the construction in Westchester County
- Balso is the go between for Parrello with most contractors
- Arnold Squitieri has been made the new underboss of the Gambino family
- The Gambinos ‘chased’ Joseph Gambino out

8 April 2002:
- Peter Gotti is the acting boss, Squitieri is the underboss, Joseph Corozzo is consigliere, and Alphonse Sisca, Aniello Mancuso, and Gennaro Mancuso are captains
- The Mancuso brothers have been around for a while and are currently not speaking to each other
- Squitieri was backing the Albanians with Megale in the Bronx
- Sisca is with Squitieri every day in the Bronx and Harlem
- Attorney Louis Cherico acts as a go-between for Liborio Bellomo and Mario Gigante
- Cherico frequently meets with Bellomo in MDC Brooklyn
- Angelo DiPietro works for Megale and Nick Malia and brings money to Albanian Nardino Colotti at Port’o Fino’s in City Island
- The Albanians tried to shake down Gambino restaurant Per Voi but it was resolved at a sit down
- The Albanians tried to get Nicholas LaSorsa pushed out at a sit down at LaSorsa Buick
- Craig and Greg DePalma would never cooperate with the government and Craig would not consider cooperating against DiLeonardo in the grand jury investigation in Atlanta
- LaSorsa has taken over from Greg DePalma and reports directly to Squitieri

2 September 2002:
- All beefs in Connecticut and the Bronx will be settled by Megale, LaSorsa, Blaise Corozzo, Joseph Corozzo, and Sisca
- They will travel to keep the peace

25 November 2002:
- Squitieri is the new boss of the Gambino family, Sisca is the underboss, and Corozzo remains the consigliere
- Squitieri’s cousin Christopher Sucarato is proposed for membership
- Louis Filippelli has taken over all construction business for the Gambino family
- Matthew Ianniello is out of retirement and trying to ‘get back where he was’

28 December 2002:
- John Ardito has been put in charge of everything from Stanford, Connecticut to Providence, Rhode Island
- Adolfo Bruno is out and answers to Ardito
- Ardito travels everywhere with an older lawyer friend
- Pasquale DeLuca has been knocked down from his position
- Eugene O’Nofrio will not be inducted because of his drug problem
- O’Nofrio was proposed by Matthew Ianniello
- Tony Volpe, proposed by Mario Gigante, will also not be inducted because he is considered too old
- The Genovese family has a new way of getting rid of people they don’t want
- They promote them, believing they will draw law enforcement attention to themselves
- This is easier than killing them

30 June 2003:
- Squitieri has stepped down as boss of the Gambino family due to health reasons
- Sisca is now acting boss and Megale is acting underboss

20 July 2003:
- The Gambino family made two new captains, Vincent Fiori and Joseph Corozzo’s son Nicholas Corozzo

15 August 2003:
- Megale is the official underboss of the Gambino family, Sisca is the acting boss, and Squitieri is the ‘actual boss’
- Megale is responsible for dealing with the Albanians; Sisca and Squitieri will not deal with them

30 September 2003:
- The ‘Harlem crew’ of the Genovese family, run by Pasquale DeLuca, asked Bologna to travel to Springfield to be seen with the ‘Genovese boss[es] there’
- Bologna is a Gambino associate but is an old friend of the Harlem crew
- Bologna’s visit to Massachusetts was to show the close ties between Springfield and New York and the strength of the ‘present’ bosses because of these ties
- Bologna was not to involve himself in Springfield business and was just there for show
- Bologna met with Anthony Delevo, Adolfo Bruno, and Anthony LNU (probably Arillotta), a ‘young person […] who is not “made”, but is very visible there’
- Bruno was made boss in Springfield last November
- There are only six inducted members in the Springfield area
- There are two proposed members: Tony Volpe in Hartford, Connecticut, and O’Nofrio in New Haven, Connecticut
- Bologna travelled with Tim Sampson, a bodyguard and driver who works at Hunts Point in the Bronx

2 December 2003:
- On 13 or 14 November 2003, there was a meeting at Café Roma attended by Megale, Malia, and Colotti
- All of the Bronx captains meet there and they believe they are under surveillance
- Lawrence Dentico is ‘a boss’ with the Genovese family in New Jersey
- Dentico is with Cirillo and it is believed they are involved with drugs

18 February 2004:
- There was no word of Anthony Arillotta being inducted recently
- If Springfield ‘did it themselves’, then it is not real or recognised by New York
- Felix Tranghese is the acting boss, but DeLuca is in charge [I believe Bologna is referring to 'acting boss' of Springfield rather than the entire Genovese family]

15 March 2004:
- Vincent Basciano is the new boss of the Bonanno family and Michael Mancuso is the underboss
- Mancuso is Arnold Squitieri’s nephew

23 March 2004:
- Ianniello and Dentico are ‘very sick’
- Danny Leo is acting for Dentico
- Squitieri is the ‘real boss’ of the Gambino family calling all the shots
- Sisca is the acting boss because of Squitieri’s health
- Megale is the underboss and Corozzo is consigliere

24 January 2005:
- Squitieri is the present Gambino boss, Sisca is the underboss, and Corozzo is consigliere
- Word was out that Nicholas Corozzo would become boss after returning home but this has not happened
- Squitieri ‘has been and is still the boss’

21 February 2005:
- LaSorsa is now back as a captain and has made up with Greg DePalma
- DePalma had wanted LaSorsa killed for what he did to his son
- Sisca is out as underboss, having removed himself because of law enforcement attention
- Sisca has put Louis Filippelli in as acting underboss, but Sisca is still the actual underboss
- Filippelli has been going to Squitieri’s home for meetings in the evenings
- Squitieri’s nephew Angelo Amen has also been running around for Sisca

11 July 2005:
- John D’Amico is acting boss of the Gambino family and is trying to bring control back to Brooklyn
- The underboss position is open and Corozzo is still consigliere
- None of the Gambino crews are talking and do not trust each other following recent arrests

15 March 2006:
- D’Amico remains acting boss, Domenico Cefalu is acting underboss, and Corozzo remains consigliere
- Danny Leo has taken over from Cirillo as acing boss of the Genovese family
- Mario Gigante is acting underboss

31 October 2006:
- Michael Mancuso, ‘boss of the Bonanno family’, is still running business from prison by cell phone
- Mancuso works with ‘Patty Boy’ (Maiorino?), a captain

[chin_gigante]

I tended to focus on Bologna's identification of administration members, and in particular found his comments about Squitieri and Sisca interesting. In November 2002, Frank Cali was on tape talking about how Squitieri was taken off the administration and John Rizzo was bumped up, though Rizzo doesn't make an appearance here. I believe Capeci once referred to Sisca as the underboss before. This was the first I'd heard of Filippelli being acting underboss.

Should also note as Bologna was a non-member his information should be taken with a pinch of salt though he is accurate about a lot of other administration appointments.

[JohnnyS]

Thanks for sharing.

The Nicholas Corozzo he says is a captain is Blaise's son. He was proposed for membership in the early 2000s.

[Pogo The Clown]

I believe Capeci once referred to Sisca as the underboss before. This was the first I'd heard of Filippelli being acting underboss.

The 2005 indictment doesn't use the term Acting UnderBoss but it does allude to this. Looks like Filipelli's official rank remained as Soldier.

Following the arrest and detention in September 2004 of Gambino Organized Crime Family Acting Underboss ANTHONY MEGALE, FILIPPELLI assumed some of MEGALE’s supervisory responsibilities.

In September 2004, MEGALE was arrested on separate Federal racketeeringcharges in the District of Connecticut, and was detained. At Such time, other members of the Gambino Organized Crime Family assumed certain of MEGALE’s supervisory responsibilities.

[falco]

- The Genovese family has a new way of getting rid of people they don’t want
- They promote them, believing they will draw law enforcement attention to themselves
- This is easier than killing them

[don-shunter]

Three points:
I take it the joseph Gambino chased out is joe from the bronx?
Was squitieri really the official boss?
Seems Barney was always kept in the loop via Mario gigante. He was always going to be chins successor even back then.

[chin_gigante]

Was squitieri really the official boss?
Seems Barney was always kept in the loop via Mario gigante. He was always going to be chins successor even back then.

The Squitieri as boss thing is something that can probably be chalked up to Bologna's limited knowledge as an outsider. Though, to be fair, I don't think he ever says 'official boss' when talking about him. We know from the Nick Stefanelli wire in 2010 that Peter Gotti was still the boss by that point so it's safe to say Squitieri was never official boss.

The lawyer Peter Peluso also confirms Bellomo was kept in the loop through the early 2000s.

[JohnnyS]

Three points:
I take it the joseph Gambino chased out is joe from the bronx?
Was squitieri really the official boss?
Seems Barney was always kept in the loop via Mario gigante. He was always going to be chins successor even back then.

Yes Joe from the Bronx. Squitieri was acting boss. As Bologna said, he had health issues and he also had parole restrictions so a lot of the time it was Sisca, Louis Filippelli or Anthony Megale (when he was on the street) that were attending sit downs on Squitieri's behalf. I think this is why Bologna clarifies that Squitieri is the real boss because he had final word.

[aray22]

Thanks for sharing.

The Nicholas Corozzo he says is a captain is Blaise's son. He was proposed for membership in the early 2000s.

Is it known that Blaise Corozzo's son was made? I never knew that.

[JohnnyS]

Thanks for sharing.

The Nicholas Corozzo he says is a captain is Blaise's son. He was proposed for membership in the early 2000s.

Is it known that Blaise Corozzo's son was made? I never knew that.

I'm not sure if he was ever made. He was indicted as an associate in 2009.

Blaise has two sons who have been involved in the life. Blaise jr was/is considered an associate.

[Pmac2]

Interesting about fat tonys son. Alot of the shit big john told them is wrong thou. I'm positive the guy volpe in Hartford was inducted in 1994 around then.

[davidf1989]

Was John Bologna the New York version of Bulger and possibly involved in the murder of Al Bruno? As suggested in these articles https://www.masslive.com/news/2013/05/n ... t_joh.html https://www.masslive.com/news/2015/12/i ... als_i.html

[Pmac2]

I believe they never used him in any trial he was so shady. Interesting he was a Gambino associate hanging around all these genomes guys. Even going to see barney in jail

[Pmac2]

Also seems like the Gambino family knew he went bad Mayne why he started hanging around the Westside. He would be a interesting youtube guy.

[Ryan98366]

Mancuso is Arnold Squitieri’s nephew.

Never heard that before. Squitieri was a notorious narcotics trafficker and makes me wonder if Mikey Nose was involved.