DeCavalcante Family Chart 2015

[chin_gigante]

Based on B's starting point here: viewtopic.php?p=194334#p194334.

Here's what I've got to start with:

BOSS
John M. Riggi
"The Eagle"
DOB: 02/01/25
Edison, NJ

ACTING BOSS
Charles N. Majuri
"Big Ears/ Fat Charlie/ Horse"
DOB: 12/29/40
Linden, NJ

STREET BOSS
Joseph Merlo, Jr.
"Milk"
DOB: 08/15/60
Morganville, NJ

CONSIGLIERE
Frank S. Nigro
"Shipe"
DOB: 09/03/42

CAPTAIN
Joseph P. Collina
"Joey"
DOB: 08/12/45
Brick, NJ

CAPTAIN
Emanuel P. Riggi
"Manny"
DOB: 10/--/47
Edison, NJ

CAPTAIN
Charles Stango
"Beeps/ Charlie the Hat"
Henderson, NV

SOLDIERS

Philip C. Abramo
Saddlebrook, NJ

Gaetano Alessi

Daniel Annunziata
Brooklyn, NY

Ciro Balzano
"Jerry"

James Castaldo

Rosario Cocchiaro

Domenico Colletti

Giacomo Colletti
"Jake"

Louis Consalvo
"Louie Eggs"
Old Bridge, NJ

Carl Corsentino

Nicholas Cottone

Frank D'Amato
Fort Lee, NJ

Anthony Falzone

Paolo Farina
"Paul"
Carteret, NJ

James Gallo

Francesco Gatto

Joseph Giacobbe
"Joe"
DOB: 07/02/23
Long Island City, NY

Leonard Giacobbe

Francesco Guarraci

Girolamo Guarraggi

Felice LaMela
"Phil the Undertaker"

Nicholas LaMela

Anthony Mannarino
"Marshmallow"
Boca Raton, FL

Domenico Marzullo

Joseph A. Miranda
DOB: 12/07/23
Marlboro, NY

Luigi Oliveri

Francesco Paparatto

Gregory Rago
"Greg"
Bayonne, NJ

John Riggi, Jr.
DOB: 03/--/54
North Plainfield, NJ

Vincent J. Riggi
DOB: 03/27/51
Linden, NJ

Giuseppe Schifilliti
"Pino"
Toms River, NJ

Joseph Sclafani

Gaetano D. Vastola
"Corky"
05/20/28
Colts Neck, NJ

Stefano Vitabile
"Steve the Truck Driver"
DOB: 12/07/35
Englishtown, NJ

SUSPECTED MEMBERS

Pietro Colletti

Robert Collina

Jerry Costabile

Frank Renda

+ several others

COOPERATING WITNESSES

Anthony Capo
Deceased 2012

Vincent Palermo
"Vinny Ocean"

Anthony Rotondo

[chin_gigante]

Looking for rough addresses, DOBs and nicknames

[SonnyBlackstein]

Great stuff Chin.

Can someone please explain the difference between acting and street boss.

How can you have both?

[Pogo The Clown]

Looks like Majuri also had a Captain rank during this time. According to the 2015 indictment the family also had an UnderBoss. Joe Merlo most likely held this rank.


Pogo

[PolackTony]

Great stuff Chin.

Can someone please explain the difference between acting and street boss.

How can you have both?

Not sure about this specific context, but in many cases, "street boss" is used to indicate a guy who acts as a liaison between the admin and the captains. As opposed to an acting boss, who serves in the boss's stead, or who functions as such without formal installation or recognition in that office.

[chin_gigante]

According to the 2015 indictment the family also had an UnderBoss. Joe Merlo most likely held this rank.

I thought about that based on this conversation between the undercover and Stango in January 2015:

“Big Ears is gonna take the seat as the boss, the number one, and Milk is staying number two, the street boss, and that’s how it’s gonna be.”

However, in one of his appearances on the Philly Prime podcast, the undercover says that as the investigation was wrapping up they were looking to make Stango the underboss. That to me would indicate that Merlo wouldn't hold the official underboss position.

[johnny_scootch]

Stango was definitely talking out of his ass. Merlo had everything going for him and he was just hitting his prime, I doubt they’d take him down for a guy like stango. Chances are Merlo would have taken over for Majuri once his string runs out, he would have been in prime position to be the next boss.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Are there photos of Milk/Merlo at all?

[chin_gigante]

Are there photos of Milk/Merlo at all?

There's one in his obit: https://www.reillybonnerfuneralhome.com ... h-merlo-jr

[chin_gigante]

Found an obituary for Girolamo Guarraggi. He died last year

https://knottscolonialfuneralhome.com/t ... tuary.html

[chin_gigante]

JD described Gaetano Alessi as deceased in this post from January 2015, so I'm thinking of striking him from the chart:

I've seen Virgil Alessi sometimes called Guy Alessi. Virgil and Guy Alessi were two different people, both made members and both now deceased. Guy Alessi ran a catering hall in Bayonne.

viewtopic.php?p=5196#p5196

[chin_gigante]

Farina is deceased too according to felice:

Paolo Farina (b.1926) - From Caltabellotta near Ribera. Later a Capo in the DeCavalcante Family. He was a drug trafficker. He actually resides in Florida, now deceased.

Found in that same thread.

[B.]

JD mistook Gaetano Alessi for another Guy Alessi who was a Patriarca associate in Florida. Gaetano of NJ was still alive as of 2018: https://obits.nj.com/us/obituaries/jers ... d=11635061

Also Farina was still alive in 2016:
https://www.rennamedia.com/wp-content/u ... PAug16.pdf

[chin_gigante]

JD mistook Gaetano Alessi for another Guy Alessi who was a Patriarca associate in Florida. Gaetano of NJ was still alive as of 2018: https://obits.nj.com/us/obituaries/jers ... d=11635061

Also Farina was still alive in 2016:
https://www.rennamedia.com/wp-content/u ... PAug16.pdf

Appreciate the correction on both. Good recent pictures of Farina there too. There are two Anthony Falzones included there, do we know if either is the DeCav member? I'm assuming the son-in-law on the right as opposed to the younger gentleman in the middle.

Also realised I missed Michael Merlo so can add him as well.

[OcSleeper]

2016 obituary for Francesco Guarraci with a picture.
https://obits.nj.com/us/obituaries/star ... d=17195764

Is Domenico, Giacomo, and Pietro Colletti all brothers around their 50s? If so Pietro died in 2020.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nj ... id=8710221