Peter Peluso 302s (notes)

[chin_gigante]

In May 2007, Liborio Bellomo’s lawyer Barry Levin filed a memorandum in support of a motion to preclude statements made by cooperating witness Peter Peluso from being entered into evidence. In this filing, Levin attached seven FBI 302s based on proffer sessions Peluso had on 27 January, 3 February, 1 March, 23 March, 24 March, and 20 April 2005, as well as 11 May 2006. The following notes are based on those seven 302s and I’ve uploaded them (rearranged in chronological order) in the FBI files section.

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East Harlem

- Peter Peluso was born and raised in East Harlem in Manhattan and became acquainted with various organised crime figures
- As a lawyer, Peluso represented many ‘kids from the neighbourhood’, sometimes referred to him by Anthony Salerno
- Peluso became close with Salerno and knew he and Philip Lombardo to be ‘high-ranking members’ of the Genovese family
- Peluso once gave money to New York Judge Louis Fusco Jr with the expectation that Fusco help Peluso and/ or Salerno if the opportunity ever presented itself
- After the payment, Fusco presided over a civil case Peluso was engaged in
- During trial, Fusco’s rulings were very favourable to Peluso and his client, which upset Peluso because Fusco made his favouritism obvious
- Peluso gave Fusco the money because he knew he gave favourable treatment to people associated with the Lucchese family
- Salerno once offered Peluso membership, but he turned it down because he felt he had enough protection from Salerno and other members
- Salerno was a captain and possibly acting boss of the family at the time
- After a series of events resulted in Saverio Santora accusing Peluso of being disrespectful, Salerno told Peluso that power was going to Santora’s head
- Peluso believed Santora may have been a captain at this point, but notes Salerno was always above him
- Peluso also stated that Santora struggled to put a crew together
- Benny Lombardo died not long after learning that Vincent Cafaro had flipped
- From prison, Salerno called Lombardo, said, ‘Fish is a rat’, and hung up
- Frank LoCascio contacted Peluso on behalf of John Gotti to confirm Cafaro’s cooperation
- Peluso later met Salerno and Gotti in prison and showed Gotti some of Cafaro’s 302s

Barney Bellomo

- Peluso first met Liborio Bellomo when he (Bellomo) was about 17 years old
- Bellomo’s father Salvatore asked Peluso to represent him after Bellomo was pulled over and caught with a gun
- Bellomo started carrying the gun because he was afraid of being targeted over an incident involving his cousin Liborio Thomas Bellomo
- Liborio T was involved in a shootout with Michael Mancuso and Anthony Maiorino (son of Bonanno member Salvatore Maiorino) at a bar in the Bronx
- Maiorino, described by Peluso as one of Liborio T’s attackers, was killed in the shootout
- Salvatore Bellomo (a made member and Liborio Salvatore Bellomo’s father) was terminally ill and feared retribution against his son because one of the individuals involved in the shooting ‘had backing’
- Salvatore asked Tony Salerno to look after his son, as he was not represented by anyone other than his father
- Salerno told Salvatore that nothing would happen to his son
- Bellomo then ‘reluctantly’ started hanging around Salerno and Sammy Santora
- Instead, Bellomo wanted to hang around with Ralph Coppola and Coppola’s cousin Nicky Nelson, who weren’t affiliated with the East Harlem crew
- Bellomo and Coppola were both around Nelson and they grew up together
- Bellomo eventually became Santora’s driver and formed a close alliance with him
- About a year after this, when Bellomo was about 20 years old, Peluso noticed he was being treated with more respect
- Peluso took this to mean Bellomo had been made, surmising he had been proposed by either Salerno or Santora
- ‘Barney remained Barney’ until Santora died
- With Santora dead and Salerno in prison, Bellomo followed Santora’s footsteps by ‘acting like he was running the show’
- Bellomo, who had been struggling financially, was making more money, and started bringing Ralph Coppola around
- It was a ‘shock’ to everyone when Bellomo was apparently made acting boss
- No official announcement was made, but Peluso observed Bellomo ‘calling the shots’
- Coppola, Pasquale DeLuca, Michael Generoso, James Ida, Arthur Nigro, Frank Serpico, Charles Tuzzo, and others answered to Bellomo
- Talk on the street was that Vincent Gigante put Bellomo in charge of the family
- Peluso sometimes met Bellomo for dinner at several diners
- On certain occasions, Bellomo would ask ‘what kind of guy’ somebody is, which Peluso learned was his way of asking if somebody was trustworthy or a rat
- At one meeting at a diner in Greenwich, Connecticut, Bellomo and Peluso were met by Carmine Della Cava
- Peluso knew Della Cava to be a drug dealer and cousin of Vincent Cafaro
- Della Cava wanted to partner with Bellomo on a construction project and asked him to facilitate an introduction with a contractor to get the job going
- Della Cava would have gone to Santora about this if he was still alive
- Peluso notes that Santora and Bellomo had no experience in construction
- Bellomo formed A-Corn Consulting to consult companies in the carting industry
- Peluso believed the company was always a front because Bellomo had no qualifications or experience required to consult other carting companies
- Peluso and Bellomo spent time in Florida together at Bellomo’s girlfriend’s place in Lakeland
- Peluso advised Bellomo against forming a Florida trucking business with Thomas Cafaro, but Bellomo did it anyway
- Peluso served as a trustee for Bellomo’s children but resigned the position when he turned 70
- About three years before he resigned the trusteeship, Peluso was approached by Tommy Cafaro and Peter Tarangelo
- They wanted Peluso to write cheques from the trusteeship to be invested through Tarangelo, though Peluso refused
- After Bellomo’s arrest, Peluso visited him at MDC Brooklyn, FCI Otisville, USP Atlanta, FCC Yazoo City, and several times at Mercer County Correction Centre
- Although Bellomo was in prison, his word carried a lot of weight ‘until recently’ (as of March 2005)

Hierarchy

- Frank Serpico took over Bellomo’s crew when Bellomo was made acting boss
- After Bellomo was arrested, Serpico became acting boss
- Serpico had been close with Bellomo and Sammy Santora
- Serpico’s father was a captain in the family and his uncle was a soldier in the 116th Street crew in the past
- When Serpico became acting boss, Pat DeLuca and Artie Nigro started getting close with him
- After Serpico died, Ernest Muscarella became acting boss
- Muscarella’s promotion was seen on the street as ‘another fluke’ because nobody knew who put him in the position
- Peluso didn’t know Muscarella from the East Harlem crew, but instead from the Bronx
- Muscarella didn’t respect Bellomo at first, but they became close over time
- Nigro was left in charge when Ernest Muscarella went to prison
- Peluso also stated that Nigro became a captain after Louis Moscatiello went to prison
- Before going to jail, Moscatiello had been an acting captain
- Ralph Balsamo and Pasquale Falcetti were close with Moscatiello
- Peluso knew Dominick Cirillo to be the acting boss of the family as of January 2005

Ralph Coppola

- Before Sammy Santora died, Ralph Coppola came to him for help
- This was around the time that Bellomo was transitioning to being around Santora
- Coppola had ‘serious problems’ with Anthony Luongo, who wanted to kill him
- Santora resolved the issue with the Lucchese family, and Coppola started hanging around him on a regular basis
- Bellomo was then responsible for bringing Coppola into the family
- Peluso became aware that Coppola was made in the late 1980s, and believed at this time that Benny Lombardo was the boss and Tony Salerno the street boss
- Coppola was working at the Jacob Javits Centre when he was inducted
- The 116th Street crew controlled the Carpenters Union at the Javits Centre through Coppola, Bellomo, and Anthony Fiorino
- This control had been established by Fred Devine, former president of the union
- Coppola ‘swindled’ many people at the Javits Centre including Pasquale Stiso
- While Bellomo served as acting boss, Peluso observed both Frank Serpico and Coppola ‘acting like they had authority to run the crew’
- Because of this, friction started mounting between Serpico and Coppola and continued when Serpico became acting boss
- Coppola didn’t follow Serpico’s orders and generally disrespected him
- Serpico was furious with Coppola and believed only Bellomo could influence his behaviour
- Peluso believed Coppola expected to become acting boss when Bellomo was arrested because of how close they were
- Coppola was godfather to one of Bellomo’s children
- After Bellomo went away, Coppola began exercising his own authority
- Robert Carbone became his right-hand-man, and Coppola proposed him for membership
- Carbone’s induction was resented because he was a relative newcomer and unknown to many
- Jamie Delio was also close with Coppola, but Peluso didn’t know if Delio was a member
- Coppola ruffled feathers by meeting members of other families on his own, without approval from the Genovese hierarchy
- Some complained about Coppola’s association with Gambino associate Joe Watts
- Ernie Muscarella confided in John Ardito that he too was having issues with Coppola
- Coppola also had problems with some individuals he partnered with in a nightclub
- Lawrence Dentico, on Serpico’s behalf, asked Peluso to get in touch with Coppola
- Peluso knew Dentico to be a ‘high-ranking soldier’ at the time
- Peluso left unanswered messages for Coppola with Bucky Carbone, by that point a soldier under him
- Peluso met Dentico at a pizza parlour near Yonkers Raceway to tell him he had been unsuccessful, only for Coppola to show up for the meeting
- Peluso excused himself and left when Coppola sat down to talk to Dentico
- This conversation took place a couple of months prior to Coppola’s disappearance

Murder

- One day, Frank Serpico came to Peluso’s home with a bottle of wine and told him not to tell anybody about their conversation
- Serpico knew Peluso frequently visited Bellomo in prison and said he needed him to send a message about a problem involving Coppola
- The situation was serious, and if Bellomo couldn’t straighten it out, Serpico would have to ‘do what he has to do’
- Peluso understood this to mean Coppola’s life was in danger and Serpico would take ‘drastic action’ if Bellomo didn’t intervene
- Peluso knew Serpico was capable of murder because he often spoke about his experiences of killing people in Vietnam
- Peluso believed Bellomo also knew Serpico was capable of killing Coppola
- Ralph Balsamo drove Peluso to visit Bellomo in Mercer County Correction Centre in New Jersey
- After dropping Peluso off, Balsamo went to a diner
- Peluso signed in on the visitor’s list and talked to Bellomo by some vending machines for privacy
- Peluso told Bellomo about Serpico’s concerns
- Bellomo didn’t want to hear about it because he was worried that Serpico and Coppola would get him more time
- Bellomo also stated, ‘I’m in here, they’re out there’
- Peluso understood Bellomo to be saying Serpico knew more about what was going on out on the street
- After the meeting, Peluso went to see Serpico at a McDonald’s on the corner of Philip Avenue and East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx
- Serpico wanted to know if Peluso had delivered the message
- Peluso said yes and described how Bellomo indicated there was nothing he could do and didn’t want to talk about it or have anything to do with the situation
- Peluso also relayed Bellomo’s message, ‘I’m in here, you’re out there’, knowing Serpico could take it as a green light to resolve the situation how he saw fit
- Serpico was happy with the response and felt like he hit a ‘home run’ because Bellomo chose not to intervene
- If Serpico got any blowback for killing Coppola, he could anow say he checked with Bellomo first
- About a week later, Peluso learned that Coppola was missing
- Coppola’s sister once spoke to ‘Anthony the Barber’ from Anthony Hair Styling on Williamsbridge Road about her brother’s disappearance
- She stated that Coppola couldn’t have been made to disappear without Bellomo’s approval
- Peluso knew about law enforcement’s theory that Michael Zanfardino and Salvatore Larca killed Coppola, but heard many times on the street that this wasn’t true
- Peluso believed the only place Coppola could have been killed was Pat DeLuca’s social club off Continental Avenue in the Bronx
- Coppola frequented the club and would feel safe there because he was close to DeLuca
- Coppola, Balsamo, Patty Falcetti, Louie Moscatiello, and Artie Nigro frequented DeLuca’s club
- Like Nigro and DeLuca, Balsamo was also close with Serpico
- Because of tensions between them, Coppola would not have gone to Serpico’s club in Corona, Queens

George Barone

- Peluso was present at a co-defendant meeting in the MDC with Bellomo, Thomas Lee, Flora Edwards, and others
- They had heard George Barone was cooperating and wanted to recruit a private investigator to investigate
- The PI was having trouble finding anything out about Barone, so Bellomo wanted John Ardito to take him down to Florida
- Ardito and Barone were close, and Ardito was instructed to introduce the PI to individuals who could help find Barone
- In January 2005, Peluso told the FBI that Ardito was a soldier and possibly a captain ‘once upon a time’
- Peluso personally considered Ardito to be retired from crime
- Peluso knew Barone to be an old friend of Tony Salerno
- Before moving to Florida, Barone was originally from the West Side of Manhattan
- After Bellomo, Tommy Cafaro, and Andrew Gigante were arrested on charges relating to the Longshoremen’s Union, the ‘Chin faction’ sent Ernie Muscarella to ‘influence’ Barone
- Ardito and Peluso believed the family handled Barone the wrong way
- Barone was a tough guy and would not have flipped, but Muscarella’s threats to keep him quiet had the opposite effect
- Peluso thought it was ‘insane’ for Ardito to go to Florida with the PI because it would look to Barone like another threat, and they’d end up with a major headache
- Ardito felt the same way, and wanted to take Peluso with him to make the journey seem ‘legit’
- In Florida, Peluso and Ardito met Albert Facchiano and went to Douglas Rago’s house
- Rago knew Barone from the unions but was ‘crippled’ at the time
- They told Rago to speak to the PI, but came home without seeing or hearing anything from Barone

Bellomo’s brothers-in-law

- Anthony Fiorino was best man at Bellomo’s wedding
- John Fiorino succeeded Peluso as trustee for Bellomo’s children
- Gerald Fiorino used his connection to Bellomo for his own advantage, including in the carting industry
- Joe Pontoriero, Vincent ‘Jimmy’ Vigliotti, and Jerry Fiorino invested large sums of money into various carting companies
- Fiorino was an up-front owner of Du-Rite Carting, but Peluso believed he wouldn’t have been involved if he wasn’t backed by Bellomo
- Vigliotti, Fiorino, and another individual called Eddie were partners in Du-Rite, though Fiorino treated Eddie like he was an employee
- Vigliotti had wanted Bellomo to be involved in the company but instead got Fiorino
- Vigliotti complained that everyone lost money in Du-Rite except Fiorino
- On many occasions, people told Peluso that Fiorino would have been killed if he wasn’t Bellomo’s brother-in-law
- One individual who was jailed for murder wanted Fiorino dead because he swindled somebody out of a carting company
- Eventually, Liborio Thomas Bellomo informed his cousin that Fiorino was going around using his name and sometimes claiming Bellomo said things that he didn’t
- Bellomo was upset by this, and started only allowing Fiorino to visit him with Peluso, who could witness what was said
- Eventually, Bellomo removed Fiorino’s name from his visitor’s list

Old cash and loansharking

- John Ardito once gave Jerry Fiorino $50,000 in old 1950s-1960s US currency to be exchanged for newer bills
- Fiorino would use the old bills to buy jewellery and pay construction workers
- Twice, Peluso delivered approximately $20,000 from Fiorino to Ardito
- Ardito was frustrated because Fiorino took longer than expected to exchange the money
- Ardito possessed a large quantity of the old $100 bills and hid them in his home in Whitestone, Queens, and his daughter’s home in Yonkers
- Ardito had been ‘one of the biggest numbers guys around’ and was also involved in loansharking, both cash-heavy businesses
- Peluso knew Ardito to loan money to Albert Finestone, Vincent Russo, and Anthony Guido
- Russo and Guido were often late with their payments
- Finestone brought Ardito his money at his (Ardito’s) house
- Russo gave Ardito his three points at the parking lot or bathroom of Agostino’s Restaurant in New Rochelle
- Russo attempted to borrow another $10,000 from Ardito for somebody called Doctor Shapiro, but Ardito didn’t believe him and refused
- Peluso advised Ardito to put the loan on record with somebody else in case he (Ardito) died

Pat Simone and the roofer

- At a meeting with Louie Moscatiello, John Ardito learned that a roofer had done work for Pat Simone without being paid
- The roofer was a ‘friend’ and close with Ardito, Moscatiello, Dom Cirillo, Silvio DeVita, and the late Ruggiero Boiardo
- Because the roofer was a friend, this shouldn’t have happened
- Simone was on record with Ardito, but they weren’t on good terms at the time
- Jerry Fiorino was told to contact Simone
- At Fiorino’s jewellery store, he and Peluso met Simone and told him to pay the roofer
- Simone asked why he was being shaken down, and Peluso told him if he didn’t pay then Moscatiello would come to see him and there would be repercussions
- After this, Ardito heard that Moscatiello changed his position upon learning there was a legitimate reason for Simone not to make further payment
- Moscatiello told Peluso that the decision not to force Simone to pay ultimately came from Cirillo
- Ardito was upset because the reversal on the situation made him look bad

Disputes over the Bakers Union

- Ardito had influence over the Bakers Union and was close with a deceased president named Carmine and his successor Angelo Aquilino
- Ardito was receiving money from a baker for many years because Ardito enabled the baker to employ a non-union workforce
- Ardito suddenly stopped receiving the money and learned Gambino member Louis Filippelli was responsible
- Ardito was upset and reached out to Alphonse Sisca, Filippelli’s uncle
- Ardito and Sisca met at a diner on East Tremont Avenue, and Sisca said he would speak to Filippelli
- Dom Cirillo once tasked Ardito with collecting a late payment related to the union
- Ardito visited Matthew Ianniello for help but ultimately the issue wasn’t resolved
- Ardito got involved in a dispute between Walter Galiano, owner of Arthur Avenue Baking, and Valente Yeast
- Anthony Romanello got involved to represent Valente Yeast
- A meeting was held at Pasquale’s Rigoletto on Arthur Avenue
- Peluso, Ardito, Romanello, Galiano, Tomas Terracciano, Victor Colletti, and possibly Valente attended
- Romanello got loud and accused Galiano of lying at the meeting
- Peluso also knew Galiano was involved in another dispute in Staten Island

Pasquale Parrello and Pasquale’s Rigoletto

- Around 2002, Peluso began hanging out at Pasquale’s Rigoletto on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx
- Peluso believed Pasquale Parrello may have used his lawyer Anthony Mangone to pass messages to others
- An employee at Peter Lugar’s Steakhouse disrespected Parrello’s girlfriend
- After this, Parrello instructed Jay Delaquila, Gino Ottomanelli, and an undercover detective to assault the individual
- The three went to Peter Lugar’s but found their target was in Florida
- Parrello then sent Delaquila, a cook at the Villa Nicastro Restaurant, and a third man to find the individual a second time
- On this occasion, they beat the individual up inside Peter Lugar’s
- Peluso learned about this through Albert Finestone, who had friends at Peter Lugar’s
- John Ardito sent Finestone to Peter Lugar’s to let the owner know the assault was over a personal dispute and wasn’t an attempted robbery
- Peluso accompanied Peter Dove before a Westchester Grand Jury investigating an assault he was involved in
- Albert Tranquillo Sr and Tranquillo Jr, cousins of Parrello, had assaulted Dove
- The Tranquillos later sued Dove over a construction project
- Dove was worried for his family and wanted Peluso to accompany him to the Grand Jury, so everyone knew he wasn’t cooperating
- Peluso told Ardito about this, who blamed Dominick DeVito for the situation
- Dennis Marks, Tomas Terracciano, and Nicholas DeVito were involved in cashing cheques from a chiropractor’s office about Pasquale’s Rigoletto
- They took the cheques to Dominick Colasuonno’s cashing business
- There was a dispute one day in the restaurant between Marks, DeVito, and possibly Frank Mesico over the cheques
- As a result of the dispute, DeVito was no longer permitted to cash any cheques

Martin Bosshart

- Martin Bosshart became close with Patsy Parrello in MDC Brooklyn and began frequenting Pasquale’s Rigoletto after his release
- At the restaurant, Bosshart bragged about being involved in a murder in Florida
- Bosshart told Peluso that others involved in the murder had been arrested
- Bosshart took photographs of the victim’s dogs as proof that he participated
- Bosshart also told Peluso he was having problems with someone from Howard Beach
- An individual involved in the junkyard business and associated with the Gambino family called Vincent or Vito Ansaro (ph.) was looking for Bosshart
- It wasn’t safe for Bosshart to go to Howard Beach because Ansaro fired shots at him on one occasion
- Vito DiSalvo gave Bosshart a car from a rental company, and Bosshart asked him to find an apartment he could hide out at
- Peluso told Bosshart that DiSalvo and Parrello had their own problems
- Peluso learned that Bosshart was at the restaurant one night when he got a call
- Somebody then picked Bosshart up and drove him to Queens
- Dennis Marks spoke to the man who picked Bosshart up and identified him as Gennaro Bruno (Peluso only knew him by the first name Jerry)
- Marks told Peluso that Bruno acted like he didn’t want to be seen at the restaurant
- After being driven away from the restaurant, Bosshart got out of the car to urinate and was shot and killed
- Peluso later learned details of the murder from Tommy Lee
- Lee had represented Jerry Bruno in a criminal case
- Lawyer Lawrence DiGiansante, who worked in Lee’s office, was married to an Assistant District Attorney involved in the murder case
- Lee told Peluso that investigators recovered DNA from urine at the scene

Anthony Megale

- Around February 2003, there was a dispute between Liborio Thomas Bellomo and Anthony Megale
- Liborio T had purchased about $20,000 in stock in Parisi Vending and gave it to Megale when he told him the company was going out of business
- In fact, Parisi Vending had just signed a large contract with K-Mart
- Peluso accompanied Liborio T to a diner where they met with Megale, who stood his ground and refused to pay
- They couldn’t sue Megale because of who he was, so Peluso went to Funzi Sisca for help
- Peluso heard Megale and Sisca were ‘together’
- Peluso also met Dom Cirillo on 115th Street and told him what Megale was doing
- Cirillo told Peluso he would look into it and get back to him but never did
- John Ardito once met Aniello Mancuso at George’s Restaurant off Westchester Avenue in the Bronx because he wanted Mancuso to discuss the Parisi Vending issue

Anthony Salerno’s son

- In approximately January 2004, Peluso learned from Claudio Caponigro that Anthony Salerno’s son was having problems with Pat DeLuca and/ or Artie Nigro
- Salerno had a store on 116th Street and was trying to put it up for rent
- DeLuca or Nigro told the son that the store belonged to ‘them’ and wasn’t his to rent out
- The son and Caponigro both told DeLuca that at one point DeLuca and Nigro held him (the son) in a headlock
- The son later denied this story, probably out of embarrassment
- Peluso didn’t think this was right, so he went to see DeLuca and voiced his disapproval
- DeLuca told Peluso that he and Nigro were only looking out for the son’s interests
- Peluso told DeLuca that he had been to see Bellomo, who relayed an instruction to leave the son alone
- Despite saying this, Peluso had not actually been to see Bellomo yet
- When Peluso did visited Bellomo in prison, Bellomo agreed that ‘no one should bother the kid’
- Bellomo told Peluso he didn’t want the same thing to happen to his (Bellomo’s) children if he wasn’t around

Miscellaneous

- Vincent Russo’s son-in-law Frank Tummolo was involved in a dispute in a construction site with Anthony Carollo, who bit his ear off
- The incident was related to Local 1 of the Elevator Operators Union
- Carollo may have been a made member at the time
- Ralph Balsamo got involved because he was friends with Carollo
- Russo was concerned that Balsamo was getting involved and explained the situation to John Ardito so it would be known that his son-in-law wasn’t a rat
- Tummolo told police that he got jumped by a Black guy
- Aniello Migliore told Peluso he wanted no part in running the Lucchese family, and was only interested in importing Italian marble and pigeon feed
- Migliore told Peluso that he ‘doesn’t need it’
- Peluso last spoke to Migliore around September 2004
- Peluso knew Matthew Madonna to be running the Lucchese family by April 2005
- Nicholas LaSorsa didn’t like Vinny Fiori and was trying to prevent him from being inducted in the Gambino family
- LaSorsa asked Peluso if he had an opinion on Fiori
- Peluso once saw someone accuse Fiori in court after he took a plea deal
- Peluso didn’t give LaSorsa an opinion but told him to talk to the person who accused Fiori
- Al Faella once stated his belief that Nicholas Cirillo’s body may be buried on one of Vincent Basciano’s construction sites in the Bronx
- In March 2005, Peluso told the FBI he heard that Steven Alfisi was recently inducted into the Genovese family

[chin_gigante]

The 302s can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=44&t=12033

There's a few things Peluso is off on regarding timelines, like when Muscarella took over from Serpico (Muscarella took over from Serpico before he died, not after) and Benny Lombardo still being the boss in the late 1980s. It's interesting though that Peluso believed Lombardo was still running the family.

It's also important to note, regarding the Coppola murder, the government was ultimately unable to find the visitation logs confirming Peluso's meeting with Bellomo in Mercer County Correction Centre, and the defence claimed to have multiple witnesses who could testify the visitation area was different from what Peluso described.

[B.]

Great work. Many fascinating details in there.

Especially interesting that Salerno wanted to induct Peluso, a lawyer.

[JohnnyS]

Great stuff chin. Well summarized.

[InCamelot]

Interesting the note that Muscarella and Bellomo were not that close was listed alongside the note that no one else knew how Muscarella was initially appointed as acting boss. Did the Chin perhaps appoint him?

[Dr031718]

Seems the Bronx (Lombardo/Salerno/Bellomo) faction has always held sway and then there is a Chin (Gigante) faction that hold power and the go back and forth in ruling. and cellular structure similiar to Rubios testimony where no one even in the family knows who the real boss is

[chin_gigante]

Seems the Bronx (Lombardo/Salerno/Bellomo) faction has always held sway and then there is a Chin (Gigante) faction that hold power and the go back and forth in ruling. and cellular structure similiar to Rubios testimony where no one even in the family knows who the real boss is

Michael D'Urso pointed out too that power in the Genovese family was concentrated in three factions: the west side of Manhattan; East Harlem/ the Bronx; and New Jersey.

[Pmac2]

Thank you.

[NothingNew44]

These are the best Chin, you put out fantastic stuff. Thank you

[CabriniGreen]

These are the best Chin, you put out fantastic stuff. Thank you

+1. I love these too...

[Little_Al1991]

Great post. Thanks for doing what u do Chin.
Anything about Bellomo is always interesting and when you look at his early years, it’s clear as to why that is. He was around Sammy Black and Fat Tony and here is today as the boss now.

[Stroccos]

Great breakdown Chin , thanks for posting

[Wiseguy]

Great stuff. The nitty gritty, every day details of mob life.

[Pmac2]

I wonder why the Fbi went to Peter peluso? What crime did he do that they approached him? He tried to say that guy buster ardito was retired which he knows was a lie. He was trying to protect him. That guy was a gangster threw an threw till he died

[Pmac2]

Ardito might not have been a shooter in his 80tys but the guy was just a criminal in every way. Loansharking. Gambling. And unions