NJ Genovese

[TSNYC]

Thanks for posting Wiseguy.

FWIW, Larry wecker’s companies did a lot of drywall work on Dabies projects on jersey side of Hudson. Can only imagine what other mobbed up firms were involved.

[OcSleeper]

Didn't think this was worth it's own thread. Just a NJ Commission of Investigation report from May, which lists some connections to the Genovese family that a developer has. The developer's ties to local officials of Edgewater in Bergen County being the main focus of the inquiry. Elsewhere, the unnamed Genovese member mentioned was said to be the late Michael "Tona" Borelli.

https://www.nj.gov/sci/pdf/Edgewater%20 ... 0Final.pdf

Fred Daibes, Bob Menendez, his wife, and 2 other businessmen have been charged with corruption.

[JoelTurner]

I saw that, taking gold bars is cartoonishly corrupt lmao. I guess they were out of bags of cash with a dollar sign on them

[bn]

Larry Dentico:

- Born Aug 22 1923
- Father: Frank Dentico from Gioia del Colle, Bari, Puglia
- Mother: Madeline Palazzo, family from Cosenza, Calabria
- Brother: Joseph “Joe Bari” Dentico, E Harlem dope guy and member
- Part of the Greenwich Village crew
- Moved to Jersey City in the late ‘50s
- Lived at 333 Sip Ave, Jersey City, NJ in 1966
- Grandson Lawrence is involved in drugs with other mob guys

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Louis Gatto:

- Born Sep 2 1916 in Patterson, NJ
- Father: Matthew Gatto from Sarno, Salerno, Campania
- Mother: Josephine Mautone from Cuccaro Vetere, Salerno, Campania
- Wife: Josephine DeStefano
- Daughter was married to Alan Wolshonak, his right-hand man. He was Italian through his mother and later took her maiden name “Greco”
- Inherited the LaPlaca crew in ~1979
- His sons Joseph (d.2010) and Louis Jr. (d.2000) were also made men

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Dentico was definitely more powerful as he was a part of the Genovese family’s ruling panel. He may have been consigliere too.

Gatto strikes me as being more blue-collar, involved in theft, gambling, etc. He had a large crew but a lot of the guys were old. The most notable member was Tino Fiumara.

Joseph 'Joe Bari' Dentico was the uncle of Larry, not brother. Joe probably wasn't made.