Henry Tameleo - Bonanno connection? (New England transfers)

[B.]

Thanks to Nash for posting these docs a while back.



- Patriarca being on the Commission but having to step down due to LE pressure makes sense, as Tony Accardo was recorded saying Patriarca had a Commission seat in 1958. We know he wasn't on the Commission for much if any of the 1960s.



- According to this, Frank Costello was still boss when he peacefully "encouraged" Phil Buccola to step down. This informant believed ethnic politics were the reason, which is very interesting. Patriarca's father was from Acre, Lazio, not far from Naples, and his mother's family was from Avellino so this tells us he was perceived as Neapolitan. Costello was Calabrian, not Neapolitan, but it suggests the Genovese Family wanted to elevate mainlanders in New England.

- The second part appears to refer to Lombardo, as it's about a Boston-based underboss who held the title under both Buccola and Patriarca. It mentions that he was close to New York himself.



- If this is true, Angiulo's trajectory was: made in 60 or 61, promoted to capodecina by mid-1965 (Pussy Russo said it was recent), and ID'd by the FBI as underboss in 1969.

- Any idea what Family or areas Cassesso was connected to outside of Boston?



- Along with Ray Patriarca saying he was a member of an NYC Family circa 1946, here we have further evidence he was a Genovese member. Interestingly so were Mike Rocco and two redacted names.

- Question is when Ray Patriarca was made. If Frank Costello did it, it was most likely one of the first Genovese ceremonies after the books opened up in the mid-1940s. Patriarca must have been a newly made Genovese member when Buccola requested he transfer to New England in 1946.

[Snakes]

Patriarca books weren't closed in the sixties? Was it only the NY families?

[B.]

The source said Angiulo and Limone were the last guys to get made in 1960/61, but Nicky Bianco was made in 1963. Patriarca was recorded saying the Bianco induction was specially approved by the Commission and he lived in NYC so might have been an exception. When Philly was chastised for making members they were told that one reason the books were closed was Valachi, so maybe some of these non-NYC Families were forced to close their books around 1962.

[B.]

Another interesting tie:

- Early NYC mafia member Antonio Cecala's daughter married Giuseppe Amoroso of Boston, son of Antonino Amoroso and Angela Giamuzzo. Giuseppe was born in "Italy" while Vincenza Cecala was born in NYC.

- The marriage took place in 1913 in Boston and the couple resided in East Boston through 1920. Something may have happened, as by 1930 their teenaged daughter is living in NYC with her grandmother, Antonio Cecala's widow (he was killed 1928), without her parents. There is a widowed Joseph Amoroso listed in the 1930 Boston census, not sure if it's the same one.

- The 1913 marriage of his daughter in Boston took place when Cecala was already in prison on counterfeiting charges. Cecala was said to be one of the men that secured buyers in other cities -- one of the cities they distributed counterfeit bills to was Boston. This marriage looks to be arranged so it's possible Antonino Amoroso was a mafia contact of Cecala's in Boston.

- The Cecalas were from Baucina, Palermo. I couldn't find where Antonino Amoroso or his wife came from.

- Antonio Cecala was a ranking member of either the Morello or Lupo Family. He told Comito that three years prior he became "head" of a "band of incendiaries" who helped him earn money. Given his important role in the counterfeiting op and his close relationship with Lupo and Morello I suspect he was a capodecina in one of their Families. He's consistently linked to top members of both groups, then after his release again is close to Lucchese, Genovese, and Gambino figures (all three Families had members with heritage in Baucina and nearby villages). He went to Sicily in 1925 with Vincenzo Mangano and Giuseppe Traina, plus his Empire Yeast company was taken over by Traina after Cecala's murder which could point to him being with that Family.

Never seen the Amorosos surface later in connection with the New England mafia but the Cecala marriage is an indication they were involved.

[Pmac2]

some where in the ray patriarca files it has jerry anguilo and limone geting made together in56 57. i think limone said on a wire tap he was like 22 24 the age matched up to him being made in 56 57/ the same year ray made 6 guys in worcester and tansferd them to the genovese family because the capo in worcester iacone was in jail for taxes. i beleive ray inducted his son or sons and had them stay with the new england family giving him the biggest piece of worcester

[B.]

Another Genovese connection is Donato Miranda, brother of Genovese leader Michael Miranda. He lived in Boston and was identified as active with the local mafia though I don't know if membership was ever confirmed. Hard to know his exact affiliation given we see a couple of members from other Families living in Boston.

Another Miranda brother, Antonio, lived in Springfield MA where he died in 1930. His son married a Scibelli, a name that needs no intro with the Genovese Springfield decina. Seems likely Antonio was an early Springfield-based member of the Genovese Family.

[B.]

^^^ Donato Miranda actually appaears to have split time between NY and Boston. He owned a Boston-based business.

[PolackTony]

Another interesting tie:

- Early NYC mafia member Antonio Cecala's daughter married Giuseppe Amoroso of Boston, son of Antonino Amoroso and Angela Giamuzzo. Giuseppe was born in "Italy" while Vincenza Cecala was born in NYC.

- The marriage took place in 1913 in Boston and the couple resided in East Boston through 1920. Something may have happened, as by 1930 their teenaged daughter is living in NYC with her grandmother, Antonio Cecala's widow (he was killed 1928), without her parents. There is a widowed Joseph Amoroso listed in the 1930 Boston census, not sure if it's the same one.

- The 1913 marriage of his daughter in Boston took place when Cecala was already in prison on counterfeiting charges. Cecala was said to be one of the men that secured buyers in other cities -- one of the cities they distributed counterfeit bills to was Boston. This marriage looks to be arranged so it's possible Antonino Amoroso was a mafia contact of Cecala's in Boston.

- The Cecalas were from Baucina, Palermo. I couldn't find where Antonino Amoroso or his wife came from.

- Antonio Cecala was a ranking member of either the Morello or Lupo Family. He told Comito that three years prior he became "head" of a "band of incendiaries" who helped him earn money. Given his important role in the counterfeiting op and his close relationship with Lupo and Morello I suspect he was a capodecina in one of their Families. He's consistently linked to top members of both groups, then after his release again is close to Lucchese, Genovese, and Gambino figures (all three Families had members with heritage in Baucina and nearby villages). He went to Sicily in 1925 with Vincenzo Mangano and Giuseppe Traina, plus his Empire Yeast company was taken over by Traina after Cecala's murder which could point to him being with that Family.

Never seen the Amorosos surface later in connection with the New England mafia but the Cecala marriage is an indication they were involved.

Nice info. Antonino Amoroso and Maria Angela Giammusso (which I believe is the original spelling of that surname) were both from Barrafranca, Enna, per a 1914 passenger manifest for their arrival in Boston (both surnames are definitely present in Barrafranca, so this makes perfect sense). We’ve obviously seen people from modern Enna province connected to the mafia in NJ and Chicago, along with some other places, so it’s interesting to see some of them in Boston connected to NYC relatively early on.

[B.]

Whoa, not what I expected but would fit with the mafiosi in Boston from Pietraperzia.

Might be further indication Antonino Amoroso was a mafioso as I can't see why the Baucinese Cecalas would set up a marriage with the Amorosos in Boston.

[motorfab]

- People from Aragona were in Boston by the turn the of century. Alfonso Veneziano is the first one I see, marrying there in 1902. There were plenty of immigrants from Sciacca, Porto Empedocle, and other familiar Agrigento towns in Boston shortly after the turn of the century and through the next couple of decades. A Lorenzo Marino from Siculiana lived in Boston circa 1917-1918, which brings to mind the Gaetano Marino I found from Siculiana. There were many other Marinos in Boston from Sciacca.

As I'm doing some research on New Orleans for a personal project, I'm looking into the Siculiana connections and was wondering if the Lorenzo Marino you mention could be this one?


No mentions of Boston on this but New Orleans is mentioned in this thread (page 1) and as this Lorenzo Marino was from Siculiana ...

Also, several Marinos from Siculiana are mentioned in this thread: viewtopic.php?t=3632

As antimafia reminds us in it, the information should be taken with a pinch of salt, but as quite a few Siculianese were active in New Orleans ...

[davidf1989]

what do people make of this quote from Vincent Teresa's My life in the Mafia book about Wimpy Bennett and Henry Tameleo on p.150 “Whimpy and I had been pretty good friends over the years. We'd done a lot of business together. He’d given me a lot of action, pushing hijack deals and other stuff my way. I was seen with him quite often. Then one day in early 1966 I got a call from Tameleo. ‘Meet me,’ he said. So I drove the car to Providence, and we met in my car in a parking lot.

Stay away from Whimpy,’ Tameleo said. ‘He’s a stool pigeon.’

“I couldn’t believe it. I stared at Tameleo and couldn’t believe it. ‘How do you know this?’ I asked. ‘I’ve known this guy for years. I don’t believe it. We’ve done a lot of things together over the years, and nothing ever went wrong.

“Henry just looked at me. I guess he was a little pissed off that I should question his word. ‘Listen to me,’ he snapped. “This is Uncle Henry talking to you now. We’re talking in this car. Nobody knows this. Whimpy’s gonna get whacked out. He’s a stoolie. We got the information straight from our man on the Boston Police Department

I just shook my head. I couldn’t believe it. Tameleo said Whimpy had been a stoolie for years, that a lot of guys had hit the can because of him, but I’d never seen him do a thing wrong when we were operating together. ‘How the hell did he operate, do all the things he did, then?’ I asked.

“Henry’s face was frozen. “That’s how he got away with all the things he’s done. The cops gave him a license to steal to find out what was going on, who else was involved. He’s hurt a lot of people, and the cop that told us proved it.'