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  Sonny Red Indelicato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato (died May 5, 1981) was a capo in New York City's Bonanno crime family.
Indelicato's body was wrapped in a painter's drop cloth discovered by a pair of children who saw the heel of his cowbooy boot sticking out of the ground.
Indelicato was never ambushed in his home, but called to a Brooklyn social club with the promise of peace talks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Red_Indelicato   (486 words)

  
 Carmine Galante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indelicato, Trinchera and Bonventre were all promoted to capo, or captains of the Bonnano family.
The gunman who shot Galante was 23-year-old Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, but it was not until 1986 that Indelicato was convicted of the murder.
Indelicato's father, Alphonse Indelicato, was murdered during the power struggle resulting from Galante's death.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carmine_Galante   (593 words)

  
 Commission Okayed Hits On Three Capos
Vitale is the key prosecution witness against Joseph Massino, who is charged with the murders of the capos and four others from 1981 to 1987.
In an affidavit, assistant U.S. attorney Nicolas Bourtin said that Massino acted after he “became aware that Indelicato, Giaccone and Trinchera were preparing to obtain automatic weapons” to use during a planned uprising against Rastelli, who was in prison at the time.
Former acting boss Alphonse (Little Al) D’Arco testified that he had instructed Daidone to place a canary in Facciola’s mouth as a message to others not to cooperate and that Daidone had told him he did as instructed after first killing a bird and preserving it in a freezer.
www.ganglandnews.com /column367.htm   (1096 words)

  
 Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - FBI Searches for Mob Victims' Remains   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Trinchera, Giaccone and another Bonanno captain, Alphonse ''Sonny Red'' Indelicato, were shotgunned to death at a Brooklyn social club in 1981 amid an internal struggle for control of the family.
Police and local residents have known about the lot since 1981, when children playing there found the body of a reputed crime figure, Alphonse Indelicato, who is believed to have been killed with Giaccone and Trinchera.
Recent court testimony in the case of crime boss Joseph Massino, who was convicted in July of murders including those of Indelicato, Giaccone and Trinchera, led police to search again.
www.websleuths.com /forums/printthread.php?t=13846   (992 words)

  
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BENJAMIN RUGGIERO, NICHOLAS SANTORA, ANTHONY RABITO, and ANTONIO ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Through Ruggiero, agent Pistone learned that in 1981 the five Bonanno captains, Napolitano, Joseph Messina, Philip Giaccone, Alphonse Indelicato, and Dominick Trinchera, were embroiled in [**8] a dispute over [*917] control of the family.
Napolitano and Messina remained loyal to Rastelli, who was in prison; aligned against them were Giaccone, Indelicato, and Trinchera, who sought to wrest control of the family from Rastelli.
Indelicato's body was discovered in a vacant lot in Queens, but the bodies of Giaccone and Trinchera were never found.
www.thelaborers.net /court_cases/us_v_ruggiero_726_f2d-913.htm   (8471 words)

  
 SHO ’NUFF MOB STUDY - FEB 22, 2005
Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato was convicted of murdering Galante in the historic Mafia Commission Trial in 1986.
On May 5, 1981, Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, Philip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera were summoned to a sitdown in an effort to resolve the ongoing disputes.
Bruno Indelicato, as a cocaine addict, was probably high on coke when he escaped getting killed by not going to the meeting.
gangstersinc.tripod.com /ShoFeb2205.html   (4227 words)

  
 : 1098376464
Indelicato’s body was found in the lot a few weeks after the hit, by children playing there.
Indelicato’s body was wrapped in a white sheet, tied with a clothesline and wearing an “expensive” watch, authorities said.
Investigators believed Trinchera and Giaccone were buried in the lot along with Indelicato, but their bodies were not recovered at the time.
www.queenstribune.com /news/1098376464.html   (507 words)

  
 FBI digs into Gotti's past - literally | Arizona Daily Star ®
Joseph Massino, who later became boss, was convicted earlier this year in the slayings based on the testimony of turncoat mobsters.
The body of Indelicato was discovered three weeks later by children who spotted his arm poking through the soil.
But investigators suspect the burials resumed, and that Ruby Street was also the last stop for a neighbor of Gotti's who disappeared 24 years ago.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/42622   (612 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | 'Mafia remains' unearthed in NYC
Bonanno clan boss Joseph Massino was convicted of several counts of murder and racketeering earlier this year.
The men were gunned down in a Brooklyn social club amid suspicions they were planning to take over the leadership of the Bonnano empire while its then-chief, Philip Rastelli, was in prison.
Children playing near the wasteland found Indelicato's body in 1981 but further excavations at the time did not yield any more finds.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3739828.stm   (320 words)

  
 Home > San Mateo, CA, California Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Three renegade capos - Philip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone, Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera - began to openly question Rastelli\'s leadership and apparently to plot to overthrow him.
Massino is believed to be the man who pointed the FBI towards a spot in Ozone Park, Queens, called "The Hole", where the body of Alphonse Indelicato had been found in 1981.
Told to dig a little deeper, authorities duly uncovered the remains of Dominick Trinchera and Philip Giaccone, as well as a body suspected to be that of John Favara, a neighbor of Gambino family boss John Gotti who had killed the mobster\'s son in a car/minibike accident, and paid with his life.
www.sanmateocaus.com /topic/Bonanno_crime_family   (1469 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Crime File - Slain capo's widow calls big-cheese rat a 'sissy'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Trinchera, a 300-pound Bonanno family capo, was slain along with two other capos, Philip (Phil Lucky) Giaccone and Alphonse (Sonny Red) Indelicato, in 1981.
Indelicato's body was buried in the lot as well, but his corpse was found shortly after the rubout.
Massino was convicted in July of orchestrating the triple murder of his rivals.
www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/277596p-237815c.html   (358 words)

  
 SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Gangland Graveyard . Clues & Evidence | PBS
The decomposing body of Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato.
Federal prosecutors wouldn't have had a case against Bonanno Family boss Joseph Massino for the 1981 murders of Philip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone, "Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera, had it not been for evidence obtained by specialized investigators known as forensic accountants.
FBI special agents spent two years poring through financial documents to unearth the paper trail that ultimately produced proof of the criminal activities of Massino and his colleagues.
www.pbs.org /wnet/secrets/case_gangland/clues.html   (746 words)

  
 article3
They went to meet three captains of the Bonanno crime family: Alphonse Indelicato, Dominick Trinchera and Philip Giaccone, who were suspected of plotting a power grab while don Philip Rastelli was in prison.
Mob turncoats have told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (fbi) that the spongy turf is a Mafia burial ground that holds the bodies of Trinchera and Giaccone, along with other victims.
Prosecutors are basing a sizable part of their case on the testimony of Salvatore Vitale, a Bonanno underboss turned informant.
www.nicaso.com /articles/doc_page3.html   (3677 words)

  
 MLB To Question Franco About Mob Cronies
In May of this year, Lino testified at a federal trial in Brooklyn that Massino used an object to hit
Alphonse Indelicato, a Bonanno captain known as Sonny Red, in 1981.
Soon after, Indelicato and two other Bonanno captains were shot dead, helping Massino rise to the top of the crime family.
www.cantstopthebleeding.com /C1882343933/E97135342   (450 words)

  
 GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - JOE MASSINO
Eventually the faction supporting Rastelli won, killing 3 capo's of the other faction in an shotgun ambush, it has been rumored that Massino was one of the shooters at that ambush.
Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano was recorded on tape saying: "Unfortunately, we all do our mistakes, but some mistakes are too gruesome to learn from," "He [Massino] was thinking about his wife [Vitale's sister] and he probably in the back of his mind didn't wanna actually believe it."
The murders were: (1)Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, (2)Philip "Philly Lucky" Giaccone and (3)Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera who were killed in May 1981.
gangstersinc.tripod.com /JoeMassino.html   (1516 words)

  
 Taking Digs At The Dapper Don
The FBI learned 19 months ago, from high-level Bonanno turncoat Salvatore (Good Looking Sal) Vitale, that there were remains at the site, but did nothing until picking up new info from an unnamed source about Gotti’s gang also using it.
Vitale told the feds last year that capos Dominick (Big Trin) Trinchera and Philip (Philly Lucky) Giaccone — killed in 1981 along with Alphonse (Sonny Red) Indelicato — were buried there.
In relating the murders of the three capos, the former underboss said that his
www.ganglandnews.com /column402.htm   (1098 words)

  
 From Queens
His daughter Victoria now stars in a reality show, “Growing Up Gotti.”
Alphonse “Sonny Red” Indelicato - Power politics took on a whole new meaning in 1981 when Indelicato drove through Queens to settle intra-family tensions.
Instead of talking, Red and two others were met with a hail of bullets.
queenstribune.com /guides/2005_TheyCameFromQueens/notorious/people.htm   (1273 words)

  
 chicagosnews | Calibrating for hype   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sometimes "forget about it" means just that - forget about it.
High-ranking members were ready to jump ship and sell out their compatriots rather than face brutally long stints in prison.
One by one, Massino's capos turned on him, ratting him out for the murder of Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, an infamous mob murder dramatized in the film "Donnie Brasco."
chicagosnews.com /node?from=25   (4983 words)

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