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	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - JOE MASSINO
		Massino wasn't whacked he was just indicted, in 1986 Massino was convicted and sent to prison on charges stemming the Bonannos’ control of Teamsters Local 814, the union that represents furniture movers.
		Massino is known as an electronics whiz with a penchant for secrecy and discretion.
		Massino was the best man at Vitale's wedding, and later served as godfather to one of his sons.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /JoeMassino.html (1516 words)

	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JOSEPH MASSINO and SALVATORE VITALE, Defendants 605 F.Supp 1565
		Massino and Vitale have challenged the sufficiency of the November 9, 1981 and December 29, 1981 affidavits, supporting Orders #1 and #2, and consequently have also challenged the subsequent affidavits and orders, which are derivative of these first two.
		Massino and Vitale have challenged the admissibility of any intercepts during April, May, and June, 1982, arguing that during this period the government failed to minimize its interceptions as required by either 18 U.S.C. (5) or by the specific minimization requirements [**22] in the April, May, and June orders, quoted supra.
		Massino and Vitale respond, however, that this case is distinguishable [**24] because the minimization requirements were memorialized in the order authorizing the surveillance and any violation of the minimization requirement therefore became a violation of the authorizing order to which any aggrieved party may object.
	www.ipsn.org /court_cases/united_states_v_massino.htm (6576 words)

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		The suit sought forfeiture of three properties owned by family members, used in multi-million dollar gambling operations and their interests in four other business that were claimed to have been purchased with money derived from the family's racketeering enterprises and it was at this point the Bonanno crime family seemed really on the rack.
		Joe Massino furthered his influence when he set up the first commission meeting of the new millennium in mid 2000.
		Although Massino may have the look of a Tony Soprano type street boss, but in truth Massino has already proved that he is a shrewd individual.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /joemassino.html (488 words)

	Attorney launches cross-exam assault on mob informant \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		NEW YORK –; It was psychological warfare yesterday at the Mafia trial of Joseph C. Massino, who is charged with murder and racketeering, as the most important confrontation of the trial began.
		Cross-examination is the centerpiece of Massino's defense strategy in a case bolstered by unprecedented cooperation by Bonanno informants.
		Though cross-examination is always a defense tool, it is on full display in the Massino case, partly because it may be the only way to dull the impact of the long line of informers deserting a besieged crime family.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040701/news_1n1mob.html (685 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Movie mobsters face the music
		Massino is also charged with loansharking, and running a variety of illegal gambling businesses including an illegal baccarat game, a sports betting operation and the distribution of fruit machines.
		Massino is also accused of ordering the hit on Cesare Bonventre, whose mutilated body was found in a warehouse in New Jersey in 1984.
		But Massino's lawyer, David Breitbart, is confident his client will be cleared, and said the government's case was built on the word of "rats", who were trying to save their own skins by testifying against his client.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3554111.stm (1124 words)

	'THE LAST DON' CONVICTED
		Massino was a crime boss, he was a peaceful one opposed to rubouts.
		Massino as 'the last don' was a headline writer's shorthand that reflected his skill at remaining in power while other bosses went off to serve long prison terms.
		Massino was a peaceful leader who had put a stop to killing during his reign.
	www.theprescription.com /blog_the-last-don-convicted.php (770 words)

	The Sopranos meet Donnie Brasco - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Vitale is the government's star witness at the murder and racketeering trial of "Big Joey" Massino, Vitale's brother-in-law and the reputed boss of the Bonannos, one of New York's fabled five Mafia families.
		Massino is charged with seven murders, racketeering and other offenses, and faces life in prison if convicted.
		His sister, Massino's wife, Josephine, sat in the front row during his testimony, refused to rise with other spectators when the judge and her brother entered the court, and scoffed under her breath as he testified.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_203678.html (795 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Massino grins and says "Bravo" when he is told that a granddaughter scored a hit in a softball baseball game.
		Massino was just a "capo" - the head of a branch of organised crime - when he went to jail in 1987 for extortion.
		The FBI's case against Massino this time is that when the mobster came out of jail in 1992 he quietly took over the Bonannos, one of New York's traditional five "families", and rose to the top godfather role as rivals fell to the government's ever-more successful prosecutions.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/16/wmob16.xml (978 words)

	Dark Day For Joe Massino & Peter Gotti
		Massino, already awaiting trial for two 20-year-old mob rubouts that grew out of the FBI’s infiltration of the Bonanno family a quarter century ago, was hit yesterday with three more murders, courtesy of insight the feds got from six Bonanno defectors, including Massino’s brother-in-law and former underboss, Salvatore Vitale.
		In yesterday's developments, Massino was indicted in two slayings that are linked to the spectacular 1979 rubout of then-Bonanno boss Carmine (Lilo) Galante —whacked as he dined on the backyard patio of Joe and Mary’s Italian Restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
		Massino is charged with the 1984 murder of Cesare Bonventre, a Galante bodyguard who was part of the Galante plot, and the 1987 slaying of soldier Gabriel Infante.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column344.htm (943 words)

	Bonanno Crime Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He was a former underboss of Joe Bonanno who had spent the sixties in prison after being convicted of a major heroin conspiracy.
		Under Massino, who learned from the mistakes of the flamboyant Gotti, the Bonannos grew in stature and influence as they went about their business trying to attract as little attention as possible.
		Released in 1992, Massino was firmly in charge until January 2003 when he was indicted on racketeering charges that included the 1981 killing of Sonny Black Napolitano.
	www.mafiaguy.com /bonanno.htm (1275 words)

	LawFuel - The Law News Netowrk - Print Friendly Article
		Massino, 61, the reputed head of the Bonanno crime family, faces multiple charges - ranging from extortion to murder - that could put him in a prison cell for the rest of his life.
		Brasco, played by Johnny Depp on screen, was the name used by FBI agent Joe Pistone when he famously infiltrated the Bonanno family between 1976 and 1981, before he was finally withdrawn by the agency for his own safety when his true identity was suddenly revealed.
		It was during his six years in prison that Massino allegedly pondered the lessons learned from the slow assault on the Mafia by investigators.
	www.lawfuel.com /print-friendly-article.asp?ID=83890280 (1304 words)

	Guardian \| 'Last don' ends career on a low note
		Massino was charged with the 1999 killing of Gerlando "George" Sciascia, a "captain" in the Bonanno family, who have been involved in organised crime in the US since their founder, Joe "Bananas" Bonanno, worked for Al Capone as a bootlegger in the 1920s.
		Massino's final public exchange before he starts his prison sentence was brief.
		Massino, who once weighed nearly 400lbs (180kg) and ran a legitimate restaurant and property business, was seen as "the last don" because so many of his rivals had been jailed or sidelined.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5223970-110878,00.html (560 words)

	The Last Godfather: Joey Massino and the fall of the Bonnano Crime Family
		Massino’s wife of forty-two years, Josephine, a petite and stylish, titian-haired Sicilian, dressed in her pajamas and housecoat, could do little but watch stoically and tight-lipped as her spouse walked down the front way toward the government car.
		Massino knew from the tally of arrests in recent months that it was only a matter of time before someone from a circle of mobsters he had confided in over a four-decade career in La Cosa Nostra would weaken and deliver him to the government.
		Massino knew that law enforcement surveillance techniques had advanced so much that talking to anyone except in the most circumspect way was suicidal.
	www.americanmafia.com /The_Last_Godfather_Chapter_1.html (2421 words)

	GottiFBI's Agents Notes
		Joe Bonanno succeeded Maranzano as the family boss, and he was in power until 1964.
		Joe will likely have to pack his bags and could be sent up for the rest of his life.
		Joe DeFede is alleged to be the current acting boss of a Mafia family that continues its downward slide.
	www.agentsnotes.com /mafia.html (8060 words)

	The Mobster and the Failed Polygraph - July 13, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Joseph Massino used to hold one underworld record: The former Bonanno crime family big was the first full-fledged New York Mafia boss to become a federal informant.
		Massino's failure, Gang Land has learned, came after he initially sought to convince the FBI that Bonanno mobster Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano was out to murder a federal prosecutor.
		Massino, who began efforts to cooperate soon after he was convicted of seven murders in July, was pushing hard for a deal, and the feds figured that Massino was pressing the envelope in an effort to escape death penalty charges for an eighth mob hit, sources said.
	www.nysun.com /article/35973 (448 words)

	New York Daily News - Crime File - Dressed to kill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Massino shocked people on both sides of law enforcement when he flipped faster than a flapjack after his conviction in July 2004 of ordering seven gangland murders.
		But Massino, desperate to save his wife, daughters and elderly mother from eviction and destitution as a result of a crushing $10 forfeiture to the government, became the biggest rat in the history of New York's five families.
		Massino even donned a wire in prison to record conversations with Basciano, the gangster he had hand-picked to run the crime family in his absence.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/crime_file/story/392973p-333240c.html (768 words)

	Reputed Crime Boss Goes on Trial in N.Y.
		Massino, alleged head of the Bonannos since 1991, is an unlikely leading man. The stocky ex-convict keeps a low profile, embraces "omerta" - the code of silence - as more than a plot device, and avoids media scrutiny.
		With lawyers' questioning of potential jurors starting Monday, Massino faces a racketeering rap that could land him behind bars for the rest of his life.
		Massino also faces another federal trial, for a 1999 slaying, and if convicted for that he could receive the death penalty.
	business.mappibiz.com /mpelembe/Joe_Massino.html (654 words)

	Scrivener.net
		The flub irked Massino so much, the red-faced Vitale was told he could not be one of the shooters, he testified in Brooklyn federal court....
		In what could have been a comedy hit playing in a courtroom, Vitale said Massino and Dominic "Sonny Black" Napolitano had invited the three capos to a Brooklyn social club on May 5, 1981, for what they said was to be an "administration meeting."...
		Massino told Vitale the only option was to "burn the club down," the canary testified.
	www.scrivener.net /2004/06/good-help-is-hard-to-find-even-youre (416 words)

	Thirteen/WNET - Online Pressroom - Press Release
		Massino's reason was a bit different, but it was self-interest of the highest order.
		The final irony is that the only reason the remains of Big Trin and Philly Lucky were recovered is that Massino told the FBI that the remains of a totally innocent victim killed on John Gotti's orders were also buried there.
		A: It was important because it was the first time the feds had nailed a leader of the Bonanno family in two decades; his decision to become a turncoat was huge.
	www.thirteen.org /pressroom/release.php?get=1816 (573 words)

	Joe Massino Notches Another First
		Sure thing, said Massino, who was quickly hooked up to a machine, as FBI agents, federal prosecutors and prison officials devised possible plans to enable Massino to spend time alone with Basciano at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
		Massino’s efforts during another discussion four days later were also inconclusive, as Basciano uttered, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no,” when Massino expressed worry that he would be implicated in a murder plot because Vinny Gorgeous had told others about it.
		Meanwhile, Basciano, who was convicted of racketeering charges in May by a jury that deadlocked on the 2001 murder charge, awaits a re-trial for that slaying, and a follow-up trial for another mob hit and the murder plot against Andres.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column491.htm (1111 words)

	a capo rolls on a boss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joseph Massino is the Mafia chieftain of the Millennium.
		Massino, who wagered a paltry $400, $200, and $50 the last three times he was spotted in Atlantic City, doesn’t go there to gamble; he goes “to meet with his associates,” said one law enforcement source.
		Massino, 61, is on trial on racketeering charges in federal court in Brooklyn.
	dks.thing.net /Capo_rolls_on_a_boss.html (4937 words)

	Massino Tries To Pin Down Vinny Gorgeous - September 1, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Pressed to discuss the murder plot by turncoat mob boss Joseph Massino, who had been secretly wired by the feds, Basciano instead invoked a classic New York response: "Fuhgeddaboudit," the Bronx gangster/hair salon owner repeated over and over.
		On January 3, Massino reminded Basciano of a discussion they'd had in a holding pen at Brooklyn Federal Court on November 23, four days after Vinny Gorgeous was hit with racketeering charges and added to a case that was then pending against Massino.
		Andres, who was the lead prosecutor in an earlier case in which Massino was convicted of seven murders, was also the prosecutor in a second indictment that had suddenly included both Massino and Basciano.
	www.nysun.com /article/19492 (448 words)

	caporegime.page
		Joseph Notaro known as "Little Joe" was a Capo in the Bonanno Family from the 1930's until his death in 1970.
		He became a close friend and strong ally of Giuseppe "Joe" Aiello who led the small clan of Castellammarese in Chicago and was at odd's with Al Capone.
		Gaspar DiGregorio was the brother-in-law of Stefano Magaddino, the bestman at Joe Bonanno's 1932 wedding and was the Godfather of Bonanno's first born son, Salvatore "Bill" Bonanno.
	www.geocities.com /americanmafioso_bonanno/caporegime.html (2995 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 305
		Gotti has denied allegations he was "in the room with Vitale" and Massino when the murders were discussed.
		Massino straddled the fence to join forces with Vitale to help the feds convict Gotti.
		Massino earned the distinction of becoming the first Mafia boss in history to become a government rat.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_305.html (1020 words)

	USATODAY.com - Dramatic mob trials still fill the seats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The charges are based in part on secret recordings made by convicted Bonanno boss Joseph Massino, 66, in January 2005, when he and Basciano met in a detention center in New York City, court papers say.
		Basciano, awaiting trial, was unaware that Massino — who was awaiting sentencing for a racketeering conviction — had agreed to work for the FBI, Basciano's attorneys say in court papers.
		Transcripts of the tapes in court papers indicate that Basciano asked Massino, the family leader, for permission to "jocko" — Mob slang for kill — DeFilippo in a dispute over money and Basciano's leadership style.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-02-08-mob-trials_x.htm (1140 words)

	News
		Massino was charged in August with ordering the murder of reputed Bonanno capo Gerlando Sciascia, who was found shot to death in the Bronx in 1999.
		Joe Antinori’s uncle, Ignacio Antinori, alleged to be a Tampa mob boss, was gunned down in 1940.
		Joe Antinori said Trafficante’s son, Santo Trafficante Jr., was one of his childhood friends.
	www.geocities.com /scottyyz/news.html (9480 words)

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