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	Sonny Red Indelicato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sonny Red Indelicato wanted to take over as boss but others in the Family disagreed and wanted former boss Phillip Rastelli (who was then in prison) to take charge.
		On May 5, 1981, Sonny Red Indelicato and two of his associates, Philip Giaccone and Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera, were shot to death in an ambush in a Brooklyn social club.
		Benjamin Ruggiero, Sonny Black and John "Boobie" Cerasni were sent in after to clean up the massacre and dispose of the bodies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Red_Indelicato (486 words)

	Bonanno crime family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two of the men involved in the murder of the three rogue Bonanno men were Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero and his capo Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano.
		He had become friendly with a man calling himself Donnie Brasco and had proposed him as a full member of the family, but unbeknownst to Napolitano, Brasco was in fact undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone.
		Napolitano faced a worse fate - on August 17, 1981, he was shot in the basement of Ron Filocomo's house by Filocomo and Frank "Curly" Lino.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonanno_crime_family (1428 words)

	The Free Information Society - Dominick Napolitano Biography
		The primary purpose of the move was to establish trust between Pistone and Napolitano, therefore it was arranged by the FBI.
		The revelation spread through the family and Napolitano was sentenced to death by the family for allowing the breach of security.
		Napolitano refused to become a witness for the FBI and accepted his looming fate.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=587 (570 words)

	UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BENJAMIN RUGGIERO, NICHOLAS SANTORA, ANTHONY RABITO, and ANTONIO ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Napolitano operated his crew from a social club on Graham Avenue in Brooklyn, called the Motion Lounge, where Pistone on several visits met various members of Napolitano's crew, including codefendants Santora, Cerasani, and Tomasulo.
		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.
		Napolitano introduced Tomasulo [**11] to agent Pistone as his partner in the numbers operation.
	www.thelaborers.net /court_cases/us_v_ruggiero_726_f2d-913.htm (8471 words)

	Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signs sweeping immigration law
		Janet Napolitano knows how to reposition herself when she might be on the losing side of a hot-button issue.
		Napolitano’s decision wasn’t a huge surprise, as she shares our belief Senate Bill 1157 is an empty political gesture that would solve nothing.
		On Monday, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed into law a measure that, in part, calls for the state to enter into a contract with the federal government for local police to undergo training in enforcing federal immigration policy.
	www.gwinnettdailyonline.com /GDP/archive/article591A24D6E5C94AB3A18D37BFCB6FC6FF.asp (1064 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Witness describes killing Brasco mentor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On Wednesday, Lino, 66, became the first made member of the Bonanno family to testify against a former comrade, describing how Napolitano was invited to a "meeting" at a mobster's Staten Island home after the family learned that the man they knew as Brasco was in fact an undercover agent.
		Under questioning from lead prosecutor Greg Andres, Lino said he was asked by Massino to pick up Napolitano at a steakhouse in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and take him to a single-family home on Staten Island, where a table and chairs had been set up in the basement.
		Napolitano was walking down the basement steps with Lino behind him when a mobster accompanying them slammed the door to trap Napolitano in the house, Lino testified.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/05/27/witness_describes_killing_brasco_mentor (515 words)

	Is It Really Sonny Black's Body?
		The 22-year-old murder of Sonny Black is the centerpiece of the government’s case against Massino.
		For all intents and purposes, though, the lynchpin of the case is Napolitano’s slaying.
		The victim, however, according to the official autopsy report, was killed by a single shot to the back of the head that created a half inch circular hole, which is much more likely to have been created by a.45 caliber bullet than a.38 caliber slug, according to ballistics experts.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column340.htm (1252 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - BENJAMIN "LEFTY GUNS" RUGGIERO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sonny Black's crew was supporting Rastelli along with Capo's: Joey Massino, Sally Farrugia and consigliere Steve Cannone.
		After a few moments the agents left leaving Lefty and Sonny Black stunned as they were trying to look for 'Candid Camera', at first they didn't believe it, they thought it was a trick to cause tension in a finally peacefull Family.
		Soon after Sonny Black was missing, the F.B.I. knew that dead wiseguy's weren't of much use during a trial and so on August 30 1981, they snatched Lefty from the street and arrested him while he was coming out of his appartment.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /Lefty.html (1389 words)

	By David Edelstein
		Sonny and Pistone even enjoyed a kind of domestic life together--Joe would spend the night at Sonny's Brooklyn apartment and help take care of his beloved racing pigeons.
		In the film, however, Sonny comes off as an intensely dislikable employer and Lefty, as a simpatico underdog.
		In fact, it was "Sonny Black," not Lefty, who got "whacked" for his connection to Pistone--his body was eventually discovered in Staten Island, N.Y., both his hands missing.
	www.slate.com /id/3210/sidebar/51527 (1523 words)

	The Bonanno Family
		Two of his top aides were Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano and Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero.
		Napolitano disappeared after it was found that Brasco was an agent.
		Ruggiero was put in jail and died of lung cancer about two years after his release from prison in 1992.
	www.carvelli.com /noFlash/bonanno-family.html (379 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - JOE MASSINO
		The Family now had to select a new boss this was what cut the Family in half with 2 factions: 1 faction supported proposed new boss Philip "Rusty" Rastelli (picture on the left) and the other faction was against Rastelli as new boss.
		All was well until the F.B.I. paid Sonny Black a visit, they had a message for the Family, for 6 years they've had an undercover F.B.I. agent within their ranks.
		Sonny Black, blamed for bringing Donnie Brasco to close to the family, was found shot to death with his hands cut off.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /JoeMassino.html (1516 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Bonanno Crime Boss Convicted on All Counts
		Among the killings Massino was convicted of was the slaying of Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, who unwittingly introduced "Brasco" to the Bonannos.
		A turncoat witness said Napolitano was thrown down a flight of steps into a basement and shot to death as he begged for his former friends to finish him with a final bullet.
		FBI agent Joe Pistone, posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco, was embraced by the Bonanno hierarchy from 1976 to 1981, and what the agent learned led to more than 120 convictions and the near-collapse of the crime family.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A28646-2004Jul30?language=printer (413 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The FBI's Veiled Threat
		Sonny Black and Lefty, informed by the FBI that Donnie Brasco was a fake, refused to believe it.
		Indeed, Sonny Black's body washed up on Staten Island 10 days after Pistone began testifying in his first major racketeering trial in New York; the corpse was missing its hands.
		Lefty Ruggiero was arrested before he could be killed and was in the courtroom shaking his head at "Donnie." Ruggiero served roughly 10 years in several federal prisons and died of cancer about two years after his release.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/fdonniebrasco.htm (1538 words)

	USATODAY.com - Alleged Bonanno boss indicted in N.Y. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The murders included the previously unsolved slaying of Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano in the Brasco case.
		The Bonannos blamed Napolitano for unwittingly befriending undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone and introducing him into the family in the late 1970s.
		His body was found a year later in a swamp on Staten Island with a gunshot wound to the head.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-01-09-bonnano-mob-indictment_x.htm (524 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - Testimony of Joseph D. Pistone
		Sonny Black told me that from his bookmaking operation, he was making an average of $70,000 per week.
		Bruno Indelicato was one of the shooters in the Carmine Galante killing, and his father was Sonny Red, who was one of the captains that Napolitano had killed, and he had escaped getting killed by not going to the meeting.
		Napolitano had a son that was a thief, Ruggiero had a son that was a thief.
	www.americanmafia.com /Pistone_Testimony.html (7064 words)

	La Mafiosi
		Two of Rastelli's top men were Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano and Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero.
		They were portrayed in the movie, Donnie Brasco, which was based on the true story of undercover F.B.I. agent, Joe Pistone ("Donnie Brasco".) Crimes committed by "Sonny Black" and "Lefty Guns" were exposed.
		During the early 1970's, Joseph Colombo, head of the Profaci family, began bringing unwanted national attention to the mob and those associated with it, by starting the Italian American Civil Rights League (IACRL).
	da_wizeguy.tripod.com /omerta/id1.html (1681 words)

	NEWS - US NATIONAL - Comcast.net
		He also ruthlessly eliminated rivals, including Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, who introduced Brasco to the Massinos.
		Napolitano was shot to death and his hands chopped off to discourage other mobsters from shaking hands with informants.
		Judge Nicholas Garaufis said that the government's investigation of the Bonannos, which has led to 51 convictions over the last three years, revealed the brutality behind fictionalized depictions of Mafia life.
	www.comcast.net /news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC&fn=/2005/06/23/162967.html (401 words)

	Joe Bonanno: A Man of Honor. The crime family Epic - The Crime library
		The shooters left the building immediately, and a second team led by Bonanno capo Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano arrived to supervise the cleanup crew.
		The family's fortunes sank even lower when it was revealed that FBI Special Agent Joseph Pistone had infiltrated their ranks so deeply, he had actually been proposed for full membership.
		Working undercover as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," Pistone was taken under the wing of soldier Benjamin "Lefty Guns" Ruggiero who was part of capo "Sonny Black" Napolitano's crew.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/bonanno/5.html (948 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."...
		Less than three weeks later, Indelicato's body was discovered when an arm mysteriously popped out of a shallow grave in Queens, causing a rift between Napolitano and Massino, whose crew was in charge of disposing of the body...
	www.scrivener.net /blogarchive/2004_06_01_blogarchive.html (484 words)

	The Mob: Reality and TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the last reputed Dons of the Bonanno crime family, Joseph Massino, is on trial for seven murders, loan sharking, arson, illegal gambling, money laundering, and conspiracy.
		Because one of the murders he’s accused of ordering is of Dominick “Sonny Black” Napolitano, the trial is being dubbed “Donnie Brasco II.” In the original film, starring Johnny Depp as FBI undercover agent Joseph Pistone, who infiltrated the Bonanno family, Sonny Black helped bring Brasco into the mob.
		Sonny was shot once by Lino Sr., whose gun then jammed.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/06/09&ID=Ar00300 (854 words)

	Joseph D. Pistone - Donnie Brasco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the early 1990's, he was released from prison, and on Thanksgiving Day, 1995, at age 72, he died of cancer in his New York home.
		On August 12, 1982, Sonny Black's body was discovered in a hospital body bag in a creek near South Avenue close to the Geothals Toll Bridge that connects Staten Island to Linden, New Jersey.
		According to a source of Court TV's Crime Library, it is said that before leaving his crew for certain death, Sonny Black removed his jewelry and gave it to them.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/donniebrasco.php (875 words)

	Tampabay: The Pasco County Mafia, as seen on TV
		Ruggiero brought in Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, a Bonanno captain.
		Sonny Black met with Trafficante at Pappas' Restaurant in Tarpon Springs, then reported "the doors are now open" to do business in Florida.
		Sonny Black was found in a New York drainage ditch, his hands cut off.
	www.sptimes.com /News/041000/TampaBay/The_Pasco_County_Mafi.shtml (644 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Movie mobsters face the music
		Using the name Donnie Brasco, he befriended one of the top captains, Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, and became so trusted that the other wiseguys introduced him to their wives and children and shared details of serious crimes they had perpetrated.
		Not long after his cover was blown, Napolitano was murdered.
		His body, with a gunshot wound to the head, was recovered from a swamp in Staten Island a year later.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3554111.stm (1116 words)

	Last of N.Y. Mafia dons convicted \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Witnesses for the first time described the killing of Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, who introduced mob wannabe Brasco to the Bonannos.
		Napolitano was quickly dispatched on Massino's orders, with his hands chopped off to discourage other mobsters from letting turncoats shake hands.
		The Brasco saga later became the subject of a movie, "Donnie Brasco," starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040731/news_1n31mafia.html (286 words)

	Massino Case Looking Like Donnie Brasco II
		Remarkably, despite the defection of six Bonanno wiseguys in recent months, the only substantial charges the feds have lodged against Massino, who has been family boss for more than a decade, are these two mob hits — both of which took place more than 20 years ago.
		alleged that Napolitano and Mirra were whacked, at least in part, as retribution for allowing Pistone (right) to infiltrate the Bonanno family from 1976 through 1981.
		Pistone insisted the dope deals were concocted by an undercover police officer as part of their cover.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column333.htm (1328 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - 'Last Don' gets life in prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Once tipping the scales at 400 pounds, he reigned from his Queens restaurant, CasaBlanca, where he instructed his underlings to foil wiretaps by tugging their ears instead of referring to him by name.
		Garaufis said that the government's investigation of the Bonannos, which has led to 51 convictions over the last three years, revealed the brutality behind fictionalized depictions of Mafia life.
		Giaccone's and Trinchera's remains were dug up from a vacant lot in Queens last year by FBI agents who had been receiving information from Massino.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/321727p-275083c.html (864 words)

	The Spokesman-Review.com
		Sonny was marked for death once Pistone's true identity became known, and he knew it.
		Stand-up to the end, Napolitano never flinched when summoned to the meeting that was undoubtedly his last.
		He stopped for a drink with a bartender friend, surrendered some personal effects and was never seen again.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /allstories-news-story.asp?date=051204&ID=s1519156 (871 words)

	New Criminologist (Print version): The FBI publish how two accountants brought down Josesph Massino the Bonanno crime ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Massino’s former best friend and underboss Salvatore Vitale testified against him at his 2004 trial, claiming that his family had been neglected by Massino when he was in prison.
		Massino was charged with ordering the murder of Sonny Black Napolitano, who had introduced him to undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco.
		Napolitano was found with his hands cut off, which prosecutors claimed was so nobody else would let a traitor shake hands with a made man. Massino was scheduled to go on trial for the second time for a separate murder trial, which he was also expected to lose.
	www.newcriminologist.co.uk /print.asp?id=1514355636 (482 words)

	Mob Scene DVD Set -- Discovery Channel Store -- 702324 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the fall of 1982, a body bag is discovered in a creek near Staten Island.
		Inside is the body of legendary New York capo Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano – former friend and informant to undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco.
		Take an intimate look at the unlikely (and unlucky) relationship between Sonny Black and Donnie Brasco, as well as the decades-long mystery behind Black's disappearance.
	shopping.discovery.com /stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10000&storeId=10000&langId=-1&productId=55668&partnumber=702324&gs=1&gs=1 (413 words)

	Bonanno Family
		The Family continued to be in turmoil until the shotgunning of three more capos ended the disputes.
		Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano came out on top, however he had let undercover F.B.I. agent Joe Pistone get close to him.
		Due to this situation, Napolitano was killed on Commission orders.
	mafiasite.8m.com /bonanno.htm (527 words)

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