Police snap photos at Montreal mob boss's funeral

alleged Mafia boss,Salvatore Montagna New York's notorious Bonanno crime family, --Police took photos of funeral-goers as about 70 people attended the service for reputed Montreal mafia boss Salvatore Montagna on Monday

Vinny Gorgeous Basciano guilty of mob murder

The jury of seven men and five women will return Monday to decide whether Basciano should die by lethal injection or get life in prison for ordering the murder of mob associate Randolph Pizzolo.

Basciano turned his chair to face Judge Nicholas Garaufis, not the jury forewoman, as she read the verdict on the fourth day of deliberations in Brooklyn Federal Court.

He showed no reaction and later stood as the jury filed out of the courtroom, took a deep breath and sighed.

I think we're all disappointed," defense lawyer Richard Jasper said outside court.

Basciano, 51, is already serving a life sentence for the shotgun murder of Bronx junkie Frank Santoro in 2001.

The flamboyant gangster was buried under the weight of testimony from six cooperating witnesses, including another former Bonanno boss, Joseph Massino, the highest-ranking New York gangster to sing for the government.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Taryn Merkl and Stephen Frank told jurors Basciano's big mouth proved he was a murderer.

Basciano - who was in jail when Pizzolo was executed Nov. 30, 2004, on a deserted street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn - told Massino in a taped jailhouse conversation he gave the order to kill Pizzolo.

"His own words are on tape telling you the murder was his idea, he selected the hit team and explaining why it had to be done," Frank said in closing arguments.

Pizzolo had committed numerous mob indiscretions and the hit was meant to send a "wakeup call" to the rest of the Bonanno crime family, already reeling from the defections of several high-ranking gangsters.

"Even though justice has been served, there isn't anything that can or will replace the lifetime sentence of emotional void my family and I serve, without my dad," Pizzolo's daughter Connie told the Daily News.

"If capital punishment is what is next for Vinny, then my

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Mob Boss Ordered Son Whacked On Mother's Day

The FBI is again pursuing the 2004 disappearance of Genovese boss Dominick Cirillo's son, Nicholas, after ex-Bonanno boss Joseph Massino testified that Cirillo ordered his drug-addicted son killed...on Mother's Day, of all days! One source said Nicholas was high on crack during a fight just before his disappearance: "There was concern the kid [Nicholas] was out of control and he was going to cause problems for the [Genovese] family."

Nicholas disappeared on Mother's Day 2004, two weeks after getting into an altercation with Bonanno family associates Vincent Jr. Basciano and Dominick Cicale in the Bronx. His body was never found, and now it's believed that "Quiet Dom" ordered him killed after a tape implicating him was played during Joseph Massino's trial. According to the News:

That came from Dom," Bonanno acting boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basicano Sr. told Massino in a secretly taped 2005 jailhouse chat.
"Did we have anything to do with that?" asked Massino, waving his hand like it was a gun.

"Absolutely not," Basciano replied.


It's thought that the altercation in the Bronx led to the hit, given that attacking a "made man" carries the penalty of death. Cirillo is on supervised release for a racketeering conviction, and when daughter Ann Marie Caggiano was asked about the possible hit, she replied, "I really don't want to talk about that

JOSEPH MASSINO--Bonanno crime family

--Massino became the first sitting boss in Mafia history to turn informant. The longtime head of the Bonnano family, Massino was notoriously security conscious, instructing his subordinates to refer to him merely by tugging on their earlobe.
Things started to go bad for Joe when his brother-in-law and underboss, Salvatore “Good Looking Sal” Vitale, testified against him. Shortly after his 2004 conviction on racketeering charges that would have put him in prison for life, Massino decided to become an informant. He taped his underlings in prison threatening to kill a prosecutor.Read more:

Mobster Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano is threatening to play lawyer at his own death penalty murder trial - possibly cross-

Louis Tuzzio, Bonanno Crime Family

Bonnano crime family associate, Louis Tuzzio, lies slumped in the driver's seat of his Chevrolet Camero. He was murdered by the Bonanno family on January 3,

Bonanno Crime Family associate Louis Tuzzio, set out to suck up to his boss by whacking mobster Gus Farace -- a Prince's Bay gangster hunted by all five New York crime families and federal investigators for killing federal drug enforcement agent Everett Hatcher in Charleston during an undercover drug buy. But Tuzzio and his cohorts made the grave mistake of wounding the son of a Gambino soldier in the process.

Bonanno crime family, Carmine Galante Hit

Carmine "Lilo" Galante, a capo in the Bonanno family shown with a cigar in his mouth, was murdered in the backyard garden of Joe & Mary's Restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn on July 12, 1979. The hit was orchestrated by rival Philip "Rusty" Rastelli. Galente had been fighting for the top spot in the Crime Family