Massino had to forfeit his mountain of bloody loot in the wake of his conviction - including $7 million in cash and the more than 250 bars of solid gold that he stashed in the Howard Beach, Queens, home where he lived with his wife and three daughters. APīrasco’s infiltration became the subject of the hit 1997 film “Donnie Brasco,” starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. 14 at a New York City area rehab facility, sources said. Former Bonanno crime family boss Joseph “Big Joey” Massino died on Sept. Pistone, who used the name Donnie Brasco, in the 1980s. He had been handed a life sentence over the bloodshed, which included the slayings of three rival mob captains and the execution of a mobster who had vouched for FBI undercover agent Joseph D. Massino broke the sacred vow of silence and began talking with the feds immediately after he was convicted in 2004 for orchestrating a quarter-century’s worth of murder, racketeering and a slew of other crimes as he rose through the ranks of the vicious family. The ex-mob boss, who sent shockwaves through the organized crime world when he became a federal witness nearly two decades ago, had been battling a number of health conditions, including diabetes and obesity, in the lead-up to his death, the sources said. 14, sources close to his family told Newsday. Massino, who ran the Bonanno family with an iron fist from 1991 to 2003, died at a rehab facility in the New York City area on Sept. Son didn’t put out mob hit on dad - it was the Bronx mafia underground lawyer claims as trial nears closeįormer Bonanno crime family boss Joseph “Big Joey” Massino - the first head of one of New York’s five mob families to ever turn rat - died earlier this month after battling a short illness, it was revealed Friday. Mobster’s son guilty of orchestrating dad’s McD’s murder goes pale, wife bursts into tears in courtroom scene NYC mob boss nicknamed ‘The Nose’ heading back to prison thanks partly to chat about pasta ‘gravy’ with another alleged wiseguy Mobster once busted in $6M JFK Lufthansa heist dead at 86
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