10 years' imprisonment (1987) Life imprisonment (2005)
Joseph Charles Massino (January 10, 1943 – September 14, 2023) was an American mobster. He was a member of the Mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family from 1991 until 2004, when he became the first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence.
Massino was a protégé of Philip Rastelli, who took control of the Bonanno family in 1973. Rastelli spent most of his reign in and out of prison, but was able to get the assassination of Carmine Galante, a mobster vying for power, approved in 1979. Originally a truck hijacker, Massino secured his own power after arranging two 1981 gang murders, first a triple murder of three rebel captains, then his rival Dominick Napolitano. In 1991, while Massino was in prison for a 1986 labor racketeering conviction, Rastelli died and Massino succeeded him. Upon his release the following year, he set about rebuilding a family that had been in turmoil for almost a quarter of a century. By the dawn of the new millennium, he was reckoned as the most powerful Mafia leader in the nation. Massino became known as "The Last Don", the only full-fledged New York boss of his time who was not in prison.
In July 2004, Massino was convicted in a RICO case based on the testimony of several cooperating made men, including Massino's disgruntled underboss and brother-in-law Salvatore Vitale. He was also facing the death penalty if convicted in a separate murder trial due to be held later that year, but after agreeing to testify against his former associates, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for both indictments in 2005. Massino testified twice for the government, helping to win a murder conviction against his acting boss Vincent Basciano in 2011, and was resentenced to time served in 2013.
Joseph Charles Massino (January 10, 1943 – September 14, 2023) was an American mobster. He was a member of the Mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family...
until the 1990s for them to recover, a process overseen by new boss JosephMassino. Despite these issues, by the dawn of the new millennium, the Bonanno...
government and testify against his brother-in-law, boss JosephMassino, and in July 2004, Massino was convicted in a RICO case. Vitale had admitted to 11...
Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero and Joseph "Big Joey" Massino in the mid 1970s. Santora became involved with the Bonanno family...
became acting boss of the Bonanno crime family after the arrest of JosephMassino. Basciano was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility...
"Sonny Black". He was a close friend of future Bonanno crime family boss JosephMassino; incarcerated boss Philip Rastelli knew Napolitano before he went to...
Brooklyn. Rizzuto came from Montreal with two Sicilian hitmen to join JosephMassino, Salvatore Vitale, and Sciascia. Sciascia escorted the three rebellious...
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Gotti befriended fellow mob hijacker and future Bonanno family boss JosephMassino, and he was given the nicknames "Black John" and "Crazy Horse". It was...
inquiry into the murder of Joe Gallo, but was released on $15,000 bail. JosephMassino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another...
Sicilian-American gangster in the Bonanno crime family who was a close friend of JosephMassino and Frank Lino and made large sums of money in stock fraud schemes....
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boss in November 2004, after Basciano was imprisoned. In May 2005, JosephMassino implicated Mancuso in the 1999 murder of Gerlando Sciascia. In early...
Salvatore had a sitdown with Bonanno crime family members Steven Cannone, JosephMassino, Salvatore Vitale over King Caterers. It was decided that Avellino would...
Canadian mobster to help Massino. Massino told the men to avoid shooting so that bullets wouldn't spray around the room. Massino also brought drop cloths...
killed them. Former Bonanno family underboss Sal Vitale said that he and JosephMassino had a conversation with John Gotti Jr. who told them, "we took care...
the Godfathers: JosephMassino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family by Anthony DeStefano. [1] King of the Godfathers: JosephMassino and the Fall of...
After the Galante murder, a fight for control of the family started. JosephMassino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another...
intersection of North 5th and Roebling streets in Brooklyn. One gunman, Antonio Massino, was arrested near the scene but another, Detroit mobster Giuseppe Buccellato...
Carmine Galante in 1979, a fight for control of the family started. JosephMassino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another...
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Bonanno family. One faction included capos Dominick Napolitano and JosephMassino, who were loyal to Rastelli. The second faction, which included Indelicato's...
Gotti's neighbors in Howard Beach was JosephMassino, underboss of the Bonanno crime family. Gotti and Massino had a longstanding friendship dating back...
and the "Black" Team led by Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano and JosephMassino. The day before Giaccone, Trinchera and Indelicato were to be ambushed...
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