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Benedetto Capizzi, who was floated as a possible new capo di capi of the Sicilian Mafia in the mid-2000s following the arrest of Bernardo Provenzano (a position that de facto eventually went to the current ailing Matteo Messina Denaro), dead at 79. He'd been imprisoned since 2010 for, among other things, his role in the kidnapping, murder and disintegration in acid of 12-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo, son of a mob informant.

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On 12/09/2023 at 14:45, max_bossetti said:

Matteo Messina Denaro.... improving????

 

I'm seriously starting to doubt everything about this motherfucker.

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On 01/09/2023 at 09:19, arghton said:

Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo aka. Don Neto and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo were some of the largest Mexican drug lords in the 70s, 80s. Fonseca Carrillo (who was last mentioned around a decade ago here) was suffering from cancer in the 2000s, is now around 93 or possibly "only" 81 (according to the DEA) and has been in house arrest since 2016 "because of old age and declining health". Felix Gallardo is (or claims he is) suffering from every known ailment as mentioned by gcreptile some months ago.

"El Narco de Narcos" Rafael Caro Quintero, Mexican major cartel boss, former FBI Ten Most Wanted lister and close associate of drug lords Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, hospitalised for surgery and treatment of a prostate ailment he's suffered from for a while

 

I think it's quite a miracle Quintero, Carrillo and Gallardo are all three still alive at 70, 93 and 77 and all (especially Carrillo and Gallardo) have been quite ill for a while.

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Matteo Messina Denaro dead.

 

Completely overshadowed as he probably deserves.

 

EDIT: it's Repubblica but I think it is premature.

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1 minute ago, drol said:

Matteo Messina Denaro dead.

 

Completely overshadowed as he probably deserves.

Link not working, but they probably just jumped the gun by a few hours and retracted (?).

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He is in irreversible coma according to official sources.

 

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On 22/09/2023 at 20:57, drol said:

He is in irreversible coma according to official sources.

 

:pop:

Messina Denaro d.... improving ?!

 

Still in a coma, but his vitals are "much better".

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On 05/09/2022 at 14:28, arghton said:

Mentioning a few remaining Mafia bosses, cpts, caporegimes, etc born in the 1920s here...interesting stories, not sure if all of these are still alive and the list is incomplete.

 

Lawrence Dentico (1923-?) Quiet Dom's predecessor as the Consigliere of the Genovese Crime Family. Said to be alive in 2021 but no actual proof exists.

Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco (1924-?) Powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia, international fugitive since 1963. Was alive in 2001, could've died since.

Pasquale Conte (1925-2014 or 2017 off the radar) Former Gambino family caporegime. Likely died 2014.

Luigi Manocchio (1927) Boss of the Patriarca Crime Family 1996-2009. Old school mafia boss with a criminal record dating back to the 1940s.

George McLaughlin (1927-2022) Irish-born US Charlestown Mob member. Alive? Only has an Italian wiki and according to it he's still in jail.

Gaetano "Corky" Vastola (1928) Captain for DeCavalcante crime family in New Jersey, first arrest was in 1946. Also worked as a concert promoter for Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. John Gotti didn't succeed in murdering him.

Louis "Bracciole" Ricco (1929-2019?) Gambino caporegime, excluded from the casinos of Atlantic City. Suffers from diabetes and hypertension and other ailments.

Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (1929) Briefly the Genovese crime family acting boss when Chin Gigante was imprisoned. Boxer, wrestler in the 1940s. Allegedly ordered the murder of his son on Mother's Day 2004. Currently a consigliere, advisor to the boss. Or possibly retired. Seems to be very frail now.

Thomas Gambino (1929) Gambino caporegime, son of Don Carlo Gambino. Portrayed by the late John Sirico in 1998 TV Film Witness to the Mob.

Louis "Bobby" Manna (1929) Genovese crime family consigliere. Involved in a lot of murder plots, unfortunately for him the FBI recorded his conversations. Currently incarcerated at Federal Medical Center, Rochester, meaning that he might be a goner soon.

Thomas Gambino being reported dead on Twitter and currently dead on Wiki.

 

However, I can find no corroborating links at present.

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16 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Thomas Gambino being reported dead on Twitter and currently dead on Wiki.

  

However, I can find no corroborating links at present.

 

Not a QO but this seems pretty conclusive that he's dead. Does anyone know if Carlo Gambino Jr, who I don't think followed his father into the family business, is still alive, or is that it for Carlo Sr's offspring?

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On 05/09/2022 at 14:28, arghton said:

Mentioning a few remaining Mafia bosses, cpts, caporegimes, etc born in the 1920s here...interesting stories, not sure if all of these are still alive and the list is incomplete.

 

Lawrence Dentico (1923-?) Quiet Dom's predecessor as the Consigliere of the Genovese Crime Family. Said to be alive in 2021 but no actual proof exists.

Salvatore "The Engineer" Greco (1924-?) Powerful member of the Sicilian Mafia, international fugitive since 1963. Was alive in 2001, could've died since.

Pasquale Conte (1925-2014 or 2017 off the radar) Former Gambino family caporegime. Likely died 2014.

Luigi Manocchio (1927) Boss of the Patriarca Crime Family 1996-2009. Old school mafia boss with a criminal record dating back to the 1940s.

George McLaughlin (1927-2022) Irish-born US Charlestown Mob member. Alive? Only has an Italian wiki and according to it he's still in jail.

Gaetano "Corky" Vastola (1928) Captain for DeCavalcante crime family in New Jersey, first arrest was in 1946. Also worked as a concert promoter for Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. John Gotti didn't succeed in murdering him.

Louis "Bracciole" Ricco (1929-2019?) Gambino caporegime, excluded from the casinos of Atlantic City. Suffers from diabetes and hypertension and other ailments.

Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (1929) Briefly the Genovese crime family acting boss when Chin Gigante was imprisoned. Boxer, wrestler in the 1940s. Allegedly ordered the murder of his son on Mother's Day 2004. Currently a consigliere, advisor to the boss. Or possibly retired. Seems to be very frail now.

Thomas Gambino (1929) Gambino caporegime, son of Don Carlo Gambino. Portrayed by the late John Sirico in 1998 TV Film Witness to the Mob.

Louis "Bobby" Manna (1929) Genovese crime family consigliere. Involved in a lot of murder plots, unfortunately for him the FBI recorded his conversations. Currently incarcerated at Federal Medical Center, Rochester, meaning that he might be a goner soon.


An update of sorts for the two oldest names on your list – the person claiming to be Dentico's son is still trying to edit his father's Wiki page to say he died on March 28, 2018. As for "The Engineer", he appears on the family trees section of Ancestry. Died in 2003 in São Paulo, Brazil.

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On 06/09/2022 at 12:22, arghton said:

Bracciole Ricco is an ill man according to facebook posts, suffering from atleast diabetes and hypertension.

Edit: Actually Bracciole already died in 2019.

I had him in my DDP team this year. Is it "List of the Lost" material?

 

Messina Denaro was my substitute in that team <_<

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1 hour ago, Sideik said:

I had him in my DDP team this year. Is it "List of the Lost" material?

 

Yes, any picks who died the previous year but aren't uncovered until after we're up and running get added to the LotL.

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On 17/02/2021 at 23:58, Spade_Cooley said:

Raffaele "The Monk" Cutolo, founder of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata, Naples' most important gangster for a while in the late 1970s, jailed continuously (other than 18 months on the run) since 1963, the man who freed the politician Ciro Cirillo from Red Brigade kidnapping and the subject of Fabrizio De Andre's "Don Raffae", dead at 79.

 

 

 

His older sister Rosetta Cutolo (Wikidead at 86

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So, summat I never knew. Found this in a book called Lies, Damned Lies and History. The author clearly isn't over all the details. For the benefit of anyone not interested in the psycho gang wars of London in the 60's, Mad Frankie was the effective enforcer for the Richardson gang, enemies of the Krays and generally working a separate patch so's the potential all out war was kept in check. But during WW2 Frankie was very much an apprentice criminal and spent time banged up in the same cell as Ivor Novello. There's one-act TV gold in that pairing, surely.

 

 

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On 10/07/2022 at 23:56, alt obits guy said:

Maurice 'Mom' Boucher, a former Hell's Angels boss and one of the most notorious gangsters in Quebec's history, has died. He was 69. Boucher was serving a life sentence. He died of cancer.

 

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/former-quebec-hells-angels-boss-maurice-boucher-has-died-at-69-1.5981830


His protégé/lieutenant Gregory Woolley has passed away peacefully in his sleep.

 

Nah, shot dead. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7031620

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4 minutes ago, Summer in Transylvania said:

Dawood Ibrahim, notorious Indian Drug Lord, hospitalised after a suspected poisoning.

Would be the third Indian public enemy to be poisoned in recent months (I don't remember who the other two were), yet none of them died, so I'm quite doubtful about this.

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5 hours ago, Summer in Transylvania said:

Dawood Ibrahim, notorious Indian Drug Lord, hospitalised after a suspected poisoning.

Fake news.

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On 05/09/2022 at 15:28, arghton said:

Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (1929) Briefly the Genovese crime family acting boss when Chin Gigante was imprisoned. Boxer, wrestler in the 1940s. Allegedly ordered the murder of his son on Mother's Day 2004. Currently a consigliere, advisor to the boss. Or possibly retired. Seems to be very frail now

 

Dominick Cirillo (Wikidead at 94

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