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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.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

Also a unique pick for Going Underground in the DDP. 

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Robert Gentile, a reputed mobster and the last surviving person of interest in the $500 million Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist in 1990, has died. He was 85. The Boston museum art theft remains unsolved more than 30 years after it took place.

 

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/last-surviving-person-of-interest-in-gardner-museum-heist-dies/2499018/

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Frank LoCascio, a former Gambino underboss, has died in prison. He was 89. He was found guilty of racketeering in 1992. He was quoted at the time as saying, “If there was more men like John Gotti, we would have a better country.”

 

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-gambino-underboss-frank-locascio-john-gotti-dead-20211005-2fddomao3fdfhnv2xsskbudb6m-story.html

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Assunta "Pupetta" Maresca, beauty queen-turned-Camorra figure, dead at 86. Made international headlines in the 1950s when she murdered the man who killed her husband, Camorra don Pasquale Simonetti.

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On 30/12/2021 at 09:56, Spade_Cooley said:

Assunta "Pupetta" Maresca, beauty queen-turned-Camorra figure, dead at 86. Made international headlines in the 1950s when she murdered the man who killed her husband, Camorra don Pasquale Simonetti.

Times Obit for Pupetta Maresca

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Journo on Twitter reporting the death of Philadelphia mob boss Ralph Natale (wiki), aged 87. Supposedly the first mob boss to become an informant.

 

 

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Bruce Galea, an Australian underworld figure reputed to have been the country's biggest illegal gambler at one time and accused of paying off police to look the other way regarding his illegal casinos, has died.

 

https://www.smh.com.au/national/underworld-figure-and-one-time-biggest-illegal-gaming-operator-in-nsw-dies-20220126-p59rgj.html

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Former mob enforcer who, after being convicted for murder, went on to become an author and podcaster Jerry Tillinghast has died aged 75

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Mario Gigante (wiki), New York mobster and member of the Genovese crime family, dead at 98. Brother of the far more notable Vincent "The Chin" Gigante (wiki, 1928–2005).

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To my knowledge, he was the oldest notable member of any of the U.S. crime families.

Only one of the Gigante brothers left alive – Louis Gigante (wiki), who was a Catholic priest and stayed out of organised crime but is alleged to have sexually abused young boys. I can't find an age for him anywhere.

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Mario Gigante is what happens after he gets one of those mushrooms, I think?

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His wiki page reports his name as "Mario Esposito Vulgo Gigante". Actually "vulgo" in Italian means "known as", so it should sound as "Mario Esposito" known as "Giant", where "Giant" must be the family's "nickname".

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6 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Mario Gigante (wiki), New York mobster and member of the Genovese crime family, dead at 98. Brother of the far more notable Vincent "The Chin" Gigante (wiki, 1928–2005).

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To my knowledge, he was the oldest notable member of any of the U.S. crime families.

Only one of the Gigante brothers left alive – Louis Gigante (wiki), who was a Catholic priest and stayed out of organised crime but is alleged to have sexually abused young boys. I can't find an age for him anywhere.

He was 85 in 2017, so he will be 90 this year.

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Kenichi Shinoda, the longtime boss of Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi and a "supreme godfather/kingpin" in the country is still alive at 80. Seems to have been very quiet during recent years.

 

I'm also suprised that Russia's capo dei capi, putin crony Semion Mogilevich is still alive at 75. He's never looked like the picture of health

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While not a mobster himself (he’s a dentist), he is the brother of two mobsters and gives us a chance to re-read the story of their demise.

 

One of Chicago's most notable names has died. Patrick Spilotro, who was known as Dr. Pat and the "Stand-up Spilotro," died at age 85 at the end of April, his family said.
Patrick was the older brother to a pair of Chicago mobsters who met a merciless death in an Indiana cornfield decades ago.

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Raffaele Ganci, once Salvatore Riina's right-hand man, dead at 89 or 90. Ganci was involved in the killings of multiple antimafia magistrates including Paolo Borsellino, killed with a car bomb in 1992. 

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Cosimo Di Lauro, aka "o' Chiatto" ("Fat Boy"), dead at 48. Leading camorrista, but perhaps best known outside of Italy for being the inspiration for the character of Genny in Gomorrah.

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