Arnold Squitieri

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Arnold Squitieri (born February 2, 1936 in Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey ) is a high-ranking mobster of the Gambino family , a clan of the US Mafia and was convicted of drug trafficking .

He was also known in gangster circles by his nicknames Zeke , Bozey and Sylvester .

Chief or Underboss

After he was released from prison in 1999, some saw him as the head of the “Gambino family”, who had been replaced in 2005 by John D'Amico , who had also served his sentence. According to the FBI, he was the “acting boss” ( underboss ) of the family after Peter Gotti's arrest in 2002 , until he was arrested in 2005 and convicted in 2006.

biography

On August 18, 1970, Squitieri fired five shots at 1st avenue / 117h. Street turned to fashion designer Desiderio Caban . A police officer heard the gunshots and was able to put him over six blocks after a car chase . Squitieri offered the officers involved US $ 5,000 and was promptly released, his name withheld from the press in the murder case. This process then became public; Squitieri went into hiding, then voluntarily surrendered to the police in January 1972.

During the murder trial, he was also proven to have evaded taxes of over three years for $ 200,000. Because he and his wife, Mary, had accounts under an assumed name, they received an additional four years' imprisonment. He spent a total of six years in prison.

In 1981 he was released and immediately began in New Jersey in the drug trade for John Gotti enter. In 1982 he had even closer contact with the Gambino family and obtained his heroin from Angelo Ruggiero . After John Gotti replaced Paul Castellano as head in 1986 , he was accepted as a full member (" Made Man ").

In 1988 the drug business was blown and Squitieri was jailed for 11 years. He was released from prison on March 13, 1999 and has since been considered the Capo of the Gambino family.

He was arrested with Gregory DePalma , Alphonse Sisca , Thomas Cacciopoli and John Capra (“ Lucchese family ”) on March 9, 2005 and pleaded guilty on June 15, 2005 of involvement in illegal gambling and tax evasion. On June 28, 2006, he served a seven-year prison sentence and was released on December 7, 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United States Attorney Southern District of New York of July 28, 2006 ( Memento of September 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Squitieri, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeke; Bozey; Sylvester (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bully and drug dealer in the Gambino family
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey , United States