Giovanni Riggi

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Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi (born February 1, 1925 , † August 3, 2015 in Edison , New Jersey ) was an Italian-American mobster of the US American Cosa Nostra and almost 3 decades, until his death in 2015, the last well-known head of the DeCavalcante family , which operates from Elizabeth (New Jersey) .

Career

As early as the 1940s, under the leadership of Stefano Badami , the organization's first boss from New Jersey , Riggi was already a high-ranking Mafioso and capo regime of the Elizabeth faction.

In 1976, the future family boss Sam DeCavalcante was released from prison after a 7-year sentence and from then on partially withdrew from the family business. During this time he appointed Giovanni Riggi as the acting boss of the family. DeCavalcante resigned in the early 1980s and officially left Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi in 1982 the management.

Under Riggi's leadership, enormous sums of money were won from the construction business, extortion, bankruptcy, and illegal gambling, as well as legitimate income. He was also a partner of the so-called International Association of Laborers and Hod Carriers in New Jersy for many years .

In the mid-1980s, Riggi also established a good relationship with John Gotti , the boss of the Gambino family .

In September 1989, Riggi was charged and convicted of inciting and killing Fred Weiss, the real estate developer and former journalist for Staten Island Advance .

Head out of custody

After Riggi was imprisoned, he appointed John D'Amato as the incumbent boss of the family in 1990 . It was only later found out that D'Amato was alleged to have engaged in homosexual acts, and so he was murdered in 1992.

Riggi continued to lead the family out of prison, but he appointed Giacomo Amari as the new incumbent boss. Everything seemed regulated again until Amari slowly fell ill and died of stomach cancer in 1997. This led to a massive power vacuum in the family. Some senior members pushed to become the next boss in the DeCavalcante family.

Riggi then set up a three-man committee that existed in this form until 2004 and jointly managed the day-to-day business.

From 2005 to 2007 Riggi was represented by Joseph Miranda and from then until his release on November 27, 2012, by Francesco Guarraci .

After his release, Riggi lived in a small house in Edison, New Jersey . He died there of natural causes on August 3, 2015 at the age of 90.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Changing Face of Organized Crime in New Jersey: A Status Report May 2004, pp. 121-125.
  2. ↑ SICK DON GETS 10 Real Soprano too ill for court . In: Daily News , September 27, 2003. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 
  3. ↑ RELIVING A GORY RUBOUT Big-time turncoat tells how a wiseguy got his . In: Daily News , May 13, 2003. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 
  4. ↑ REAL 'SOPRANO' SINGS NJ mob boss cut secret deal . In: Daily News , October 24, 2000. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 
  5. ^ Mob Money . CNBC, June 23, 2010.
  6. ↑ Jerry Capeci: What's Left of the Mob . In: New York Maganize , May 21, 2005. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 
  7. ↑ mafianj04 [1]
  8. ↑ John Riggi, Jersey mob boss who inspired 'The Sopranos,' dead at 90 . In: NJ.com . Retrieved August 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Riggi, Giovanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riggi, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mafioso
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1925
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2015
Place of death Edison (New Jersey)