Jackie DiNorscio

Giacomo "Jackie" DiNorscio (* July 20, 1940 , † November 14, 2004 ) was an Italian-American mobster of the American Cosa Nostra from the New Jersey faction of the Bruno family ( Philadelphia-South Jersey Mafia ) from Philadelphia before he later moved to the New York Lucchese family .

DiNorscio was best known through the film Find Me Guilty , which is based on a true story of the longstanding mafia trial of the United States against the Lucchese family and was filmed how DiNorscio had represented himself in court. His role was embodied by Vin Diesel .

Life

Bruno Lucchese change

Jackie DiNorscio was originally, like his father, Dominick "Tommy Adams", a member of the Bruno family from Philadelphia.

Angelo Bruno , the long-time boss of the Philadelphia Mafia family with a branch in South Jersey, was murdered on March 21, 1980, creating a great power vacuum. Antonio Caponigro (Bruno- Consigliere ) and Michael Taccetta (Lucchese- Capo ) - both from the New Jersey faction of their families - took advantage of this situation to start new gambling and credit usury operations in Philadelphia. Due to the long-standing tensions between the two Bruno factions and the fact that Taccetta and Caponigro were now moving closer together and now even more tensions arose, the cooperation between the two families was ended. Around this time, "Jackie Di" moved together with many other members to the Lucchese family or their New Jersey faction in order to reap greater profits and to avoid possibly being murdered by the Brunos.

On February 10, 1985 DiNorscio was shot five times by his cousin Joseph Alonzo with a small bore handgun. Alonzo later turned to the government for fear of retaliation and became a key witness against the Lucchese family in a later trial.

RICO process

As early as the early 1980s, US law enforcement agencies began an investigation aimed at exposing all organized crime activities in North Jersey. After a four year investigation, 20 members of the Lucchese family from the Jersey faction were charged. You have been charged with 76 organized crime under the so-called RICO Act . They were charged with bankruptcy, extortion, illegal gambling, money laundering, drug trafficking, arson, theft, murder and conspiracy to commit murder. DiNorscio himself had been imprisoned for drug trafficking and gambling manipulation for 30 years, of which he served only 17. The great process began at the end of 1986. During the trial, DiNorscio fired his lawyer and from then on represented himself. DiNorscio knew how to fascinate the jury, which, although not positively received by co-defendants such as Accetturo and Taccetta, was ultimately decisive for the fact that all twenty defendants in 1988 after a surprisingly short one The jury considered that all cases were acquitted. This so-called "Federal RICO Trial" went down with its duration of over 21 months as the longest trial in the history of the United States and was filmed in Sidney Lumet's work Find Me Guilty .

After the trial, DiNorscio went straight back to prison to serve the remainder of his sentence, until his early release on November 23, 2002. He died on November 14, 2004 while filming Find Me Guilty , which was released in 2006.

Films and documentaries

• 2006: Find Me Guilty - The Mafia Trial ; Film about Jackie DiNorscio and the big trial against the Lucchese family.
• 1993: The American Mafia (OT: Mob Stories ) ; Documentary episode about the American Mafia, from the documentary series America Undercover .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chicago Tribune - Nothing but the truth
2. ↑ ^{a b} Movies-True Incidents - Find Me Guilty - The Mafia Trial - American drama, biography from 2006.
3. ↑ National Crime Syndicate - How Did Angelo Bruno Get Killed?
4. ^ Robert Rudolph: The Boys from New Jersey: How the Mob Beat the Feds. 1992
5. ^ Find a Grave - Giacomo (Jackie) DiNorscio
6. ↑ filmreporter.de - Find me guilty