John D'Amico (Mafioso)

John D'Amico

John "Jackie Nose" D'Amico (* approx. 1937) is an American mobster of the New York Mafiabande Gambino family , in whose top management he has risen.

His nickname "Jackie Nose" comes from his large aquiline nose; possibly a rhinoplasty , as Mafioso Michael DiLeoder later claimed during the John Gotti trial .

Early years

D'Amico is the second generation American, his father - a television electrician - and his mother originally came from the village of Vietri sul Mare , which is in the province of Campania in Italy . They emigrated to the United States of America and settled in the East Village (Manhattan) .

There is no relationship to the mobster Joseph D'Amico from the Bonanno family . D'Amico graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn , from which Sammy Gravano would later be kicked out.

D'Amico was an old school friend of Irving Hershkowitz , the founder of the Big Geyser Brewery, which made soft drinks, and worked in his warehouse in Maspeth (Queens) , where he started out as a simple delivery driver. From this he became a businessman and soon he had his own office in the building complex and excellent contacts to the Lucchese family through their Capo Matthew Madonna , whom he had on his payroll. The deputy prosecutor Roger Burlingame assumes a so-called "no-show job".

Criminal career

During the 1980s "Jackie Nose" was a close friend of John Gotti and was considered a feared capo in the network of loan sharks and gambling.

In the 1990s he had to serve a sentence, which may have contributed to the speculation about the dissolution of the "Gambino family" after the imprisonment of John Gotti. "Jackie" returned to Brooklyn and is now, according to information from the FBI, the new head of the "Gambino family".

Whether he actually took this position from 2002 on is not yet fully clear, since the succession of office after John Gotti with his son John A. Gotti , Peter Gotti (1999-2003), Arnold Squitieri (2003-2005) and then from 2005 with John D'Amico could be possible.

According to another interpretation of the situation, D'Amico is the “acting boss” of the family and the head would have been Nicholas “Little Nick” Corozzo since 2005/06 , who himself was “acting boss” from 1996 to 1997, since John Gotti was already himself was in jail.

Arrest and conviction

On February 8, 2008, John D'Amico was arrested along with a large number of other members and associates of the Gambino family as part of a joint operation by US and Italian investigative authorities against organized crime. The arrested are accused of murder, extortion, usury of credit and drug trafficking, among other things.

In February 2009 the detainee was charged with murder for planning the murder of a man in 1989. D'Amico should have been released in November 2009. On August 5, 2010, he pleaded guilty. As a witness, the victim would have posed a threat to the Gambino family. The district attorney had agreed to a criminal procedural deal with D'Amico because he felt the evidence was "very, very weak". D'Amico was incarcerated in the Metropolitan Correctional Center , New York City and was released on June 15, 2012.

Movie and movie quotes

• In the film Mann mit Ehre - You only pay attention to what you fear (OT: Men of Respect), USA 1991, is a Charlie D'Amico boss of a mafia family who accepts the climber Mike Battaglia into the clan.
• In the cartoon series Simpsons, the local mafia boss is Anthony "Fat Tony" D'Amico.
• In the comic book adaptation "Kick Ass", the hero's archenemy is called Frank D'Amico.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "A Slice of Mafia With Your Sparkling Water?" , Village Voice, May 27, 2008
2. ↑ FAZ article; Large-scale police operation: 81 Mafiosi captured
3. ^ "Can't Keep Nose Clean" New York Post February 12, 2009
4. ↑ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/reputed_gambino_bargain_john_jackie_v9EpvCLWsK9I4LE7inyA3J
5. ^ Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator

predecessor	Office	successor
John Gotti	Head of the “ Gambino family ” of La Cosa Nostra 2002 - 2006	Nicholas Corozzo