Michael Sabella

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Michael "Mimi" Sabella (* 1910 , † 1989 ) was a professional criminal in the New York mafia family Bonanno , one of the five leading gangs in New York. He had the rank of a " capo regime ", d. H. understand him a crew. He was related to the "boss" of Philadelphia Salvatore Sabella .

Life

Early years

His parents came from Castellammare del Golfo in Sicily. He was born in Little Italy , Manhattan and was a close relative of Dominick "Mimi" Sabella . Michael Sabella began in 1957 as a "Soldati" in the Bonanno family under the leadership of the boss Joseph Bonanno. He played and worked as a loan shark. Before the family-internal Bonannos War in the 1960s, Sabella served as a "soldier" in the crew of the Castellammareser Carmine Galante and later in the crew of Joe Notaro . During the conflict between Gaspar DiGregorio and the Bonanno supporters, Sabella was originally on Bonanno's side. The "Commission", the supreme executive body of the US Mafia, advised him to change sides, which he then did. For this he was promoted to capo in gratitude.

Sabella worked closely with Nicholas Marangello , Galantes Consigliere and became a close confidante of Carmine Galante, who became the family's "street boss" in the mid-1970s. Sabella's crew were among the largest in the family and made money in New York and Florida. He had two sons: Arthur Sabella, born 1957 and Steven Sabella, born 1966.

Donnie Brasco

More in the article Joseph Pistone

The FBI smuggled officer Joseph D. Pistone into the Bonanno family. Brasco initially worked under the name Donnie Brasco in Sabella's crew, later in the crew under Dominic "Sonny Black" Napolitano . In 1981, Brasco's operation was canceled and Pistone went into hiding. Allegedly, Sabella is said to have warned Napolitano about Brasco, who ignored the warning, which cost him his life.

Late years

After Carmine Galante was murdered in 1979, Mike Sabella was demoted because he belonged to his "faction" within the family. Dominic "Sonny Black" Napolitano had taken his place as capo and Sabella had to serve him as a soldier. Napolitano was murdered by the Bonanno family in 1981 after Donnie Brasco was exposed. In 1989 Sabella died of diabetes.

source

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony DeStefano: King of the Godfathers: Joseph Massino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family. [1]
  2. ^ Anthony DeStefano: King of the Godfathers: Joseph Massino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family. [2]

literature

  • Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley: Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia . Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, ISBN 0-340-66637-4 .
  • Joseph D. Pistone: The Way of the Wiseguy. Running Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7624-1839-7 .
  • Joseph D. Pistone, Charles Brandt: Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business. Running Press, 2007, ISBN 0-7624-2707-8 .
  • Anthony DeStefano: The Last Godfather: Joey Massino & the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family. California: Citadel, 2006.
  • Selwyn Raab: Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: St. Martin Press, 2005. ISBN 0-312-30094-8
personal data
SURNAME Sabella, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sabella, Mimi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American professional criminal in the Bonanno mafia family in New York
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
DATE OF DEATH 1989