Sam DeCavalcante

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Simone Rizzo "Sam" DeCavalcante (born March 3, 1912 ; † February 7, 1997 in USA ), also known as "Sam the Plumber", was a mobster of the La Cosa Nostra and for almost two decades the official boss of the DeCavalcante named after him. Family (DeCavalcante Crime Family). He got his nickname because he owned a plumbing company as a legal facade. He was also called "The Count".

Life

DeCavalcante engaged in illegal gambling, loan usurgery, and racketeering in New Jersey. He himself lived in Lawrenceville, Georgia , but conducted most of his business in Newark, New Jersey . As a legal facade, he owned a plumbing utility company in Kenilworth, New Jersey .

The criminal organization of New Jersey, which was not recognized by the Mafia Commission as an independent family, was headed until 1964 by Nicholas "Nick" Delmore (née Amoruso). He died in 1964 and his nephew Sam DeCavalcante became the new boss of the "DeCavalcante family", which was now officially recognized as an independent family.

From 1961 to 1965, DeCavalcante was the subject of an FBI investigation known as the "Goodfella Tapes". The investigation was started because the Pentito Joe Valachi broke the law of omertà and, as an informant, disclosed intimate details about the La Cosa Nostra and the existence of the Mafia Commission.

Between 1964 and 1969, DeCavalcante doubled the number of family members and commanded around 60 mafiosi during that time. He enjoyed a lot of respect for his place on the notorious commission of the National Crime Syndicate .

In 1969 he was found guilty of extortion and organized crime conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years in prison. In 1976, he was released from prison, moved to a high-rise condominium in Florida, and partially retired from the family business. During this time he appointed Giovanni Riggi as acting boss. DeCavalcante officially resigned in the early 1980s and left Giovanni “John the Eagle” Riggi in charge. Nonetheless, the FBI assumed that he was still a silent advisor to the family until the early 1990s.

DeCavalcante died of natural causes on February 7, 1997 in Miami, Florida . He was buried in Green Wood Cemetery in Trenton, New Jersey .

literature

  • Henry A. Zeigler: Sam the Plumber  ; 1970;
  • Robert J. Kelly: Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States  ; 2000; ISBN 0-313-30653-2
  • Carl Sifakis: The Mafia Encyclopedia  ; 2005; ISBN 0-8160-5694-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Sam DeCavalcante" Intellius People Search
  2. ^ Mafia: the government's secret file on organized crime By United States. Dept. of the Treasury (pg. 284)
  3. ^ Taping the Mafia , Time Magazine, June 20, 1969
  4. ↑ SICK DON GETS 10 Real Soprano too ill for court . In: Daily News , September 27, 2003. Retrieved March 12, 2012. 
  5. ^ "Simone DeCavalcante" Find a Grave
personal data
SURNAME DeCavalcante, Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeCavalcante, Simone Rizzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mobster
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1912
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1997
Place of death Miami