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Sam DeCavalcante

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498:, he visited DeCavalcante at his Kenilworth office on October 23, 1964. Dunn said to DeCavalcante: "If you have any way of getting to tell them to keep their lousy mouths shut... Because this thing could cream me at the last minute. So if you can in some way get to these two guys – tell them to keep this thing out of the papers". DeCavalcante promised Dunn support in his mayoral campaign and asked: "Do you think we could get any city work?", to which Dunn laughed and replied: "Well, maybe". In a statement issued on June 10, 1969, Dunn claimed that at no point during the meeting had DeCavalcante asked him "to do anything irregular or illegal", and that he had had no contact with DeCavalcante since. He also denied that DeCavalcante had any influence over his administration and claimed that he had not been aware of DeCavalcante's underworld associations. Other public official implicated by the tapes included 697:
that DeCavalcante acted as an arbitrator for Annunziata and Vastola, that a $ 12,000 settlement was arranged by DeCavalcante, and that DeCavalcante was paid $ 3,800 for his role. The defense did not present any witnesses or evidence and relied instead on summations to the jury. DeCavalcante maintained throughout the trial that he had been "framed" and that he had only served as an impartial mediator in a gambling dispute. On September 24, 1970, following an eight-day trial, DeCavalcante was convicted by a federal jury in Newark of three counts of conspiracy to extort money from the operators of the Trevose dice game. It was the first criminal conviction of DeCavalcante, who was 57 years old at the time. He "received the verdict impassively", according to
693:, who succeeded David Satz as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, on January 6, 1970. The lawyer Sidney Franzblau was responsible for inadvertently revealing organized crime secrets as the transcripts were made public because he had not asked that the disclosure be made only to the defense counsel. DeCavalcante subsequently dismissed Franzblau as his defense attorney and replaced him with Raymond A. Brown. The beginning of DeCavalcante's extortion trial, which was initially scheduled to commence on February 16, 1970, was delayed when Brown notified the U.S. Attorney's office that he would require time to familiarize himself with the case. In April 1970, DeCavalcante was being tried on the state weapons charges when he fell ill, forcing a halt to the trial. 743:, DeCavalcante was praised for his work as a nurse in the federal prison system by Dr. Joseph Alderote, the prison's chief medical officer. Alderote wrote in a report that DeCavalcante "has proven to be one of the best inmate nurses that I have had under my supervision in the three years that I have been there", and described him as someone who had taken "sincere interest in chronic nursing type cases of elderly patients that we have in the hospital". Despite being denied parole earlier, DeCavalcante was granted mandatory release from prison on December 20, 1973, after serving more than half of his five‐year sentence. According to a spokesman for the 659:, on June 10, 1969. Franzblau requested the release in order to learn whether or not any information leading to the indictment against his client was obtained via illegal wiretapping. The recordings were inadmissible as evidence because they had been made illegally and covered a period between 1961 and 1965, prior to the 1966 extortion specified in the indictment. The government maintained that the illegal wiretap was not the source of information that led to the indictments of DeCavalcante, Vastola and Annunziata. 514:, would be in a position to get a favorable ruling". Gallagher had allegedly been connected with the Mafia since at least 1960. He denied that he was involved in Riggi's case and said: "Many kinds of people drop names of public figures. But no one is responsible for people dropping his name, whether the name droppers be reputable or disreputable individuals". DeCavalcante also discussed police bribery with DeCarlo. Two police chiefs named by DeCavalcante were John Ellmyer Jr. of 3126: 731:, the Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, who opposed releasing DeCavalcante because he was due to be sentenced in the gambling ring case. On March 15, 1971, DeCavalcante was sentenced at Newark Federal Court to five years' imprisonment on the gambling conviction. He was also fined $ 10,000. DeCavalcante was re-indicted by a Union County grand jury on August 17, 1971, on the state charges of receiving the stolen pistol which was seized by the FBI in 1968. 600:, then staging a holdup, demanding $ 20,000 and suggesting that DeCavalcante arbitrate the matter. Four gamblers were robbed at gunpoint at the game, which was held at a Trevose motel. After three meetings, one held at DeCavalcante's company in Kenilworth, one at a diner in Lawrence Township and other at a second motel in Trevose, a $ 12,000 settlement was arranged by DeCavalcante. He was eventually paid $ 3,800 by the robbery victims as the 723:, acting on the opinion of a three-judge panel, ruled that the case against him, Annunziata and Vastola had been based on insufficient evidence. The ruling reversed two of the charges against DeCavalcante and ordered a new trial on the third charge. The convictions of Annunziata and Vastola were also overturned. DeCavalcante subsequently requested immediate freedom from the Federal House of Detention in 686:. Although he had initially barred news reporters from entering the ceremony, DeCavalcante relented and invited news people into the reception, saying: "You can drink what we drink, eat what we eat on me, but I don't want any of my guests embarrassed." Plainclothes policemen also photographed the wedding from outside. 772:
State Trooper claimed to have seen a supposedly ill DeCavalcante driving and apparently looking well. DeCavalcante did not attend the hearing at which Grosso fined him $ 12 for speeding and an additional $ 10 for court costs. It was not his first traffic violation conviction, as he had previously been fined at
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and charged with speeding at 77 miles per hour on a 55-mile-per-hour limit highway. The case was first postponed because DeCavalcante was in Florida at the time, and again because he was ill with bronchitis. On July 16, 1975, Judge Marius Grosso denied a third postponement due to illness because a
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In January 1971, DeCavalcante pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to operate the Newark/Troy numbers racket at a secret federal court hearing in Newark. In order to protect the rights of other defendants in the case, DeCavalcante's guilty plea was not made public until the following month, by
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Frank Majuri, he said: " sits like a baby next to Carl all the time. He'll do anything Carl wants him to do", and later mused: "Sometimes, Frank, the more things you see, the more disillusioned you become. You know, honesty and honorability, those things". The bug planted in DeCavalcante's office
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During DeCavalcante's extortion conspiracy trial in Newark, which consisted almost entirely of presentation from the prosecution, the government contended that DeCavalcante had masterminded the extortion plot. One of the victims of the Trevose holdup, Kenneth Martin, testified for the prosecution
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to violate federal extortion statutes following a 17-month racketeering investigation by three federal agencies. DeCavalcante was taken into custody at his Kenilworth plumbing and heating firm, where FBI agents seized three pistols and a shotgun from his office. On July 18, 1968, DeCavalcante was
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that the method of Moretti's murder was distasteful. Each of the four men were also critical of the method used to assassinate Cavallaro as his 4-year-old son was also killed in the explosion. It was indicated that the use of hand grenades had since been forbidden by the Mafia. In another
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at four locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including the office of DeCavalcante's Kenilworth plumbing supply firm, to record conversations among DeCavalcante and his associates which revealed detailed information on the day‐to‐day operations of the Mafia and crimes including labor
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game which was being organized by a man known as "Mickey". According to DeCavalcante, Mickey "had an okay" from Ellymer to arrange the game but still "needed a contact possible on the county level". Mickey's "county level" contact was alleged to have been arranged three previously by
711:. DeCavalcante was sentenced on October 2, 1970, to the maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. Following his sentencing, DeCavalcante said: "What can I say? I don't know what happened. I tried to make things equal. But it's part of life. We take the bum deals with the good deals." 650:
was called to testify regarding any electronic surveillance that may have been utilized prior to DeCavalcante's arrest. At the request of Franzblau, 2,300 transcript pages of taped conversations compiled by the FBI in the "DeCavalcante Papers" were released to the public by
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boss Angelo Bruno, DeCavalcante appeared at Trenton Municipal Court on December 13, 1967, to answer to charges that they falsified applications for New Jersey driving licenses. On March 21, 1968, DeCavalcante, Vastola and Annunziata were arrested and indicted on charges of
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also revealed affairs he was having with his secretary and other women. Majuri was recorded telling him that he "shouldn't run around because Catena and Gambino don't". On June 13, 1969, after transcripts of the recordings were unsealed in court, a reporter from
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described the operation as one of the largest gambling syndicates in the United States. DeCavalcante was formally charged with gambling offenses on January 2, 1970. The following day, he attended the wedding of his son, Carl DeCavalcante, a senior at the
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in Washington, D.C., DeCavalcante was considered for release for good behavior and his work as an inmate nurse, and because he had served about half a year of his earlier conviction for extortion, which was subsequently overturned on appeal.
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official described the "DeCavalcante Papers" as a report just as crucial as Valachi's disclosures. During these conversations, DeCavalcante repeatedly referred to himself as the "father" (boss) of his "
301:. Under DeCavalcante's leadership, the New Jersey Mafia was transformed from a dysfunctional group of ever-warring factions into a cohesive and profitable crime family. He also doubled the number of " 636:
In an effort to discover if his client's offices in Kenilworth were bugged by authorities in relation to the Trevose extortion case, DeCavalcante's attorney, Sidney "Chris" Franzblau, requested a
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and a device capable of turning a human corpse into a "meatball" being mentioned. In 1965, he forbade the killing of an African-American construction worker who had assaulted the son of a
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racketeering, corruption, loansharking and murder. The other locations where electronic surveillance was utilized were the Best Sales Co., a company in Newark controlled by
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for whom the government was seeking deportation. At the meeting, Zicarelli suggested that Riggi contact Congressman Gallagher, who "if the case ever got to
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which time the cases of the other defendants had been resolved. On March 10, 1971, DeCavalcante's 1970 extortion conspiracy conviction was reversed by the
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Nicholas Delmore (real name Nicholas Amoruso) between 1960 and 1964, DeCavalcante replaced him. Shortly after that, he acted as a liaison between the
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In addition to murder, the tapes revealed political corruption and links between mobsters and New Jersey public officials. Days before
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later named the New Jersey Mafia the DeCavalcante crime family since he was the boss of the family at the time of those hearings.
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to the Commission as he had hoped that his own "family" would be given the opportunity to join the Commission as the
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in August 1969 for driving at 52 miles an hour in a 45-mile-an-hour zone near his home on Mercer Road in Princeton.
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Maria Antoinette (Occhipinti) and Frank Rizzo Di Cavalcante, Simone Paul Rizzo DeCavalcante was born in the
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thousands of dollars over a six-week period in 1966 from the operators of an illegal dice game in the
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in New Jersey. He also had interests in lucrative pornography businesses in two states. Living in the
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The Mafia in New Jersey – Cosa Nostra – State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation 1970 Report
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Among the eight murders discussed by DeCavalcante and his associates were the 1951 shooting of
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conversation in 1964, DeCavalcante and two others discussed methods of body disposal, with a
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DeCavalcante moved to Florida in 1976. In 1980, he passed control of the family to
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DeCavalcante's Wife Remains Silent; Some of the Neighbors in Jersey Are Upset
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on December 16, 1969, in connection with a $ 20 million-per-year interstate
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in Kenilworth and charged under state statutes with illegally acquiring a
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was the Kenilworth Plumbing and Heating Co., a plumbing supply store in
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Collaborations between the United States government and Italian Mafia
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Jersey’s True-Life Tony Soprano: Meet the DeCavalcante Crime Family
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DeCavalcante died of natural causes at age of 84, at a hospital in
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The "DeCavalcante Papers" transcripts were physically released by
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Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government
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with a shovel in a fight because the construction worker was a
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DeCavalcante was among 55 men and women indicted by a federal
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5 years' imprisonment and $ 10,000 fine (1971); served 2 years
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DeCavalcante Wins a New Trial After Getting 15‐Year Sentence
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DeCavalcante Changes Lawyer, Gains a Delay in Start of Trial
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on February 7, 1997. He is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in
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Extortion conspiracy (1970); overturned upon appeal (1971)
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Mike Dickson, AmericanMafiaHistory.com (October 5, 2018)
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People from Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey
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DeCavalcante was recorded expressing some bitterness at
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DeCavalcante Fined For Going 7 M.P.H. Above Speed Limit
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DeCavalcante Leaves Prison After Serving Over Two Years
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Reputed Bigwig In State Mob Fights $ 22 Speeding Ticket
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DeCavalcante is reputed to have masterminded a plot to
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Mafia: the government's secret file on organized crime
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Midnight Plumbers: Famous Plumbers – Sam Decavalcante
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From 1961 to 1965, DeCavalcante was the subject of a
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Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States
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New Tapes By F.B.I. Link Politicians To Jersey Mafia
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DeCavalcante Gets Mandatory Release From U.S. Prison
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Sam The Plumber DeCavalcante - New Jersey Godfather
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Brennan Jr. 617:arrested by state and 3174:American crime bosses 2823:Musitano crime family 2595:Black Hand in Chicago 2325:Angiulo's Boston crew 2317:(Northern New Jersey) 1726:, Signet Books, 1970. 1186:(September 25, 1970) 739:As a prisoner at the 680:University of Vermont 672:U.S. Attorney General 583:Trevose, Pennsylvania 297:between the New York 3038:Operation Underworld 3028:Operation Old Bridge 2959:New Springville Boys 2843:Rizzuto crime family 2833:Papalia crime family 2818:Luppino crime family 2808:Inzerillo Mafia clan 2798:Cotroni crime family 2682:Palermo Mafia summit 2174:New Springville Boys 1868:Giuseppe Schifilliti 1665:(December 29, 1973) 1355:Reginald Kavanaugh, 1253:(February 10, 1970) 1051:(February 10, 1997) 1022:(December 29, 1973) 808:Hamilton, New Jersey 788:Miami Beach, Florida 623:Garden State Parkway 550:. 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Index


New York City
Fort Lauderdale
Crime boss
Boss
DeCavalcante crime family
Giovanni Riggi
Vincent Palermo
DeCavalcante crime family
Conviction(s)
Italian-American
mobster
boss
DeCavalcante crime family
New Jersey
Italian royal family
Count
McClellan hearings
Italian immigrants
Brooklyn
New York City
Trenton, New Jersey
boss
Mafia Commission
Bonanno crime family
Bonanno War
Five Families
made men
initiation ritual
Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo

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