Pete The Greek Mafia

Bellomo has been a powerful member of he family for years and was appointed as acting boss in the late 1980’s by then boss vincent gigante. As the short story goes, gallo was a made man in the.

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Peter (pete the greek) kourakos was born in 1923.

Pete the greek mafia. By dimaiolo santolo november 19, 2012. The second smallest borgata of new york’s infamous five families, with a formal membership of 150 soldiers and an estimated. What is known today as the colombo family originally started as the profaci family of south brooklyn.

Cavataio’s murder highlighted a year where the detroit mafia was especially busy, tied to a dozen gangland hits. Foggia has become a bloody mafia battlefield. Basically, a low level greek mobster pulled a gun on defede then proceeded to make him get on his knees and beg the greek for his life in front of everyone.

Pete to save his own ass testified that spiro ordered the hit when in essence he wanted the mark, sammy “the arab” nalo eliminated for his own gain. Foggia, a small city in italy’s puglia region, recently saw its residents come out in large numbers on the streets to protest against the organized criminal mafia that plagues the city. Nick, teddy, and some other torpedos who were in nick and teddy's camp were supposed to meet up with yiannopoulos with tsakoyiannis playing the mediator (but he was really.

The vitale brothers (paul aka “the pope” & peter aka “bozzy”) headquartered their activities at their grecian gardens restaurant in the heart of greektown. Yelling obscenities, gallo had drawn his handgun and flipped a table for cover launched into a ferocious gunfight alongside his bodyguard peter ‘pete the greek’ diapoulas, who was hit in the buttox as he dove for cover. It was headed by a wily veteran sicilian mafioso named giuseppe (joe) profaci.

He followed as they fled into the night, but had been mortally wounded and fell, still swearing, into a pool of his own blood. In the first 3 weeks of this year alone, several devasting bomb attacks and murders have. Barbara, jr.’s racketeering case stemmed from his alleged rape of delores lazaros, the wife of an imprisoned greek detroit mafia associate, peter (birmingham pete) lazaros, the syndicate’s payoff king and primary bagman in the 1950s and a majority of the 1960s.

During the three interviews, mr. And sometimes a greek with a gun is nothing but trouble! Though the restaurant has moved, the notoriety lives on.

Spiro ran the predominantly greek enclave of astoria, queens from the late 70’s till his lifelong incarceration in 1992. By dimaiolo santolo august 14, 2017. Ok, to continue the story, peter was a spy for the tsako camp.

New york mafia rat played role in lucchese family bust. The kansas city mafia family was once a prominent member of the american mafia but is on its last…. By 1959, he had relocated out to 85 mellow lane in jericho, long island.

Back in 1993, joseph (little joe) defede (pictured right), a lucchese family mobster, was collecting the family's monthly protection payment of $10,000 as usual. But this one time he had been rudely humiliated by the greeks. The 59 year old mobster has been calling the shots and sitting atop the ranks of the family very quietly for the last few years according to reports.

Federal prosecutors said lupoi is “associated” with gambino underboss frank cali and capo pietro (tall pete) inzerillo, but they were not charged. Fbi assistant director george venizelos said that mob associates do not usually carry out rogue operations of this magnitude and that the gambino hierarchy “probably knew, but that’s part of. It has been better than a dozen years since former philly mob hit man pete “the crumb” caprio became….

Diapoulas, who is known as “pete the greek” among his underworld associates, took careful precautions to avoid being recognized or located by his enemies. The latest new york mafia bust targeted members of the lucchese crime family including the families current hierarchy. The fbi was aware of this prior and surrounded them, frank cullota flipping after being arrested.

He first came to the attention of authorities starting in the late 1950s on long island when newsday ran several exposes on various mob figures infiltrating the island, and again during. Around the same time that frankos was notching hits on his belt, another greek mobster actually worked alongside the italians. Defede knew nothing of the bad blood and was shocked that a lowly scrub associate would dare mistreat him and threaten his life.

He resided in manhattan, then astoria. For some reason, the greek mob in athens had a soft spot for the scumbag. 40 years ago today, tony spilotro and the hole in the wall gang attempted to rob the biggest jewelry store in las vegas, using the 4th of july fireworks to hide the sound of drilling through the roof.

Little was written about diapoulos until he was shot while firing on the mob assassins who eliminated joey on april 7, 1972. The gangland gundown of gangster joey gallo in 1972 at umbertos clam house on mulberry street still sits high on the list of the mobs most notorious hits. Defede had just taken over the collection duties from a capo.

Pete “the greek” diapoulos was none other than joseph “crazy joe” gallo’s bodyguard. The katranis family answered to the detroit mafia’s vitale and giacalone crews.

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