Alfred Embarrato
Alfred "Al Walker" Embarrato
Newspaperman
Born on the
Family dissension
In the late 1970s,
Donnie Brasco
In mid-1981, when Pistone was revealed as an FBI agent, "Sonny Black" Napolitano, "Lefty" Ruggiero, and Mirra were all on the firing line for initially allowing the infiltration. Mirra, Embarrato's nephew, went into hiding. Joseph Massino ordered Embarrato and Mirra's two cousins Joseph D'Amico and Richard Cantarella, to find and kill him. On February 18, 1982, D'Amico, lured him to a parking garage in Lower Manhattan. Embarrato and Cantarella were waiting in a getaway car. The pair went to the parking garage, climbed into Mirra's car, and drove up to a locked security gate. D'Amico would later describe in a testimony, "He took out his key, put it in the box, but he didn’t get a chance to turn the box... I shot him at close range several times on the side of his head."[1][2] In 1988, Embarrato was indicted along with other Bonanno leaders in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case.
Death
On February 21, 2001, Alfred Embarrato died of natural causes.
Notes
- ^ Also sometimes written as Embaratto
References
- ^ "TIGHT-HIT FAMILY – CLOSE CUZ CHOSEN TO KILL 'BRASCO' WISEGUY". nypost.com. June 17, 2004.
- ^ "FAMILY TIES MADE IT EASY TO WHACK CUZ: MOB THUG". nypost.com. June 17, 2004.
Further reading
- Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. ISBN 0-312-30094-8
- Pistone, Joseph D. and Woodley, Richard, ISBN 5-552-53129-9
- United States Congress. Organized Crime. U.S. G.P.O., 1988 [1255 pages].
- Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime
External links
- United States of America vs. Embarrato Archived 2019-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- The Village Voice.com: The Newspaper Racket - Tough Guys and Wiseguys in the Truck Drivers Union Archived 2007-10-30 at the Wayback Machine by Tom Robbins
- [1] Alfred Embarrato FamilySearch Genealogy Profile