Alphonse Malangone
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Alphonse Malangone (born December 2, 1936), legal name "Alfonso"
He got his nickname for always wearing aviator style tinted sunglasses, even at night.
Early days
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Allie Malangone was born and grew up in
Promotion
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As he rose through the ranks of the Genovese crime family, Malangone became one of the family's biggest earners and most respected members, and began to associate with men from all Five Families. Malangone was a close friend of Bonanno crime family consigliere and onetime acting boss, Anthony Spero. Despite tension between New York's two most powerful crime families, the Genoveses and Gambinos, Malangone was known to be close to the Gambino boss John Gotti and frequently visited with Gotti at his Ravenite Social Club on Mulberry Street.
By the mid-to-late 1980s Malangone controlled a significant portion of the Genovese crime family's interests in the Fulton Fish Market. In 1989, family boss
Malagone was described as the "manager" of the Pastels Disco of
Garbage hauling industry
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The New York Mafia has controlled the city's garbage hauling industry since the 1940s from the days of Anastasia crime family, operated by Albert Anastasia and James Squillante. In 1957 Anastasia was murdered and in 1960 Squillante disappeared, but the Gambino crime family continued to control their portion of the city's garbage rackets through their control of the Association of Trade Waste Removers of Greater New York, overseen by James Failla. Through their co-operation and the creation of various garbage hauling cartels, the Genovese and Gambino crime families wielded near absolute power within New York City's garbage hauling industry.
By the 1990s Malangone was one of the Genovese crime family's most important and powerful members. He was involved in law enforcement surveillance, and frequently met with
Indictment and prison
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On June 22, 1995, Allie Malangone was indicted on charges of controlling New York City's private waste industry through his close associate Frank Giovinco, and transferring huge amounts of money at Pontecagnano Salerno. The indictment resulted from an undercover operation that targeted Malangone and others involved in the New York Mafia controlled carting cartels, including Angelo Ponte, who headed one of the city's largest and most successful carting firms, "V. Ponte & Sons". The law enforcement operation also snared Genovese associates Frank Giovinco, Frank Allocca and Philip Barretti, one of New York City's wealthiest garbage executives. The investigation and subsequent indictments also targeted former garbage czar James Failla and his successor Joseph Francolino.
Malangone chose to go to trial and on October 21, 1997, he was convicted and eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. He spent his time quietly as a timid elder inmate with minor health issues his reputation as a mobster from books and spending time eating and playing cards according to a new Mafia Tell All Book about (Mobsters in Prison) and known as the best (knock gin) card player. He was released to parole intensive supervision on April 5, 2010.
See also
Further reading
- Cowan, Rick & Century, Douglas. "Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire", New York. The Penguin Group, 2002. ISBN 0-425-19299-7
References
- ^ People v. Association of Trade Waste Removers of Greater New York, vol. 267, Google Scholar, December 21, 1999, p. 137, retrieved 2022-06-19
- ^ In the Matter of Malangone v. Dennison, vol. 2007, Google Scholar, 1989-01-24, retrieved 2022-06-19
- ^ "Exclusion List: "Alphonse Malangone"". www.nj.gov. New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ^ "US v. INTERNATIONAL BROTH. OF TEAMSTERS, 946 F. Supp. 318 - Dist. Court, SD New York 1996". 1996-12-09. Retrieved 2022-06-19 – via Google Scholar.
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- "Morgy Hauls in 17 on Trash Charges", by Virginia Breen and Corky Siemaszko, New York Daily News. June 23, 1995.
- "When the Mafia Got Greedy a Garbage Hauler Went Undercover", by Selwyn Raab, New York Times. June 9, 1996.
- "Testimony to Start in Trash Carting Trial", by Selwyn Raab, New York Times. May 27, 1997.
- "Two Convicted as Leaders of New York Trash Cartel", by Selwyn Raab, New York Times. October 22, 1997.