Joseph "Joey Dee" DiNapoli (born 1935), is a high-ranking member of the Lucchese crime family, holding the rank of caporegime or captain, in the family's Ruling Committee/Panel, controlling the day-to-day operations since 2006, along with Aniello "Neil" Migliore and Matthew Madonna. DiNapoli has two brothers, Vincent "Vinny" DiNapoli, who is a captain in the Genovese crime family, and Louis DiNapoli, who is a soldier in the Vincent's crew.
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Capo in the Lucchese Family
Racketeering with Louie DiNapoli
After becoming involved in major labor racketeering and loansharking, DiNapoli went over to stocks and schemes during the mid 1980s, along with his brother Louis DiNapoli, a made man in the Genovese family. This involved setting up three front companies, which actually involved more than a dozen illegal contracts and shell companies, for the work in schools, hospitals and subways. This was a former operation between the brothers, to ease the relationship between the Lucchese and the Genovese crime families, since Louis DiNapoli was listed as a soldier for the Genovese crime family, and Joseph, as a caporegime for the Luccheses, during the early 1990s by federal prosecutors.
Indictment and imprisonment
On May 17, 1995, Joseph and Louis DiNapoli were indicted for illegally obtaining $5 million in asbestos-removal and construction contracts from New York City and New York state agencies that were intended for minority-owned companies. It appeared that the three companies were owned by an African-American man, a Hispanic man and a woman, but their efforts had been plagued by abuses, including allegations that many companies benefiting from the programs were controlled by white businessmen.
During the following months, Joey DiNapoli was charged with fraud, labor racketeering, and loansharking in two separate counts, all predicates under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). in 1998, after being acquitted on the racketeering charges, DiNapoli was sentenced to 60 months in prison for loansharking and fraud.
Present Lucchese family street boss
After being released from prison after 29 months in 1999, DiNapoli went back to his crew in the Bronx. In 2006, with almost half the family on trial, boss Vittorio "Vic" Amuso, decided to create a Three-Man-Panel to run the day-to-day operations in place of the official Underboss position. Migliore, Madonna, and DiNapoli, and were selected to help the family survive.
As of 2007, DiNapoli, 72, is still sitting at the Ruling Committee/Panel, the present administration of the Lucchese crime family, with the newly released Steven "Wonderboy" Crea as acting boss, reporting to Amuso, who is serving a life sentence. Also, DiNapoli is now allegedly in charge of the entire Bronx faction of the Luccheses, along with Migliore and Madonna.
On October 1, 2009 29 DiNapoli was indicted along with Matthew Madonna and 27 others in a racketeering scheme that made approximately $400 million from gambling, loansharking, gun trafficking and extortion.[1][2]
Further reading
- Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: St. Martin Press, 2005. ISBN 0-312-30094-8
- Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations United States. Congress. House. Committee on appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of State. Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations For Fiscal Year. 1979.
References
- ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/10/02/2009-10-02_49_indicted_on_a_crazy_lucchese_day.html
- ^ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/lucchese_crime_family_members_busted_od3YYdjK4pGwIxKt9PHK9H
External links
- 12 Charged in Minority Businesses Scheme by SELWYN RAAB
- New York Magazine: What’s Left of the Mob by Jerry Capeci
- Names of those charged in $2.2B gambling ring
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