Alphonse Malangone
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Caporegime
A caporegime or capodecina, usually shortened to just a capo, is a term used in the Mafia for a high ranking made member of a crime family who heads a "crew" of soldiers and has major social status and influence in the organization...
in the Genovese crime family
Genovese crime family
The Genovese crime family , is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime...
. Malangone controlled a good portion of the Genovese interests in the Fulton Fish Market
Fulton Fish Market
The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in The Bronx, New York, United States. It was originally a wing of the Fulton Market, established in 1822 to sell a variety of foodstuffs and produce...
, while dabbling in pump and dump
Pump and dump
"Pump and dump" is a form of microcap stock fraud that involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements, in order to sell the cheaply purchased stock at a higher price....
stock scams on Wall Street
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...
and controlling Brooklyn's garbage hauling industry for his boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante
Vincent Gigante
Vincent Gigante was a short lived professional light heavyweight boxer who was known as "The Chin" Gigante. He fought 25 matches and lost four, boxing 121 rounds. On February 19, 1945, he fought Pete Petrello in Madison Square Garden and won by a knock out in the second round. During his successful...
, head of one of the most powerful crime families in the United States.
Early days
Allie Malangone was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was inducted into the Genovese crime family sometime between the mid-to-late 1970s, most likely 1976 or 1977 when New York's Five FamiliesFive Families
The Five Families are the five original Italian-American Mafia crime families which have dominated organized crime in America since 1931. The Five Families in New York remain as the powerhouse of the Italian Mafia in the United States.-History:...
opened their membership books once again after more than 20 years. He became a soldier in the crew of Genovese capo Thomas "Tick" Contaldo, but at the same time Malangone became the protege of Genovese capo Gaetano "Toddo" Marino. He also became an associate of Genovese soldier Vincent "Fish" Romano
Vincent Romano
Blessed Vincent Romano, also called Vincenzo Dominico Romano, was born in Torre del Greco, Naples, Italy. Vincent was a parish priest of the village of Herulano who was noted for his very simple way of life and his care of orphans. He was oppressed by French invaders in his area, and also by some...
, who had been a protege of Joseph "Socks" Lanza
Joseph Lanza
Joseph A. "Socks" Lanza was a New York labor racketeer and a member of the Genovese crime family.Born in Palermo, Sicily, Lanza immigrated to the United States and settled in New York working as a handler in Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market...
, former czar of the Fulton Fish Market. Lanza and the Romano brothers, (Vincent and Carmine) controlled the Fulton Fish Market in downtown Manhattan. Malangone went to work in the Fish Market and soon he began accepting payoffs from vendors and trucking companies, and continued to run his own fish company
Fish company
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with his son, Alphonse Jr.
He got his nickname for always wearing aviator style tinted sunglasses, even at night.
Promotion
As he rose through the ranks of the Genovese crime family, Malangone became one of the family's biggest earners and most respected members. It was not unusual to see Allie associating with men from all the Five FamiliesFive Families
The Five Families are the five original Italian-American Mafia crime families which have dominated organized crime in America since 1931. The Five Families in New York remain as the powerhouse of the Italian Mafia in the United States.-History:...
. Malangone was a close friend of Bonanno crime family
Bonanno crime family
The Bonanno crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
consigliere and onetime acting boss, Anthony Spero
Anthony Spero
Anthony Spero was the consigliere and one time acting boss of the Bonanno crime family.-Biography:Spero was a large man with dark hair, a dark complexion and was good looking in a rough way" Philip Carlo wrote...
, who came to Allie for advice. Despite tension between New York's two most powerful crime families, the Genoveses and Gambinos, and even while Allie's own boss, Vincent "The Chin" Gigante
Vincent Gigante
Vincent Gigante was a short lived professional light heavyweight boxer who was known as "The Chin" Gigante. He fought 25 matches and lost four, boxing 121 rounds. On February 19, 1945, he fought Pete Petrello in Madison Square Garden and won by a knock out in the second round. During his successful...
despised Gambino crime family
Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...
boss John Gotti
John Gotti
John Joseph Gotti, Jr was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti grew up in poverty. He and his brothers turned to a life of crime at an early age...
, Allie was known to be close to the Gambino boss and frequently visited with Gotti at his Ravenite Social Club
Ravenite Social Club
The Ravenite Social Club was a club in New York City that was frequented and at some point used as headquarters of the Gambino crime family. It was located at 247 Mulberry St. in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. It is now a shoe store. The Ravenite was frequented by John Gotti and the rest of...
on Mulberry Street
Mulberry Street
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.
By the mid-to-late 1980s Allie controlled a significant portion of the Genovese crime family's interests in the Fulton Fish Market. In 1989, family boss Chin Gigante promoted Malagone to capo of his own crew. Allie set-up his headquarters in Pastels Nightclub located in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
. He often preferred to conduct business and handle his affairs outside instead of inside the building where a bug might possibly be planted. Allie could often be found in the company of Rocky Cimato, an old-time Genovese soldier and Allie's chauffeur. Tough, feared soldiers like Elio "Chinatown" Albanese, John "Johnny Geech" Giangrandi, Gerardo "Fat Gerry" Guadagno and Carmine "Baby Carmine" Russo ran the rackets overseen and controlled by Allie and from time to time handle the enforcement of debt collections and heists like burglaries or bank jobs. Allie could also count on Pastels manager Michael "Mikey" Rosenbaum
Michael Rosenbaum
Michael Owen Rosenbaum is an American actor and director. He is best known for portraying Lex Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville and Dutch on FOX's Breaking In, and for providing the voice for the Flash in the DC animated universe...
to run the nightclub.
Malangone's right-hand man was a six-foot-five, balding, paunchy, near-sighted man named Alan "Baldie" Longo
Alan Longo
Alan "Baldie" Longo is an alleged Brooklyn mobster and acting caporegime in the New York Genovese crime family who became heavily involved in stock fraud schemes.-Stock scams:...
. Longo was a Carroll Gardens mobster who involved in loan sharking, bookmaking, stock frauds, and labor racketeering and was allegedly a degenerate gambler, who at one time himself owed more than one million dollars to various members of New York's Genovese, Gambino and Colombo crime families.
Private sanitation
By the 1990s Allie Malangone was one of the Genovese crime family's most important and powerful caporegimes. He was involved in law enforcement surveillance, frequently meeting at Pastels and other places around the city with such heavyweight Genovese crime family leaders like acting underboss Michele "Mickey Dimino" Generoso. Malangone was overseer of the crime family's private sanitation rackets through his control of the Bensonhurst, BrooklynBrooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
based Kings County Trade Waste Association and the Greater New York Waste Paper Association located at 511 Canal Street in Brooklyn. Genovese boss Vince Gigante had inserted young, up and coming Genovese associate Frank Giovinco into the Greater New York Waste paper Association as the Genovese crime family's on-site authority and to take care of any problems that might arise with carters or customers.
The New York Mafia has controlled the city's garbage hauling industry since the 1940s from the days of Anastasia crime family caporegime James "Jimmy Jerome" Squilante
James Squillante
James "Jimmy Jerome" Squillante , also known as "Vincent Squillante", was a New York mobster who belonged to the Gambino crime family and was known as "king of the garbage collection racket"...
, also known as Vincent Squillante, the nephew of boss Albert "The Mad Hatter" Anastasia
Albert Anastasia
Albert Anastasia was boss of what is now called the Gambino crime family, one of New York City's Five Families, from 1951-1957. He also ran a gang of contract killers called Murder Inc. which enforced the decisions of the Commission, the ruling council of the American Mafia...
. In 1957 boss Albert Anastasia was murdered and in 1960 Squillante disappeared, but the Gambino crime family
Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...
continued to control their fare share of the city's garbage rackets through their control of the Association of Trade Waste Removers opf Greater New York, overseen by Gambino family capo and former Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino
"Don" Carlo Gambino, was a Sicilian mafioso who became Boss of the Gambino crime family, that still bears his name today. After the 1957 Apalachin Convention he unexpectedly seized control of the Commission of the American Mafia. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive...
driver, James "Jimmy Brown" Failla
James Failla
James "Jimmy Brown" Failla was a senior caporegime with the Gambino crime family who was a major power in the garbage hauling industry in New York City...
. 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, netting their families millions of dollars each year in protection and tribute money. One of the most important men in this operation was Allie Malangone.
Indictment and prison
On June 22, 1995, Genovese caporegime Allie Malangone was indicted on charges of controlling New York City's private waste industry through his close associate Frank Giovinco. The indictment resulted from an undercover operation that targeted Malangone and others involved in the New York Mafia controlled carting cartels, including Angelo PonteAngelo Ponte
Angelo Ponte is an American mobster. He was reportedly active in the Genovese family's carting rackets for many decades. He was careful to cultivate political connections, and managed to have himself named a Knight of Malta by the Roman Catholic Church....
, a Genovese crime family associate and prominent New York City businessman, who headed one of the city’s largest and most successful carting firms, "V. Ponte & Sons." The wide New York City law enforcement sting also snared Genovese associates Frank Giovinco, Frank Allocca and Philip "Phil" Barretti, one of New York City's wealthiest garbage executives. The investigation and subsequent indictments also targeted former Gambino crime family
Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...
caporegime and the New York Mafia's waste hauling czar, James "Jimmy Brown" Failla
James Failla
James "Jimmy Brown" Failla was a senior caporegime with the Gambino crime family who was a major power in the garbage hauling industry in New York City...
, as well as his successor, Joseph "Joey Cigars" Francolino.
Malangone chose to go to trial and on October 21, 1997 he was convicted and eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released to parole supervision on April 5, 2010.
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