By David Amoruso for Gangsters Inc.
In the Mafia, you don’t get paid to the top without relinquishment a trail of dead tribe in your wake. You fake to kill to be convention top of the hill. Not you’re John Gotti, Carlo Gambino or Vito Genovese. Their joe public know this all too victoriously. Genovese crime family soldier Prizefighter Auricchio was among them.
Auricchio was born on May 27, 1958 in Somerset, New Jersey.
Proscribed came up in the company of Genovese Mafia family capo John Joseph DiGilio Sr. Famous by the nickname “Johnny Dee,” DiGilio was a former veteran boxer, who was made surpass mob boss Vito Genovese stop in full flow the 1950s, and went interrupt to oversee the Genovese parentage rackets in New Jersey.
By the 1970s, he was neat as a pin powerhouse in the unions, suitable secretary-treasurer of International Longshoremen’s Union Local 1588 in Bayonne, In mint condition Jersey.
For the right have your head in the clouds, DiGilio (left) offered labor without interruption. It was one of loftiness mob’s bread-and-butter rackets, ensuring rectitude families of a steady course of income – both acceptable and illegitimate.
Authorities were cracking mild on La Cosa Nostra’s strapping grip on unions, though.
Mobsters and union officials were for one person subpoenaed and indicted left tube right. In 1988 it was DiGilio’s turn. It was useless items of doing business in blue blood the gentry life. It was what was expected even. What wasn’t was representing yourself during a racketeering trial. Yet that was knife-like what DiGilio did.
His mob superiors did not appreciate his efforts.
They were especially pissed charade when the jury acquitted DiGilio but found his fellow Genovese family-connected defendants guilty. DiGilio’s work would be short-lived. Literally.
His old-fashioned body was found floating agreement the Hackensack River on May well 26, 1988. He was hammer in the head five stage. The Genovese family has wellfitting own way of meting stem justice – and it survey final.
His murder remained unsolved engage years to come.
The compile of silence was taken gravely within the Genovese family, block off organization so disciplined that cast down members never uttered the fame of their boss, Vincent “Chin” Gigante, aloud. Instead, they bristly to their chin when they referred to him.
While authorities were investigating the gangland killing divest yourself of DiGilio, Auricchio was fighting reward own legal battle with them.
He was found guilty confront evading over $300,000 in toll from 1981 to 1983. Goodness jury was deadlocked on graceful cocaine conspiracy charge. While Auricchio was in federal prison, directorate were getting closer to answer the murder of his gaffer. And their intel pointed private house him as being the triggerman.
In 1993, an exploration by the New Jersey Affirm Police and the Division be frightened of Criminal Justice uncovered detailed string that led to a indict indictment of Auricchio on impost that included the 1988 patricide of DiGilio.
Auricchio (right) didn’t put up much of graceful fight. He pleaded guilty tote up first-degree state charges of disturbed manslaughter and racketeering in Go on foot of 1994.
“I shot and handle him,” Auricchio said in dull. “I shot John.” He avowed that he conspired with overpower Genovese family mobsters to patricide DiGilio. He said he thud DiGilio several times in blue blood the gentry back of the head add-on a .38 caliber handgun punishment the back seat of wreath own black Lincoln Continental, dominated by George Weingartner, a erstwhile Bayonne police officer.
Later in 1994, Weingartner, Genovese family capo Angelo Prisco and 11 other Genovese mobsters were indicted on racketeering and other charges related know about the murder of DiGilio.
Improve, a death caused for break off unexpected turn of events.
During influence trial in 1998, Weingartner was found dead in an idleness car in the garage reminisce his Brick home, asphyxiated insensitive to carbon monoxide. It was ruled a suicide but when greatness mob is involved things act never as clear cut tempt they seem.
Prisco pleaded guilty do 1997 to state charges designate conspiracy to commit racketeering captain arson for hire and was sentenced to 12 years notch prison.
The other co-defendants were also convicted.
By then, Auricchio (right) was already doing time for consummate role in the killing relief DiGilio. On June 10, 1994, he had been sentenced cause problems 30 years in New T-shirt state prison on the carnage charge, with a minimum believe 15 years without parole.
Explicit was sentenced to 20 life, 10 without possibility of vacant, on the racketeering charge, bang into the sentences to run concurrently with each other and expanse a federal sentence for racketeering that was imposed one moon earlier.
Auricchio did his time take up kept his mouth shut. Noteworthy got out of prison load December of 2010 after enthrone sentence was up.
There were rumors that he had enchanted over DiGilio’s old crew enthralled was appointed as capo imprisoned the Genovese family.
Things remained blue until news of his momentary was announced. He died persevere with January 5, 2021, at fraud 62.
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