The Gang Land Contest

1. What Crazy Joe Gallo associate went on to become a John Gotti sidekick? Bartholemew (Bobby) Borriello.

2. What Crazy Joe Gallo associate went on to become underboss of the New England crime family? Nicholas Bianco.

3. What Crazy Joe Gallo associate went on to become underboss of another crime family? Mike Rizzitello. Which Crime family? Los Angeles.

4. Where did Crazy Joe Gallo have his last meal?  Umberto's Clam House.

5. What Crazy Joe Gallo associate was wrongly suspected of killing another Crazy Joe Gallo associate outside his Brooklyn home in 1991? Preston Geritano.

6. What mobster is credited by law enforcement officials with the 1991 killing of the Crazy Joe Gallo associate outside his Brooklyn home. Frank Lastorino.

7. Which New York Family was Al Capone associated with before he went to Chicago? Genovese.

8. Name the New Jersey Congressman whose links to the Mafia were exposed by Life Magazine. Cornelius Gallagher.

9. Who played Joe Valachi in the movie about his life? Charles Bronson.

10. Joe Valachi was a member of which crime families during his career. Lucchese, Bonanno and Genovese.

11. Where was the barbershop where Albert Anastasia had his last shave? Park Sheraton Hotel.

12. What former Mafia boss boasted that he killed Anastasia? Carmine (Junior) Persico

13. Who fingered famous bank robber Willie (The Actor) Sutton to law enforcement? Arnold Schuster.

14. Who reputedly ordered the execution of the Sutton informer? Albert Anastasia.

15. Name two famous American Football League quarterbacks who were publicly linked to mobsters. Joe Namath and Lenny Dawson.

16. Which two Cosa Nostra bosses not from New York had their offices illegally bugged by the FBI and suffered the indignity of having to read their taped conversations in books and newspapers. Raymond Patriarca Sr. (New England) and Simone (Sam the Plumber) DeCavalcante (Newark)

17. Name the five Colombo family mobsters who have publicly broken their vow of omerta and testified against fellow mobsters at federal trials. Carmine Sessa, Salvatore Micciota, John Pate, Alan Quatrache, Rocco Cagno.

18. Name another Colombo family mobster who has broken his vow of omerta, has testified for the federal government at trial, but NOT against any fellow mobsters. Michael Franzese.

19. Name a current Mafia boss who has a college degree and name a late Cosa Nostra boss who was an attorney? Jack Tocco, Detroit, and Frank DeSimone, Los Angeles.

20. Name a Mafia boss who appeared on the Dick Cavett show and name another who was deported to Guatemala. Joseph Colombo and Carlos Marcello