Who is Vittorio Amuso
The New York-based organized crime family the Lucchese organization is part of the Five Families, along with the Gambino, Bonanno, Genovese, and Colombo organizations. Amuso soon took the leading position as the Boss of the family when Anthony “Tony Ducks” Corallo was the target of the 1985 FBI investigation – and ultimately, convicted.
Amuso had no shame. He had opened up a new, violent, and volatile era for everyone by putting a hit on the whole New Jersey faction (a.k.a “whack Jersey” order). This violates the one mob rule: never involving mobsters’ wives, children, and other relatives.
1992 Conviction
Back in 1992, Amuso had been convicted of murder and racketeering in a Brooklyn Federal Court Trial. In addition, he was also linked to nine murders and three attempted killings. Ironically, 2 months after Amuso’s plea, the allegorical Gambino boss John Gotti plead guilty.
Amuso Now
88-year-old Vittorio “Little Vic” Amuso has been in Federal Correctional Complex, Butner, in North Carolina for the past 31 years. His health has been deteriorating, and because of this, his lawyer, Anthony DiPietro, has been filing for ‘compassionate release’.
DiPietro describes Amusos’ mental state, saying he has been “staring down his mortality.” This past week a court filing shared his weakening health, he has endured chronic arthritis, resulting in being in a wheelchair for the rest of his days, clouded vision, and toothless.
DiPietro shares Amuso is relying on his perfect record (in prison), his Catholic faith, and his family to get him out.
Sources
- Former Lucchese mob boss Little Vic Amuso, 88, serving life for ordering murders, begs for ‘compassionate release’ amid health issues [DailyNews]
- Lucchese Crime Family [Brittannica]
- Jail lock image [Unsplash]
- John Gotti Image [Wikipedia]
- Lucchese Family Tree [Wikipedia]
- Barbed wire image [Unsplash]
