Angelo Ponte
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Angelo Ponte is an American mobster. Was active in the Genovese family's carting rackets for many decades, and was quiet and wealthy Capo. He was careful to cultivate political connections, and managed to have himself named a Knight of Malta by the Roman Catholic Church.
He was convicted on October 21, 1997, as one of targets of the operation wasteland investigation.
Founder of F. Illi Ponte Ristorante on the West Side highway and has extensive real estate holdings throughout the lower west side of Manhattan.
