Salvatore Avellino
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Salvatore "Sal" Avellino (b. 1936) was a New York mobster and caporegime in the Lucchese crime family involved in labor racketering in the Garbage and waste management industry in Long Island. right-hand man and chauffer to boss Anthony Corallo. For nearly 15 years, he used aggressive strongarm tactics such as using his son Michael Avellino and son-in-law Michael Malena to set fire to rival competitors trucks as early as 1983, keeping Long Island's garbage hauling industry under the domination of the Lucchese family.
A subject of undercover federal survaillance, Avellino was recorded by authorities in a bugged phone call explaining Lucchese plans to an associate "We're gonna knock everybody out, absorb everybody, eat them up, or whoever we, whoever stays in there is only who we allowing to to stay in there." During his recorded conversations with Anthony Corallo and other senior Luccheese members, federal agents learned the organization's internal structure as well as its history and relations with other crime families.
Additional evidence was gathered through undercover informant Robert Kubecka, the owner of a local Suffolk County garbage hauling business who had been subjected to harassment and intimidation from Lucchese associates, and agreed to wear a wire in conversations with associates connected to Avellino in 1982. Although unable to get close to Avellino, information gathered during this time would later initiate early federal survaillance of Avellino being granted a court-authorized wire tap on his home phone in Nissequogue (and eventually his Jaguar in which he regularly held conversations with Corallo).
He would eventually be convicted on racketeering charges in 1993.
[edit] Further reading
- Davis, John H. Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 0-06-016357-7
[edit] References
- Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 0-688-04350-X
- Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: St. Martin Press, 2005. ISBN 0-312-30094-8
[edit] External links
- This Week in Gang Land: Family Garbage by Jerry Capeci
- This Week in Gang Land: Garbage King Fesses Up - Never Really Quit The Mob by Jerry Capeci
