Anthony Salvatore Casso was an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family. He was sentenced to 455 years in prison for racketeering, extortion, and murder. He died in prison custody on December 15, 2020, from complications related to COVID-19.
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Anthony Salvatore Casso was an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family. He is suspected of having committed dozens of murders, and had confessed to involvement in between 15 and 36 murders. Casso also admitted to several attempts to murder Gambino family boss John Gotti. He was sentenced to 455 years in prison for racketeering, extortion, and murder. He died in prison custody on December 15, 2020, from complications related to COVID-19. His godfather was Salvatores Callinbrano, a made man and caporegime in the Genovese crime family, which maintained a powerful influence on the Brooklyn docks. In an interview, Casso recalled, Most all men in my life, everyone I know, had girlfriends. It goes with the territory. Women are drawn to us, the power, the money, and we’re drawn to them. But only in passing. Some guys treated their mistresses better than their wife, but that’s a fuckin’ outrage. Only a cafone does that. She and my family always came first. I never loved any woman but Lillian. Despite knowing about his many infidelities, Lillian Casso continued to support her husband until her death in February 2005. In 1998, he was dropped from the witness protection program after several infractions. He would not see the inside of a cell again for over 30 years. During the 1970s he was one of a string of Mafia associates who were suspected of turning informant for the US government.
He became a protégé of Christopher \”Christie Tick\” Furnari, the capo of the \”19th Hole Crew\” in the LuCCS family. In 1985 he was approached by Frank DeCicco regarding a planned coup in his own family, but opted to become Furnari’s aide; he was allowed to work for him directly. In 1974, at age 32, he became a full member, or full member,. He was arrested for attempted murder in 1961, but was acquitted when the alleged victim refused to identify him. In 1988 he was assigned to Vincent \”Vinnie Beans\” Foceri’s crew that operated from Fourteenth Avenue in Manhattan. Shortly after becoming a star in the family, he made a partnership with another rising star, Victor Amus, that would last for two decades. In December 1985, he asked Casso to take over the 19th Hole crew, but declined, suggesting that Amus be promoted instead. He later became a consigliere, which is allowed to have one soldier work directly for him. He also made money shooting predatory hawks for pigeon keepers. In the 1990s Casso became a member of the 116th 116th Street crew, which operated from fourteenth Street in Manhattan in New York City. In 1994, he joined the New York Police Department’s anti-gang unit, the NYPD’s “NYPD Task Force”
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