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| Spliced from two separate photos. |
FBI surveillance photo believed taken in the late 1970s depicting Lucchese Soldiers Anthony 'Buddy' Luongo (L) and Salvatore 'Sally Bo' DiSimone (R).
Both men, inducted around 1978, were part of the Family's Bronx - Harlem faction.
Luongo served as Capodecina by 1985 and, in the wake of the Commission Case indictments, was viewed by some in the Family as a strong candidate for Boss. The position went instead to Vittorio 'Vic' Amuso, who with others murdered Luongo in November 1986.
DiSimone provided transportation for the group inducted at an unspecified Bronx residence in August 1982. Those made at the time included future Acting Boss Alfonso 'Little Al' D'Arco.
Around 1995 Joseph Defede, the Acting Boss after D'Arco, promoted DiSimone to Acting Capodecina. This was done at the insistence of Underboss Steven Crea. Approval was given after the fact by imprisoned Boss Amuso.
As Acting Capodecina DiSimone attended the circa fall 1996 ceremony where his son Andrew, along with Alfred 'Freddy Boy' Santorelli, was made into the Family.
By the early 2000s he was an official Capodecina with a crew active in The Bronx, Manhattan and Westchester County.
Made members in his crew included Dominick 'Nicky Pepsi' Capelli and Albert Circelli, who was later killed in an unsanctioned shooting at Rao's restaurant in East Harlem.
DiSimone was described as 'recently deceased' in the March 2018 state racketeering indictment of former crew member Dominick Capelli.
