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| 1963 |
Angelo Mannino was a made member of the Gambino Family's Traina crew.
His sons Samuel (1922-2004) and Ignazio aka 'John' (1925-1957) were also members.
Other connected relatives included nephews Samuel (1915-2001) and Louis Rumore (1912-1991), both Gambino Soldiers in the Dongarra - Armone crew.
Born June 18, 1895 in Torretta comune of Palermo, Sicily to Vincenzo and Giuseppa Marino.
On April 12, 1914 arrived at Port of New York aboard S.S. Italia.
By Summer 1918 family resided at 516 E 13th St in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood. Angelo listed his occupation as barber. Neighbors included the Rumores from Bisacquino, Palermo.
Angelo married Rosina Rumore on July 30 of that year.
His sons Samuel (1922-2004) and Ignazio aka 'John' (1925-1957) were also members.
Other connected relatives included nephews Samuel (1915-2001) and Louis Rumore (1912-1991), both Gambino Soldiers in the Dongarra - Armone crew.
Born June 18, 1895 in Torretta comune of Palermo, Sicily to Vincenzo and Giuseppa Marino.
On April 12, 1914 arrived at Port of New York aboard S.S. Italia.
By Summer 1918 family resided at 516 E 13th St in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood. Angelo listed his occupation as barber. Neighbors included the Rumores from Bisacquino, Palermo.
Angelo married Rosina Rumore on July 30 of that year.
As of April 1920 he and his wife were still residing at the E 13th St address.
On July 17, 1922 filed Declaration of Intention in New York County Supreme Court.
On July 19, 1927 filed Petition for Naturalization in US District Court Manhattan.
Witnesses were Calogero Badalamente (41y), a fruit dealer believed from Torretta, and Frank Giordano, a barber. Both listed addresses in Greenwich Village.
Angelo was naturalized that November.
By April 1930 he still listed his occupation as barber.
On August 22, 1931, at approximately 11:00 PM, Joseph 'Joe Cook / Cookie' Buonocore (45y) was stabbed inside a poolroom at 513 E 13th St. Wounded in the stomach and chest, Buonocore retrieved a shotgun and fired both barrels at the proprietor, Angelo Mannino, who escaped injury. (This may be not be the Gambino Member but instead a relative of the same name [1880-1943] who lived nearby at 521 E 13th.)
On September 12, 1931 a car pulled up to the poolroom and three or more gunmen opened fire, wounding Nicholas Cione (28y) and John Mannino (24y), Angelo's younger brother.
Around 3:00 PM the same day, Suspected Colombo Member Joseph Mannino (33y) was shot down at 149 Union St in the Columbia Street Waterfront District neighborhood of Brooklyn. Gambino Soldier Battista 'Tito' Balsamo (28y) and Guglielmo Guica (28y) were held. (Press at the time noted there was no apparent relation between the East Village Manninos and the one murdered in Brooklyn. The latter was from Carini, Palermo. Guglielmo Guica was himself shot to death two months later.)
The incidents occurred two days after Boss of Bosses Salvatore Maranzano was shot and stabbed to death by multiple assailants inside his Grand Central Station office.
By Summer 1932 Angelo moved to 34-44 Crescent St in Astoria, Queens and worked as a plasterer.
On June 29, 1932 he was present when Nunzio Milano (40y), a wire lath contractor, was shot to death in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Angelo, Milano and others had gathered in the basement of Frank Guercio (40y) at 355 Ave X when two masked assailants entered and ordered the group to put their hands up. Brooklyn Times Union reported: "Even as every man in the cellar raised his hands, the gunmen opened fire and sent several bullets into Milano's back, walked out and escaped in a waiting auto." Later that day NYPD Detectives picked up Angelo and he was held without bail as a material witness. It was believed he and Milano were involved in a labor dispute.
On July 8, 1932 Brooklyn Homicide Court Magistrate Thomas F. Casey released Mannino due to insufficient evidence.
(Frank Guercio [1892-1958], owner of the house where Milano was killed, had his own links to LCN. His 1925 Petition for Naturalization was witnessed by Gioachino 'Jack' Mirabile, father of future Bonanno Member Salvatore 'Toto' Mirabile. Toto was in turn related by marriage to Traina crew member Louis 'Fat Lou' D'Agostino. Like the Trainas, Toto's mother [Jack's wife] Elizabeth Buttacavoli was from Belmonte Mezzagno.)
Around May 12, 1938 Angelo was arrested with Oscar Musso (42y) while the pair was hunting in Bellport, Long Island. Musso was fined $50 for game law violations. Angelo was fined $10 for hunting without a license.
(Oscar Joseph Musso [1896-1957], born in Brooklyn to a Corleonesi father, resided in the town of Patchogue about four miles away from the site. Prior to 1938 he served two terms at Sing Sing Prison for auto theft and burglary. In August 1949 he was involved in a knife fight that resulted in a six day hospital stay. In April 1957 Musso attacked someone with a hunting knife during an argument.)
On September 22, 1939 Angelo, Alfred Villani (27y) and seven others were arrested during a card game held inside a Corona, Queens storefront. Six days later the case against Mannino and Villani was dismissed.
The following month, on October 21, Angelo and a couple of dozen others were indicted by the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn on charges involving the operation of three illegal stills in Long Island.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported: "[Ring] had a wide market in Harlem, it was alleged. Gas and water mains were tapped in the vicinity of the ring's Suffolk and Nassau farms to provide free fuel and water for the ring's operations and to avoid detection by the utilities, the indictments charge...The ring is also accused of operating garages in Yaphank, Central Islip and Manhattan to transport the alcohol up-State."
Others indicted included Gambino Soldier Michael 'Skinny Mike' Pecoraro (41y) and Possible DeCavalcante Member Anthony 'The Fox' Caruso (41y).
Mannino and six others were acquitted in early February 1940.
By June 1942 moved to 31-14 76th St in Jackson Heights, Queens. Worked for the Industrial Plastering Corporation located at 50 Court St in Brooklyn Heights.
As of February 1947 managed the Smithtown Hotel in Long Island.
On August 14, 1948 arrested by Nassau County PD after found in possession of a .32 caliber Colt automatic. On October 1 pleaded not guilty and released on $1,000 bail.
By April 1950 Angelo listed his occupation as building contractor. Sons Samuel and Ignazio gave their occupations as hotel proprietor and assistant manager respectively.
The following spring Ignazio married Lillian Valentine in St. James, Long Island. Angelo's Smithtown Hotel hosted the reception.
On September 16, 1953 the Mario and DiBono Plastering Company was incorporated in New York. Directors were Gambino Soldier Joseph DiBono (53y), Joseph's son and Possible Gambino Member Louis DiBono (26y), Angelo Mannino (58y) and Mario Veronesi (52y).
(The DiBonos were identified in the 1960s as Soldiers under Captain David Amodeo. Mario Veronesi, born 1900 in Northern Italy, is mentioned only in relation to the plastering company. He died in 1968. Louis DiBono has the distinction of being the last Family-sanctioned murder of a made member; he was shot to death in the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in October 1990.)
By Fall 1956 owned Angelo's Bar and Restaurant located on Rt 9-W in Rockland Lake, New York.
The restaurant was gutted by a fire that November, with the resulting press coverage describing Angelo as 'proprietor of the well-known Smithtown Hotel'.
As of 1957 both of Angelo's sons were working at the hotel.
As of 1957 both of Angelo's sons were working at the hotel.
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| Sam Mannino (1963) |
They had also followed Angelo into the Gambino Family and, like their father, were reporting to Captain Joseph Traina.
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| J. Traina FBN Mafia Book |
Made members under Traina included Vincent 'Jimmy' Amato, Louis 'Fat Louie' D'Agostino (Traina's step-brother), Pietro 'Little Pete Lombardo' Giallombardo, Joseph Giardina and his sons Joseph Jr., Louis 'Red' and Salvatore 'Teddy' Giardina, Philip LiCastri, Vincent LiCastri (Philip's son), Angelo Mannino and his sons Ignazio 'John' and Samuel Mannino, Paul 'Whitey' SanFilippo, Vincent 'Jimmy' Sarullo, Salvatore 'Sam' Tirone and Mario 'Red' Traina (Joseph's son).
Probable crew members included Charles LiCastri (another of Philip's sons) and Paul SanFilippo's father Joseph.
All of the known Traina crew members from the time period were Sicilian. The majority traced their origins to Palermo, either the city itself (Amato) or neighboring communes Marineo (the LiCastris), Torretta (the Manninos) or, like Traina, Belmonte Mezzagno (Giallombardo).
Non-Palermitani who reported to Traina included the Giardinas from Mussomeli in Caltanissetta, the SanFilippos from Sciacca and Vincent Sarullo, as yet the only known local member from Ribera, Agrigento not with the DeCavalcantes.
Ignazio Mannino died that November in Port Jefferson, Long Island.
The Manninos first came to the attention of the FBI in the middle of June 1963. CI Alfred Santantonio, a Gambino Soldier, had previously identified Giuseppe Traina as a Captain with approximately forty men underneath him. On June 18 he identified four additional Traina crew members to Agents: Oxie LNU (Joseph Marino) and a father and two sons named Mileno (ph). (Agents subsequently confirmed the correct identities.)
Santantonio, who told his handlers that he could identify additional members of the Family's various crews if they brought him photographs, was murdered the following month inside his Gravesend florist.
That September the Bureau opened investigations on both Angelo and Sam, who was then living and working at the Smithtown Hotel located at 155 West Main St. The hotel chef was Angelo's brother-in-law John Rumore.
Angelo was surreptitiously photographed by Agents early that December. (See top photo)
Probable crew members included Charles LiCastri (another of Philip's sons) and Paul SanFilippo's father Joseph.
All of the known Traina crew members from the time period were Sicilian. The majority traced their origins to Palermo, either the city itself (Amato) or neighboring communes Marineo (the LiCastris), Torretta (the Manninos) or, like Traina, Belmonte Mezzagno (Giallombardo).
Non-Palermitani who reported to Traina included the Giardinas from Mussomeli in Caltanissetta, the SanFilippos from Sciacca and Vincent Sarullo, as yet the only known local member from Ribera, Agrigento not with the DeCavalcantes.
Ignazio Mannino died that November in Port Jefferson, Long Island.
The Manninos first came to the attention of the FBI in the middle of June 1963. CI Alfred Santantonio, a Gambino Soldier, had previously identified Giuseppe Traina as a Captain with approximately forty men underneath him. On June 18 he identified four additional Traina crew members to Agents: Oxie LNU (Joseph Marino) and a father and two sons named Mileno (ph). (Agents subsequently confirmed the correct identities.)
Santantonio, who told his handlers that he could identify additional members of the Family's various crews if they brought him photographs, was murdered the following month inside his Gravesend florist.
That September the Bureau opened investigations on both Angelo and Sam, who was then living and working at the Smithtown Hotel located at 155 West Main St. The hotel chef was Angelo's brother-in-law John Rumore.
Angelo was surreptitiously photographed by Agents early that December. (See top photo)
On April 26-27, 1967 FBI CI reported: "[CI] advised the following concerning some shylocking activities in Suffolk County, advising he knows that Angelo’s Restaurant, located in Smithtown, Long Island, is operated by the son of one Angelo Mannino, whom [CI] described as a man in his early 70’s who has white hair, and apparently had earned his living most of his life through shylocking activities. He advised this individual operates a brand new 1966 or 1967 Cadillac." Angelo's loansharking customers were said to include the owner of a tailor shop in Lake Ronkonkoma.
On November 30, 1967 FBI CI reported: "[CI] advised he does not have any current info concerning Angelo Mannino and John Rizzo. [CI] pointed out that Mannino's friend, [Redacted], is still heavily in debt and doubts whether he will ever pull out of it." (John Rizzo [1919-1988] was then a Gambino Soldier under Peter 'Petey Pumps' Ferrara.)
In August 1968 an informant reported seeing Mannino's auto parked on Main St in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
In September 1968 included in the FBI's list of 205 identified Gambino Family members.
In November 1969 included in the FBI's list of 233 identified Gambino Family members.
Joseph Traina was by this point retired as Gambino Captain and had been succeeded by son Mario.
In October 1972 included in the FBI's list of 201 identified Gambino Family members.
In October 1973 included in the FBI's list of 196 identified Gambino Family members.
In or around March 1974 Angelo checked into Kings Park Psychiatric Center in Smithtown.
He died there on July 10 and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery located in Kew Gardens, Queens.
On April 26, 1975 Gambino Associate Edward Lino married Anna Mannino in Brooklyn.
In August an informant reported: "[CI] advised that [redacted] deceased Gambino Soldier, Angelo Mannino. Edward Lino has recently become involved in the construction company in which his deceased father-in-law had a financial interest in."
The source appears to be referring to the Traina crew member who died the previous year, however, Lino's father-in-law Vincent James (1911-2007) was born to Filippo Mannino from Montelepre, Palermo.
(Lino was part of a crew of Associates reporting directly to Family Underboss Aniello Dellacroce. During this time period he and others in the group were suspected of narcotics trafficking and multiple murders. He became a made member following John Gotti's takeover of the Family in 1986, rose to Captain, and was murdered in 1990 by NYPD Detectives operating on the Lucchese Family's payroll.)
In December 1975 posthumously included in the FBI's list of 192 identified Gambino Family members.
In January 1977 posthumously included in the FBI's list of 196 identified Gambino Family members.
