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| Sep. 1935 |
Albany, New York PD mugshot of Future Lucchese Boss Antonio 'Tony Ducks' Corallo (1914-2000) following an arrest for consorting.
Born in East Harlem to parents from Paterno comune of Catania, Sicily, twenty-one-year-old Corallo was picked up by Narcotics Squad Detectives in the company of David Cohen and Joseph Stallon.
Arrest report noted: "[All] of these men were picked up at the corner of Madison Ave., and Fulton St., 9/28/35."
Two days later pleaded not guilty and remanded to the local jail.
On October 5 changed plea to guilty, given six month suspended sentence and ordered to leave town.
At the time of arrest Corallo, listing residence at 335 E 100th St in East Harlem, was using a Ford Coupe registered to John Gazzola of 312 E 105th.
John may have been the younger brother of Joseph 'Dogs' Gazzola (1904-1991) who, in July 1931, was shot and wounded while driving an auto with license plates registered to Corallo. When questioned by police Corallo claimed he had been swimming at the time of the shooting.
Corallo was an inducted member of the Lucchese Family by the 1950s and a Captain by the end of that decade.
He was demoted for a time in the mid-1960s before regaining the title.
In the mid-1970s he served as Acting Boss for the imprisoned Carmine 'Gribbs' Tramunti and was later elected official Boss following Tramunti's death in 1978.
Facing conviction in the Commission case, he voluntarily stepped down in the fall of 1986 and was replaced by Vittorio 'Vic' Amuso.
He died August 23, 2000 while serving his one-hundred year sentence, received as a result of that case, at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
Born in East Harlem to parents from Paterno comune of Catania, Sicily, twenty-one-year-old Corallo was picked up by Narcotics Squad Detectives in the company of David Cohen and Joseph Stallon.
Arrest report noted: "[All] of these men were picked up at the corner of Madison Ave., and Fulton St., 9/28/35."
Two days later pleaded not guilty and remanded to the local jail.
On October 5 changed plea to guilty, given six month suspended sentence and ordered to leave town.
At the time of arrest Corallo, listing residence at 335 E 100th St in East Harlem, was using a Ford Coupe registered to John Gazzola of 312 E 105th.
John may have been the younger brother of Joseph 'Dogs' Gazzola (1904-1991) who, in July 1931, was shot and wounded while driving an auto with license plates registered to Corallo. When questioned by police Corallo claimed he had been swimming at the time of the shooting.
Corallo was an inducted member of the Lucchese Family by the 1950s and a Captain by the end of that decade.
He was demoted for a time in the mid-1960s before regaining the title.
In the mid-1970s he served as Acting Boss for the imprisoned Carmine 'Gribbs' Tramunti and was later elected official Boss following Tramunti's death in 1978.
Facing conviction in the Commission case, he voluntarily stepped down in the fall of 1986 and was replaced by Vittorio 'Vic' Amuso.
He died August 23, 2000 while serving his one-hundred year sentence, received as a result of that case, at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
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