The family lived in Little Italy across from his social club but later moved to Grasmere, Staten Island. He was also the great uncle of John Ruggiero Jr. Dellacroce chose to remain out of the spotlight and also allegedly used a body double for some public events. As a religious man he once murdered a man who was dressed as a priest. Everyone already knew who he was.
In Dellacroce was promoted to underboss. The police however disturbed the meeting and arrested 13 men, including Dellacroce.
He was cited for contempt and received a one year prison sentence. On May 2, , Dellacroce was indicted on federal tax evasion charges after he accepted 22, shares of Yankee Plastics Company stock in return for peace with its labor force which he controlled.
In he was sentenced to five years in prison. On October 15, Gambino boss Carlo Gambino died. Following mafia tradition the boss of the family is to appoint a predecessor. It was widely presumed Dellacroce would become the new boss, however Gambino appointed his cousin Paul Castellano as the new boss shocking many in the family.
He remained the underboss of the Gambino family and inherited the control of traditional criminal activities, such as robbery, hijacking and extortion, in Manhattan; an order from Gambino to Castellano before his death. Castellano was known as a businessman and not a gangster and this irritated members of the family.
When he banned drug dealing within the family, several Dellacroce underlings became infuriated. One such underling was capo John Gotti , who made a considerable amount of money in drugs. In popular culture this murder was played out in the hit movie Donnie Brasco.
He and other leaders of the New York mob were indicted on March 28, , as part of the Mafia Commission investigation. Dellacroce would never make it to court. He died on December 2, of lung cancer at the age of Dellacroce bought the Ravenite Social Club in Little Italy, which soon became a popular Gambino social club and Dellacroce's headquarters. On October 25, , gunmen murdered Anastasia in a Manhattan hotel barbershop.
Underboss Carlo Gambino took over the family. Gambino was suspected of plotting Anastasia's murder with Lucchese crime family boss Tommy Lucchese and Luciano crime family caporegime Vito Genovese. Dellacroce was a strong Anastasia supporter. However, he was an old-school mobster who believed in loyalty to the family and its boss, and chose to pledge loyalty to Gambino. In , Gambino removed the aging Joseph Biondo from his underboss position and appointed Dellacroce to replace him.
In , Dellacroce was sentenced to one year in state prison on contempt charges for refusing to answer grand jury questions about organized crime. On May 2, , Dellacroce was indicted on federal tax evasion charges. He was indicted on a failure to pay federal income tax on these stocks.
In March , Dellacroce was convicted of Tax evasion and sentenced to five years in prison. It was widely presumed that Dellacroce was Gambino's heir apparent. However, on his deathbed in , Gambino announced to the family that his cousin and brother-in-law, Paul Castellano , would be the new family boss.
Dellacroce and many of his supporters were angered with Gambino's choice; although Castellano had been a major earner for the family for many years, Dellacroce and others saw him as a businessman rather than a gangster. To appease Dellacroce, Gambino persuaded Castellano to agree to keep Dellacroce as underboss. In , Gambino died and Castellano became boss. Always the loyal family man, Dellacroce pledged his loyalty to Castellano. In return, Castellano gave Dellacroce control of the traditional criminal activities, such as robbery, hijacking and extortion, in Manhattan.
Castellano continued to enforce Gambino's ban on drug dealing in the family. This ban created a dispute within the family when members of caporegime John Gotti 's crew were indicted on conspiracy to distribute heroin. However, Dellacroce refused to even consider a move against Castellano, and his underlings did not rebel until Dellacroce's death out of respect; despite Castellano's intention to have these offending members killed.
On March 28, , Dellacroce was indicted on federal racketeering charges regarding the activities of two crews in New York and Long Island over the previous 18 years. However, by this time Dellacroce was already very sick and would not live to attend either trial. The hit took place just two weeks after the death of Neil Dellacroce. The unsanctioned assassination of Castellano by John Gotti would spark years of animosity between the Gambinos and the other New York crime families. Dellacroce was buried in St.
John's Cemetery in Queens. After Dellacroce's death, Gotti and his supporters no longer felt constrained against attacking Castellano. In addition, Castellano's refusal to visit Dellacroce when he was dying, or attend his funeral, reportedly enraged Gotti. On December 16, , just two weeks after Dellacroce's death, gunmen assassinated Castellano and his new underboss Thomas Bilotti outside Sparks Steak House in Manhattan.
Gotti then took over as boss of the Gambino family. He had been convicted of racketeering and had failed to appear for sentencing in March. The cause of death was listed as cirrhosis and a cocaine overdose. Updated on Sep 21, Edit Like Comment Share. More Alchetron Topics.
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