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Christopher Furnari

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Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari, Sr. (1924 – May 28, 2018) was a Lucchese crime family mobster. [1]

60 relations: Allenwood, Pennsylvania, Alphonse D'Arco, Anthony Casso, Anthony Corallo, Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa, Apparatchik, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Beretta, Bonanno crime family, Brain tumor, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Carmine Galante, Carmine Tramunti, Colombo crime family, Consigliere, Counterfeit, Crime family, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Five Families, Furnari, Gaetano Reina, Gaming law, Habeas corpus, Illegal drug trade, Italian Americans, Italians, Jaguar Cars, List of U.S. federal prisons, Loan shark, Lucchese crime family, Made man, Mafia Commission Trial, Manhattan, Marat Balagula, Michael Franzese, Myocardial infarction, New Jersey, New York City Police Department, Parole, Peter Chiodo, Philip Carlo, Province of Messina, Racket (crime), Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, Salvatore Avellino, Salvatore Santoro, Sicily, ..., Soviet Union, The Bronx, Tommy Gagliano, Tommy Lucchese, Ukrainians, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States Parole Commission, Victor Amuso, Vladimir Reznikov, 9×19mm Parabellum. Expand index (10 more) »

Allenwood, Pennsylvania

Allenwood (also called Union Town) is a census-designated place in Gregg Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.

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Alphonse D'Arco

Alphonse "Little Al" D'Arco (born July 28, 1932), also known as "The Professor", is a New York mobster who became the acting boss of the Lucchese crime family.

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Anthony Casso

Anthony Salvatore Casso (born May 21, 1942) is an American mobster and former underboss of the Lucchese crime family.

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Anthony Corallo

Antonio "Tony Ducks" Corallo (February 12, 1913 – August 23, 2000) was a New York City mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.

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Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa

Anthony Senter and Joseph Testa, better known as the Gemini twins, are two mobsters in the Lucchese crime family.

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Apparatchik

An apparatchik (аппара́тчик), in Russian colloquial terms also borrowed widely into other languages, was a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or the Soviet government apparat (аппарат, apparatus), someone who held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management called nomenklatura.

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Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Bensonhurst is a large, multiethnic neighborhood in the southwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the United States.

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Beretta

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta (literally, "Pietro Beretta Arms Factory") is a privately held Italian firearms manufacturing company operating in several countries.

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Bonanno crime family

The Bonanno crime family (pronounced) is one of the Five Families that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).

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Brain tumor

A brain tumor occurs when abnormal cells form within the brain.

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Brighton Beach

Brighton Beach is an oceanside neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, along the Coney Island peninsula.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Carmine Galante

Carmine Galante (pronounced gah-LAN-tay), also known as "Lilo" and "Cigar" (February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979), was a mobster and boss of the Bonanno crime family.

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Carmine Tramunti

Carmine "Mr.

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Colombo crime family

The Colombo crime family (pronounced) is the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal organization known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).

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Consigliere

Consigliere (plural consiglieri) is a position within the leadership structure of the Sicilian, Calabrian and American Mafia.

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Counterfeit

The counterfeit means to imitate something.

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Crime family

A crime family is a unit of an organized crime syndicate, particularly the Mafia (both in Sicily and in the United States), often operating within a specific geographic territory.

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Dyker Heights, Brooklyn

Dyker Heights is an affluent residential neighborhood in the southwest corner of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, US.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a United States federal law enforcement agency.

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Five Families

The Five Families are the five major New York City organized crime families of the Italian American Mafia.

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Furnari

Furnari (Sicilian: Fùrnari) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about east of Palermo and about west of Messina.

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Gaetano Reina

Gaetano "Tommy" Reina (September 27, 1889 – February 26, 1930) was a Sicilian-born American gangster and founder of the Lucchese crime family in New York City.

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Gaming law

Gaming law is the set of rules and regulations that apply to the gaming or gambling industry.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus (Medieval Latin meaning literally "that you have the body") is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws.

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Italian Americans

Italian Americans (italoamericani or italo-americani) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy.

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Italians

The Italians (Italiani) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation native to the Italian peninsula.

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Jaguar Cars

Jaguar is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England and owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008.

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List of U.S. federal prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons classifies prisons into several categories.

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Loan shark

A loan shark is a person or body who offers loans at extremely high interest rates usually without holding relevant authorization from the local financial regulator (illegally).

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Lucchese crime family

The Lucchese crime family (pronounced) is one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).

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Made man

In the American Mafia, a made man is a fully initiated member of the Mafia.

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Mafia Commission Trial

The Mafia Commission Trial (February 25, 1985 – November 19, 1986), officially known as United States v. Anthony Salerno, et al., was a criminal trial in New York City, United States.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marat Balagula

Marat Yakovlevich Balagula (Марат Яковлевич Балагула; born September 8, 1943) is a Russian American former mob boss and associate of the Lucchese crime family.

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Michael Franzese

Michael "Yuppie Don" Franzese (born May 27, 1951) is a former New York mobster and caporegime of the Colombo crime family who was heavily involved in the gasoline tax rackets in the 1980s.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York City Police Department

The City of New York Police Department, commonly known as the NYPD, is the primary law enforcement and investigation agency within the five boroughs of New York City.

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Parole

Parole is a temporary release of a prisoner who agrees to certain conditions before the completion of the maximum sentence period, originating from the French parole ("voice, spoken words").

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Peter Chiodo

Peter "Fat Pete" Chiodo (1951–2016) was a capo in the Lucchese crime family who later became a government witness.

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Philip Carlo

Philip Carlo (April 18, 1949 – November 8, 2010) was an American journalist and best selling biographer of Thomas Pitera, Richard Kuklinski, Anthony Casso, and Richard Ramirez.

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Province of Messina

Messina (Italian: Provincia di Messina; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Missina) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy.

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Racket (crime)

A racket is a planned or organized criminal act, usually in which the criminal act is a form of business or a way to earn illegal or extorted money regularly or briefly but repeatedly.

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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.

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Salvatore Avellino

Salvatore Avellino Jr. (born November 19, 1935 St. James, New York), also known as "Sal" is a mobster and former caporegime in the Lucchese crime family who was involved in labor racketeering in the garbage and waste management industry in Long Island, New York.

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Salvatore Santoro

Salvatore T. "Tom Mix" Santoro, Sr. (November 18, 1915 Bureau of Narcotics, Sam Giancana, The United States Treasury Department. Mafia: The Government’s Secret File on Organized Crime. 2007. – January 2000)Capeci, Jerry.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia; Sicìlia) is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Tommy Gagliano

Tommaso "Tommy" Gagliano (May 29, 1883 − February 16, 1951)Critchley, p.148-149 was an American mobster and boss of what U.S. federal authorities would later designate as the Lucchese crime family, one of the "Five Families" of New York City.

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Tommy Lucchese

Thomas "Tommy" Lucchese (pronounced; born Gaetano Lucchese, December 1, 1899 – July 13, 1967) was a Sicilian-born American gangster and founding member of the Mafia in the United States, an offshoot of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily.

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Ukrainians

Ukrainians (українці, ukrayintsi) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is by total population the sixth-largest nation in Europe.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (in case citations, 3d Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts.

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United States Parole Commission

The United States Parole Commission is the parole board responsible to grant or deny parole and to supervise those released on parole to incarcerated individuals who come under its jurisdiction.

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Victor Amuso

Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso (born 1934 Canarsie, Brooklyn) is a New York mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family.

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Vladimir Reznikov

Vladimir Reznikov (died June 13, 1986, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City) was a Russian American gangster.

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9×19mm Parabellum

The 9×19mm Parabellum is a firearms cartridge that was designed by Georg Luger and introduced in 1902 by the German weapons manufacturer Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) (German Weapons and Munitions Factory) for their Luger semi-automatic pistol.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Furnari

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