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Genovese crime family Springfield faction
The Springfield faction of the Genovese crime family is a group of Italian-American mobsters who control organized crime activities in the Springfield, Massachusetts area. The Springfield faction is a crew led by a caporegime who oversees illegal activities in racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking and extortion. Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Cufari was a Genovese family caporegime who became the most influential leader the Springfield faction in the 1940s.
Springfield, Massachusetts has been a Genovese territory since the family's earliest days. The most influential Genovese leaders from Springfield were Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Curfari, Francesco "Frankie Skyball" Scibelli, Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno, and Anthony Arillotta (turned informant 2009). In Worcester, Massachusetts, the most influential capos were Frank Iaconi and Carlo Mastrototaro. In Boston, Massachusetts, the New England or Patriarca crime family from Providence, Rhode Island, has long dominated the North End of Boston, but has been aligned with the Genovese family since the Prohibition era. In 2010, the FBI convinced Genovese mobsters Anthony Arillotta and Felix L. Tranghese to become government witnesses. They represent only the fourth and fifth Genovese made men to have cooperated with law enforcement. The government used Arillotta and Tranghese to prosecute capo Arthur "Artie" Nigro and his associates for the murder of Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno.
Carlo Siniscalchi was an immigrant Quindici, Italy who owned a candy store and by 1921 he had become a bootlegging kingpin. Antonio Miranda was a rival bootlegger of Siniscalchi's in Springfield at the time and his brother Mike Miranda was a part of the Luciano crime family. Siniscalchi was gunned down on December 20, 1921, by hitman Giuseppe Parisi. After the murder of Siniscalchi, Antonio Miranda took over almost all bootlegging operations in Springfield. The other bootlegging operations were run by Siniscalchi’s widowed wife, now Antonio Miranda’s wife, Pasqualina Albano.
Antonio Miranda died of blood poisoning in 1930 after dominating organized crime activities in Western Massachusetts for over 9 years. Miranda's funeral procession included 22 flower cars, 147 limousines and a shower of rose petals dropped overhead by airplane, according to news accounts from the time. After Miranda's death, Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Cufari took over the Springfield crew.
In 1933 Michele “Michael” Fiore, an associate close to Carlo Siniscalchi was shot to death in a South End barbershop. Dominic Rescigno was present but was only wounded.
Cufari was born January 31, 1901, in Bianco Nuovo, Reggio Calabria, in Italy. Cufari held sway over several underworld operations in parts of Eastern Connecticut and worked hand-in-glove with fellow Calabrian racketeer Francesco Iaconi, who was the reigning Genovese Caporegime in the nearby City of Worcester, Massachusetts. By the late 1930s and early 1940s, Cufari had developed the Springfield faction into one of the largest Cosa Nostra regimes in the American underworld. A local criminal, Francesco Scibelli, would become Cufari's most trusted associate and right-hand man. Scibelli's criminal record dates back to 1932. Among the crimes he went to prison for were extortion, illegally selling liquor—and providing illegal "gaming on the Lord’s Day,” according to law enforcement documents. Sam Cufari was arrested in 1943 for bookmaking. By 1948, he was the officially acknowledged head of Springfield, running his crew from his newly opened restaurant, Ciro's. Cufari's proteges included Adolfo Bruno, Felix Tranghese who was Scibelli's cousin. Francesco “Skyball” Scibelli's brothers Albert “Baba” Scibelli and Anthony Scibelli would also become loyal soldiers of the Springfield faction.
In 1961 Frankie Skyball was turned in to police by a nun, for running a gambling ring from the phone booths at Providence Hospital, a crime for which he served nineteen months in jail.
Victor DeCaro was a hairstylist and son-in-law of a Francesco "Skyball" Scibelli with a manslaughter conviction. He disappeared outside a bar he owned in Agawam, Massachusetts in May, 1972 allegedly about a romantic entanglement with the wife of Salvatore “Big Nose Sam” Cufari. DeCaro's body turned up July 3, 1972, in the Connecticut River in Windsor, Connecticut, wrapped in a tarpaulin.
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Genovese crime family Springfield faction
The Springfield faction of the Genovese crime family is a group of Italian-American mobsters who control organized crime activities in the Springfield, Massachusetts area. The Springfield faction is a crew led by a caporegime who oversees illegal activities in racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking and extortion. Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Cufari was a Genovese family caporegime who became the most influential leader the Springfield faction in the 1940s.
Springfield, Massachusetts has been a Genovese territory since the family's earliest days. The most influential Genovese leaders from Springfield were Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Curfari, Francesco "Frankie Skyball" Scibelli, Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno, and Anthony Arillotta (turned informant 2009). In Worcester, Massachusetts, the most influential capos were Frank Iaconi and Carlo Mastrototaro. In Boston, Massachusetts, the New England or Patriarca crime family from Providence, Rhode Island, has long dominated the North End of Boston, but has been aligned with the Genovese family since the Prohibition era. In 2010, the FBI convinced Genovese mobsters Anthony Arillotta and Felix L. Tranghese to become government witnesses. They represent only the fourth and fifth Genovese made men to have cooperated with law enforcement. The government used Arillotta and Tranghese to prosecute capo Arthur "Artie" Nigro and his associates for the murder of Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno.
Carlo Siniscalchi was an immigrant Quindici, Italy who owned a candy store and by 1921 he had become a bootlegging kingpin. Antonio Miranda was a rival bootlegger of Siniscalchi's in Springfield at the time and his brother Mike Miranda was a part of the Luciano crime family. Siniscalchi was gunned down on December 20, 1921, by hitman Giuseppe Parisi. After the murder of Siniscalchi, Antonio Miranda took over almost all bootlegging operations in Springfield. The other bootlegging operations were run by Siniscalchi’s widowed wife, now Antonio Miranda’s wife, Pasqualina Albano.
Antonio Miranda died of blood poisoning in 1930 after dominating organized crime activities in Western Massachusetts for over 9 years. Miranda's funeral procession included 22 flower cars, 147 limousines and a shower of rose petals dropped overhead by airplane, according to news accounts from the time. After Miranda's death, Salvatore "Big Nose Sam" Cufari took over the Springfield crew.
In 1933 Michele “Michael” Fiore, an associate close to Carlo Siniscalchi was shot to death in a South End barbershop. Dominic Rescigno was present but was only wounded.
Cufari was born January 31, 1901, in Bianco Nuovo, Reggio Calabria, in Italy. Cufari held sway over several underworld operations in parts of Eastern Connecticut and worked hand-in-glove with fellow Calabrian racketeer Francesco Iaconi, who was the reigning Genovese Caporegime in the nearby City of Worcester, Massachusetts. By the late 1930s and early 1940s, Cufari had developed the Springfield faction into one of the largest Cosa Nostra regimes in the American underworld. A local criminal, Francesco Scibelli, would become Cufari's most trusted associate and right-hand man. Scibelli's criminal record dates back to 1932. Among the crimes he went to prison for were extortion, illegally selling liquor—and providing illegal "gaming on the Lord’s Day,” according to law enforcement documents. Sam Cufari was arrested in 1943 for bookmaking. By 1948, he was the officially acknowledged head of Springfield, running his crew from his newly opened restaurant, Ciro's. Cufari's proteges included Adolfo Bruno, Felix Tranghese who was Scibelli's cousin. Francesco “Skyball” Scibelli's brothers Albert “Baba” Scibelli and Anthony Scibelli would also become loyal soldiers of the Springfield faction.
In 1961 Frankie Skyball was turned in to police by a nun, for running a gambling ring from the phone booths at Providence Hospital, a crime for which he served nineteen months in jail.
Victor DeCaro was a hairstylist and son-in-law of a Francesco "Skyball" Scibelli with a manslaughter conviction. He disappeared outside a bar he owned in Agawam, Massachusetts in May, 1972 allegedly about a romantic entanglement with the wife of Salvatore “Big Nose Sam” Cufari. DeCaro's body turned up July 3, 1972, in the Connecticut River in Windsor, Connecticut, wrapped in a tarpaulin.