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Joseph Charles Massino (January 10, 1943 – September 14, 2023) was an American mobster. He was a member of the Mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family from 1991 until 2004, when he became the first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence.
Sep 22, 2023 · Former Bonanno crime family boss Joseph “Big Joey” Massino — the first head of one of New York’s five mob families to ever turn rat — died earlier this month after battling a short illness, it...
Apr 14, 2024 · As head of the Bonanno family in the 1990s, "Big Joey" Massino was one of New York's most powerful mob bosses — until he turned state’s evidence. During the 1990s, Joe Massino became known as "The Last Don" because he was the only Mafia boss of New York's Five Families who wasn't in prison.
Former Bonanno crime family boss Joseph “Big Joey” Massino — the first head of one of New York’s five mob families to ever turn rat — died earlier this month after battling a short illness, it...
Jul 11, 2013 · A federal judge commuted the sentence of Joseph C. Massino, a former Bonanno crime family leader who broke the code of silence, and he will be released from federal custody in 60 days.
Joseph “Big Joey” Massino, the former boss of the Bonanno mafia family and first head of a mob family to turn rat, died earlier this month at the age of 80, sources close to his family told...
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Sep 22, 2023 · Joseph Massino, the low-key Mafia boss who stunned the world of organized crime in 2005 when it was revealed he had become a government witness, has died after a short illness, sources...
Jul 11, 2013 · NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Joseph Massino was the highest ranking mobster ever to turn government informant, having served as boss of the infamous Bonanno family. But...
Jul 10, 2013 · NEW YORK (AP) — Shortly after his conviction for overseeing a quarter-century’s worth of murder and other crimes as head of the Bonanno organized crime family, Joseph Massino did the unthinkable for an old-school mobster: He told prosecutors he was ready to break the Mafia’s code of silence.
Apr 12, 2011 · Joseph C. Massino, the first American Mafia chief to defect to the federal authorities, made his debut on the witness stand at a Brooklyn murder trial.
