- Edward Barberra
Edward Barberra-Barberro is a New York mobster who is an associate of the
Bonanno crime family . Before working for the Bonannos, Barberra worked with theLucchese crime family under caporegimePaul Vario .Biography
As an adolescent, Barberra hung out with mobster and future informant Henry Hill, then being groomed for the mob by Vario. Eventually, Vario hired Barberra as an armed escort for patrons of his floating
craps games inBensonhurst, Brooklyn . As a courtesy to the big winners, Barberra andFrank Sorace would drive them home. The two mobsters would sit in theirCadillac outside Peter "The Killer" Abbandante's social club until the craps games ended in the early morning hours.Later on, Barberra was implicated in the murder of a
African-American mugger . The man had attempted to rob Theresa Bovina, a young teenager in Barberra's neighborhood. Barberra, Abbandante, Sorace, andPeter Morales caught the mugger, dragged him to the roof of Bovina's apartment building, and threw him over the edge. Barberra was tried for his murder, but was never convicted. In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Barberra joined theBonanno crime family and worked underDominick Napolitano and laterLouis Attanasio . In 1985, Barberra was arrested during a failed armed bank robbery inAtlanta, Georgia and sentenced to twenty years in prison. Barberra was released sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s and continued his criminal career. In October1996, Barberra and Attanasio pled guilty to attempting to extort $2,500 from aloanshark victim who had fallen behind in gambling debts.References
*Pileggi, Nicholas, "Wiseguy: Life In A Mafia Family", Corgi (1987) ISBN 055213094X
External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/americanmafioso_bonanno/caporegime.html AMERICAN MAFIOSO Bonanno Family Capo Regime (Louis "Ha-Ha" Attanasio)]
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