- Anthony Urso
Anthony "Tony Green" Urso (b. 1937
Franklin Square, New York ) is a high-ranking member within theBonanno crime family in New York.Criminal & made member
According to US law enforcement, Urso was identified as a made member of the
Bonanno crime family from the year of 1988. Reputedly a lower associate of Joseph "Big Joe" Massino, then the powerfulUnderboss , Urso would become involved in various criminal activities as the 1990s proved to be very lucrative for the Bonanno family. Urso, ofEast Meadow ,Long Island , was promoted tocaporegime of the family sometime in the 1990s, as Massino took over after Philip "Rusty" Rastelli's death. [http://www.geocities.com/OrganizedCrimeSyndicates/BonannoFamily.html]Capo under Massino
As
Joseph Massino expanded a very shaken crime family in the early 1990s, Urso reportedly went under the radar for over a decade, while operating with criminal activities in various places all over New York. A powerful Bonanno figure heavily involved inextortion andloansharking operations, Urso was soon favored by Massino and Underboss Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale during the 1990s. [http://ganglandnews.com/column366.htm]Acting Boss
However, in 2003, Massino, Vitale and dozens of
Bonanno crime family members were arrested and indicted for committing various criminal activities in violation of theRacketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act . As Massino was removed off the streets, he promoted Urso to Acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, and to run its day-to-day activities with the remaining captains. With Massino's in court, he used his lawyer to communicate with Urso, and even used his lawyer's office as a meeting place with Urso, Vitale and Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano, however, when Underboss Vitale decided to turn state's evidence, as well as another two caporegimes also began to cooperate, Urso soon became a target for US law enforcement. Especially when a taped conversation took place between him and capo Joseph "Joe Saunders" Cammarano, where Urso proposed to murder the children to the ones turning on the Cosa Nostra. [http://www.geocities.com/OrganizedCrimeSyndicates/BonannoFamily.html] [http://ganglandnews.com/column366.htm]Downfall and prison
However, with more than one taped conversation including Urso discussing
murder ,extortion andracketeering with other members of theBonanno crime family , US law enforcement indicted Urso, Cammarano and twenty five others within the Bonanno crime family on twenty counts ofracketeering charges in January of 2004. Urso was charged with acts of extortion, loansharking,illegal gambling and conspiracy to murderAnthony Tomasulo , who was murdered in May 1990 for failing to pay a portion of the receipts of illegal joker-poker gambling machines to the Bonanno family. With several captains turning state's evidence, Urso facedlife imprisonment if convicted. In early 2004, Urso pled guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. As of October, 2008, Urso is incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) inElkton, Ohio . His projected release-date isDecember 5 ,2021 . [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=Urso&Middle=&FirstName=Anthony&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=0&y=0] [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0DD1339F932A15752C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all]External links
*http://ganglandnews.com/column366.htm
*http://ganglandnews.com/column387.htm
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*http://www.geocities.com/OrganizedCrimeSyndicates/BonannoFamily.html
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