Dominick Canterino

FBI surveillance photograph of Canterino (left) walking the streets of Greenwich Village, with Vincent Gigante.

Dominick "Baldy Dom" Canterino was a Caporegime in the Genovese crime family.^[1]

A Genovese captain from Bensonhurst who ran the family's Greenwich Village Crew, Canterino was a regular at Sullivan Street's Triangle Social Club, the defacto headquarters of the Genovese family. FBI surveillance regularly spotted Canterino at 3:00 am, driving Genovese boss Vincent Gigante to a friend's townhouse in Manhattan.^[2] Canterino once told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that he worked as a dockworker, foreman, and once "did time as a thief." An FBI report also notes, "Canterino discussed the problems of being married and having a girlfriend on the side, which included having to split time between the two on holidays.

In December 1988, Canterino and Morris Levy, president of Roulette Records, were convicted of conspiring to extort $1.25 million from Pennsylvania record producer Frank LaMonte in Camden, New Jersey^[3] Canterino was sentence to 12 years in prison.^[4]

On May 31, 1990, Canterino was indicted for racketeering in the famous Windows Case.^[5] Through their control of a local construction union, the Genovese and three other New York crime families were fixing prices (and allocating work) that contractors offered the New York Housing Authority for installing new thermal pane windows in city housing projects. The mob families grossed tens of millions of dollars from these contracts.

After the trial had begun, Canterino suffered a heart attack and was dropped from the case.^[6] Canterino died soon after.

References

1. ^ Feron, James (13 June 1989). "5 Are Indicted As Participants In Rackets Ring - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/13/nyregion/5-are-indicted-as-participants-in-rackets-ring.html?scp=9&sq=Dominick%20Canterino&st=cse. Retrieved 10 September 2010. 
2. ^ "Strange Old Man on Sullivan St. - New Mob Power - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. 3 February 1988. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/03/nyregion/strange-old-man-on-sullivan-st-new-mob-power.html?scp=11&sq=Dominick%20Canterino&st=cse&pagewanted=3. Retrieved 10 September 2010. 
3. ^ "Testimony About Links To The Mob Not Allowed In U.S. Record Trial" By George Anastasia Philly.Com May 18, 1988
4. ^ "Questions Linger On Mob Links To Music World" By George Anastasia Philly.Com November 08, 1988
5. ^ "Suspected New York Mob Leaders Are Indicted in Contract Rigging - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. 31 May 1990. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/31/nyregion/suspected-new-york-mob-leaders-are-indicted-in-contract-rigging.html?scp=13&sq=Dominick%20Canterino&st=cse&pagewanted=2. Retrieved 10 September 2010. 
6. ^ "Prosecution Summation in Bid-Rigging Trial" By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH New York Times September 29, 1991

• Spin Magazine "Back in the Days of 88" December 1988

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