Aniello Napolitano

Aniello Napolitano a.k.a. "Neil"" was an Italian-American drug trafficker and Gambino crime family mob associate born (Greenpoint, Brooklyn c.a. 1960) was one of the three sons fathered by the Bonanno crime family capo Dominick Napolitano and involved in trafficking steroids. Aniello operated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida under the powerful capo Andrew Ruggiano. He is the nephew of Bonanno crime family mobster Carmine Napolitano.

Biography

Aniello was named after the Italian baroque painter Aniello Falcone. The authorities in Miami, Florida considered Aniello "small-time" but to be the most intelligent and criminal suave out of the brothers and a leader who would be successful in rising through the ranks of the La Cosa Nostra. His father Dominick told his fellow mobsters all the time how he loved his sons very much. But Joseph Pistone would later say that Dominick cared more for his prized messenger pigeons than his three sons. Their father was also a notorious womanizer who cheating on their mother and became estranged from her. Aniello had his father and an uncle from his father's side, Carmine Napolitano actively involved in the Bonnano crime family. In 1981 it was discovered that Joseph Pistone, a FBI Special Agent had infiltrated the Greenpoint, Brooklyn street crew of their father, Dominick. It was considered bad blood lineage by fellow mobsters. (Their father was subsequently executed following the investigation into the Bonanno crime family in 1981).

References

"Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia" by Joseph D. Pistone