Talk:Victor Amuso

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Bad Info, Instead of doing re-writes I decided to post on the discussion page, I think it's a more constructive action than just going in and doing re-writes and corrections to an article somebody put alot of work into.

First off the Lucchese crime family, formerly known as the Reina and Gagliano crime families prior to Tommy Gagliano underboss Tommy Luchese taking over officially in 1953 (acting boss since 1951), was never a Quuens based mafia group. The Reina-Gagliano-Luchese regimes were all based in the Bronx, where the crime family's leadship had been based since the 1920s under Gaetano "Tommy" Reina and his underboss Gaetano "Tommy" Gagliano. The power in this crime family stayed in the Bronx right into the Corallo-Santoro regime and only changed under the Amuso-Casso regime in 1987, when the leadership became Brooklyn based for the first time.

Vic Amuso was not a Queens based wiseguy, even if he was born there he has always been a Brooklyn based wiseguy. Amuso was never an official Profaci/Colombo crime family associate, he was never a member of the Red Hook, Brooklyn crew run by Joe Gallo and his brothers Larry and Albert. Amuso never took part in the Profaci/Colombo crime family war between the Gallo brothers and boss Joe Profaci. Amuso began his criminal career under Bensonhurst, Brooklyn based wiseguy Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari from the time he started coming up in the New York mafia. Furnari was Amuso's mentor since he was in his 20s, meaning Amuso was on record with or under the protection of Furnari since the 1950s, but he was not made until the mid 1970s, most likely 1976. From his relationship with Furnari Vic Amuso became the driver for acting boss carmine "Mr. Gribbs" Tramunti as ge was rising through the ranks of the crime family. Amuso has always been in good company within the Lucchese crime family. The New York mafia had closed it's books since the 1950s and did not open them for membership for over 20 years, not until the 1970s, so Amuso was not made until the 1970s.

Next, Vic Amuso was a caporegime in 1985 and nobody's driver and bodyguard. Anthony "Buddy" Loungo was a Bronx based capo, and imprisoned boss Tony Corallo was clearly trying to keep the crime family's leadership and the power in the Bronx, where it had been for almost 70 years. Amuso was a close associate of Luongo's and thus was able to gain his trust and as the rumor goes, eventually murder him. Tony Corallo's regime was finished, he, along with underboss Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santor and consigliere Christie "Tic" Furnari were jailed for 100 years. Furnari supported the takee-over by Amuso and Casso and the murder of Luongo was basically a message to Corallo and others that they were taking over. Corallo did not have the support within the family to oppose them and didn't want to be bothered. This is when Vic Amuso was named the official boss, soon after the Commission trial sentences came down and Corallo and his underboss Santoro were given 100 years in January 1987.

Also, Joseph "Little Joe" DeFede did not become acting boss until the latter part of 1993, closer to 1994, prior to this, from 1991-93 the crime family was run by a ruling panel/committee of caporegimes and the consigliere. During the 1990s Neil Migliore was and still is one of the most influential capos in the crime family, but he is not a Bronx based capo, his operations are based out of Manhattan and Long Island and he has operations in South Florida, where he went into self-imposed exile in the late 1980s after the imprisonment of boss Tony Corallo, when all the internal strife and conflict in the crime family began. In the late 1980s Migliore could see the writing on the walls and knew that he could be in danger. Being a former right-hand-man and close ally of former boss Tony Corallo, Migliore most likely knew that current bosses Vic Amuso and Tony Casso would consider him a threat to their leadership. Migliore is an influential capo, a former Corallo ally and a Bronx faction member, and after the murder of Buddy Luongo Amuso and Casso felt Migliore was the only one left who could rally the former Corallo allies and supporters to his side and oppose the Amuso-Casso regime. This is why there was an attempt on the life of Migliore, but after Migliore healed from his wounds he kept a low profile and spent alot of time in Florida. Roughly around the start of the new millennium is when Migliore made his position within the crime family felt once more. He was not directly involved with the Brooklyn-Bronx faction conflict. After the attempt on Migliore's life the Brooklyn-Bronx conflict lay mainly with Brooklyn based consigiere Frank Lastorino and Bronx based underboss Steven Crea. This conflict did not last more than a couple years, from 1992 roughly through 1994, ending when several key members of the Brooklyn faction were indicted and sent to prison, including Lastorino.

Lastly, I made some minor corrections and did my best to clean up the Amuso bio, but the corrections I made were aimed more towards grammar and sentence structure more than incorrect information. I will eave that to the author or section moderators to fix once they decide whether or not some of the info I have mentioned is correct or incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Little Joe Shots 19:43, August 9, 2009


 * This article needs to rewritten, with references. --Vic49 (talk)  17:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

relative of vic, want to see him
Want to see him. 2601:981:C07F:8FF0:64CA:3CC3:9AC:C0E2 (talk) 02:09, 27 April 2022 (UTC)