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= Marty Buenovito =

Martín Benovsky, known more commonly as Marty "Niceguy" Buenovito, is a Slovak-Italian-American mobster and reputed Boss of the DeCavalcante crime family, New Jersey, U.S.A.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons place Buenovito as a white male, 195 cm tall, 118 kg in weight, with receding dark blonde-brown-grey hair worn long.

Early life
Buenovito was born on August 16th 1973 (42 years old) in Bratislava to a Slovak mother (Benova) and Italian migrant father (Buenovito). He was the second oldest of four children - two boys and two girls. At the age of 4 he moved with his family to Split, Croatia.Three years later at the age of 7 the family moved to Besonhurst, a largely Italian-American community in Brooklyn, New York City, along with the family of his future wife Andrea Vaspucca, who were Czech-Italians.

By the age of 14 Buenovito was involved with numerous juvenile delinquent activities and was arrested several times for posessing methamphetamine, for public drunkenness, joyriding and larceny.

In 1989 Buenovito forged documents from Columbia University to join the United States invasion of Panama as part of a chemical and mechanical reconnaissance unit (C&R) - to avoid prosecution for the armed robbery of a high stakes backdoor poker game connected with the Colombo crime family. After returning from Panama Buenovito found his family heavily indebted to Colombo mafiosi as a result of his robbery the previous year. Buenovito struck a deal with one of the made men (James "Jimmy Green Eyes" Clemenza) to work as one of his associates for 12 months, to pay off the debt.

Colombo associate
Having joined the ranks of the many Colombo crime associates, or "Wiseguys", Buenovito became involved in various street level activities during the winter of 1990 with Anthony "Chucky" Russo, mainly larceny, hijacking, armed robbery, auto-theft and cat burglary. However after several close shaves with the law out in the street, Buenovito and Russo were cornered while on a safe-cracking venture in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Buenovito evaded the police undetected after a high-speed car chase across Brooklyn bridge, however was forced to leave Russo to be arrested when he broke his leg jumping from a window.

By 1992 Marty Buenovito was still with the Colombo's - even though his 12 month 'contract' had expired over a year ago. Working under Vincent DeMartino he was now practically living at the crew's base of operations and favourite hangout - a small Italian delicatessen cafe called "Tali's" which his father, Anthony Buenovito, passed on an almost daily basis. His activities now involved protection racketeering and loansharking, which resulted in another 6 arrests for assault, grievous bodily harm and extortion in 1992. He was never charged, however, for any of the crimes.

Joseph Cantellini murder
In July 1993, fellow Colombo associate (to a lesser extent than Buenovito, however) Joseph Cantellini discovered Buenovito had slept with his wife Lydia in the Besonhurst "Ravenite Club" where he had an office. In a fit of rage, Cantellini attacked Buenovito at the Tali cafe with a baseball bat and 18" machete. After being wounded in both arms, Buenovito managed to subdue Cantellini and tie him to a chair in the back part of the cafe. DeMartino arrived shortly afterwards, and according to mob rat Rocco Cagno who was playing snooker in the room at the time, DeMartino shot Cantellini dead and ordered Buenovito and Cagno to dismember the body and place the remains in assorted dumpsters. DeMartino was charged and imprisoned for unlawful discharge of weapons shortly afterwards, but law enforcement were unaware of the murder that had taken place.

Frantisek "Franky" Novikovsky murder
December, 1993. Buenovito and made man Anthony Russo were on a routine debt-collection to apartments in Jersey City, New Jersey, along with DeCavalcante soldier Robert Bisaccia - they intended to go to Bisaccia's nephew's wedding reception straight afterwards. Upon arrival, however, Franky Novikovsky told them he didn't have the money to pay the debt. As it was only his first warning, Russo told him they would be back in several days. However, before they left, Buenovito tripped on an empty bottle of expensive Iordona vodka (which he estimated worth as much as $3,000). Russo became angry, asking the drunken Novikovsky how he had the money to pay for such luxuries. At some point, a melee ensued, during which Russo was stabbed, and Bisaccia and Buenovito crushed Novikovsky's windpipe. With Russo insisting he would drive himself to hospital, Buenovito and Bisaccia bundled Novikovsky into the boot of a car, and drove down to South Jersey, to the snowy expanse of forest known as the 'Pine Barrens'.

However on arrival, to their shock, Novikovsky was alive in the boot of the car. Bisaccia and Buenovito lead the Russian into the middle of the forest, handed him a shovel and told him to dig his own grave. This moment was caught by Trevor O'Connor, a South Jersey forester's camera. He had been hoping for footage of forest wildlife to launch a photography career.

It was more of his cameras which captured the moment when Franky Datsyuksky hit Buenovito with the shovel and escaped into the forest. After a long chase through the snow, it is believed that Bisaccia and Buenovito eventually found Datsyuksky and shot him - he was never seen again after the incident. On Christmas Eve 1993, while at the annual mafia-run Christmas party for the Besonhurst neighborhood, Buenovito was arrested, with the photos in FBI hands.

After two weeks in custody he was released, as was Robert Bisaccia, with a petrified Trevor O'Connor claiming he faked the photos. The incident became a legendary story for the Colombos and the DeCavalcantes, who would regularly laugh about it - after killing and burying Franky, the two had become hopelessly lost in the Pine Barrens, and were recovered by DeCavalcante soldiers at 3am the next day, shivering and hilariously near-death from hypothermia.

To ensure that he would not be prosecuted for the murder, Buenovito used his Italian passport (he had both Slovak and Italian ones) and took a flight to Zagreb in now Croatia, joining the war effort in Croatia as part of the Garibaldi Brigade, in the 103rd International-Croatian Infantry Battalion. His older brother who had returned to Croatia several years previously was also fighting in the Croatian Army, and was killed in the closing stages of the conflict.

When Buenovito returned to Brooklyn in 1995, the Colombo family had been turned upside down by the Third Colombo War, the membership books of the Cosa nostra had reopened, and his mob-mentor Anthony Russo had been murdered.

In 1996 Giovanni Riggi swore him in as a made man into the DeCavalcante crime family with Sam DeCavalcante's approval.

DeCavalcante soldier
Marty Buenovito quickly became a favourite of the DeCavalcante crime family, while John Riggi himself became his mob mentor to one day become caporegime. Around this time Buenovito's cousin and close-friend Tony Carbone was released from prison following a 7 year sentence for the armed robbery of the Colombo poker game - Buenovito had escaped without charge but his cousin had not been so lucky.

Despite his attempts to bring his cousin "back into the game" with a securities fraud venture he was running, Buenovito was left disappointed - Carbone got a job in gardening and expressed a wish to become a licensed masseur.

Shortly afterwards Buenovito was indicted under the RICO Act for his involvement in Newark labor racketeering activities. After a campaign of witness intimidation and an eventual hung jury, the court declared a mistrial and Buenovito was cleared of charges. However the heavy legal bills had crippled him and he was forced to go on a "robbing rampage" in the following months. He was arrested for one such robbery and imprisoned for 18 months.

Nicky Imperioli murder
Buenovito, now married to a Czech-Italian-American he had met in Split, Andrea Vaspucci, with a 2 year old daughter, had his loyalty to both families tested in early 1999. His brother-in-law Nicholas Vaspucci, connected to the DeCavalcantes in an insignificant role, had attracted leadership's attention with his erratic behaviour. Imperioli had developed an alcohol problem and soon started using cocaine. A series of altercations with mob associates followed, one of which ended with Vaspucci having his adversary arrested, earning him a reputation as a rat. Nicky Vaspucci sealed his fate when he insulted the daughter of Gregory Rago, uncle of reputed DeCavalcante soldier Louis Consalvo. Hearing the news, Buenovito gave his brother-in-law a brutal beating in an attempt to forestall worse punishment. Rago, however, was incensed and took the matter to Girolamo Palermo, who ordered a hit. The order was given to Louis Consalvo who was told not to inform Buenovito. Consalvo in turn gave the contract to Liborio "Louie" Furio and Giancarlo "Jackie" D'Angelo, Sr., two associates on Buenovito's crew. After consultation, the three agreed it was wrong not to tell their friend Marty. Consalvo went to Palermo and the imprisoned Riggi, and persuaded them to give permission to inform Buenovito, but Riggi also authorized Consalvo to kill Buenovito if he opposed the murder - much to Palermo and Consalvo's dismay. Although Buenovito was initially livid, he realised Riggi was testing his loyalty. Buenovito later acquiesced the hit on his wife's brother, something his wife claims he denied at the time. The only part of Vaspucci's body ever recovered was one of his hands, and he was declared legally dead on Christmas Eve, 1998. How he was killed, as well as the exact extent of Buenovito's involvement, remains unknown.

Around this time, Buenovito opened an afterhours club in Elizabeth to become his headquarters and office.

Construction magnate
Like his predecessor Sam DeCavalcante, boss John Riggi favored emphasizing more sophisticated schemes involving construction racketeering, labor racketeering, trucking, bookmaking and garbage disposal over traditional street-level activities such as loansharking, gambling, and hijackings (although these were still a major part of the lower-level ranks of the family). Riggi had a particular interest in the construction business, especially after the recent announcement in the papers of a government HuD investment (Housing & Urban Developement) along Newark's Hudson river esplanade. Buenovito began to change his boss's cowboy image of him when he entered into the construction chemicals and chemical provisionary in construction business with his longtime friend, Eddy Carfole, as well as cousin Tony Carbone, who's dreams of a massage parlor had gone. As Buenovito's involvement in construction increased, his cunning and business acumen began to show stronger than ever, and he became closer and closer to Riggi.

Despite several arrests for assault and causing grievous bodily harm to Labor Union leader Kevin O'Connoly and other construction officials on the esplanade site, Buenovito's construction and other business interests soon earned him a reputation as a fantastic earner within the ranks of the New Jersey mafia, enabling him to endorse the mafia lifestyle more than ever - he was now the proud owner of a house in the Elizabeth suburbs, and was rarely seen in anything other than his trademark Italian suits and leather jackets, smoking fine cigars. Flush with cash, Buenovito also invested in trotting horses to race at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey, leading to a partnership with capo Giuseppe "Pino" Schifilliti in gambling, betting, point shaving and bookmaking.

The Sopranos
On the 10 January 1999, the first episode of the American crime drama aired on HBO. According to the FBI, they are in posession of tapes gained from the wire-wearing gumada of soldier Gregory Rago, taken at the DeCavalcante HQ in the offices at the back of the Bada Bing! strip club, which contain the DeCavalcantes conversation as they watched that first episode. They were heard remarking "Is that meant to be us? Goddammit, that's us!". Buenovito is heard praising the programme and he later invited creator David Chase to go for a coffee. It was the start of a long friendship between the two men, and it is believed several of the story arcs and events which occur in The Sopranos are based on stories Buenovito told Chase. Chase also hinted in an interview with Empire magazine that the iconic car chase " we had coffee" scene in the opening minutes of The Sopranos is based on a drive he went on with Buenovito.

It was this friendship with Chase which led to Buenovito's closeness with main actor James Gandolfini - they were regularly seen dining in a popular, posh Italian restaurant and mafia favourite "Napolio". These ties to the Home Box Office later led to Buenovito contracting his legitimate company SANAC to HBO Zagreb (Croatia).

DiBruno murder
By the turn of the new millenium the " The Romana", Buenovito's after hours club, was a thriving establishment. Also, because Buenovito had been careful to sign the club ownership in his wife Andrea's name, the FBI had no probable cause to wiretap it - it was often a place of meetings and business for the DeCavalcantes.

In 2002, Dave DiBruno, a wealthy businessman and drugstrafficker, paid Buenovito $40,000 to rent the Romana for a birthday party he was throwing himself. Two days after the party, Buenovito received an offer to buy the club for $250,000, from DiBruno. Outraged, Buenovito refused to budge from his $700,000 asking price. However, after DiBruno threatened to tip off the other DeCavalcante mafiosi of Buenovito buying and using cocaine, and produced a video tape of him and Anthony "Marshmallows" Mannarino torturing a man in an empty room at the back of the club, Buenovito was forced to accept the initial offer.

However DiBruno "pushed his luck". Before the transaction was completed, he began acting like he already owned the club. He started remodeling it and hired his own bouncers. The final provocation was when he moved into Buenovito's private office and began breaking through an office wall without permission. Buenovito, enraged, stormed into the office followed by friend Eddy Carfole. DiBruno was standing behind Buenovito's desk. He sat down in Buenovito's chair, smirking at the two men.

"What do you think you're doing?" Buenovito growled. "This doesn't belong to you till the closing. Get the fuck out." DiBruno reached into a desk drawer, removed an Uzi machine pistol and aimed it at the two men. Ordering them to leave, he stated, "You ginny motherfuckers, you do things my way."

Upon leaving the Romana, Buenovito called Carfole and set up an ambush outside the club, involving Carfole, Furio, D'Angelo, Nick Mementa, and Michael Catti in the plan. Later that night, Buenovito confronted DiBruno on the street as he exited the Romana among a group of people, asking, "Hey, Davey, how you doing?" As Dave DiBruno turned around, surprised to see Buenovito, Liborio Furio came up behind him and shot him in the head. Buenovito then stood over the body and fired a shot into each of DiBruno's eyes as DiBruno's entourage and the crowd of people on the street dispersed, screaming. Buenovito then walked up to DiBruno's corpse and urinated on his mouth, as did Furio and Carfole.

Although Buenovito believed the entire neighborhood knew he was responsible for the murder, he was never charged for the crime: he had made a $25,000 payoff to the new lead New Jersey Police Department homicide detective Joe Acropolito to ensure that the investigation yielded no leads.

Although he evaded criminal charges, Buenovito incurred boss Riggi's wrath over the unsanctioned killing. Buenovito attempted to lie low for nearly three weeks afterwards, during which time he called his crew together and they made the decision to kill John Riggi if necessary. Buenovito and Furio were then summoned to a meeting with Riggi at a Newark restaurant. Riggi had been given the details of what DiBruno had done, but he was still livid that he had not been consulted for permission to kill DiBruno first. Buenovito, however, was spared execution when he convinced DiBruno that the reason he had kept him in the dark was to protect the boss in case something went wrong with the hit. Whether Riggi really believed the story, nobody knows.

DiBruno's murder posed one final problem for Buenovito in the form of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The high publicity generated by the incident triggered an IRS investigation into the deal for the sale of the Romana and Buenovito was subsequently charged with tax evasion. He was represented by Gerald Shargel and acquitted at trial.

Caporegime
In the aftermath of the DiBruno murder, Buenovito continued to focus on his construction business, and high-stakes HuD scam by manipulating bids and steering contracts from offices in Jersey City to their crews on the Hudson esplanade.

Rizzo/Bonponsiero murders
In 2003, Buenovito eventually became embroiled in a dispute with business partner Lewis Cantano, a member of another DeCavalcante crew. A sit-down with acting boss Girolamo Palermo was held, at which an irate Buenovito accused Cantano of withholding $200,000 in payments for subcontracts and threatened to kill him. DeCavalcante underboss Giuseppe Schiffilite intervened on Buenovito's behalf and Palermo told the two men to end their business partnership, though Buenovito's standing with the boss slipped as a result of the incident. Schiffilite, however, was rising star Gene "Genie" Bonponsiero's mentor, and when word got back to him that Schiffilite had supported Buenovito, Bonponsiero was impressed.

During this time, the FBI had intensified its efforts against the DeCavalcante family, and in August 2005, three members of Bonponsiero's crew (New Jersey's faction operating in Manhattan, New York) – Angelo Rizzo, Johnny Carneglia, and Paulie Bonponsiero – were indicted for heroin trafficking. Palermo, backed by the imprisoned Riggi, and many other powerful DeCavalcante members, including Buenovito, were against anyone in the family dealing narcotics. Riggi planned to kill Paulie Bonponsiero and Angelo Rizzo if he believed they were drug traffickers. He asked Rizzo for a copy of the government surveillance tapes that had Rizzo's conversations. To save Paulie and Rizzo, Schiffilite stalled the demand. Eventually, one of the reasons for Gene Bonponsiero's attempt at killing Riggi was to save his brother and Rizzo. The FBI had bugged Rizzo's house and telephone, and Riggi decided he needed copies of the tapes to justify his impending move to Schiffilite and the family's other capos.

When Palermo was indicted in 2006 for both his connection to the Newark esplanade HuD scam and as part of the Mafia Commission Trial, he learned his own house had been bugged on the basis of evidence from the Rizzo tapes and he became livid. In June 2006, he again demanded that Schiffilite get him the tapes. Both Schiffilite and Bonponsiero tried to convince Rizzo to comply if Riggi explained beforehand how he intended to use the tapes, but Rizzo refused, fearing he would endanger good friends.

Three months later, Buenovito was approached by Richard "Richie the Boot" Orsini, a fellow DeCavalcante soldier member acting as an intermediary for Bonponsiero. Richie informed him that Gene Bonponsiero and Rizzo wanted to meet with him at Yaverland golf course. Buenovito arrived to find only Rizzo was present. Rizzo informed Buenovito that he and Bonponsiero were planning to murder Riggi and asked for Buenovito's support. Buenovito was initially noncommittal, wanting to confer first with his crew and longtime friends Louis Consalvo, Anthony Mannarino and Liborio Furio. They all quickly decided to stop the plot straight away. Buenovito called his guys to meet him at Yaverland while he distracted Rizzo with a game of golf. However, after Rizzo became suspicious of Buenovito's constant phone calls (ironically from his teenage daughter, not Consalvo and co.) and shifty behaviour, he attacked him with the golf club. After a prolonged scuffle, Buenovito subdued Rizzo and crushed his skull with the club. Buenovito hauled him into the boot of his Cadillac, and used the man's phone messages to determine Gene Bonponsiero's whereabouts. Buenovito and his crew set up an ambush for Bonponsiero on his morning jog. He was abducted, driven into the forest, and shot 37 times.

Just one week after the double murder of conspirators Rizzo and Bonponsiero, the DeCavalcantes learned a shocking truth which still puzzles the FBI today - Rizzo and Bonponsiero had been recruited by the Gambino Crime Family during their time in Manhattan, to topple John Riggi and leave the Five Families to take over the DeCavalcantes North Jersey rackets.

Though the family made a mutual decision to pretend they had never discovered the truth, and to opt for keeping an eye on the New Yorkers instead, the Mafia Commission learned of the DeCavalcante discovery. Claiming that Buenovito and his crew had no right to murder their men without permission (traitors or not), they decided to murder Buenovito and close ally Liborio Furio.

They made good on their veiled threat in April 2007, when Furio was killed by a car bomb outside of a DeCavalcante hangout, once operated by Gambino capo James Failla. Buenovito was at the club at the time, with his gumada and several friends, and was blown off his feet by the blast. Buenovito attempted to pull Furio from the wreckage but realized it was no use when he saw various body parts scattered about.

At Riggi's insistence, Buenovito was later left unpursued by the Commission and was persuaded that the hit was orchestrated by Mikey Salvete, who thought Furio was after him for money. The truth was that Riggi wanted him dead - authorities are still unsure of why.

Michael Salvete murder
The first person on Buenovito's hit list after Furio's murder was Michael "the Valet" Salvete, a former member of his crew and close family friend of the Buenovito's. Mormando had become addicted to crack cocaine and was suspected by Buenovito of getting friend and fellow crew member Michael DeBatt addicted to the drug. According to Buenovito, Salvete started to act "like a renegade... berserk." The final straw came when Salvete announced he no longer wanted to be in the crew and planned to convert his topless bar into a hairdressing salon following Riggi's saying he killed Furio. Buenovito decided to have Salvete murdered.

Buenovito arranged to have Salvete murdered on his way to a meeting at Buenovito's Elizabeth cafe, Tali's. After assuring Salvete of his safety, Buenovito told him to pick up Joseph Paruta on his way. Paruta got in the backseat of the car and shot Salvete twice in the back of the head. Salvete's corpse was then disposed of in a vacant lot, where it was discovered the next day.

Michael DeBatt murder
Michael DeBatt, the son of a late friend of Buenovito's, had also become addicted to crack cocaine. DeBatt's wife (a friend of his wife's also) came to Buenovito pleading for help. She told him that DeBatt stayed up at night with his AK47 claiming "they were coming to get him." Buenovito had previously taken a young DeBatt under his wing after the elder DeBatt's death, as he had done with Joey D' Angelo. Buenovito responded to DeBatt's wife's cries for help by staging an 'intervention' in which DeBatt was sat down with family and friends to discuss his addiction. During the intervention Buenovito accidentally let slip he had being seeing a psychiatrist/therapist, and suggested it to DeBatt. DeBatt openly mocked him about it in front of the family and mafiosi present. Buenovito flew into a rage, and after badly beating DeBatt, later abducted him from the hospital. Along with Joey D'Angelo, Gregory Rago and Anthony Mannarino, he took DeBatt to his restaurant, Tali's, where, posing as robbers, they burst in, emptied the cash register and shot DeBatt dead. Eyewitnesses were reported "spattered with blood" metres away from the killing.

Willy Boy Johnson murder
After DeBatt, Riggi had finally got around to taking care of Wilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson. Johnson had been a childhood friend of Riggi and Sam DeCavalcante. However, at Riggi's RICO trial, Diane Giacalone, the head prosecutor, revealed that Johnson had been an informant for the FBI for years. Johnson refused to testify for the prosecution. Riggi later met with Johnson during the trial and informed Johnson that as long as he never testified against him, he and his family would not be harmed. Johnson would never be allowed to participate in mob matters again, however. Johnson asked Riggi to swear on his dead son, Jerome Riggi, who had been killed in an accident years ago. Riggi swore, however it upset him. "Riggi discussed how it should go, using me to bounce off ideas about the best way to do it. That was my only involvement," explained mob rat Anthony Capo, "It was Buenovito he went to with the deed itself. He was using the poor guy as his hitman. Yet, at that time, I was the family hitman." Johnson was found in the boot of his car in May 2008, his throat cut and a dead rat in his mouth.

Benjamin "Benny" Carfole
In 2009 Buenovito was involved in two murders, the first of which was Benny Carfole, a demolition contractor and Labor Union representative (and brother to Buenovito's long time friend Eddy Carfole) who made the mistake of running afoul of the DeCavalcantes. On August 9, 2009, Buenovito and soldier Andrew Clemenza shot him dead at a Manhattan construction site while under the guise of removal men. His body was smuggled out in a removal van and only the feet and hands ever recovered.

Lewis Cantano murder
Yet another murder to involve Buenovito was the murder of Lewis Cantano, the (now) made man who had quarrelled with Buenovito years ago. Mob rat Tony Capo described the reasons for the murder at Buenovito's October trial:"'A former gumada of Cantano's, with whom Buenovito was now sleeping with, mentioned Cantano's homosexual activities at a popular Besonhurst club. Buenovito informed the other capos and was ordered by acting boss Francesco Guarraci, as advise by Riggi, to murder the man'"Cantano was found in his car in the parking lot of the World Trade Center in October 2009, showing signs of garotting with strangle wire. Buenovito's intentions for this murder would be called into question as it was suspected he might have had different reasons for wanting Cantano dead due to his jealousy over his successful drywall business.

Olivierri / Carbone / Mormanda / LaDrago murders
Despite Buenovito's rise in status to the undoubtedly most powerful caporegime in the family, Riggi continued to use him for the task of murder, mainly due to the trust between the two men and their rising doubts about hitman Anthony Capo. In May 2010, Buenovito and Robert "Pussy" Bisaccia, a close friend and colleague, murdered Francessco Oliverri for beating a DeCavalcante family crew member to death. Bisaccia shot Oliverri to death, using a Bible to stifle the sound of the shots, while Buenovito waited in a stolen get-away car.

In early 2012, Julius Mormanda enraged Buenovito. Buenovito loathed him for being a troublemaker (he had previously insulted the wife of a family capo at dinner, causing weeks of tension), and hated the man further when he allegedly killed one of the strip club dancers at the back of Bada Bing! (no missing persons were ever reported however). The DeCavalcante had a prostitution racket operating in a "V.I.P" room for mobster's only at the back of the vast club, near the capo offices. Any of the girls could pay a $150 entry fee for the chance to sell themselves to the mobster's. Mormanda had supposedly impregnated this girl, and after an argument, beat her to death, smashing her skull on metal railings. Buenovito, who claimed to know each girl at the club very well, was very upset by the incident and punched Mormanda in the face in front of many other DeCavalcante members. Later Buenovito discussed assassinating the man with the other capos, who all agreed the man was "a piece of fucking shit" (as Buenovito put it at his trial). However when none of them volunteered themselves or their men for the task, Buenovito refused to commit any more murders for the family, and Mormanda was left to live.

Nevertheless Mormanda signed his death warrant later in July 2012. Buenovito had allegedly had further problems juggling both his families, and had formed an emotional attachment with his racehorse, which he named "Corleone" after The Godfather film series' fictional crime family. Mormanda, however, was the official owner - he had bought the horse and neglected it, allowing Buenovito to take charge when he grew bored of the animal. And so, after cashing in a $200,000 insurance claim, Mormanda started a fire in the stables, killing Corleone, and making it look like an accident. Buenovito was devastated and inconsolable to friends and family.

Finally, Buenovito visited Mormanda at his house. After a heated argument the two men began to fight, with Buenovito stating he "sprayed oven cleaner in [his] eyes". In a fit of anger, Buenovito strangled Mormanda to death, breaching numerous mafia commandments and rules. Knowing the family would be furious if they knew the truth, Buenovito called round one of Mormanda's associates, and killed him as he arrived. Arranging the crime scene to look like they had killed each other, Buenovito phoned " the dumbest soldier [he] could think of", explained the unfortunate scene to him, together dismembered the bodies, scrubbed the kitchen with bleach and buried the remains in 6 different locations.

Boss
By late 2012, Buenovito was crime Boss of the DeCavalcante crime family, with Giovanni Riggi's mental decline due top Alzheimers, and his death in prison imminent.

Tony Carbone and Martin Vitaspore
On January the 2nd 2014, Buenovito's cousin, who he claimed to be more of a brother to him, shot dead Daniel Leo's half-brother in the street, for currently unknown reasons, and went into hiding. Daniel Leo and the whole Genovese crime family of New York demanded Tony Carbone's death. Buenovito was devastated. Only a few days after this news, Buenovito's close friend and caporegime Martin Vitaspore was seen in a gay bar in New York. Although a self-proclaimed homophobe, Buenovito insisted he needed "time to think" about Vitaspore's fate (the man had fled the state to New Hampshire after being discovered, however Buenovito knew his whereabouts). After reputed soldier, and Buenovito's younger cousin, Christopher Cazzi, questioned his judgement in front of the gathered family, insisting Vitaspore be immediately curb stomped to death as was the mafia custom, Buenovito brutally beat the man. Cazzi, who harboured resentment against Buenovito because he and Carbone had teased him as a child, because Buenovitp had always favoured Carbone, and also because Buenovito had allegedly slept with his fiance a few weeks earlier, went back to his apartment and got drunk. Later that evening he burst into the Bing! strip club and shot Buenovito in the shoulder and stomach with a small calibre pistol. According to mob rat Rocco Cagno, who witnessed it all, Buenovito had Cazzi taken out onto the street, and while bleeding from his wounds, curb stomped Cazzi. Although Cazzi survived, he lost eight teeth and his jaw was broken in the incident. Buenovito spent nine weeks in a Newark hospital recovering from his wounds.

Having returned from hospital, Buenovito passed judgement that Vitaspore should be left to live his life in peace. A week later he killed Tony Carbone at the ranch where they had spent many childhood holidays together, claiming he surprised him with a pump-action shotgun, to spare him from the death by torture the Genovese planned for him. The day after, when an incensed Danny Leo met him to ask him why he had denied him his revenge, Buenovito knocked him unconscious and engraved "go fuck yourself" on his car. Calling a meeting of the family, Buenovito lied to his men that the FBI had him on the Tony Carbone murder. Appointing a ruling panel in his absence, Buenovito left for his childhood home in Split, Croatia.

In late 2015, Buenovito was arrested by an undercover Serbian-American F.B.I agent outside West Zagreb Train Station. He was placed in Northern State Prison shortly afterwards, and has been on trial for 46 racketeering and 14 murder charges since October.