Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Chapters: Victor Amuso, Carmine Persico, Joseph Massino, Joseph Lombardo, Anthony Casso, Michael Taccetta, Christopher Furnari, Frank Calabrese, Sr., Renato Vallanzasca, Victor Orena, Louis Daidone, Alphonse Persico, Thomas Pitera, Anthony Senter, John Stanfa, Ronnie Trucchio, James Ida, Larry Hoover, Stefano Vitabile, Kenneth McGriff, Frank Locascio, Gennaro Langella, Henry Borelli, Louis Manna, Vincent Basciano. Excerpt: Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso (born 1934) is a New York mobster and, as of 2011, the reputed Boss of the Lucchese crime family. Amuso is currently serving life at the Federal Correctional Complex in Beaumont, Texas on murder and racketeering charges. Vittorio Amuso was born in 1934, he grew up in Brooklyn In the late 1940s, he was introduced to Gagliano family caporegime, Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, as the family was being taken over by Gaetano "Tommy" Lucchese. Amuso acted as a bodyguard and chauffer for Carmine Tramunti. He later became an enforcer for Profaci crime family mobster, Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, in Brooklyn, New York. In the early 1960s, the Gallo brothers claimed war against longtime Boss, Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci and the old Profaci faction of the family, because Profaci took huge parts of Gallo's profit. Amuso would allegedly kill several members of the Profaci faction, but sent to prison sometime in the early 1960s, along with Joey Gallo and a dozen others for extortion charges. After Joe Gallo's release from prison in early 1971, he continued his war aganist the family on June 28, 1971 boss Joseph Colombo was shot. Months later on April 7, 1972 Joe Gallo was shot to death in Little Italy Manhattan, New York, while he was celebrating his 43rd birthday. Many Colombo crime family members, especially those from the old Gallo crew, defected to other crime families. Amuso went to the Lucchese crime family sometime during that year, as an associate to soldier Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari. Amuso became of one of Furnari's top proteges along with Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso. On December 21, 1972, Amuso was arrested by police outside the "House on Morgan Avenue", a front for the "Bronx Connection" kickback scheme, selling prison paroles for as high as $20, 000 to prison inmates. Presumably to meet with the building owner, Richard Curro, a city corrections officer and Lucchese family associate, who acted as liaison between inmates and the Luccheses, Amuso wa