Salvatore Ruggiero was a passenger on an aircraft that crashed on May 6,1982; his body was recovered on May 14.
19 Facts About Salvatore Ruggiero
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Salvatore Frank Ruggiero was born in East New York, Brooklyn, to a first generation Italian immigrant John Ruggiero Jr.
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Salvatore Ruggiero was once arrested for trying to steal an Avis Rent a Car rental car with Gotti.
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Salvatore Ruggiero was a sphinx compared to his brother Angelo.
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Salvatore Ruggiero preferred to invest his energies in a mad quest for speed.
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Unlike his brother Angelo, Salvatore Ruggiero exercised regularly and maintained a muscular physique while his brother chain smoked and had eating binges often.
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Salvatore Ruggiero bore Dellacroce two illegitimate children, Shannon Connelly and Sean Connelly.
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Salvatore Ruggiero was dealing in heroin that made him one of the largest and wealthiest dealers in New York City that included Gerlando Sciascia, Alphonse Indelicato, Cesare Bonventre and others who would later be indicted in the Pizza Connection Trial.
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Salvatore Ruggiero was not close to his uncle and remained distant to his younger brother, and strived to be more than a street-level hood which Angelo would later become.
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Salvatore Ruggiero had graduated from street thuggery and became a multimillionaire, selling a range of drugs, from major shipments of marijuana, to heroin and cocaine.
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Salvatore Ruggiero secretly owned hideouts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the Poconos and traded heavily in stocks and bonds under other names.
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Salvatore Ruggiero owned a diner, a greeting card store, and other investment property purchased through a company called Ozone Holding, named after Ozone Park, Queens.
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Salvatore Ruggiero owned four cars including a Mercedes-Benz and ten watches worth $12,000 each.
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Salvatore Ruggiero was living in a leased home in New Jersey while another mansion on Tortoise Lane in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey was being built for him through a company run by Anthony and Caesar Gurino, owners of Arc Plumbing Corporation, the mobsters who gave John Gotti and Angelo Ruggiero no-show jobs.
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Salvatore Ruggiero secretly controlled a Liberia based corporation, Vimi Steamship Limited in 1981.
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Salvatore Ruggiero was interested in purchasing a McDonald's franchise chain restaurant in Magic Kingdom, Disney World.
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Until his body was identified in a morgue, Salvatore Ruggiero had been listed as a fugitive from justice, a member of the Gambino crime family, a large scale heroin trafficker and a key customer of Vito Rizzuto's drug operation.
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The death of his brother Salvatore Ruggiero, hit Angelo hard and he was often overheard on FBI wiretaps in his Cedarhurst, New York home wistfully speaking of his brother to Gerlando Sciascia and Joseph LoPresti, his two drug trafficking partners.
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Unlike his brother Salvatore Ruggiero who became a multi-millionaire from his successful large scale drug trafficking operation, Angelo would never rise above a wealthy street-level mobster.