37 Facts About Victor Amuso

Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso was born on November 4,1934 and is an American mobster and the boss of the Lucchese crime family.

Victor Amuso was described as "The Deadly Don" by Assistant United States Attorney Charles Rose.

Victor Amuso's reign is considered one of the bloodiest periods in American Mafia history during the late 1980s and early 1990s, alongside his former underboss and close protege Anthony Casso, who turned informer against him in 1994.

Since the death of Colombo crime family boss Carmine Persico in March 2019, Victor Amuso is currently the longest-serving crime family boss of the Five Families and American Mafia, dating back to 1987.

Victor Amuso has been serving a life sentence since 1992 and is currently located at the Federal Correctional Complex, Butner, in North Carolina, on murder and racketeering charges.

Vittorio Victor Amuso was born November 4,1934, and grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

Victor Amuso acted as a bodyguard and chauffeur for Carmine "Gribbs" Tramunti.

Victor Amuso later became an enforcer for Profaci crime family mobster, Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, in Brooklyn.

Victor Amuso went to the Lucchese family sometime during that year, as an associate in the "19th Hole Crew," whose capo was Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari.

Victor Amuso became of one of Furnari's top proteges along with Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso.

On December 21,1972, Victor 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, Victor Amuso was in possession of a switchblade and a file folder of parole documents at the time of his arrest.

In 1977, Victor Amuso became a "made man" in the Lucchese family.

On May 30,1977, Victor Amuso was arrested with Casso, for their involvement in a drug trafficking ring smuggling heroin from Bangkok.

Furnari was promoted to consigliere in 1980, and Victor Amuso succeeded him as capo.

Victor Amuso was named acting boss later in 1986, and the new official boss on January 13,1987, when Corallo and others were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The bloodletting only increased after Victor Amuso named Casso as his underboss in 1988.

However, what Victor Amuso didn't realize was that Accetturo was jailed in New Jersey for refusing to testify in front a state panel.

Accetturo's former protege and longtime rival, Michael "Mad Dog" Taccetta, who was despised by Victor Amuso, reputedly took over Lucchese Jersey Crew, the nickname of their faction in Northern New Jersey, toward his conviction in 1993, before Accetturo eventually agreed to become an informant.

Victor Amuso issued several other orders that led many inside and outside the Lucchese family to conclude he was no longer acting rationally.

Victor Amuso ordered D'Arco to bring in a bomb expert from the Philadelphia crime family as part of a plan to blow up Gambino boss John Gotti.

Victor Amuso then turned his wrath on D'Arco, whom he held responsible for the failed hit on Chiodo.

Victor Amuso effectively demoted D'Arco by naming a four-man panel to run the family in his absence.

On October 9,1992, Victor Amuso was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In early 1992, Victor Amuso feared that rivalry was being developed in the Lucchese crime family, as some mobsters thought, with Victor Amuso out of the way, that they could take over.

The rivals were the old Bronx faction of the family, and Victor Amuso felt he had to prove that he was still in charge.

Victor Amuso kept Joseph "Little Joe" DeFede as the crime family's acting boss.

Victor Amuso kept Stephen "Wonderboy" Crea of the Bronx as the underboss, overseeing the construction and union racketeering operations that made the crime family between $300,000 and $500,000 a month.

Angry at his guilty plea, Victor Amuso became uncertain of DeFede's loyalty to the crime family and, in the future, Victor Amuso would regard DeFede as a traitor and thief.

Crea, a loyal Victor Amuso underboss, began sending a larger amount of the crime family's profits to the imprisoned boss, which convinced Victor Amuso that DeFede had been skimming profits from the crime family the whole time he was acting boss.

Victor Amuso decided to put out a contract on DeFede's life in late 1999.

Daidone, at the time one of the strongest and most dangerous family members, would continue to oversee the contract ordered by Victor Amuso on imprisoned former acting boss Joseph "Little Joe" DeFede.

DeFede did not know that Victor Amuso had placed a contract on his life but, during DeFede's imprisonment, he was demoted from capo to soldier and this alerted him to the possibility that he had fallen out of favor with boss Vic Victor Amuso and could be in serious trouble.

Migliore, a former Corallo loyalist and Victor Amuso rival, is said to be one of the most powerful mobsters in the Lucchese crime family.

Victor Amuso is serving his life sentence at Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland, a federal correctional facility in Maryland on murder and racketeering charges.

Pennisi testified that in 2017, imprisoned for life boss Vic Victor Amuso sent a letter to Underboss Steven Crea which stated that Brooklyn based mobster Michael "Big Mike" DeSantis would take over as acting boss replacing Bronx based Matthew Madonna.

The testimony from Pennisi stated that if the Bronx faction refused to step aside, imprisoned boss Victor Amuso had approved of a hit list that included a captain and several members of the Bronx faction.