Vincent Asaro was an American mobster who served as a caporegime in the Bonanno crime family.
19 Facts About Vincent Asaro
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Vincent Asaro was indicted in March 2017 and was sentenced to eight years in prison.
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Vincent Asaro was born in Ozone Park, Queens on July 10,1935, his father was Girolamo Asaro and his mother was Josephine Valenti.
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In 1979, after the murder of Bonanno boss Carmine Galante, Asaro became a capo of a Queens crew in the Bonanno family.
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Vincent Asaro's grandfather Vincenzo was born in 1892 in Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily.
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Vincent Asaro is a distant cousin of Joe Bonanno and family.
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Vincenzo's sister Brigida Vincent Asaro married Vito Bonventre, the brother of his close business associate and fellow mobster Giovanni Bonventre.
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Vincent Asaro would help his son Jerome Vincent Asaro become a member of the Bonanno family and in the taking over of his crew.
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On January 23,2014, Vincent Asaro was arrested by the FBI and indicted on federal racketeering charges stemming from the 1978 Lufthansa heist.
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In November 2015, Vincent Asaro was found not guilty of all charges related to the Lufthansa heist.
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Vincent Asaro was a suspect in the 1969 death of Paul Katz.
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Vincent Asaro was arrested and tried for the murder of Paul Katz, but was acquitted of all charges on November 12,2015.
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In March 2017, Vincent Asaro was indicted and charged in an arson case.
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In June 2017, Vincent Asaro pleaded guilty in a case of ordering car arson against a motorist who had cut him off in Howard Beach, Queens in April 2012.
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Prosecutors allege that Asaro enlisted a Bonanno crime family associate to execute the crime; however, the associate then engaged the grandson of former Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, John J Gotti, and he carried out the order in his stead.
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The day after the incident, Vincent Asaro apparently contacted a Gambino crime family associate who had access to a local police department database.
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Vincent Asaro was incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn while awaiting sentencing.
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Vincent Asaro faced the possibility of up to 20 years in prison, meanwhile prosecutors were seeking 15 years in prison.
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Vincent Asaro died in Queens, New York on October 22,2023, at the age of 88.