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Philip Rastelli was born on 31 January, 1918 in New York City, U.S., is an American mobster. Discover Philip Rastelli's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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31 January 1918 |
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31 January |
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New York City, U.S. |
Date of death |
24 June, 1991 |
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New York City, U.S. |
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United States
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His wife is Connie Rastelli
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Philip Rastelli Net Worth
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Philip "Rusty" Rastelli (January 31, 1918 – June 24, 1991) was an American mobster and former boss of the Bonanno crime family; he spent all but three years of his reign in prison.
Rastelli was born and raised in Maspeth, Queens.
He had three brothers (Carmine, Marinello, and Augustus) and two sisters (Justina Devita and Antonette Brigandi).
Rastelli was heavily involved in loansharking, extortion and drug trafficking activities before joining the Bonanno crime family.
Rastelli also had a lunch wagon business.
On December 3, 1953, Rastelli and an associate allegedly shot Michael Russo in Queens.
However, Russo survived the shooting and Rastelli, fearing identification, went into hiding.
Over the next year, Rastelli's wife Connie repeatedly approached Russo's wife Rose with an offer of $5,000 if her husband did not identify Rastelli.
Rose refused the bribe each time.
In early December 1954, Russo was shot again and killed in Brooklyn.
On December 13, 1954, Connie Rastelli was indicted on charges of attempting to bribe a witness.
No one was ever charged in the Russo murder.
Connie was believed to have been killed in 1962 after she became an informant; her body was never found.
In 1969, in an attempt to restore order to the Bonanno family, the Commission appointed a three-man panel to run the family.
This panel included Rastelli, Joseph DiFilippi, and Natale "Joe Diamonds" Evola.
On July 21, 1971, Rastelli was indicted in Riverhead, New York on loansharking charges.
The loansharking ring, centered in Babylon, New York and Islip, New York, charged victims from 250 to 300% interest annually and generated over $1 million per year in revenue for the Bonanno family.
On December 28, 1972, Rastelli was convicted in state court on seven counts of loansharking.
On August 28, 1973, Bonanno boss Evola died of cancer.
On February 23, 1974, at a meeting at the Americana Hotel in Manhattan, the Commission named Rastelli as boss.
He was the first member of the Queens faction to lead the family; the previous bosses had all come from the family's birthplace in Brooklyn.
Although Rastelli was endorsed by the Commission, the real power in the family soon migrated to rival Carmine Galante, who was released from prison at the same time.
On March 6, 1975, Rastelli was indicted on racketeering charges involving extortion.
Nine years earlier, Rastelli had established a trade association of lunch wagon operators and taken control of the industry.
Any operator who refused to join the Association and pay its stiff fees faced vandalism and physical assault.
On April 23, 1976, Rastelli was convicted of extortion in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
On August 27, 1976, Rastelli was sentenced to 10 years in prison, served consecutively to a four-year state sentence for conspiracy, criminal contempt of court, and usury.
He was imprisoned in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Rastelli's main contacts to the Bonanno family were mobsters Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano and Joseph Massino.
In Rastelli's absence, Galante seized control of the Bonannos as unofficial acting boss.
The New York crime families were alarmed at Galante's brazen attempt at taking over the narcotics market.
Genovese crime family boss Frank Tieri began contacting Cosa Nostra leaders to build a consensus for Galante's murder, even obtaining approval from the retired Joseph Bonanno.
In 1979, they received a boost when Rastelli and Joseph Massino, sought Commission approval to kill Galante; the request was approved.
Rastelli was now the undisputed boss, controlling things from behind bars through the use of acting bosses such as longtime Bonanno mobster Salvatore "Sally Fruits" Ferrugia.
While Rastelli was in prison, Massino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another Rastelli loyalist capo.
Both men were themselves threatened by another faction seeking to depose the absentee boss led by capos Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, Dominick "Big Trin" Trincera and Philip Giaccone.
The Commission initially tried to maintain neutrality, but in 1981, Massino got word from his informants that the three capos were stocking up on automatic weapons and planning to kill the Rastelli loyalists within the Bonanno family to take complete control.
On May 5, 1981, the three capos were murdered.
On April 21, 1983, Rastelli was released from prison, and he and Massino ordered the murder of Bonanno capo Cesare Bonventre.