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Frank J. Valenti (September 14, 1911 – September 20, 2008) was boss of the criminal organization known as the Rochester crime family from 1964 to 1972. As the head of the organization he oversaw gambling, prostitution and extortion rackets operating in the city of Rochester, New York for 8 years.
Feb 18, 2019 · Frank Valenti, who was retaking control of Rochester’s gangsters after an enforced absence, may have ordered Russo killed. Let’s leave murder — or possible murder — to Craig, who, in...
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Rochester’s mob history cannot be told without reference to Salvatore “Sammy G” Gingello, one of the era's most dapper criminal figures. "You never saw him in jeans," D'Aprile said. "You never saw him in tennis shoes." The late Frank Valenti was Rochester’s first widely known mob boss. Gingello was originally part of the Valenti hierarchy, but Ging...
Tom Taylor and Tom Torpey were Gingello's beefy bodyguards.Both are now free, each having served 25 years for setting up a 1981 mob murder. I've known Taylor for a decade, having first corresponded with him about another case while he was in prison. I figured if anyone had a firsthand view of the assassination of Gingello, it would be Taylor. As it...
In 1978, the police were aware of escalating threats on Gingello. D'Aprile said his and Luciano's marching orders were: "Stay with him. We don't want him hurt. There's been some threats." Gingello knew the two from their constant surveillance, D'Aprile said. "Wherever Sammy's car was, we were." Upon entering a bar, Gingello sometimes spotted them a...
Retired law enforcement officials who policed and prosecuted mobsters say they can't imagine a scenario in which the police knew of the planned assassination of Gingello and did nothing to intervene. That's too explosive a secret to remain a secret, some say. In an interview last month, retired federal prosecutor Anthony Bruce noted that the police...
We don’t make a habit of running first-person articles because we believe the focus should be on the subjects of the story, not the reporter. We will make exceptions in columns but rarely in straight news articles. In this case Gary Craig has reported on crime and justice issues since 1990, so he has a well-established record for credibility. In wr...
Gary Craig has been a reporter in Rochester since 1990, focusing largely on criminal justice issues. He is the author of Seven Million, about Rochester’s 1993 Brink’s heist and its connections with the Irish Republican Army. He has written extensively about Rochester’s organized crime history, and is often asked to speak on the topic. More mob stor...
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Nov 28, 2023 · During his time as the head of a highly structured criminal family, Frank Valenti deliberately elevated influential members of the group. Salvatore Gingello,...
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Frank Joseph Valenti (September 14, 1911 - September 20, 2008) was an American organized crime figure who became the boss of Rochester's Mafia from 1964 to 1972.
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Oct 9, 2023 · We explore the rise and fall of Frank Valenti, the boss of the Rochester crime family in the 1960s and 1970s. Valenti ran a tight ship, appointing Samuel Russotti as his second-in-command, Rene Picarreto as his advisor, and five other men as his captains.
