![]() ![]() During this period, Brocchini relocated to the affluent town of Harrison in Westchester County. The State Investigation Commission charged in 1970 that his pornography businesses had grossed $1.5 million a year. He became one of the most successful pornographers in New York City and allegedly owned or controlled at least four pornography distribution companies as well as five adult book shops/ peep shows in Times Square. Circa 1967, Brocchini ventured into the pornography business via a partnership with a Jewish associate. By the early 1960s, he was managing a lucrative weekly dice game in Manhattan's Little Italy, and also had interests in auto theft and narcotics. Police believed that the burglary ring was responsible for approximately twenty robberies in Queens and Nassau County before being apprehended.īrocchini, who was known as an enforcer, later became involved primarily in loansharking and gambling. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. ![]() On August 24, he was sentenced to fifteen years of imprisonment and a $16,000 fine. On July 21, 1964, Accardi was convicted on narcotics conspiracy and skipping bail. authorities finally located Accardi in Turin, Italy and on November 28, 1963, after a long legal fight, Accardi was extradited back to New York. Accardi later moved to Toronto, Canada, to oversee this operation. After posting a $92,000 bond, Accardi skipped bail and fled to Turin, Italy, where he continued smuggling heroin into the U.S. In 1955, Accardi was arrested on a federal narcotics charge in Newark, New Jersey. His naturalization was revoked on July 10, 1953, because he had not disclosed two previous arrests during his naturalization hearing. On January 22, 1945, he became a naturalized U.S. During World War II, Accardi sold counterfeit food ration cards. shortly before World War I and associated with mobsters Joseph Sica, Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis and Abner Zwillman. Settimo "Big Sam" Accardi (October 23, 1902, in Vita, Sicily – December 3, 1977) served as capo in the family's New Jersey faction up until his deportation and was one of the largest heroin traffickers during the 1950s. Settimo Accardi įBI Wanted Poster of Settimo Accardi issued on January 23, 1956 In 1998, his daughter Catherine admitted that she could no longer dismiss allegations that her father belonged to the Lucchese crime family. In 1994, Joseph Abate died of natural causes. She was confronted about her father's past and denied that he was ever involved in organized crime. In 1992, his daughter Catherine Abate was appointed New York City's new Correction Commissioner. ![]() He moved to Margate, New Jersey, and served as a liaison between families in New Jersey until 1989 when he retired from Mafia affairs. In 1979, Abate went into semiretirement and Accetturo succeed him as boss of the New Jersey faction. ![]() In June 1976, Abate attended Anthony Accetturo's induction ceremony into the Lucchese family. In the 1920s, Abate served as an enforcer for Al Capone in Chicago before settling in New Jersey. Joseph "Joe" Abate (J– 1994) was a capo in the family's New Jersey faction. For active members, see List of Lucchese crime family mobsters. This article is about past and inactive members who have been killed, died or became informants of the Lucchese crime family. ![]()
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