But in the summer of , when Lefty was in his early 50s, Lefty became a 'made' man in the Bonanno Crime Family. In his pre 'made' man years, Lefty Ruggiero had already made a reputation for himself being a stone killer, clipping between 25 and 30 people.
Lefty was the epitome of the wiseguy. He was at it 24 hours a day, scheming, on the street in wiseguy situations he was sharp and tough and that's what earned him a lot of respect from the other wiseguy's. This created a problem between him and Tony Mirra, because technically Donnie belonged to Mirra.
Donnie himself preferred being under Lefty and so the two themselves decided that they would say that Lefty was the first to 'claim' Donnie so that Mirra had no right to put Donnie under his wing. Of Course Mirra wasn't having it and several sit downs took place over the 'Donnie Brasco' situation. In the end Lefty won and Donnie Brasco was under him. Lefty liked Donnie a lot, seeing a good earner and potential 'made' guy.
In the following years they would become very close and Donnie would pass up a certain percentage of money from all his schemes to Lefty. After some good years the Bonanno Crime Family was on it's way to a new Family war. When Galante got whacked, Rusty Rastelli was appointed new Boss, he would run the Family from prison. But all was not well. The hit on Galante had divided the Family in different factions, one faction supporting Rusty Rastelli as new boss the other opposing, a Family war was on it's way.
Lefty was getting ready for the orders and do what he was supposed to do as a soldier: kill. Several times Lefty was ready to whack out a Capo from the other faction when he got orders to abort, they had a plan to whack out all the Capo's of the other faction in one clean hit. The three Capo's of the opposing faction were summoned to a peace meeting to patch up differences at a catering establishment.
No bodies were found. One of the Capo's of the other faction did not attend that 'meeting' because he was in jail, but Capo Caesar Bonventre had decided to come over to the Rastelli faction anyway. Later on one of the bodies was found by the police, it was a mistake by Joey Massino who was supposed to take care of making the body 'disappear', the bodies were supposed to be chopped up and thrown away.
But even though the body was found, there were no leads to whom might have killed him so the Rastelli faction did not worry. All seemed well, finally, for Lefty and the Bonanno Family. The Family was at peace and business was back to normal. Until one day when Lefty and Sonny Black were just hanging out in the social club and some F. After a few moments the agents left leaving Lefty and Sonny Black stunned as they were trying to look for 'Candid Camera', at first they didn't believe it, they thought it was a trick to cause tension in a finally peaceful Family.
But truth or not Sonny Black took measures and started making phone calls. Every top Mafioso was briefed about the situation and at one point pictures of Brasco were sent to other Crime Family's so they could be on the lookout. Being an old school Mafioso Lefty knew that this situation would end up getting him whacked, he had brought Donnie into the Family and he was close to him. I'm from the Los Angeles, CA area. I've always been known as "Information Central" or "The Geek" among my friends and family.
As I continued to gather information on certain subjects, the amount of information would continue to grow into small books. Eventually, I was encouraged to start putting this information in eBooks to sell online. Many of my ebooks are very comprehensive and informative, while others are entertaining and fictional. He was given the nickname, Lefty, because when he shot dice, he always roll them with his left hand. The hit movie Donnie Brasco was based on this agent's interactions with Lefty.
The role of Lefty was played by Al Pacino. In the Bonanno crime family began to implode. This immediately created a vacuum at the top leadership of the family. However, realizing his reign would not last, several caporegimes started maneuvering for the top spot.
Behind Sonny Black was his main crew including Brasco and Ruggiero. They were never seen alive again. Ruggiero and John Cersani were lookouts, and were sent in after to clean up the massacre and dispose of the bodies along with Napolitano, James Episcopia and Robert Capazzio. After hearing of the murders from Pistone, the FBI decided to end the operation. However safe they felt, Napolitano was obligated to look into the FBI claims that Pistone was an agent.
On August 17, Napolitano was summoned to house for a meeting about Pistone. When he arrived he was thrown down the stairs to the basement and murdered for allowing the FBI to infiltrate their family. The FBI quickly offered Ruggiero a safety net with witness protection in exchange for his testimony against the Bonanno family.
Citing Omerta, as he did many times before to law enforcement, Ruggiero refused to testify. He was charged with conspiring to murder the three capos in New York, distributing methaqualone, committing extortion, planning a bank robbery, and illegal gambling. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison. While in prison Ruggiero was rumored to have been offered up to one million dollars for his story from writers and movie producers.
He declined every interview and all the money. He was true to his oath and would not divulge anything about the mafia to anyone. In he was released from prison. Officially retired from the mob he lived for a short time and died on November 24, from lung and testicular cancer.
The cancer was largely attributed to chain smoking English Oval cigarettes for most of his life.
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