Phillip "Rusty" Rastelli (January 31, 1918 Maspeth, Queens - July 24, 1991) was a New York mobster and former Boss of the Bonanno crime family.
Rastelli was born and raised in Maspeth, Queens and was heavily involved in loansharking, extortion and drug trafficking actiivties before joining the Bonanno crime family. After moving to Greenpoint, Brooklyn where he lived until his incarceration, he met and became close friends with Dominick "Sonny Bla...
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Phillip "Rusty" Rastelli (January 31, 1918 Maspeth, Queens - July 24, 1991) was a New York mobster and former Boss of the Bonanno crime family.
Rastelli was born and raised in Maspeth, Queens and was heavily involved in loansharking, extortion and drug trafficking actiivties before joining the Bonanno crime family. After moving to Greenpoint, Brooklyn where he lived until his incarceration, he met and became close friends with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, Carmine "Lilo" Galante and Joseph Bonanno.
He took over the Bonanno family in 1973 as acting boss after the death of Natale "Joe Diamonds" Evola. Rastelli was named official boss of the Bonanno family in early 1974, but by 1975 he was indicted and in jail on charges of extortion and violating an anti-trust law. He was convicted of the anti-trust and extortion on August 27, 1976 and given 1 year on the anti-trust violation and three concurrent ten-year sentences on the extortion. Carmine "Lilo" Galante effectively took over the...
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