Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso (born 1934) is a New York mobster and, as of 2009, the reputed Boss of the Lucchese crime family. Amuso is currently serving life sentence at the United States Penitentiary #2 (USP-2) FCC, Coleman in Coleman, Florida on murder and racketeering charges.
Vittorio Amuso was born in 1934 in Queens, New York, a neighborhood under the control of Tommy Gagliano and Tommy Lucchese, the bosses of the Lucchese crime family, (ba...
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Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso (born 1934) is a New York mobster and, as of 2009, the reputed Boss of the Lucchese crime family. Amuso is currently serving life sentence at the United States Penitentiary #2 (USP-2) FCC, Coleman in Coleman, Florida on murder and racketeering charges.
Vittorio Amuso was born in 1934 in Queens, New York, a neighborhood under the control of Tommy Gagliano and Tommy Lucchese, the bosses of the Lucchese crime family, (back then it was called the Gagliano crime family), and became soon attached to the very same environment. In the late 1940s, he would soon become introduced to Lucchese family caporegime, Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, as the family was taken over by Thomas Lucchese. Amuso, a short and young tough guy, would eventually be known as "Little Vic". Amuso would also be presented to Colombo crime family mobster, Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, from Brooklyn, New York, as Gallo decided to "make" Amuso into the Colombo crime family and his crew, sometime in...
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