What family, briefly headed by Dominick Cirillo, was oncc known as the Luciano?
Vincent Gigante Vincent Louis Gigante ( ; March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "Chin", was a New York Italian-American mobster in the American Mafia who was boss of the Genovese crime family from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought 25 bouts between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family. Gigante was one of five brothers: Mario, Pasquale, Ralph and he all became mobsters in the Luciano family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a priest. Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of longtime Luciano boss Frank Costello in 1957. After sharing a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, following Vito's conviction for heroin trafficking, Gigante became a caporegime, overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates that operated out of Greenwich Village. Gigante was one of Genovese's most loyal supporters, siding with him throughout the struggle for power with Costello.
Joseph D'Amico Joseph D'Amico (born 1955 in Little Italy, Manhattan), also known as "Joey The Mook" was a made man in the Bonanno crime family who later turned government informant. Mook is Italian-American slang for knucklehead or idiot. D'Amico was a long-time street soldier who worked under his cousin Richard Cantarella.