Gaspare D'Amico (22 September 1886 – 1975) was a
bootlegger and a powerful Mafia figure in New Jersey, US.
Biography
D'Amico was born in
Villabate
Villabate ( Sicilian: ''Villabbati'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 19,441 and an area of .All d ...
, Sicily. He and his brother immigrated to the United States prior to the arrival of their parents and sister. D'Amico ran his own family based in
Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.[Salvatore Maranzano
Salvatore Maranzano (; July 31, 1886 – September 10, 1931) was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City. ...]
, conspired to take over the Newark family and was murdered. Two years later in 1937, D'Amico fled the United States after a failed assassination attempt on his life ordered by
Joseph Profaci
Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci (; October 2, 1897 – June 6, 1962) was an Italian-born New York City Cosa Nostra boss who was the founder of what became the Colombo crime family. Established in 1928, this was the last of the Five Families to be organi ...
.
The Commission decided to divide up his territory among the Five Families and the
Badami's Elizabeth family.
References
{{American Mafia
DeCavalcante crime family
American gangsters of Italian descent