Dominick "Baldy Dom" Canterino (Born January 4, 1929 – June, 1990) was a

caporegime A caporegime or capodecina, usually shortened to capo or informally referred to as "captain" or "skipper", is a rank used in the Mafia (both the Sicilian Mafia and Italian-American Mafia) for a '' made member'' of an Italian crime family who he ...

in the

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. He was born to first-generation Italian immigrants from

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. A Genovese captain from

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who ran the family's

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, Canterino was a regular at

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's Triangle Social Club, the

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headquarters of the Genovese family.

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(FBI) surveillance regularly spotted Canterino at 3:00 am, driving Genovese boss

Vincent Gigante Vincent Louis Gigante (; March 28, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "The Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fough ...

to a friend's townhouse in Manhattan. Canterino once told the FBI that he worked as a dockworker and foreman, and once "did time as a thief". An FBI report also notes, "Canterino discussed the problems of being married and having a girlfriend on the side, which included having to split time between the two on holidays." In December 1988, Canterino and

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, president of Roulette Records, were convicted of conspiring to extort $1.25 million from

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record producer Frank LaMonte in Camden, New Jersey. Canterino was sentenced to 12 years in prison. On May 31, 1990, Canterino was indicted for racketeering in the Windows Case. Through their control of a local construction union, the Genoveses and three other New York crime families were fixing prices (and allocating work) that contractors offered the

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for installing new thermal pane windows in city housing projects. The mob families grossed tens of millions of dollars from these contracts. After the trial had begun, Canterino suffered a

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and was dropped from the case."Prosecution Summation in Bid-Rigging Trial"
By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH ''New York Times'', September 29, 1991 Canterino retired and became inactive. He died June, 1990.

References

* Spin Magazine "Back in the Days of 88" December 1988 {{DEFAULTSORT:Canterino, Dominick 1990 deaths Genovese crime family American gangsters of Italian descent People of Umbrian descent 1929 births People from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn