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John Zaccaro

John Anthony Zaccaro (born April 5, 1933) is an American real estate developer. He is the owner of P. Zaccaro & Company, which was founded by his father Philip Zaccaro. The company acts as a landlord for properties in the Little Italy, Chinatown, and East Side areas of Manhattan and previously in Queens.

Zaccaro is the widower of Geraldine Ferraro, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York and the 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee on the unsuccessful ticket with former Vice President and presidential nomimee Walter Mondale, which lost overwhelmingly to Republican incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush. Ferraro died in 2011. The couple's finances, and his reluctance to make public his tax returns, became a major issue in that 1984 presidential campaign.