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1980

FBI Records: The Vault

FBI Vault, Angelo Annaloro (Angelo Bruno), Part 01: Philadelphia teletypes on the March 1980 killing

Part 01 of the FBI's five-part file titled "Angelo Annaloro (Angelo Bruno)": Philadelphia teletypes from March 22, 1980 captioned "GANGMURS ANGELO BRUNO" on the shooting of March 21, 1980, and later reports. Read from the viewer's OCR.

Date
1980
Kind
case-file
Source
FBI Records: The Vault
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Rights
Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under the Freedom of Information Act. A federal work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Redactions are as released by the FBI. Newspaper clippings filed inside FBI files are third-party material and are not covered by this basis.

The FBI Vault titles this five-part file “Angelo Annaloro (Angelo Bruno).” It does not say which surname is the alias. Part 01 opens with a deleted-page sheet recording 282 pages withheld or duplicate.

The early serials are Philadelphia field-office teletypes dated March 22, 1980, captioned “GANGMURS, ANGELO BRUNO - VICTIM.” They report the Philadelphia police response to a shooting on the evening of Friday, March 21, 1980, in which Bruno was pronounced dead at the scene; the driver was reported struck by stray pellets and in good condition at a hospital. Later teletypes describe surveillance of a “Bruno faction” and of Testa, and coordination with the Philadelphia police homicide unit and the Strike Force.

The OCR renders the year of the shooting as 1986; evidence sheets dated 3/26/80 and 3/31/80 and the 1988 Senate testimony give 1980. A street name in the teletype is too garbled to read, so no address is given. Every detail is read from the viewer’s OCR. Parts 02 to 05 were not opened.

itemOrganized Crime: 25 Years After Valachi (1988): FBI and U.S. Attorney testimony on the Philadelphia familyPassages of the April 1988 Senate hearings in which FBI Deputy Assistant Director Anthony Daniels traced the Philadelphia LCN family from Salvatore Sabella to Nicodemo Scarfo, and U.S. Attorney Edward S. G. Dennis, Jr. described the killings after Angelo Bruno's death. Testimony, not findings.itemUnited States v. Riccobene, 709 F.2d 214 (3d Cir. 1983)Third Circuit opinion of May 20, 1983 on a RICO prosecution, built largely on FBI wiretaps at three Philadelphia locations from 1972 to 1978, of an enterprise the court says Angelo Bruno headed, with Philip Testa as underboss.itemUnited States v. Pungitore, 910 F.2d 1084 (3d Cir. 1990)Third Circuit opinion of August 1, 1990 affirming the RICO convictions of Nicodemo Scarfo and thirteen co-defendants from the 1988 Philadelphia trial, with the court's account of the family's succession from Angelo Bruno to Philip Testa to Scarfo.