John Ormento
Convicted in 1962 in the federal Canada-to-New York narcotics conspiracy and sentenced to forty years as a multiple offender. He appears in the courier's testimony in the 1959 Genovese trial, and the Commissioner of Narcotics named him among the Bureau's convictions in 1964.
- Aliases
- Big John Ormento (Giordano's testimony, 1964)
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.
On the record
- 1955/1957 — In United States v. Aviles (2d Cir. 1960), the court's summary of Nelson Cantellops's testimony places Ormento at meetings on East 4th Street, has him paying Cantellops for a trip, and says that "Ormento and Galante sent Cantellops to Puerto Rico for narcotics" and that Ormento introduced Cantellops to Genovese, saying "This is the Right Man." Ormento was not an appellant in that case.
- 1963-06-13 — United States v. Bentvena affirmed his conviction at the 1962 retrial of the 1960 indictment. A footnote lists his sentence as "40 years and $20,000"; he was one of three appellants sentenced as multiple offenders.
- 1964-07-28 — Commissioner Henry L. Giordano named "Big John Ormento" among the "notorious violators" convicted in Bureau of Narcotics conspiracy cases since 1956.
The events from Aviles are the court’s summary of a witness’s testimony in a trial in which Ormento was not a defendant before the court. The role and family fields are left empty; no record filed here states either. No record filed here gives his dates of birth or death.
Records
itemUnited States v. Bentvena, 319 F.2d 916 (2d Cir. 1963)Second Circuit opinion of June 13, 1963 on the retrial of a 1960 indictment charging a conspiracy to bring narcotics from Canada to New York. In its summary of the government's evidence, Carmine Galante is the operation's "chief executive"; his conviction is affirmed.itemUnited States v. Aviles, 274 F.2d 179 (2d Cir. 1960)Second Circuit opinion of January 12, 1960 affirming most of the 1959 narcotics-conspiracy convictions of Vito Genovese, Vincent Gigante and others. It finds Genovese one of the conspiracy's "principal directing heads."itemTestimony of Commissioner Henry L. Giordano, Bureau of Narcotics, 28 July 1964 (Organized Crime and Illicit Traffic in Narcotics, Part 3)The Commissioner of Narcotics tells the Senate subcommittee that since 1956 the Bureau has "developed 20 major conspiracy cases resulting in the conviction of 206 important gangsters," naming Vito Genovese, John Ormento, Carmine Galante and Joseph Valachi, and presents the Valachi-hearing family charts marked for Bureau convictions.