# Joseph Messina

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/people/joseph-messina/

Charged in the 1982 New York case. The indictment, as the Eleventh Circuit summarizes it, named him and Dominick Napolitano as the two "captains" whom the three men killed in May 1981 sought to displace. He did not appear for trial.

No record filed here reports the outcome of any trial of Messina, his birth, or his death. "Capos" and "acting head" are FBI labels and are not charted on the [Bonanno family](/families/bonanno/) page.

## Sources

- United States v. Ruggiero, 754 F.2d 927 (11th Cir. 1985): https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/447925/united-states-v-benjamin-ruggiero-and-john-cerasani/