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Salvatore Santoro

Commission case defendant. The Second Circuit wrote in 1989 that the government established he served as underboss of the Lucchese family under Corallo.

Family
Lucchese family, as the government established at trial (Second Circuit, 1989)
Role
Underboss under Corallo, as "the government established" (Second Circuit, 1989)
Source
United States v. Salerno, 868 F.2d 524 (2d Cir. 1989)
Rights
Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.

On the record

  • 31 January 1989 — United States v. Salerno, 868 F.2d 524: Corallo was boss of the Lucchese family, "which Santoro served as 'underboss'"; the court also recounts that "At Corallo's direction, Santoro and Salvatore Avellino, Corallo's driver, met with Paul Castellano and two other Gambino family members" to settle the DiLeo dispute. What the government established, as the court summarizes it.

The role line stays on this page and the opinion’s page. No opened record gives his birth or death.

Records

itemUnited States v. Salerno, 868 F.2d 524 (2d Cir. 1989)Second Circuit opinion on the appeal from the Southern District of New York trial of Anthony Salerno and seven other defendants, decided January 31, 1989.