We don’t hear much about Stefano Badami, the first boss of the mob in Elizabeth New Jersey and what is now called the Decavalcante crime family of New Jersey.
Badami took over in 1937 when Boss Gaspare D’Amico went into hiding. Under Badami’s leadership, the Elizbeth mob punched, shot and killed its way into the rackets in nearby Newark.
Stefano Badami, …
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