Philip Rastelli, who once ran the Bonanno crime family, will pretty much be remembered for one thing, his wife Connie.
Rastelli and Ralph Santora were accused of murdering an ex-convict, Michael Russo, in December 1954, after he backed out on a plan to hold up a bank. The hood took Russo for a ride, he was shot four times, but lived.
In 1949, Russo, a pro…
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