* Anthony " Fat Tony " Salerno, former head of the Genovese Crime Family, spent most of his time at his Rhinebeck horse farm during the 1970s and ' 80s, prior to his incarceration.

* Former head of the Genovese Crime Family, Anthony " Fat Tony " Salerno, spent most of his time at his Rhinebeck horse farm during the 1970s and 1980s, before his incarceration.

Valachi then became a soldier in the family headed by Charles " Lucky " Luciano ( eventually known as the Genovese Family ), in the crew headed by Anthony " Tony Bender " Strollo.

Since Luciano was going to have to return to Italy, he should turn over leadership of the Luciano Family to Genovese and retire.

* Vito " Don Vito " Genovese, Luciano Family caporegime and future boss.

* May 24-Anthony Provenzano " Tony Pro ", Genovese Crime Family Caporegime and New Jersey labor union racketeer

After his release, Genovese began competing with Frank " The Prime Minister " Costello for control over the biggest and most powerful underworld crime family, the Luciano Family of New York.

Once Genovese obtained control of the Luciano Family, his intentions were to take control of The Commission and the Mafia, but to accomplish this he had to remove the long-established " Conservative Faction ," or old guard Mafia, which controlled the Commission.

Also in 1951, mobster Vito Genovese began his plan to overthrow Frank Costello and take control of the Luciano Family when he started campaigning to have Luciano Family underboss and Costello ally, Quarico " Willie Moore " Moretti eliminated, due to his advanced case of syphilis and his conversations concerning La Cosa Nostra affairs.

Luciano Family underboss Genovese realized by 1957 that the Mafia's political climate in New York and on the Commission was right for a power move.

On May 2, Genovese gunman and protégé, Vincent " Chin " Gigante tried to kill Luciano Family boss Frank Costello in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building but failed leaving Costello with only a minor head wound.

Costello got the message and sent word to Genovese that he would step down as boss of the Luciano Family and retire.

* Anthony " Fat Tony " Salerno, Genovese Family Boss

Luciano / Genovese Family:

She eventually became more than " arm candy " for some of the top brass in the Outfit, before she moved on to others and eventually to Genovese Family mobster Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel.

* June 20, 1947-Following the murder of Genovese Family mobster " Bugsy " Siegel, which happened on this date, his " girlfriend ," Mob courier Virginia Hill, was told by Outfit taxman Joe Epstein she " had to " return any money Siegel stole from his bosses during his building of the Flamingo, in Las Vegas, NV.

Genovese now believed that with Costello and Anastasia out of the way and Gambino supposedly in his debt, the way was clear for him to become Boss of Bosses.

The Costello-Lansky-Luciano-Gambino alliance gained further strength after the Apalachin Conference, supposedly set up to formally crown Genovese as Boss of Bosses, ended in disaster with several prominent mafiosi being arrested.

After sharing a prison cell with Boss Vito Genovese following his conviction for heroin trafficking, Gigante became a caporegime, overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates that operated out of Greenwich Village.

By 1981 he became the Boss of the Genovese crime family, while Anthony " Fat Tony " Salerno served as front boss during the 1980s.

On May 2, 1957, Vito Genovese ordered Gigante to murder Genovese family Boss Frank Costello, a close friend of Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and one of the best-known underworld figures in the United States.

During his tenure as boss of the Genovese family after the imprisonment of John Gotti, Gigante would come to be known as the figurehead capo di tutti capi, the " Boss of All Bosses ", even though the position had been abolished with the murder of Salvatore Maranzano in 1931.

In the early 1920, Genovese started working for Giuseppe " Joe the Boss " Masseria, the boss of a powerful Brooklyn gang.

* Genovese is portrayed in the 2001 TV movie Boss of Bosses by Steven Bauer.

By all accounts, Genovese was angling to become Boss of all Bosses, and believed that Gambino would support him.

* Boss of Bosses ( 2001 ) ( TV ) .... Vito Genovese

Boss Vito Genovese had returned to New York from exile in Italy and was not content with assuming a minor role in the organization.

In a display of power Galante declared war on the Genovese and Gambino families, gunning down several of their soldiers in attempt to make them bow down to him as the Boss of Bosses.

Genovese Boss Funzi Tieri began to try to gain a cut of the lucrative bookmaking operation Caponigro was running in New Jersey.

Scarfo gave the Gambino and Genovese families permission to operate in Atlantic City in exchange for their backing for him to become Boss.

* Michael James Genovese, Pittsburgh crime family Boss and possible cousin of Vito Genovese

Boss Vito Genovese, who had fled from New York to Italy avoid a 1937 murder indictment, was living in Naples at the end of World War II when he was arrested and returned to the United States in 1946 to face trial.

At the head of this new faction were Boss Genovese and allies Gaetano Lucchese and Carlo Gambino.

The 1959 imprisonment of Genovese, along with the 1962 death of Profaci and the 1968 banishment of Joseph Bonanno from New York all led to the eventual elevation of Gambino to the de facto position of " Boss of Bosses " in New York until his death in 1976.

* Anthony " Fat Tony " Salerno, Boss of the Genovese crime family

A third bug was placed in the East Harlem Palma Boys Social Club belonging to Genovese crime family Boss Anthony " Fat Tony " Salerno.

The attack was orchestrated by Genovese boss Vincent Gigante, with the backing of Lucchese leaders Vittorio " Vic " Amuso and Anthony " Gaspipe " Casso.

He worked in the Greenwich Village Crew, a group of mobsters in Greenwich Village that was overseen by Vito Genovese and later Anthony Strollo.

Additionally, he made Anthony " Fat Tony " Salerno the front boss of the Genovese family.

Genovese now became boss of what is known as the Genovese crime family and promoted his longtime lieutenant, Anthony Strollo, to underboss.

In September 1959, Genovese allegedly ordered the murder of mobster Anthony Carfano.

In April 1962, Genovese allegedly ordered the murder of Anthony Strollo.

Turncoats and informants would later reveal that the order for the hit came from Genovese crime family boss Vincent Gigante, who did not like Gotti or approve of his killing Paul Castellano without approval from the Commission, and conspired in his murder with Lucchese crime family leaders Vittorio " Vic " Amuso and Anthony " Gaspipe " Casso.

Genovese front boss Anthony " Fat Tony " Salerno wanted to seized control of lucrative construction rackets at the new Jacob Javits Convention Center from the Westies.

Even with all the growing animosity Lucky Luciano couldn't leave out his old associate, Vito " Don Vito " Genovese who had his group of distributors including Anthony " Tony Bender " Strollo, Vincent " Vinnie Bruno " Mauro, Frank " The Bug " Caruso, Salvatore " Sam " Maneri, Vincent " Chin " Gigante and even Joseph " Joe Cago " Valachi who were all associated with the " Papalia-Agueci Network " of the Magaddino crime family of Buffalo and led by members, John " Johnny Pops " Papalia and Alberto Agueci of Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario.

The most influential Genovese leaders from Springfield were Salvatore " Big Nose Sam " Curfari, Francesco " Frankie Skyball " Scibelli, Adolfo " Big Al " Bruno, and Anthony Arillotta ( turned informant 2009 ).

In 2010, the FBI convinced Genovese mobsters Anthony Arillotta and Felix L. Tranghese to become government witnesses.

** Anthony Russo ( mobster ) ( 1916 – 1979 ), Genovese crime family figure

Anthony Salerno, a high-ranking member of the Genovese crime family, wanted the center for himself and reached an agreement with Jimmy Coonan.

Genovese Boss Anthony Salerno replied " Maybe I should tell em where the five million is buried ".

* Michael " Mickey " Souza-on July 20, 2010 Souza became a government witness and testifyed against Genovese mobster Anthony Antico.