Dominick Trinchera
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| Born | December 20, 1936 Bronx, New York |
| Died | May 5, 1981 (aged 44) Dyker Heights, Brooklyn |
Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera (December 20, 1936 Bronx, New York - May 5, 1981 Dyker Heights, Brooklyn) was a Bonanno crime family capo who was murdered with Alphonse Indelicato and Philip Giaccone for planning the overthrow of aspiring Bonanno boss Philip Rastelli.
Born in Bronx, New York, Trinchera was the son of an immigrant from Rome, Italy and an Italian-American woman from Naples, Italy. He weighed 350 pounds, Trinchera eventually was married to a woman named Donna and fathered several children, including a daughter Laura. It is unknown when Trinchera actually became a made man except that he was made a capo in 1979 following the murder of boss Carmine Galante. He never learned fully how to speak the English language, and only spoke broken English-Italian his entire life. Trinchera controlled businesses in New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens. He also owned a legitimate transport truck shipping firm which he sold in 1981, several weeks before his death, for $2.5 million.
On July 12, 1979 Trinchera, Giaccone, and Indelicato murdered Bonanno acting boss Carmine Galante at an Italian-American restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn along with his bodyguard and restaurant owner. It is suspected that the heads of the other New York families arranged Galante's death; they supposedly viewed Galante's greed and ambition as a threat to all their interests. After the Galante murder, a fight for control of the family started. On one side was mobster Rastelli, on the other side were capos Trinchera, Giaconne, and Indelicato. In May 1981, Dominick Napolitano ordered mobster Donnie Brasco, who was actually undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, to murder Anthony (Bruno) Indelicato in Miami. However, the contract was called off. Rastelli loyalist Dominick Napolitano wanted to kill Trinchera, Giaccone, and Indelicato at the same time so as to destroy the opposition to Rastelli.
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