Louis Daidone
| Louis Daidone | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 23, 1946 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Status | Inmate at the United States Penitentiary in Allenwood, Pennsylvania |
| Other names | Louie Bagels |
| Occupation | One-time acting boss of the Lucchese crime family |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Conviction(s) | Racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder (2002) |
Louis "Louie Bagels" Daidone (born February 23, 1946) is a New York mobster and former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family.
Daidone was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In 1982, Daidone and Alphonse D'Arco were made into the Lucchese family.
In February 1989, Vic Amuso and Anthony Casso ordered Daidone to murder Lucchese soldier Thomas Gilmore, a car thief working for the Lucchese family. They had received information from New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who were both being bribed by Casso, that Gilmore was a government informant. Daidone and two associates hid inside Gilmore's Richmond Hill, Queens apartment to await his return. Under Daidone's supervision, the two associates ambushed Gilmore as he returned to his apartment and shot him three times in the head. There is no proof that Gilmore was ever working for a government agency.
In 1990, both Amuso and Casso became fugitives to avoid federal indictment for racketeering. During this period, they communicated orders to the Lucchese family using messengers. In August 1990, Amuso and Casso ordered Daidone to murder Lucchese mobster Bruno Facciolo. Eppolito and Caracappa had told Amuso that Facciolo was helping California authorities in an investigation of a Lucchese-linked homicide. Daidone asked Facciolo to formally introduce him to a member of another crime family at a garage in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
When Daidone and Facciolo arrived at the garage, Facciolo saw the men waiting for him and tried to run away. Daidone dragged Facciolo back to the garage, then held him down while the other mobsters stabbed and shot him in both eyes. One week later, Facciolo's body was recovered from the trunk of his car. The police found a dead canary in his mouth, the Cosa Nostra sign of an informant. In 1991, Amuso was finally captured and later that year convicted of racketeering charges and in 1992, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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