Victor Amuso
| Vittorio Amuso | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1934 (age 83) Canarsie, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Little Vic, Deadly Don |
| Occupation | Boss of the Lucchese crime family |
| Criminal charge | Murder, conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, racketeering |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment |
| Criminal status | Alive |
Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso (born 1934 Canarsie, Brooklyn) is a New York mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family. Amuso was described as a "Deadly Don", by Assistant United States Attorney Charles Rose. He is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland, in Maryland, on murder and racketeering charges.
Vittorio Amuso was born in 1934 and grew up in Canarsie Brooklyn. In the late 1940s, he was introduced to Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo, a prominent caporegime in the Gagliano crime family, a forerunner of the Lucchese crime family. Amuso acted as a bodyguard and chauffeur for Carmine Tramunti.
Vic Amuso was married to Barbara, and the couple had one daughter, Victoria.
He later became an enforcer for Profaci crime family mobster, Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, in Brooklyn. In the early 1960s, the Gallo brothers declared war against longtime crime boss, Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci and the old Profaci faction of the family, because Profaci cut into Gallo's profits. Amuso would allegedly kill several members of the Profaci faction, but was sent to prison sometime in the early 1960s, along with Joey Gallo and a dozen others, for extortion charges.
After Joe Gallo's release from prison in early 1971, he continued his war against the family on June 28, 1971, when boss Joseph Colombo was shot. Months later on April 7, 1972, Joe Gallo was shot to death in Little Italy Manhattan, New York, while he was celebrating his 43rd birthday. Many Colombo crime family members, especially those from the old Gallo crew, defected to other crime families. Amuso went to the Lucchese family sometime during that year, as an associate in the "19th Hole Crew," whose capo was Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari.
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