Alphonse "Funzi" Sisca (Born in 1942 or 1946) is the head of the Gambino crime family New Jersey crew. Sisca was an ally of John Gotti and started a drug dealing operation with Angelo Ruggiero and Arnold Squitieri. Sisca was arrested along with other Gambino members for conspiracy. [1] Sisca also pleaded guilty for racketeering charges on March 31, 2006. [2] Sisca became New Jersey Faction Leader for the Gambino crime family in 2012. [3]
The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia. The group, which went through five bosses between 1910 and 1957, is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963, when the structure of organized crime first gained public attention. The group's operations extend from New York and the eastern seaboard to California. Its illicit activities include labor and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution, fraud, hijacking, pier thefts, and fencing.
John Joseph Gotti Jr. was an Italian-American gangster who became boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti and his brothers grew up in poverty and turned to a life of crime at an early age. Gotti quickly rose to prominence, becoming one of the crime family's biggest earners and a protégé of Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce, operating out of the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens.
Angelo Salvatore Ruggiero, Sr. was a member of the Gambino crime family and a friend of John Gotti's. Under Gotti's leadership, Ruggiero became a caporegime, although he became widely seen as an over-talkative enforcer type without the astuteness needed for running lucrative rackets. Gotti, by then the most targeted criminal in the country, came to share that assessment amid mounting investigative pressure and costly blunders by the indiscreet Ruggiero, who had completely fallen from favour by the time of his death. The FBI regarded Ruggiero, whose open defiance of law enforcement extended to swearing at the judge during a hearing, as an unpredictable psychopath not amenable to confrontational tactics.
