120 to 130 members
Boss: Vittorio �Vic� Amuso, 70
Underboss : Vacant
Consigliere: Vacant
Since 1991, the Feds have convicted five Luchese leaders, including Vittorio �Vic� Amuso and acting bosses. Two stand-in leaders, Alphonse �Little Al� D�Arco and Joseph �Little Joe� Defede, became turncoats. Another, Louis �Louie Bagels� Daidone, is serving life for murder.
The fifth, Steven Crea, 57, is serving three years for labor racketeering and due out of federal prison in August 2006. Crea, 57, who operates several construction companies, is viewed as the likely successor to the jailed-for-life Amuso. Currently, the Lucheses have a trio of veteran capos functioning as a ruling committee: Aniello �Neil� Migliore, 71; Joseph DiNapoli, 69; and Matthew Madonna, 69.
Migliore, who served briefly as underboss to Antonio �Tony Ducks� Corallo decades ago, �is the biggest influence on the street,� says one law-enforcement official. �He�s more equal than the others,� says another investigator.
DiNapoli got out of federal prison in 1999 after 29 months for fraud and loan-sharking. Madonna was a major heroin trafficker who supplied notorious Harlem drug kingpin Leroy �Nicky� Barnes in the sixties and seventies. He was �made� following his release from federal prison in 1995, after serving twenty years for drug dealing.