List of Lucchese crime family mobsters
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Ray Argentina
Ray Argentina is a current capo and longtime soldier of the Brooklyn faction. His younger brother Peter Argentina is an associate in the family. In 1992, Argentina along with Louis Daidone, Alan Taglianetti and Robert Molinelli were found guilty in the $1.2 million robbery of an armored truck in Brooklyn in 1988. In 2001, Argentina was indicted along with Louis Gampero and Ken Cardona they were charged with a $3.2 million illegal mortgage fraud activities in Brooklyn, upstate New York and Long Island, and running a cocaine ring in Long Island. On April 5, 2019, Argentina was released from prison. In late 2025, Argentina was promoted to capo of George Zappola's Brooklyn crew, after Zappola was imprisoned.
Carmine Avellino
Carmine Avellino (born July 15, 1944) is a caporegime operating a crew in Long Island. He is the younger brother to mobster Salvatore Avellino. On April 20, 1983, the FBI recorded a conversation between Carmine and his brother Salvatore Avellino Jr. as they discussed a dispute over a craps game that Carmine had was operating because mobster Aniello Migliore complained to Underboss Salvatore Santoro about Carmine's game it was cutting into Migliore's profits, Salvatore told his brother Carmine, that he should have spoken to his caporegime Joseph Capra before opening the game.
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