Moceri

Licavoli named Tony Delsanter as his consigliere and appointed his cousin Leo Moceri as underboss.

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Only weeks after mob enforcer Eugene Ciasullo was bombed, underboss Leo Moceri received a threatening phone call.

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LONARDO: Well, John Nardi was being tried in Miami on narcotics and while he was there he gave Danny Greene the order, the contract to try to get Leo Moceri.

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Moceri kept quite busy loan-sharking and with various other rackets.

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LONARDO: Well, Leo Moceri and John Nardi did not get along, and one day during the feast that they hold in Cleveland every year, in Mayfield—I think you know about that—Leo Moceri told John Nardi to mind his own business and he had better start behaving or otherwise he was going to get it.

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Licavoli and his cousin Leo Moceri became close friends with Jimmy Fratianno.

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Fratianno stayed in California but remained close friends with Moceri and Licavoli, who eventually inherited leadership of the Cleveland mob.

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The goals of both men would put them on a collision course with James “Jack White” Licavoli and his cousin, Leo Lips Moceri.

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Moceri, nicknamed “Lips” because of his thick lips, spent time in California, where Fratianno became a made member of the Los Angeles Mafia.

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Moceri escaped prosecution on all three, thanks, perhaps, to his use of a whopping sixteen aliases.

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