Ralph Mosca

Ralph "Ralphie Bones" Mosca was a Queens/Bronx-based Gambino crime family caporegime. Mosca's crew was involved in labor racketeering, specifically through the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, as well as loan sharking, gambling, and was responsible for receiving the Gambino cut from Greek gangsters operating in Astoria.

Mosca's bagmen in the Carpenters Union were his son Peter, a soldier who was inducted into the family in 1977 the same night as future boss John Gotti, and associate Dominick LoFaro, who eventually flipped and wore a wire in meetings with Mosca, soldier Carmine Fiore, and Genovese crime family associate Attilio Bitondo. He is the brother of Gambino crime family mobster Louis Mosca born 1946.

On September 20, 1991, Mosca and his son Peter and crew member Joseph Passanante were indicted for operating a massive gambling business in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, New Jersey and upstate New York since the 1980s. He was a Gambino capo and people knew him as "Funzie" or "Ralphie Bones".

External links

* New York Daily News: Feud Lit Hospital Hit] by Jerry Capeci
* [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1995/04/13/1995-04-13__dead_man__in_hosp_hit.html New York Daily News: 'Dead Man' In Hosp Hit] by Chris Oliver
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEEDA1231F931A35752C1A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print New York Times: Prosecutors Say Tapes Show Mob Infiltrating Carpenter Union] by Selwyn Raab