Joseph D'Amico also known as "Joey Moak" was a made man

Made man

A made man, also known as a Mafioso , made guy, man of honor, or uomo d'onore , is someone who has been officially inducted into the Sicilian or American Mafia . They may also be referred to by some as a goodfella or wiseguy...

 in the Bonanno crime family

Bonanno crime family

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 who later turned informant. D'Amico was a long-time street soldier who worked under his cousin Richard Cantarella

Richard Cantarella

Richard Cantarella , was an New York mobster who became a caporegime for the Bonanno crime family and later a government witness.-Biography:...

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Biography

D'Amico was born and raised in the Knickerbocker Village

Knickerbocker Village

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 public housing

Public housing

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 tenement

Tenement

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 building where his uncle Albert Embarrato

Albert Embarrato

Alfred "Al Walker" Embarrato a.k.a. "Alfred Scalisi" a.k.a." Aldo Elvorado" was a New York mobster who became a caporegime of the Bonanno crime family and a powerful labor figure at a New York newspaper.-Newspaperman:Born on the Lower East Side, Manhattan to first generation immigrants Salvatore...

, Anthony Mirra

Anthony Mirra

Anthony "Tony" Mirra was an Italian-American mobster and soldier for the Bonanno crime family...

, cousin Richard Cantarella

Richard Cantarella

Richard Cantarella , was an New York mobster who became a caporegime for the Bonanno crime family and later a government witness.-Biography:...

 and fellow mobster Benjamin Ruggiero

Benjamin Ruggiero

Benjamin Ruggiero, also known as "Lefty," "Lefty Guns," "Lefty Two Guns" , was a soldier in the Bonanno crime family. He is well known for his friendship and mentorship of FBI undercover agent Joseph "Donnie Brasco" Pistone. Ruggiero was an old school Cosa Nostra mobster who knew how Mafia...

 resided at. He is also a cousin of Paul Cantarella, Frank Cantarella and Joseph Padavano. He was a close friend of New York Post

New York Post

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Superintendent of Deliveries, Robert Perrino

Robert Perrino

Robert Francis Perrino, also known as "Bobby Perrino" was the Superintendent of Deliveries at The New York Post from the 1970s until 1992 when he was murdered. He was a Bonanno crime family associate of Italian-American descent...

 and Anthony Mirra. In the 1970s he met undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone, but did not suffer the vicious aftermath as his cousin Mirra did.
D'Amico is not to be confused with Gambino crime family

Gambino crime family

The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...

 acting boss

Crime boss

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 Jackie D'Amico

Jackie D'Amico

John "Jackie the Nose" D'Amico is a New York mobster that served as street boss of the Gambino crime family from 2005 to 2011. "Street boss" had been the family's number one position ever since official Boss Peter Gotti started serving a life sentence in prison.-Early life:D'Amico stands 5'11" ...

, whom he is not related to.

Mirra murder

Cantarella was given the contract to murder Anthony Mirra by boss Joseph Massino. The hit was in retaliation for the Donnie Brasco infiltration. After Massino murdered Napolitano the year before, Mirra went into hiding. Massino figured that Mirra would trust his own family, which is why he gave the assignment to Cantarella. On February 18, 1982 Cantarella lured Mirra into to a parking garage he owned in Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan

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. As Cantarella and Embarrato kept watch outside, D'Amico climbed into Mirra's burgundy Mercedes Benz and shot him in the temple at point blank range.

When the New York Police Department tapped on Mirra's car window hours later, he looked as if he were sleeping: his head had fallen forward so his chin rested on his chest and his eyes were closed. He was shot three times, two behind his ear and one in the cheek. A fourth bullet had lodged itself in his left knee. So much blood had drained down inside Mirra's jacket and into his pants that his yellow boxer shorts had turned red.