Charles "Big Ears" Majuri

Everything on this page comes from the public record. Charles Majuri has not been shown by any court to hold the position later reporting gives him, he is not known to have died, and this archive goes no further than charges, verdicts and sworn testimony.

He is Frank Majuri's son. His father was underboss of the DeCavalcante family through the years the FBI was recording it in Kenilworth, which makes this the only father and son pair in the archive, and it makes the family's whole documented life fit inside two generations of one household.

The panel

When Giacomo Amari died in 1997 the family did not name a boss. It named three men to run it together: Vincent Palermo, Girolamo Palermo and Majuri.

A ruling panel is a device for postponing a decision, and postponement suited everybody except the man who believed the decision should already have gone his way. By every account that reached the record, including Vincent Palermo's own sworn testimony, Majuri did not accept that Palermo had become the effective boss inside a structure that was supposed to be equal.

What the courts did

The federal case that ended this in December 1999 swept up Palermo and around forty others. Palermo became a government witness.

Majuri was indicted the following year on counts covering bookmaking, illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion and labour racketeering, along with conspiracy counts arising from the same period.

Since

In March 2015 the FBI arrested ten members and associates of the family in New Jersey, in a case built on recordings and undercover work, and a capo, Charles Stango, later admitted planning the murder of a man he believed had falsely presented himself as a made member. Stango was sentenced to ten years.

Majuri was not among those charged. Reporting from that period onward describes him as the family's boss, which is plausible, unproven, and not a finding of any court. The archive records it as what it is: the current understanding of journalists who cover the organisation, and not evidence.