Nicholas Delmore

Nicholas Delmore was born Nicholas Amoruso, and like his predecessor he is documented mainly through what other people said about him afterwards. He took the family in the late 1950s, after the killing of Stefano Badami and a brief interval under Filippo Amari, and held it until his death in 1964.

His significance is almost entirely in what he handed over. Delmore ran the family through the years in which the FBI, newly convinced by the Apalachin raid that a national organisation existed, was building the surveillance programme that would eventually record everything. The microphone went into the Kenilworth office in 1961, while he was still boss.

He died in 1964 without ever being seriously prosecuted, which by the standards of the men in this archive is a complete career. The family passed to Simone Rizzo DeCavalcante, a relative by marriage, who would give it his name and then spend four years being taped.