Past member(s)[edit]
Joseph Abate[edit]
Joseph "Joe" Abate (July 8, 1902 – November 28, 1996) was a capo in the family's New Jersey faction.[1] In the 1920s, Abate served as an enforcer for Al Capone in Chicago before settling in New Jersey.[2] In June 1976, Abate attended Anthony Accetturo's induction ceremony into the Lucchese family.[2] In 1979, Abate went into semiretirement and Accetturo succeed him as boss of the New Jersey faction.[3] He moved to Margate, New Jersey, and served as a liaison between families in New Jersey until 1989 when he retired from Mafia affairs.[4] In 1992, his daughter Catherine Abate was appointed New York City's new Correction Commissioner.[5] She was confronted about her father's past and denied that he was ever involved in organized crime.[6] In 1994, Joseph Abate died of natural causes.[7] In 1998, his daughter Catherine admitted that she could no longer dismiss allegations that her father belonged to the Lucchese crime family.[7]
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