Question: Philip Carlo was a biographer for an American contract killer who was associated with members of what crime family?
Context: The DeCavalcante crime family is an Italian-American organized crime family that operates in Elizabeth, New Jersey and surrounding areas in the state and is part of the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).  It operates on the other side of the Hudson River from the Five Families of New York, but it maintains strong relations with many of them, as well as with the Philadelphia crime family and the Patriarca crime family of New England.  Its illicit activities include bookmaking, building, cement, and construction violations, bootlegging, corruption, drug trafficking, extortion, fencing, fraud, hijacking, illegal gambling, loan-sharking, money laundering, murder, pier thefts, pornography, prostitution, racketeering, and waste management violations.  The DeCavalcantes are, in part, the inspiration for the fictional DiMeo crime family of HBO's dramatic series "The Sopranos".  The DeCavalcante family was the subject of the CNBC program "Mob Money", which aired on June 23, 2010 and "The Real Sopranos" TV documentary (first airdate April 26, 2006) directed by Thomas Viner for the UK production company Class Films. Philip Carlo (April 18, 1949 – November 8, 2010) was a journalist and best selling biographer of Thomas Pitera, Richard Kuklinski, Anthony Casso, and Richard Ramirez.  Carlo suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".  He was bound to a wheelchair and respirator, but retained his ability to speak normally during his lifetime.  He died of the disease on November 8, 2010 at age 61. Computer bridge is the playing of the game contract bridge using computer software.  After years of limited progress, since around the end of the 20th century the field of computer bridge has made major advances.  In 1996 the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) established an official World Computer-Bridge Championship, to be held annually along with a major bridge event.  The first championship took place in 1997 at the North American Bridge Championships in Albuquerque.  Since 1999 the event has been conducted as a joint activity of the American Contract Bridge League and the World Bridge Federation.  Alvin Levy, ACBL Board member, initiated this championship and has coordinated the event annually since its inception.  The event history, articles and publications, analysis, and playing records can be found at the official website. Sidney Samuel Lenz (1873 – 1960) was an American contract bridge player and writer.  He is a member of the American Contract Bridge League Hall of Fame, being inducted in the second (1965) class. Richard Leonard Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was an American contract killer and serial killer who was convicted of murdering five people, though he likely killed at least several dozen more.  He was associated with members of the American Mafia, namely the DeCavalcante crime family of Newark, New Jersey, and the Five Families of New York City. The Genovese crime family's New Jersey faction is a group of mobsters within the Genovese crime family that control the family's interests in organized crime activities in the state of New Jersey.  The New Jersey faction of the Genovese crime family has maintained a strong presence in the Northern New Jersey area since the prohibition era.  The faction is divided into multiple crews and has increased in power over the years with members controlling illegal activities in labor racketeering, loansharking, extortion, and illegal gambling.  Members within the faction have held top leadership position in the Genovese crime family dating back to the 1930s with underboss Guarino "Willie" Moretti.  From the 1990s until his death in 2010, Tino "the Greek" Fiumara had been in control of the New Jersey faction. The Patriarca crime family (pronounced ] ) is also known as the New England crime family, the Providence crime family, the Boston crime family, the Boston Mafia, the Providence Mafia, the New England Mafia, or The Office and is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in New England.  The crime family has two distinct factions, one active in Providence, Rhode Island and the other in Boston, Massachusetts. The Milwaukee crime family or Balistrieri crime family is an American Mafia crime family based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  The crime family was considered a branch of the Chicago Outfit.  The family's most influential boss was Frank "Mr. Big" Balistrieri, who was greatly involved in the Las Vegas skimming casinos. Today, the crime family is nearly extinct, since Balistrieri died in 1993, with the "Chicago Outfit" gaining control over some of the illegal rackets in the area. Jack Whalen (May 11, 1918 – December 2, 1959), also called Jack O'Hara and "The Enforcer," was a criminal and freelance contract killer and bookie, who worked for the Los Angeles crime family, although he also was associated with Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, the Shannon brothers (Joe, Izzy, Moe, and Max) and Mickey Cohen during the 1940s and 1950s. William "Wild Guy" Grasso was an Italian-American gangster from East Haven, Connecticut who served as underboss to Raymond Patriarca, Jr. (a.k.a. "Junior") in the Patriarca crime family, also known as the New England crime family, the Providence crime family or the Boston crime family.  The Patriarca family is a Mafia crime family based in New England.  Succeeding his father Raymond L.S. Patriarca as boss after his father's death in 1984, Junior was considered a weak leader.  He managed to keep the peace in his crime family due to the support of the Gambino crime family of New York.  When Junior's original underboss Ilario "Larry Baione" Maria Antonio Zannino was sentenced to thirty years in prison in 1987, it further weakened Junior's position.  With Zannino in jail, Grasso became underboss.
Answer: DeCavalcante crime family