page_title: Victor Amuso
section_title: The Windows case
hierarchical_section_title: Victor Amuso / Boss of the Lucchese family / The Windows case
caption_attribution_description: English: Surveillance photo of Mafia leaders John Gotti, Sammy Gravano, Victor Amuso and Anthony Casso.
context_page_description: Vittorio "Little Vic" Amuso is an American New York mobster and boss of the Lucchese crime family. He was described as a "Deadly Don" by Assistant United States Attorney Charles Rose. Amuso's reign is considered one of the bloodiest periods in American Mafia history during the late 1980s and early 1990s, alongside his former underboss and close protégé Anthony Casso, who turned informer against him in 1994. Since the death of Colombo crime family boss Carmine Persico in March 2019, Amuso is currently the longest-serving crime family boss of the Five Families and American Mafia, dating back to 1987. Amuso has been serving a life sentence since 1992 and is currently allocated at the Federal Correctional Institution, Cumberland, in Maryland, on murder and racketeering charges.
context_section_description: From 1978 to 1990, four of the five crime families of New York, including the Lucchese family, rigged bids for 75 percent of $191 million, or about $142 million, of the window contracts awarded by the New York City Housing Authority. Installation companies were required to make union payoffs between $1 and $2 for each windows installed.
caption: FBI surveillance photograph of Amuso, Casso, Gotti and Gravano
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