Salvatore Iannello

Salvatore "Sally Black" Iannello was a hitman associated with the Torelli crime family and several New York crime organizations. He was the co-owner of King Standard Plastics in Paterson, New Jersey. He used the plastic company as a front for illegal gambling and cocaine production in the 1970s.
Iannello became involved with the Torelli crime family in the mid-1960s, when he worked in the Port Authority and let the gang smuggle French heroin into Port Newark.
According to several sources, Iannello was allegedly a perpetrator in at least 28 murders, most famously the Napoli-Borowitz Murders in 1972, whom he committed for James Torelli alongside future South Jersey faction boss Francis Buonocore.
== Death ==
In 1978, a federal investigation into Salvatore Iannello's involvement with the extortion of several gas companies in Paterson, New Jersey was launched. In November, he began supplying information to the FBI, which eventually led to the imprisonment of Vito Lastra, the older brother of current Torelli North Jersey faction boss Pete Lastra.
In February 1980, a police officer who had connections to the FBI informed James Torelli of Iannello's cooperation with federal agents. Iannello was stalked for a month, until he was seen entering the FBI office in Newark in early March.
On March 28, Salvatore Iannello went to Sweet's Restaurant in the Lower East Side alone, and was supposed to meet Steve Basile, a member of the Torelli crime family. When Basile never arrived, Iannello left the restaurant at approximately 9:00 PM, and walked from Fulton Street to the corner of Chambers Street and Centre Street. At approximately 9:29, he was intercepted by a black sedan, whose two passengers exited the car and gunned down Iannello, firing an estimated ten .38 caliber rounds into his body.
By the time police arrived at 9:33, Iannello was already dead and the perpetrators vanished.
Theorists believe Newark hitman Frank Rosenburg was one of the perpetrators behind Iannello's death. The other perpetrator is unknown.
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Category:Organized Crime