Question: Facts: - image caption: richard mugshot . cantarella in a 2002 federal bureau of investigation - birth date: 1944 - name: richard cantarella - image size: 175px - birth place: new york city Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of richard cantarella .
Answer:
richard cantarella -lrb- aka '' shellackhead '' -rrb- -lrb- born 1944 -rrb- , was a new york mobster who became a caporegime for the bonanno crime family and later a government witness .