Anthony Baratta - Capo of The "Harlem Crew"

Capo of The "Harlem Crew"

In 1978, Baratta became a made man in the Lucchese crime family operating under the family's Bronx faction. In the early 1980s, Anthony Baratta was promoted Caporegime (or Capo) of the "Harlem Crew", controlling the Pleasant Avenue narcotics ring in East Harlem and other rackets in the Bronx and Long Island. Baratta placed soldier Joseph "Joey Bang Bang" Massaro in charge of running his Long Island topless bars operations. In 1980, Massaro started a feud with the Bonanno crime family, when he began taking over their topless bars. FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone, who was working undercover in the Bonanno family as "Donnie Brasco", heard of the two families having a sitdown over Long Island topless bars.