Joseph Caridi - Lucchese Family

Lucchese Family

In the mid 1980s, Caridi was reportedly inducted into the Lucchese crime family, then under the leadership of boss Victor Amuso. When Amuso was sent to prison in the early 1990s, Caridi became the caporegime of the Long Island and Queens factions, assisted by Lucchese mobster John Cerrella. They became top members of the Long Island and Queens faction. Caridi was later nicknamed by the media as the "Tony Soprano of Long Island". Caridi resides in Northport, New York.

In 2001, Caridi took control of the Hudson & McCoy Fish House, a restaurant in Freeport, Long Island, after the owner asked him for help. The owner's partner Lewis Kasman, a Gambino crime family associate, had been stealing money from the restaurant. Caridi successfully removed Lewis and then started stealing money himself. At one point, Caridi was extorting up to $10,000 per night from the restaurant. Caridi also forced the owner to buy his bread from a mob-affiliated supplier.