Mafia Hit On Al Capone Protege’ Little Augie Pisano: Queens, New York September 26, 1959

Anthony Carfano, aka Little Augie Pisano. was a contemporary of Chicago crime boss Al Capone. In his youth Pisano worked for Capone as a henchman in Brooklyn. The future mobsters grew up together in New York City. Years later Little Augie became involved in labor racketeering and owned ponies that raced at Saratoga. One of his subsidiaries, the Ace Lathing Company, was responsible for a major facelift given to Yonkers Raceway in 1958. Little Augie was murdered in Jackson Heights, Queens on a night in late September 1959. The culprit(s) of the hit on him were still at large some four years later when Joseph Valachi offered his historic testimony about the Mafia to U.S. Senate investigators. Pisano died in his 1959 Cadillac alongside Janice Drake, a former Miss New Jersey. She had accompanied the mobster to the Copacabana nightclub and then to a swank eatery before they were both killed by two elusive gunmen. My ebook was researched from old newspapers and genealogical records. It provides insight into the murders, Little Augie's ancestry and his actions as an important member of the Genovese crime family.