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Angelo Sisca Jr.


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Angelo Sisca Jr. (born April 11, 1970) is a high-ranking member of the Martorano crime family. He is a labor racketeer and operates as a union official for ILWU Local 66. Sisca is a former Colombo soldier who operated under then caporegime Dominic Montemarano. Sisca merged ties with Philip Martorano in 2021 and established the Martorano crime family. According to Savona's testimony, Sisca served as Martorano's underboss prior to his imprisonment in 2021. Following his release, his standing within the family remains unknown.

 

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Background


Sisca was born in Sheepshead Bay, South Brooklyn, New York. His father, Angelo Sisca Sr., was an inducted Persico enforcer during the Second Colombo War and was indicted for murder in 1995. He dropped out of college as he was considered a slow learner and academically underdeveloped. In his teens, Sisca was a competing, up-and-coming boxer but repeatedly broke his nose, suffering breathing problems which forced him to quit. He has been a heavy breather eversince. Sisca instead worked at the Meat Hook, a butcher's shop in Brooklyn and was a loose associate of Joseph Amato Sr.

 

Sisca has a tacky sense of fashion that includes pinstriped pants and oversized, open blouse shirts as well as shaded sunglasses that help hide his lazy eye. In 2017, the Black Hand Forum described him as "nothing more than a puffed up, pompous thug who cares more about looks than anything else."[1]

 

Labor racketeering


Connections in the Colombo family enrolled him as an union representative in the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) at Local 1814. Sisca regularly looted shipments and fenced them accordingly, supplying appliances and electronics to local shops for a lowered price. He became involved with the Montemarano-Amato crew under Joseph Amato Sr. in the 1990s, and based his operations out of Sheepshead Bay alongside long-time friend Louis Sabella.
 

In 1997, Sisca had an altercation with union delegate Peter Fransella who had joked and made comments about Sisca's amblyopia. In response, Sisca and Sabella severely beat Fransella and inflicted permanent damage to his eyes. From thereon out, Sisca began wearing his signature sunglasses in an effort to hide his lazy eye from public sight, even at night. 
 

Sisca resigned from Local 1814 following an increased law enforcement interest in and around the terminals. He was also tipped off about a supposed informant within the local. Instead, Sisca focused on and expanded other activities such as loansharking and continued union-aligned extortion and fencing through middle men. 
 

In May 1998, Fransella’s body was discovered in the Apollo Club’s parking lot in East Flushing, Queens, allegedly slain over his suspected cooperation with law enforcement.

 

Colombo crime family


Los Santos faction

Sisca was then recruited by Dominic Montemarano, a long-time Colombo captain, to relocate to the West Coast in the late 1990s. Montemarano’s desire was to semi-retire but kept interests in the movie industry, pornography, and gambling. A minor faction within Montemarano’s Bayside crew were transferred to East Los Santos, San Andreas. Sisca, together with Paul Longo, began operating out of his brother-in-law’s social club, Sabella’s, near Mirror Park. Sisca resumed his usual activities such as loansharking, labor racketeering, theft and fencing.

 

Induction

Sisca’s prominent role in establishing a Colombo base on the West Coast earned him Montemarano’s blessing. Gang Land News' mafia writer Jerry Capeci published a list of names who were inducted into the Colombo crime family on Christmas Eve, 2007, which included Sisca and Longo.[2]  Sabella was not included in the list. Sisca was reportedly involved in the murder of George Kruger, an associate turned alcoholic who was gunned down on Mirror Park Boulevard and East Mirror Drive in 2013.[3] It is alleged Sisca’s ceremony was conducted by Montemarano as a stand-in for the administration.
 

Martorano crime family


In light of an increased Cosa Nostra presence in San Andreas, a Philadelphia-Colombo partnership was established in an effort to protect and align the Mafia’s financial interests. Together with Philip Martorano, a Philadelphia captain, Sisca coordinated labor racketeering efforts in the construction and longshoreman unions. He was eventually elected president of Local 66, a chapter of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Following Montemarano’s passing, a merge was proposed between the satellite crews. A half-retired Colombo caporegime, Carmine Lupo, coordinated the merge in accordance with demands from the Philadelphia family and Colombo family.

 

Underboss

Sisca served as Martorano’s consigliere, or third-in-command, but grew increasingly frustrated with the Martorano underboss, Nathaniel Agro, over his supposed incompetence. Sisca regarded Agro as a “clueless ape,” and wiretaps indicated Agro was commonly referred to as the Ape by Martorano soldiers in East LS. A prominent reason for his distaste was due to Agro’s desire to eliminate Paul Longo, then a Martorano captain, because Longo had accepted a plea deal without approval. Sisca’s boundless greediness may also have been the cause of his desire to ascend the hierarchy.

 

He continued to advise Martorano to dispose of Agro, as did other senior members of the family, and Sisca later succeeded as underboss following Agro’s disappearance. Sisca was then met with racketeering charges following the testimony of Ernest Savona—a Martorano soldier and turncoat—who had provided details about Martorano’s inner workings. Savona’s testimony officially placed Sisca as the underboss in the LS Cosa Nostra. Sisca was indicted for first degree murder and racketeering charges, but the case was eventually dropped due to a lack of evidence. Savona’s testimony was discarded on account of his alcohol problems.

 

Sisca’s name has never been explicitly mentioned in any recordings. However, he is regularly referred to as the “man with the lazy eye.”

 

He continued his spell as underboss and boasted a tight grip on the longshoreman industry. Together with Robert Bonfiglio, a soldier and bodyguard for Sisca, he empowered Local 66 and delivered lucrative positions to the union and the docks to Martorano insiders and allegedly shipped stolen vehicles to Europe.

 

Prison

A run-in with his wife, Julia Sabella, led to his first incarceration. Sisca had accused Terry Winters, a dog walker in service to the Sisca family, of having an affair with his wife. Contrary to Sisca’s cool-tempered nature, he became enraged and beat Winters to a near cripple alongside Martorano soldier Frank Palma. He was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to two years in prison. In prison, Sisca boasted, “I beat him so bad he couldn’t walk or talk right anymore.”

 

He was placed in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility and rubbed shoulders with members of the Aryan Brotherhood and other white prison gangs who were supposedly paid protection money for Sisca’s safety by downtown captain Joseph Calarco.

 

In 2022, Sisca was released. His position within the Martorano family remains unknown.

 

References


1. ^ Black Hand Forum (needs citation)

2. ^ Capeci, Jerry (January 11, 2016). "Colombo's West Coast Connection". Gangland News.
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^ Feldmann, Henry (September 23, 2013). "Mob alcoholic's last drink". Los Santos Times.

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