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Martin Taccetta Appeals His Murder Conviction

From HollywoodMafia.com:

He has been locked away for 13 years for [murder]. He claims that the FBI set him up and they knew where he was when Jimmy Sinatra was killed.

Marty was New Jersey Luchese Family Capo Tumac's brother in law so he had power. Tumac was really a boss because the whole New Jersey faction of the Luchese Family was run on its own. They kicked in only ten thousand a year until Gaspipe Casso decided he needed more. I have read that Vic and Gaspipe met with Tumac in Florida and it did not go well. They put out contracts on the whole New Jersey crew. Well Tumac went to the FBI side and that is history.

Marty had a porn business in the Valley and a vending company with Ronnie Rome. The LA Family wanted some of his business but when LA Capo Louie Gelfuso inquired if he was doing anything. Marty gave this answer: 'I am not doing anything.' That is not Louis's fault because Shakes Milano should have sent word back to Tumac for Marty to get out. Then Marty stood up to the LA Family guys when they wanted to hurt Ronnie Rome. Ronnie had borrowed some money and stolen some. They told him to get out of town. Ronnie was asked to meet the Animal [Anthony Fiato] at a place up in hills and he declined. Marty came back to Louie and said the other guy (Tumac) wants you guys to lay off Ronnie he owes the Family money. This Ronnie Rome has more than nine lives. Marty was also a hero to LA Family Associate Jitters DiMattia. Joey Abananti was also very close to him. Maybe when they indict Joey for murder conspiracy some others will roll and we will see some more porn murders solved. Until then maybe Marty will win his appeal....

From my Mafia files:

In 1989, Teddy Snyder's VCR company owed thousands of dollars to Martin Taccetta, named in court documents and by federal prosecutors as an organized crime figure. Martin's older brother Michael ranks high amongst members of the Lucchese crime family, an Assistant District Attorney in Newark told the 8/20/89 LA Times. "Martin was his right hand man who engaged in certain activities outside of New Jersey."

Former VCR salesman Joseph Abinanti handled the payroll for one of Taccetta's companies in Los Angeles. While under surveillance, Taccetta met several times with Abinanti, whose "godfather," according to law enforcement ranks near the top of the Luccheses.

On October 8, 2004, I had lunch with Marty Turkel, Ed Kail and Rob Spallone.

"How's Marty Taccetta?" I ask.

Turkel flips. He's been friends with Taccetta for 35 years. Marty Turkel used to shoot loops in New York in the early '70s. There's a good chance that Tacetta either funded that or had his hand in the business somehow. Tacetta is now in prison for murder.

Kevin Beechum told me 6/28/01: "We used to do business with Marty Taccetta. He's a good guy. He's in prison and I don't think he's ever getting out. Like I said, they're all locked up. They're ain't no more [Mafia]. Everybody's either dead or locked up."

HollywoodMafia writes 12/5/05:

Anthony "Tumac" Accetturo (link) was the man in the New Jersey faction of the Lucchese crime Family. He was also Marty Taccetta's boss and now Marty is locked up and Tumac is where? Tumac was worshipped by Jitters DiMattia when he was on the streets. So Tumac had his hands in porn with Marty and then he had a casino in one of the poorest countries in the world. Haiti! Tumac teamed up with Baby Doc to further exploit the population for his own gain. Tumac and his crew had a little problem with a faction of another family that I cannot speak about now.. He lost two guys in a ditch in New Jersey. Tumac visited California and sat down with Mike Rizzitello and the Animal [Anthony Fiato] in Studio City.

Reputed Mobster Martin Taccetta Goes Home

Reputed mobster Martin Taccetta's first act as a free man yesterday was to hug his wife, hug his mother and then accept a cigar and some clementines from his brother-in-law -- just a few of the things he didn't have while in state prison since 1993.

It was 4 p.m. when the 54-year-old Taccetta, sporting a broad smile, walked out the front door of the Ocean County Justice Complex in Toms River -- a day after a Superior Court judge ordered a new trial on his 1993 conviction on racketeering charges and life sentence.

...Taccetta, brother of imprisoned Lucchese boss Michael Taccetta, said he was looking forward to eating the clementines Abdy gave him as he walked out of prison.

The case involved allegations that Taccetta and fellow Lucchese crime family figures initiated the golf-club beating death of an Ocean County businessman to intimidate the victim's nephews into sharing profits from a Jersey Shore boardwalk arcade operation with them.

Taccetta always denied any involvement in the murder, and was acquitted of the killing at a trial in Toms River more than a dozen years ago. But the same jury convicted him of being part of an overall racketeering scheme.

...Taccetta was one of five Lucchese family members tried on charges of racketeering, extortion and murder in the 1984 killing of Vincent "Jimmy Sinatra" Craparotta, an Ocean County businessman and reputed underworld associate who was beaten to death by several golf-club wielding men in his Dover Township auto dealership.