* Anthony Corallo; Headed Lucchese Crime Family

Anthony Corallo, 87, the former boss of the Lucchese crime family in New York who was serving a life sentence for racketeering. Known as “Tony Ducks” for his longtime ability to dodge government subpoenas and convictions, Corallo headed the Lucchese family through much of the 1970s and ‘80s. His reign was marked by an interest in labor racketeering, focusing on private trash-hauling and on big construction projects in Manhattan. A member of the Mafia leadership group known as the commission, Corallo was arrested in 1985. A year later he was found guilty of racketeering for his efforts to influence the trash and construction business. Born in East Harlem in New York City, Corallo worked for a time as tile-setter before joining the Lucchese family, where he moved steadily up through the ranks. He became boss of the family after the death of Gaitano Lucchese and the subsequent imprisonment of Lucchese’s replacement, Carmine Tramunti. Friends of Corallo told the New York Times that the crime boss enjoyed pasta and opera and cherished his privacy. On Aug. 23 at a prison hospital in Springfield, Mo.