Angelo "Angie" Buscetta (26 April 1941 - 24 October 2005) was don of the Philadelphia crime family.
In 2005, after a botched drugs deal at a New Jersey harbor, Angelo was beaten to death and thrown into the ocean by DiMeo crime family associate Joey LaRocca.
Biography[]
Angelo Buscetta was born in Philadelphia on April 26th 1941 to a family of Italian descent.
During the early 1990s, Buscetta was arrested on extortion charges and imprisoned at East Jersey State Prison. While in jail he was regularly visited by his nephew Mario Buscetta. Shortly after Buscetta's early release in 2005, he sent Mario to arrange a sitdown with DiMeo crime family don Tony Soprano in to negotiate Buscetta's purchase of a drugs shipment scheduled to arrive at the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal. Sometime after arriving at the Bada Bing! strip club, Mario was confronted and attacked in the club's restroom by Paulie Gualtieri and Joey LaRocca for insulting the former after asking the whereabouts of Tony Soprano. After LaRocca repeatedly smashed Mario's head into a urinal, he was presumed dead and was instructed by Gualtieri to clean up and dispose of the body. LaRocca employed the help of his close friend Reggie DeSantis to transfer Mario's body to a nearby port to be thrown into the ocean. When the two men searched for chains to weigh the body down, they both realized that Mario was still alive and attempted to escape before LaRocca fatally shot him in the head. DeSantis looted Mario's body and took his watch as a souvenir before pushing his body over the dock.
In the days that followed, Mario was unaccounted for by the Philadelphia Mob and Buscetta visited Soprano to rearrange another sitdown at Satriale's Pork Store in Kearny. The two don's relationships between eachother soured as Buscetta suspected the DiMeo family to be responsible for the disappearance of his nephew. Buscetta visited Soprano outside of Vesuvio's during a bar mitzvah a week after the sitdown to repropose the drugs shipment purchase, even offering half of the profits to him, but Soprano rejected the offer and told Buscetta to do the deal elsewhere.