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Dominic Cattano

Dominic Cattano was a high-ranking member of the Lucchese crime family in New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Dominic Cattano was born in New York City, New York to an Italian family, and he became an associate of the Lucchese crime family. Cattano rose in the ranks of the family, and he became a business partner of Harlem crime boss Bumpy Johnson during the 1960s. After Johnson's death in 1968, Cattano pressured Frank Lucas into working with him in the drug trade, and Lucas came to depend on the Lucchese family for heroin after the 1975 Fall of Saigon cut off his suppliers.

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