
Joe Vesuvius was a Barzini crime family soldato.
Biography[]
Joe Vesuvius was born in New York City, New York, and he became a soldato in the Barzini crime family, the most powerful of the Five Families. He ran an explosives racket from the Saint Elia Warehouse in Brooklyn, supplying explosives to other fronts. In December 1945, Corleone crime family enforcer Aldo Trapani forced Vesuvius to switch his allegiance to the Corleones.