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Michael A. "Mikey Nose" Mancuso (July 18, 1955–) was the boss of the Bonanno crime family from 2013, succeeding Joseph "Big Joey" Massino.

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Born in The Bronx to an Italian-American family in 1955, Mancuso became a member of the East Harlem Purple Gang, and later got affiliated with the Bonanno crime family. In 1984, Mancuso was involved in a domestic dispute with his wife Evelina, during which he killed her by shooting her in the head with a gun. He then carried her body to Pelham Parkway and left it on a bench in front of Jacobi Hospital. He later pled guilty to second-degree murder charges, being sentenced to 10 years in prison, which prevented him from becoming a made man, as had been planned. In 1996, he was released and got inducted, serving as an enforcer for capo Patrick "Patty from the Bronx" DeFilippo. A few years later, he became a captain himself, and in 2004, after then-acting Bonanno boss Vincent Basciano was arrested on racketeering and murder charges, Mancuso was made acting boss. On orders from Basciano, he orchestrated the killing of associate Randolph Pizzolo. Pizzolo was shot to death on November 30, 2004, by soldier Anthony "Ace" Aiello. Mancuso was arrested on that murder charge in 2006 as he got out of a plane that landed in Las Vegas for a vacation, and in 2008, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. While still imprisoned, in 2013, higher-ups decided to make Mancuso the boss of the Bonanno family, and he operated through a number of acting bosses that came and went after being arrested. The one acting boss that stuck was Joseph "Joe C" Cammarano Jr., but he opposed Mancuso's leadership and attempted to gain support among the ranks to depose him. A faction loyal to Mancuso confronted him though, and after he was released in 2019, he shelved both Cammarano and his right-hand man, consigliere John "Porky" Zancocchio, after which he went about restructuring the family with John "Johnny P" Palazzolo as acting boss.

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