Vincent Belmont (Lucchese)

 

V. Belmont

Vincent Belmont was a Soldier in the Lucchese Family active in the numbers racket and a close associate of Capodecina Anthony 'Tony Higgins' Castaldi (1913-1987).

Born October 18, 1925 in NYC to Peter (23y) and Lena Fadelici (22y). Both parents were born in NYC. Father worked as a bus driver.

Paternal grandfather, Vincenzo Belmonte, was born in the San Mauro Forte comune in the province of Matera, Basilicata. 

Brother Salvatore Belmont (1930-2021) was a Lucchese Associate. Possibly a nephew of Lucchese Members Anthony and Salvatore Castaldi. The exact relationship, if any, is not clear in available material. The Castaldi brothers parents were both born in Campania, Italy.

By 1940 the family resided at 1969 First Ave in East Harlem.

 

A. Castaldi (1950)

 

An NYPD report from 1965 identified 34 numbers banks in NYC. Eighteen was controlled by the Genovese Family, four was controlled by the Lucchese Family, was controlled by the Gambino Family. The Bonanno and Colombo Families controlled two each. Five banks believed to be independent/undeterment.

Of the four Numbers Banks controlled by the Lucchese Family one was controlled by Capodecina Paul Vario and Associate Steven DiPasquale, operating mainly in Brooklyn and Long Island. One was controlled by Soldier Nunzio 'Frank' Arra, operating in East Harlem and Queens. A smaller numbers bank was controlled by Associate Neil Migliore, operating in Corona, Queens. The fourth Lucchese numbers bank was controlled by Belmont and Anthony Castaldi.

According to a NYPD C.I.B. report the Freni brothers, Eugene and Santo, controlled numbers along a route of the Long Island Railroad and collected money and bets in front of the Saverin Restaurant in Pennsylvania Station. They were originally numbers collectors for Aldo Mazzarati and Gaetano 'Kay' Somma, Soldiers of the Genovese Family. Collectors along the Long Island Railroad route included conductors and other employees of the railroad who would deliver the numbers to the Freni's. The brothers also collected wagers from railroad conductors and other railroad employees at the Sunnyside Railroad Yards in Long Island City, Queens.

For reasons unknown, Mazzarati and Somma dropped the Freni's from their operation. It was soon agreed upon, that Vincent and Salvatore Belmont would bank the numbers work emanating from the Freni's. A Belmont associate, James Migliero, was the sales manager for the Paragon Oldsmobile Corporation in Queens, the meeting place and contact spot for associates of the Lucchese Family. Belmont maintained a close association with his uncle, Anthony Castaldi, with Anthony 'Tony Ducks' Corallo, and with Nunzio Arra. In a C.I.B. report, Bonanno Family Captain Thomas D'Angelo, financial backer of the Aloi numbers enterprise (Colombo Family), was observed driving to a high level Commission meeting in a Belmont automobile (no further details given).

On October 20, 1967 identified by the FBI as a suspected Member of the Lucchese Family. 

He was identified  as a Soldier in 1983 Senate Chart, and posthumously in 1988 Chart.

By 1983 he was residing at 169-65 24th Road in Whitestone, Queens.

He died February 1984.