Gene Giannone was a low-key “associate” and top-level aide to capo Giuseppe (Joe Brown) Lucchese, the brother of boss Tommy Lucchese. Giannone was known to mostly operate as a gambler. Over the years, he was tied to various horse bookmaking and numbers operations they operated in the Corona, Elmhurst, Rego Park, Flushing, and Jackson Heights sections of the borough. He was known to operate several “wire rooms,” where bets were received by telephone for this Lucchese regime.
