Renegade loanshark Max (The Weasel) Lownstein claimed to have been kidnapped and beaten in a dispute with Bonomo. During the 1970s, he led a group of young hoodlums alleged to perform armed robberies and possibly a homicide at Bonomo’s behest.

Francesco (Frank) Bonomo was born in 1901 in Castellammare del Golfo (Trapani province,) Sicily. He immigrated to America as an adolescent with his family, settling in North Brooklyn. He was raised and lived in the Bushwick, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint sections and resided at 77 Powers St., in Bushwick.
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