Frank Cocchiaro was a caporegime in the DeCavalcante Family of New Jersey and headed a crew based out of Brooklyn, NY for the Family.
He was known to authorities as a local racketeer, but it wasn’t until the FBI placed a bug in boss Sam DeCavalcante’s office in early 1964 that they learned his true status. After that, Cocchiaro was repeatedly called before the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation, and when he had enough, he took a cigarette break and wasn’t seen again, at least for a short time.