Starting in his teens with his uncle, notorious garment racketeer Jimmy Doyle Plumeri, they took over a garment truckmen’s association and then utilized it to “shakedown” dressmakers and garment truckers alike.

John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardo was born in 1914 at 170 Forsythe Street on the Lower East Side. He resided for many years at 108 Freeport Avenue in the exclusive oceanfront community of Point Lookout, Long Island.
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