Joseph (Jojo) Manfredi: Gambino Family “Junkman”

Joseph (Jojo) Manfredi was among 14 traffickers indicted and convicted (including another nephew of Manfredi named Joseph LaCosa) after a jury trial and sentenced to a 40-year federal prison term.

Joseph (Jojo) Manfredi was born in 1926 in NYC.

Originally from Harlem, he later relocated out to 140 James Street and 115 Kipps Ave. in Lodi, NJ.

FBI #4354868, NYPD #B-277340

He had an arrest record since 1946 for AWOL (Army), and three previous federal narcotics violations in 1959 (7 years), (5 years), and in 1974 (40 years).

Manfredi was a “soldier” in the Anastasia, later Gambino Family. He was later alleged by authorities to have risen to captain status.

Joseph (Jojo) Manfredi

Jojo (a venerable heroin merchant) was a key operative and leader of a major heroin distribution network operating out of the E. 108th Street section of East Harlem.

He was a close associate of Anthony (Tony Higgins) Castaldi, Gennaro (Jerry Z) Zanfardino, Joseph Bisogno, Frank (Frankie Miller) Luciano, John Daniello, and Frank (The Boss) Moccardi.... all of whom were major narcotics violators according to the FBN.

He owned and operated Manfredi Italian Ristorante at 331 E. 108th St., with his brothers, and a candy store at 306 E.108th St,, which he used as a distribution point for narcotics.

Manfredi had three nephews who followed in his footsteps, but in 1972, they all got caught up in a huge $25,000,000 heroin conspiracy case that supplied narcotics to the NY/NJ metropolitan areas and several midwest cities.

Two of his nephews were found slaughtered two weeks after the arrests, eliminated before the narcotics case came to trial.

One nephew, Philip John (Little Phil) Manfredi, was found shot to death in the Bronx. Although there had been speculation that Philip might have been killed by someone who believed he had been cooperating with the prosecution, no testimony to that effect was ever introduced.

His cousin, Philip Manfredi, was also shot to death at the same time. He had been named as a co-conspirator but was not a defendant in the case.

Jojo Manfredi was among 14 traffickers indicted and convicted (including another nephew of Manfredi named Joseph LaCosa) after a jury trial and sentenced to a 40-year federal prison term.

Joseph Manfredi

Three others indicted in the case, Thaddeus Byrd, William Marble, and his brother, Horace Marble, pled guilty to the conspiracy charge and then testified for the prosecution.

Byrd testified that he had been shot at on two occasions after he began cooperating with federal authorities.

The others who were found guilty of narcotics conspiracy were Frank La Cosa (Joseph La Cosa's father) Timothy Schrader, Charles Casserella, Anthony Colangelo, Vincent Yanni, Herman Grant, and Robert Mayo.

Manfredi and company served long prison stretches, several of them dying behind bars.

No dod was available on Jojo.

Until next time..."The Other Guy"

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