During their criminal careers, some mob guys became notorious. Others, not so much. But although, by all accounts, this next mafioso led a very active underworld career, Joseph “Uncle Joe” Giacobbe was either lucky enough, astute enough– or maybe a bit of both — to have fallen into the latter category. What follows is the biography of Giacobbe’s life as a longtime Cosa Nostra member and, later, as a capodecina in one of the most notorious Mafia Families on the East Coast.


