The FBI Agent Who Cracked the Genovese Family's Window Racket

"Mob-influenced companies took roughly 75 percent of about $191 million in New York City Housing Authority window contracts awarded since 1978." - UPI, May 30, 1990. For a decade four of New York's Five Families skimmed a dollar or two off more than a million windows bolted into the city's public housing, and no one could prove it. This episode works the case from the investigator's side of the table: how the FBI confronted the man who built the racket with six murders, wired him for eighteen months, and used his tapes to indict fifteen men, including Genovese boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante. THE RECORD: UPI, "Mob figures nabbed in biggest case since Commission trial," May 30, 1990 UPI, "Three convicted, five freed in Windows Case," October 18, 1991 United States v. Mangano, 39 F.3d 42 (2d Cir. 1994) United States v. Gigante, 166 F.3d 75 (2d Cir. 1999) Time, "Organized Crime: The Underworld Is Their Oyster" #WindowsCase #VincentGigante #GenoveseFamily