Reputed mafia boss on trial for murder

The reputed acting boss of the Bonanno organised crime family – a former beauty salon owner known as Vinny Gorgeous – was a mob traditionalist who believed in settling scores with violence, a prosecutor said today in opening statements at his US murder trial.

As Vincent Basciano rose through the ranks, he “wanted to reinstitute the old-school Mafia way,” assistant US attorney Amy Busa told an anonymous jury in court in Brooklyn.