Underboss

The underboss is the person who actually runs the family. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sometimes Gingrich seems like some kind of combination of an underboss and a consigliere. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pacino will play Gambino crime family underboss Neil Dellacroce, an associate and mentor to John Gotti Sr. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The defendants include 15 "made men," including four capos and the family Administration, namely, acting boss, Andrew (Andy Mush) Russo, 76, acting underboss Benjamin (The Claw) Castellazzo, 73, and consigliere Richard Fusco, 74. ❋ Jerry Capeci (2011)

Mobster Richard (Shellackhead) Cantarella, who was the family's acting underboss when he followed his onetime crew member Coppa into the government's den, had better luck with his own mobster son, Paul, than his gangster friend of more than 50 years did with Coppa Jr. ❋ Jerry Capeci (2010)

Only weeks after mob enforcer Eugene Ciasullo was bombed, underboss Leo Moceri received a threatening phone call. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)

Every civil servant in India looks for 'tips' to grease the wheels, and its impossible to actually do work there without bribing the cops, the land commisioner, the local water board, Laloo, Ibrahim Dawood's underboss in Mumbai, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Carmen "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio, the reputed former underboss of the New England mob, pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges and is serving a six-year federal prison sentence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Licavoli named Tony Delsanter as his consigliere and appointed his cousin Leo Moceri as underboss. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)

That a family underboss could be killed by outsiders was a major embarrassment to the Cleveland mob. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)

To regain their power and money, the Cleveland mob became involved in drugs, and as a result underboss Angelo Lonardo was sentenced to life in prison. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)

The most recent celebrated Cosa Nostra turn-coat was Gotti underboss Sammy “the Bull” Gravano. ❋ Rick Porrello (2011)

John "Sonny" Franzese, underboss of the Colombo crime family, could get out by his 100th birthday, for good behavior, the New York Daily News reports. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Franzese, who regularly took in performances by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr ., has a long criminal history as an underboss in the Colombo crime family. ❋ Chris Herring (2011)