Background
Leonetti was born in Absecon, New Jersey. Having being abandoned by his father at an early age, he was brought up by his mother.
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His criminal record includes racketeering charges and ten murders. Early Leonetti has alleged at 8 years old, he was used as a decoy by Scarfo to dispose of a dead body, explaining to the young Leonetti that he brutally stabbed a man in a New Jersey bar with an ice pick for disrespecting him. Leonetti shot him twice, this would not be his first murder for Scarfo.
A year later he would be initiated as a soldier.
By the early 1980s, Leonetti was already a millionaire and controlled a lucrative trade of racketeering, illegal gambling, loan sharking, extortion and skimming from the Atlantic City casinos. A war within the family was also brewing as short reigned boss Chicken man Testa was killed by a nail bomb at his home in 1981, and so Scarfo began the war as he seized the top position for himself and promoted Leonetti as his underboss.
By the end of the four year war, over 30 mobsters were killed. With improved racketeering laws and with the help of Philadelphia crime family informants Tommy Delegate and Nicholas Caramandi, most members received harsh prison sentences.
After 5 years of prison, he went into hiding.
Membership
At the time, he was the highest-ranking member of the American Mafia to break his blood oath and turn informer.
