Natale Evola

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Natale "Joe Diamond" Evola (February 22, 1907 – August 28, 1973) was a New York mobster who briefly became boss of the Bonanno crime family after succeeding Paul Sciacca in 1971 until being succeeded by Philip Rastelli. Natale Evola was born in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn to parents Filippo and Francesca Evola, natives of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily. Natale Evola had two brothers and three sisters. Natale Evola never married and lived with his mother in Bay Ridge. Evola's arrest record would eventually include coercion, possession of gun, and federal narcotic law violations. Evola was heavily involved in narcotics trafficking and in labor racketeering in the Garment District of Manhattan. Evola was a close associate of Joseph Bonanno, the original boss of the Bonanno crime family. In 1931, Evola was an usher at Bonanno's wedding. In 1957, Evola was identified at the infamous Apalachin Meeting in Apalachin, New York and later charged, along with twenty other organized figures,...

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