BREAKING NEWS: The Nose Comes Home, Bonanno Mob Boss Mikey Mancuso Checks Into Halfway House After Year Away


The return proved quieter than the departure.

On Friday morning, Bonanno crime family Godfather Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso, was released from a federal correctional facility in Pennsylvania and reported to his halfway house in Manhattan, with not a shred of fanfare or mainstream media coverage. The feisty, fearless 69-year old “Mikey Nose” did 11 months as a guest of the government for violating his supervised release conditions. He left New York for the feds following Labor Day last September

Mancuso was caught meeting with convicted felons and other high-rankings members of organized crime on multiple occasions over the past several years. Released from a 12-year prison term for murder and racketeering in the fall of 2018, he was photographed holding mob gatherings and walk-&-talks in Long Island, Bronx and Queens.

At his sentencing last summer, U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis banned Mikey Nose from going to his girlfriend’s Long Island eyeglass store, Real Eyes Optical, for all three years of his new supervised release term. Several of Mancuso’s supervised-release infractions occurred at Real Eyes Optical, where Mancuso would hold court daily in a back office.

Mancuso has copped pleas in two murder cases, the second-degree homicide of his first wife in the 1980s and the November 30, 2004 slaying of Bonanno mob associate Randy Pizzolo. In the Pizzolo homicide conspiracy, Mancuso relayed the order for Pizzolo to be killed in a missive delivered from behind bars. Pizzolo angered mafia leaders in multiple New York borgatas for his continually insubordinate and subversive behavior.

According to federal- court filings, Mikey Nose was named boss of the Bonannos in 2013 while serving his time in the Pizzolo homicide. During his year away from the Big Apple doing his most-recent prison stint, his best friend John (Johnny Joe) Spirito, 65, and main protege, Ernie (The Pitbull) Aiello, 44, tended to the organization’s day-to-day management as acting boss and acting underboss, respectively, per sources on both sides of the law.

Back in the winter, Mancuso allegedly sent word to the street that Bonanno mob OG Anthony (Bruno) Indelicato was being promoted to consigliere in a political move to quell any residual unrest in the crime family stemming from a failed coup launched by the Bonanno’s Brooklyn in the late 2010s. Described as longtime “frenemies,” Indelicato made his public debut as the group’s No. 3 at a crime-family social function held at Mancuso’s girlfriend’s Red Eyes Optical last month, according to multiple sources in attendance, in an all-family gathering meant to display unity in the lead-up to Mikey Nose’s release towards the end of the summer.

“Bruno” Indelicato, 77, traces his roots in the mafia to the Carmine Galante era in the Bonannos, where him and his dad Alphonse (Sonny Red) Indelicato’s’s crew plotted and carried out Galante’s stunning July 1979 assassination. Indelicato was a triggerman in the notorious gangland hit and briefly became a capo in the years following. Demoted after his father was slain in the infamous Three Captains Murders in 1981, the bump-up to consigliere by Mancuso earlier this year brought Indelicato back to above-soldier status for the first time in more than four decades.

Real Eyes Optical has some great sunglasses like Cartier. I use Cartier

For my curiosity:why was choose Mancuso as boss in 2013? And what was the others that should be choose?

Another stupid Family just like the Colombos. When are these guys gonna learn, stop putting jailbirds and parolees in charge. And it should be a rule, once sentenced to life, no more boss for you.

Can't be much left to lead!

In the Colombo maybe but the Bonannos is a more strong family.

I wonder who entered the house first...he or his nose? lol jk



DITA only

Dita is great too. I've been in the habit of using Cartier for many years, but I also like Prada because of my dad's love for them. He used to be a Ray Ban guy

Yeah, most of the ol' timers are mainly about Ray Ban or Police

Even the Colombos have other choices besides jailbirds. But they're still stuck in their ways so of course it has to be someone named Persico.

Check out the Italian luxury brands Blackfin, Persol, Tavat, LGR and more.

Lol already seen 'em all. Men's fashion is something I live for my friend. I own a pair of Persols, but I've never liked wearing them. LGR has the worst sunglasses. Not a fan of Tavat or the Italian Blackfins, or the more rounded styles in general. For golfing I generally use Oakley C Six or Costa Del Mars like Blackfin Pro and Fantail Pro

Because half of the family is blood related with the Persicos.

So many nice sunglasses tho, at the moment I mostly wear Dolce & Gabbana lol.