May 11, 2025 — Sending word from his new homebase in Queens to the boss in the Bronx, Bonanno crime family consigliere Anthony (Bruno) Indelicato is advising a more deliberate, less impulsive strategy in the alleged recruitment of recently-freed Colombo mob soldier Vito Guzzo, Jr., whose made status in LCN appears to be up in the air and Bonanno mob don Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso is reportedly making a fast play for his street rights, per GR sources. The shoot-from-the-hip 69-year old Mancuso and the former Queens JV mafia bad boy, Guzzo, Jr. 60, are said to have become close friends in prison and “Mikey Nose” has allegedly reached out to leaders in the Colombo crime family to discuss a transfer to bring Guzzo, Jr. into the Bonannos, these sources claim. Mancuso’s stronghold is in the Bronx.

Guzzo, Jr, just got out of the feds late last month after doing a near 30-year bid for racketeering and six first degree homicides carried out in the 1990s as boss of the Caffe Giannini Crew, the infamous, now-defunct NYC mob farm team that fed into all Five Families and according to authorities was responsible for dozens of contract, rip-off and revenge murders during its bloody run based out of the Ridgewood neighborhood in Queens. Back in April, GR broke the news of a number of different mob families talking with Colombo bosses about the possibility of taking the suddenly in-demand Guzzo, Jr. off their hands in a frenzied recruiting blitz following Guzzo, Jr. walking free early from his bid because of First Step Act sentence-reduction legislation.

The validity of Guzzo, Jr.’s button, — it’s believed Guzzo, Jr. was made in federal prison on orders of Colombo bosses on the outside in a makeshift induction ceremony to provide him needed standing in BOP power circles —, has resulted in great debate amongst shot callers on the NYC mafia scene, according to sources. Due to this uncertainty, Guzzo, Jr. is being viewed as a de-facto free agent by at least some of the bosses of non-Colombo families in NYC, like Mancuso in the Bonannos. Caffe Giannini itself was a Bonanno mob-run spot in the 90s and the headquarters of notorious Bonanno zip-faction figure Baldo Amato, even though Guzzo Jr.’s LCN roots lay in the Colombo mob. His dad, Vito Guzzo, Sr., was a Colombo crime family soldier and most of his gangland mentors, besides Amato, come from the Colombo borgata. Guzzo, Sr. disappeared on a hunting trip in October 1987 in the midst of an internal Colombo mob feud related to the carpenters union.

“Bruno” Indelicato, 78, received a bump-up to consigliere by Mancuso in 2024 as part of an organizational revamp in the Bonannos engineered to stabilize a shaky ship stemming from remaining fallout from a failed Brooklyn-faction insurgence in the late 2010s that shook the family to the core, sources allege. The move to reshuffle the deck by Mancuso and let bygones be bygones has paid quick dividends, solidifying the Bonannos’ rank-and-file and earning Mancuso kudos from fellow NYC dons, per multiple sources on both sides of the law. Three of these sources report that in recent weeks, Indelicato has relayed message to Mancuso to “pump the breaks” in his rush to bring Guzzo, Jr. into an already fragile mix in the Bonannos and take some added time to “let the situation breathe.”

It’s unclear how Mikey Nose responded to the advice, but Indelicato was sure to promise to respect any decision Mancuso makes in relation to Guzzo, Jr. and added that he wouldn’t try to block Guzzo Jr.’s potential transfer into the Mancuso regime if that’s what Mancuso deemed best for the Bonanno family as a whole. Originally from Little Italy, the incredibly-connected, now more-level headed Indelicato reportedly holds territory in all the boroughs of NYC these days and is residing in a number of different properties split between Queens, Manhattan, Westchester County and Long Island. He’s spending an increasingly amount of time in Guzzo, Jr.’s old Middle Village stomping grounds, according to sources. Mancuso and Indelicato each held reputations as cowboys in their respective mob youths, both boasting two murder convictions apiece and legacy-caliber street lore surrounding their names dating back to the 1970s.

Guzzo’s Jr.’s older brother, Anthony, also a convicted murderer with heavy prison time under his belt, has a button from the Lucchese mob. The Luccheses and the Gambinos have expressed interest in securing Guzzo, Jr.’s services, too, if his made status is back on the table and the Colombos are willing to part ways with him, according to sources. Wherever he lands, even if its back with the Colombos, the consensus among NYC mob shot callers seems to be that Guzzo, Jr. will have to go through another making ceremony on the outside. Talk in the Bonannos and Luccheses right now is that Guzzo, Jr. would be remade and then immediately promoted to a capo position.