Thomas Ficarotta allegedly kept tabs on the labor organization from the inside after joining it in 1990
When it came down to a choice between the Mafia code of omerta and a union card, the District Council of Carpenters never stood a chance for one alleged wiseguy caught in the government’s crosshairs.
Reputed Mafia captain Thomas “Figgy” Ficarotta resigned his membership in the New York City carpenters’ union, The Messenger has learned, rather than face questioning over his alleged involvement with the Genovese crime family.
Ficarotta joined the New York City District Council of Carpenters in April 1990, four years before it entered into a consent decree for court-ordered oversight to end mob-related corruption of the union, court records show.
In May 2023, the union’s inspector general served a notice alleging that Ficarotta was a “long-time member” of the Genovese family and had “associated with members of Organized Crime in violation of the Consent Decree.”
An inspector general’s senior investigator, Robert Anton, also testified last year that Ficarotta had apparently “been tasked to oversee the Carpenter’s Union by the boss of the Genovese crime family, Liborio Bellomo, a/k/a Little Barney.”