A reputed ranking underboss of the Lucchese crime family, sentenced to life in the slammer, had his appeal dismissed
By Seth Augenstein
A reputed underboss in the Lucchese crime family serving a life sentence had his appeal dismissed by a federal court Thursday.
Martin R. Taccetta, 63, was originally convicted in state Superior Court of racketeering and theft charges in 1993, in a case surrounding the 1984 golf-club beating death of Ocean County businessman Vincent “Jimmy Sinatra” Craparotta.
Taccetta was acquitted on the murder charge against him, but convicted on the other counts. Since the first-degree racketeering charge involved violent crimes, a judge sentenced him to life in prison under state law.
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