Episode 208: Cesare Bonventre

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Cesare Bonventre was a mobster in the Bonanno Crime Family. He was born in Sicily and eventually emigrated to the United States. By 28, he became a captain in the Bonanno's and was a very up and coming Mafia prince. In the end his rise concerned certain people and Joseph "Big Joey" Massino likely knew he was a threat and ordered his brother in law Sal Vitale and others to get rid of the Sicilian mobster.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a Mafia History podcast.
0:16.4	Here's your host, Jeff Nadeo.
0:21.9	What's up, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down.
0:26.5	As always, if you enjoy this podcast, please make sure you leave us a detailed review and a five-star rating.
0:33.3	What's up, everybody, and welcome in to episode 208 of the show.
0:38.2	I am your host, Jeff Nadeau.
0:40.4	I hope all of you are having a great week.
0:43.7	April winding down, that another show plan for you today.
0:47.1	As always, we're going to get into the very interesting Chesreix-en-Banventry,
0:52.9	who at one point was an up and coming high-ranking
0:55.8	member of the Bonanno crime family, Sicilian faction, got with a lot of history.
1:01.2	And today I'm going to tell you why I believe Joey Messino had Cheseray Bonventry
1:06.4	whacked. I don't think it had anything other to do than one with anything other to do than one thing.
1:12.8	And we'll go through that today.
1:15.1	I got some things to talk about as far as the future of the show.
1:20.1	And we've got a little news to get into.
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