underboss
noun
un·der·boss
ˈən-dər-ˌbȯs 
: a boss ranking next below the head of a branch of a crime syndicate
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By the end of the episode, back in the present day, Sofia calmly waits until her family is asleep in the Carmine mansion, and then pipes carbon monoxide throughout the house, gassing them all to death — save her young niece and the Falcone underboss, Johnny Viti (Michael Kelly).
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Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
Listen to this article An elderly mafia underboss charged in a union extortion scheme caught a break because of his age when a Brooklyn judge sentenced him to 15 months in prison Monday.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2024
The head of the party is the don, and below him sit the underbosses, or the Standing Committee.
—Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Twenty minutes earlier, at 5 p.m., Arai had shot to death his underboss, Hideyuki Eiri, aged 54, at the gang office and then driven back to his palatial house.
—Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
Franzese grew up as the son of the underboss of New York’s Colombo crime family and by his mid-30s became one of the biggest mafia bosses, ranking No. 18 in Fortune magazine’s list of the 50 most wealthy and powerful Mafia bosses in America in the mid-1980s.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
Baldwin's Senate testimony chronicled the numerous plans to kill a Team A underboss with explosives.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
In April 1978, Team B finally succeeded in killing the underboss with a bomb that exploded under his car.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
On Columbus Day in 1970, a Rochester mob underboss ordered that a series of dynamite bombs be set off in the early morning hours in houses of worship and government buildings.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
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Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024
Listen to this article An elderly mafia underboss charged in a union extortion scheme caught a break because of his age when a Brooklyn judge sentenced him to 15 months in prison Monday.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2024
The head of the party is the don, and below him sit the underbosses, or the Standing Committee.
—Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Twenty minutes earlier, at 5 p.m., Arai had shot to death his underboss, Hideyuki Eiri, aged 54, at the gang office and then driven back to his palatial house.
—Jake Adelstein, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
Franzese grew up as the son of the underboss of New York’s Colombo crime family and by his mid-30s became one of the biggest mafia bosses, ranking No. 18 in Fortune magazine’s list of the 50 most wealthy and powerful Mafia bosses in America in the mid-1980s.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
Baldwin's Senate testimony chronicled the numerous plans to kill a Team A underboss with explosives.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
In April 1978, Team B finally succeeded in killing the underboss with a bomb that exploded under his car.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
On Columbus Day in 1970, a Rochester mob underboss ordered that a series of dynamite bombs be set off in the early morning hours in houses of worship and government buildings.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
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“Underboss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/underboss. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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