underboss

The underboss is the person who actually runs the family.

Faultline USA 2009

Sometimes Gingrich seems like some kind of combination of an underboss and a consigliere.

Think Progress » Exclusive: Newt Gingrich ‘Sharing Resources, Coordinating Efforts’ With Oil Lobby (Updated) 2010

Only weeks after mob enforcer Eugene Ciasullo was bombed, underboss Leo Moceri received a threatening phone call.

Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

To regain their power and money, the Cleveland mob became involved in drugs, and as a result underboss Angelo Lonardo was sentenced to life in prison.

Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

The most recent celebrated Cosa Nostra turn-coat was Gotti underboss Sammy “the Bull” Gravano.

Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

John "Sonny" Franzese, underboss of the Colombo crime family, could get out by his 100th birthday, for good behavior, the New York Daily News reports.

Mobster, 93, gets 8-year-sentence for strip joint shakedowns 2011

Carmen "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio, the reputed former underboss of the New England mob, pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges and is serving a six-year federal prison sentence.

Bulger's arrest marks sunset of Mob era 2011

Licavoli named Tony Delsanter as his consigliere and appointed his cousin Leo Moceri as underboss.

Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

Mr. Franzese, who regularly took in performances by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr ., has a long criminal history as an underboss in the Colombo crime family.

93-Year-Old Mob Figure Gets 8 Years Chris Herring 2011

That a family underboss could be killed by outsiders was a major embarrassment to the Cleveland mob.

Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011