Michael Clemente

Michael Clemente (August 29, 1908 – December 1987), also known as "Mike Costello" and "Big Mike", was a New York mobster with the Genovese crime family who became a major force in controlling the East River waterfront of Manhattan from the 1940s to 1979. Piers 36 and 42 were his principal territory. He took over Joe "Socks" Lanza's waterfront rackets at the Fulton Fish Market on the East River when Lanza went to prison for 7 1/2 years in 1943 for extortion. Clemente was a lieutenant for Lanza.