allowing the infiltration. Mirra, Embarrato's nephew, went into hiding. Joseph Massino ordered Embarrato and Mirra's two cousins Joseph D'Amico and Richard Cantarella, to find and kill him. On February 18, 1982, D'Amico, lured him to a parking garage in Lower Manhattan. Embarrato and Cantarella were waiting in a getaway car. The pair went to the parking garage, climbed into Mirra's car, and drove up to a locked security gate. D'Amico would later describe in a testimony, "He took out his key, put it in the box, but he didn’t get a chance to turn the box... I shot him at close range several times on the side of his head." In 1988, Embarrato was indicted along with other Bonanno leaders in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case. Death On February 21, 2001, Alfred Embarrato died of natural causes. Notes References Further reading Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. Pistone, Joseph D. and Woodley, Richard, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia Random House 1990 United States Congress. Organized Crime. U.S. G.P.O., 1988 [1255 pages]. Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime External links United States of America vs. Embarrato The Village Voice.com: The Newspaper Racket - Tough Guys and Wiseguys in the Truck Drivers Union by Tom Robbins 1909 births 2001 deaths American gangsters of Italian descent Bonanno crime family People from the Lower East Side