| rdfs:comment | - John Riggi is a former NASCAR driver from Heidelberg, PA. He competed in one Sprint Cup event in his career. That came in 1949, when Riggi raced at his home track of Heidelberg Raceway. Starting positions in the twenty-three car field are unknown due to poor records, but Riggi would finish 22nd in the race. Stats
- John Riggi had been a business agent of the "International Association of Laborers and Hod Carriers", in New Jersey for years. He was promoted to the position of official boss of the DeCavalcante crime family (a crime family within the criminal world of "Cosa Nostra") with close ties to the Five Families of New York and represented at meetings of The Commission by the Genovese crime family, Riggi reaped the enormous benefits of large labor and construction racketeering, loansharking, illegal gambling and extortion activities as well as a large legitimate income. Riggi also had the family maintain their old traditions. Riggi established a close friendship with new Gambino crime family boss, John Gotti. It is believed that Riggi still runs the family from jail despite being a very sick man i
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| abstract | - John Riggi is a former NASCAR driver from Heidelberg, PA. He competed in one Sprint Cup event in his career. That came in 1949, when Riggi raced at his home track of Heidelberg Raceway. Starting positions in the twenty-three car field are unknown due to poor records, but Riggi would finish 22nd in the race. Stats
- John Riggi had been a business agent of the "International Association of Laborers and Hod Carriers", in New Jersey for years. He was promoted to the position of official boss of the DeCavalcante crime family (a crime family within the criminal world of "Cosa Nostra") with close ties to the Five Families of New York and represented at meetings of The Commission by the Genovese crime family, Riggi reaped the enormous benefits of large labor and construction racketeering, loansharking, illegal gambling and extortion activities as well as a large legitimate income. Riggi also had the family maintain their old traditions. Riggi established a close friendship with new Gambino crime family boss, John Gotti. It is believed that Riggi still runs the family from jail despite being a very sick man in his old age. His release date is in late 2012, but he is due to stand trial for ordering the shooting and murder of Staten Island, New York resident Fred Weiss, a former journalist for the Staten Island Advance newspaper and real-estate developer in September 1989. The murder was allegedly a favor for Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, who was worried that Weiss was a government informant and that this would put the Gambino and DeCavalcante families at high risk. Weiss and two mob partners had purchased a vacant property in Staten Island and started illegally dumping large amounts of dangerous medical waste there. When local authorities uncovered the scheme and started investigating Weiss, the two mob families became nervous. Gotti, who worried that Weiss might become a government witness in exchange for leniency requested that the Decavalcantes murder Weiss to protect them. On September 11, 1989, Vincent Palermo and Anthony Capo as well as a crew of twelve other DeCavalcante associates in a convoy of four vehicles drove to the New York condominium of Weiss' girlfriend. As Weiss left the building and climbed into his car, Palermo and Capo got out of their vehicle, approached Weiss and murdered him by shooting him in the face multiple times. Both of them would become "made men" as a result of this.
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