Dominick "Baldy Dom" Canterino was a Caporegime

Caporegime

A caporegime or capodecina, usually shortened to just a capo, is a term used in the Mafia for a high ranking made member of a crime family who heads a "crew" of soldiers and has major social status and influence in the organization...

 in the Genovese crime family

Genovese crime family

The Genovese crime family , is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime...

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A Genovese captain from Bensonhurst who ran the family's Greenwich Village Crew

Greenwich Village Crew

The Greenwich Village Crew is a crew within the Genovese crime family, active in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. Original controlled by Don Vito Genovese from the early 1920s up until his arrest in the late 1950s. In the early 1980s Capo Vincent Gigante, was made the new boss of the...

, Canterino was a regular at Sullivan Street's Triangle Social Club, the defacto headquarters of the Genovese family. FBI surveillance regularly spotted Canterino at 3:00 am, driving Genovese boss Vincent Gigante

Vincent Gigante

Vincent Gigante was a short lived professional light heavyweight boxer who was known as "The Chin" Gigante. He fought 25 matches and lost four, boxing 121 rounds. On February 19, 1945, he fought Pete Petrello in Madison Square Garden and won by a knock out in the second round. During his successful...

 to a friend's townhouse in Manhattan. Canterino once told the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

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 (FBI) that he worked as a dockworker, foreman, and once "did time as a thief." An FBI report also notes, "Canterino discussed the problems of being married and having a girlfriend on the side, which included having to split time between the two on holidays.

In December 1988, Canterino and Morris Levy

Morris Levy

Morris Levy was an American music industry executive, best known as the founder and owner of Roulette Records...

, president of Roulette Records, were convicted of conspiring to extort $1.25 million from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 record producer Frank LaMonte in Camden, New Jersey

Camden, New Jersey

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 Canterino was sentence to 12 years in prison.

On May 31, 1990, Canterino was indicted for racketeering in the famous Windows Case. Through their control of a local construction union, the Genovese and three other New York crime families were fixing prices (and allocating work) that contractors offered the New York Housing Authority for installing new thermal pane windows in city housing projects. The mob families grossed tens of millions of dollars from these contracts.

After the trial had begun, Canterino suffered a heart attack and was dropped from the case. Canterino died soon after.