He operated Bill's Friendly Bocce social club in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn as his headquarters. Cutolo was fond of cowboy boots and frequently wore a large brown ten-gallon hat. In 1989, Cutolo earned his nickname "Wild Bill" after beating a man with a baseball bat.
Cutolo earned the nickname "Billy Fingers" because he was missing one finger and another one was mutilated due to an occupational accident at a hamburger store. His crew included Joseph Petillo, Dominick Dionisio, Michael Spataro, Ralph Guccione, Vincent "Chickie" DeMartino, Michael Donato and his son William Cutolo Jr. Cutolo was successful because he made much money and commanded a crew of hitmen. Originally a soldier in captain Pasquale Amato's crew, Cutolo soon became one of the family's more powerful leaders. Ĭutolo rose up the ranks of the Colombo crime family during the late 1980s under acting boss Victor Orena. Cutolo paid for their holiday parties and dressed up every year as Santa Claus for the National Children's Leukemia Association in Borough Park, Brooklyn as his son, William Jr., handed out gifts and posed for pictures with the stricken children. In 1988, Cutolo was honored as the National Leukemia Association's Man of the Year. He helped raise $400,000 for Local 204 as well as many other locals over the years. Cutolo sat on the Medical Advisory Committee as Chairman of "Team Leukemia", and was associated with the New York chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Rye Brook, New York. He was a fundraising chairman and board member for the National Leukemia Research Association in Garden City, New York. Ĭutolo was also involved with several charities. followed his father into illegal gambling and loansharking and was eventually convicted of extortion and racketeering. In 1990, Cutolo had his third daughter, Dana, with his wife Bette Anne Fox, from Brooklyn. He had three daughters and a son named William Jr. was the brother of Gertrude, Barbara, and Geraldine Cutolo. William Cutolo, christened Guglielmo Cutolo, was born in Potenza in Basilicata and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Cutolo played a key role in the 1991 to 1993 Colombo war.
William Cutolo (J– May 26, 1999), also known as "Billy Fingers" and "Wild Bill", was an Italian-American mobster in the Colombo crime family of New York City who rose to the position of underboss and was heavily involved in labor racketeering.
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