Federico "Fritzy" Giovanelli (March 27, 1932 – January 19, 2018) was a New York mobster and a caporegime in the Genovese crime family.
Giovanelli began as a small time criminal who had participated in loansharking, bookmaking, and illegal gambling.
[3] On January 21, 1986, 34 year old undercover New York City police officer Anthony Venditti was shot twice in the head and killed while following Giovanelli with his partner, Detective Kathleen Burke, during an investigation.
The second trial in 1988 also ended in deadlock after a major prosecution witness withdrew the part of his testimony in which he had said Carmine Gualtiere was one of the gunmen who had killed Detective Venditti.
[5] In 2005, Giovanelli began serving a 10 year sentence for obstruction of justice after alerting DeCavalcante members in 1999 that they were about to be indicted.