Joseph "Joe Glitz" Galizia (July 24, 1941 – 1998) was a New York mobster who became a high-ranking soldier in the Genovese crime family,[1] and ran a large gasoline bootlegging operation.
During this time, Joe and Larry Galizia earned a reputation as a huge money maker, by moving his family into the extremely lucrative gasoline bootlegging rackets.
While never attaining a position within the administration, Galizia became a very influential and wealthy mafioso who occasionally answered directly to Vincent Gigante and his uppermost family members, often going over his captain's head.
The Galizias also engaged in criminal activities with Genovese gangsters Rosario Gangi, Alphonse "Allie Shades" Malangone and Rudolph "Rudy Cueball" Izzi.
The mobsters would set up shell companies to distribute gasoline at a price fraudulently represented as including federal, state and local excise taxes.