"Big Ray" (born c. 1935 Greenpoint, Brooklyn) was a Bonanno crime family associate who worked under capo Joe Massino and Dominick Napolitano.
[1] Raymond Wean was of English descent with relatives originating from Yorkshire, England, but born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.
He was an avid pool player and would compete with John Cersani and Dominick Napolitano at The Studio Lounge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
[2]: 130 Wean was arrested with Massino after conspiring to receive 225 cartons of merchandise stolen from an interstate shipment contained in a Hemingway Transport truck.
He also revealed to the FBI, information about his involvement in the botched home invasion of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, a sister to the Shah of Iran in 1980.