Baldassare Amato

Baldassare Amato (born c.1952) is a Sicilian gangster and a member of the Bonanno Mafia family in New York. At age 18, he emigrated from Castellammare del Golfo to New York City. He was one of two bodyguards to Carmine Galante who lured their own boss to the scene of his assassination in 1979.

In 2006, he was sentenced to life in prison for the 1992 murders of Sebastiano DiFalco and Robert Perrino. DiFalco was a restaurant owner, and prosecutors argued that Amato removed him so that he could take over his business. The Bonannos were concerned that Perrino, a delivery supervisor for the New York Post, would expose their infiltration of the newspaper's delivery operations.