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| - DiLeonardo grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with long history of organized crime. In March 1998, after 43 years in Bensonhurst, DiLeonardo moved to Eltingville, Staten Island where he lived until June 2002. One of his brothers was Colombo crime family mobster Robert DiLeonardo, who was killed in a gangland execution on July 16, 1981. DiLeonardo's other brother is James (Giovanni)DiLeonardi, who is not involved in organized crime. His parents were second generation immigrants, with his father's parents coming from Bisacquino, Sicily. His mother was a seamstress and his father was a professional gambler who frequented the horse tracks. His mother died in 2003 of natural causes. DiLeonardo's grandfather, Vincenzo DiLeonardo was a soldier in the Brooklyn gang run by Salvatore D
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| - DiLeonardo grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with long history of organized crime. In March 1998, after 43 years in Bensonhurst, DiLeonardo moved to Eltingville, Staten Island where he lived until June 2002. One of his brothers was Colombo crime family mobster Robert DiLeonardo, who was killed in a gangland execution on July 16, 1981. DiLeonardo's other brother is James (Giovanni)DiLeonardi, who is not involved in organized crime. His parents were second generation immigrants, with his father's parents coming from Bisacquino, Sicily. His mother was a seamstress and his father was a professional gambler who frequented the horse tracks. His mother died in 2003 of natural causes. DiLeonardo's grandfather, Vincenzo DiLeonardo was a soldier in the Brooklyn gang run by Salvatore D'Aquila. As a young boy, DiLeonardo met Gambino boss Carlo Gambino several times at mob meetings in Vincenzo's house Michael was a friend of John Gotti Jr. for twenty years until he became an informant. When he was about ten years old, DiLeonardo was mauled by a dog, leaving a scar on his face. This scar resulted in the nickname "Mikey Scars". In 1973, DiLeonardo graduated from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn. He attended college for eighteen months, but did not graduate. At age 29, DiLeonardo married 19 year old Antoinette "Toni" Marie Fappiano, a cousin of Gambino underboss Frank DeCicco. He is the father of one son named Michael DiLeonardo, Jr. born June 18, 1986 with Antoinette Fappiano, the sister of mobster Frank Fappiano. Michael DiLeonardo Jr. was a student at the College of Staten Island. Michael was a close friend of John A. "Junior" Gotti and was chosen to baptize his second son. After twelve years of marriage to Antoinette, he started an affair with Madelina Fischetti who was impregnated by In vitro fertilisation. He kept Madelina in an rented apartment he mantained for her on Shore Road in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn while mantaining a home with his wife and son on Long Island. In 1980 he opened up a social club in Brooklyn located at Bay 7th Street and 86th Street which was located down the block from Paul Castellano's Veteran's and Friends' Social Club and Frank DeCicco's bar. He operated his bookmaking and loansharking operations out of the business. He was successful with the business venture and became a partner in a produce market with Peter Castellano, cousin to Paul and mobster Sorbroni. In the 1980s he was listed officially as being employed as a shop foreman for a Local 282 trucking firm and a truck driver for the Greco Bros Concrete Corportaion located at 87-13 Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park, Queens which was partners with the Gambino crime family. By age 21, DiLeonardo became associated with several Gambino family members and started working for the family. He had been socializing with associates of the Gambino crime family since the 1960s. They would give him their spare change for running errands for them. He considered mob capo Paul Zaccaria as his mob mentor leading to his life of organized crime. He would frequent the Veterans and Friends social club in Brooklyn run by future boss Paul Castellano. After becoming a family associate in the late 1970s to early 1980s, DiLeonardo opened his first social club not far from Veterans and Friends. In early 1981, he shut down his club and opened another on 75th Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn. Club customers included Gambino soldiers Salvatore Gravano and Frank DeCicco. He started a construction company, Metropolitan Stone masonry contractor firm with Gambino crime family capo Edward Garofola In 1996, DiLeonardo and Garafola sold Metropolitan to Interstate because the City of New York denied Metropolitan an operating permit because of the company's organized crime affiliations. On December 24, 1988, DiLeonardo was formally inducted into the Gambino family in the same ceremony as John A. Gotti. DiLeonardo first worked for Garafola, a powerful capo who served under boss Paul Castellano. After John A. "Junior" Gotti rose to power, DiLeonardo worked for capo John D'Amico.
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