Pasquale "Pascal" Natarelli was a career criminal who began his life in crime with school and night club break ins in the 1930s. Later in his career he was an enforcer and caporegime for the Magaddino crime family of western New York. The Magaddino syndicate stretched into southern Ontario and the Ohio Valley. Natarelli was also caught up in a jewelry robbery that was planned in 1965. Tried and convicted for his role in the scheme, he served an extended prison term. Other criminal ventures that Natarelli was involved with included a lottery ruse that was foiled in 1959. He was on trial in 1962, 1963 and 1967.