Alphonse Malangone (born December 2, 1936), legal name "Alfonso" and known as "Allie Shades," is a New York City-based mobster and former caporegime in the Genovese crime family. Malangone controlled the Genovese interests in the Fulton Fish Market, as well as being involved in pump and dump stock scams on Wall Street, and controlling Brooklyn's garbage hauling industry. He was a central figure in the book "Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire" (ISBN 0-425-19299-7) an autobiography by NYPD officer Rick Cowan who went undercover for several years in the commercial garbage industry, posing as a family member of Brooklyn garbage company and eventually gaining access to the garbage cartel's organization, the Kings County Trade Waste Association. Cowen describes Malangone as the cagiest