Naples was heavily involved in the "Policy racket" also known as the numbers and lottery. He ran his gambling empire from the Center Sandwich shop. His top lieutenants were his brothers Billy and Joey Naples, also members of the Pittsburgh LCN family. He was a close associate of Pittsburgh capo Gabriel Mannarino who controlled large scale gambling rackets in Kensington, PA. Naples was one of the Mahoning Valley's "Big 3," policy bankers, including Buffalo Mafia member Joseph DiCarlo, Jr., who muscled into the race wire service and controlled the local bookmaking and was later chased out of Youngstown by the police. The other overlord of gambling in the area was Vince DeNiro, an associate of the Cleveland crime family with whom Naples would fight a bloody gang war for control of the vice ra