By KATI CORNELL SMITH

The reputed acting boss of the Genovese crime family — a 75-year-old whose knack for dodging arrest earned him the nickname "Quiet Dom" — ran out of luck yesterday as the feds nabbed him on racketeering charges.

A member of the elite "Westside crew," prosecutors say Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo reported directly to godfather Vincent "Chin" Gigante — hobnobbing with the nutty mob boss at the Triangle Social Club on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village.

Cirillo stepped in to fill the power-vacuum when Gigante was busted more than 10 years ago, and new evidence collected during yesterday morning's arrests show he takes his work home with him, the feds said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Katya Jestin revealed the case got an unexpected boost when investigators turned up at the Long Beach home of Cirillo's daughter and found an "induction list" lying on the kitchen table.

The handwritten list allegedly pairs the names of those proposed to become "made" members with dead wiseguys they're intended to replace.

Three reputed capos also were arrested yesterday — Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico, 81, and John "Johnny Sausage" Barbato, 70, who have both allegedly served on the crime family's ruling committee, and Anthony "Tico" Antico, 59.

All four men were temporarily held without bail at an arraignment before Magistrate Judge Robert Levy.

Despite the early hour of his arrest, Cirillo dressed in his customary dapper attire — a gray suit and a matching gray hat and scarf that he had to hand off to an agent before heading to prison.

"He's an old-time mobster. He never really spoke. He was always leaning over and whispering things in people's ears," a source involved in the investigation said of Cirillo, whose only conviction was in the 1950s. "He didn't say two words during his arrest."

Dentico and Barbato — also allegedly from the Westside crew — are charged with plotting to kill two men in 2000 as retaliation for an earlier assault on a man close to Cirillo, law-enforcement sources said.

At that time, Cirillo convened a panel with Dentico, Barbato and now-jailed capo Alan "Baldie" Longo to determine whether to commit murder.

The panel decided to go forward, though the plan was ultimately abandoned.

The plot was detailed on tapes made by wired-up mob turncoat Michael "Cookie" D'Urso.