Gambino crime family
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Gambino crime family
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Carlo Gambino, the boss of the family from 1957-1976.
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1910–present
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Various
neighborhoods over New York City, upstate New York, and other areas including
Long Island,
Augusta, Georgia, New Jersey, Tampa, Florida
and Sunny Isles Beach,
Florida
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Italian,
Italian American, Sicilian,
Sicilian-American made men and other ethnicities as "associates"
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Racketeering,
extortion,
fraud,
illegal gambling, money laundering,
murder,
union control, robbery, and hijacking[3]
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The Gambino crime family is
one of the "Five Families"
that dominates organized crime
activities in New York City,
United States,
within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). The group is named after Carlo
Gambino, boss of the family at the time of
the McClellan hearings
in 1963 when the structure of organized crime first gained public attention.
The group's operations extend from New York and the eastern seaboard to California. Its illicit activities include labor and construction racketeering, gambling,
loansharking, extortion,
money laundering,
prostitution,[3] dumping violations, construction, building and cement
violations, fraud and wire fraud,
hijacking, pier thefts, and fencing.
The rise of what for a time was the
most powerful crime family in America began in 1957, the day Albert
Anastasia was assassinated while sitting in a
barber chair at the Park-Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan. Experts believe Carlo
Gambino helped orchestrate the hit to take over the family. Gambino partnered
with Meyer Lansky
to control gambling interests in Cuba. The family’s fortunes grew through 1976,
when Gambino appointed his brother-in-law, Paul
Castellano, as boss. Castellano infuriated
upstart capo John Gotti,
who orchestrated Castellano's murder in 1985. Gotti's downfall came in 1992,
when his underboss Sammy Gravano
decided to cooperate with the FBI. Gravano's cooperation brought down Gotti,
along with most of the top members of the Gambino family. The family is now run
by Domenico Cefalu.
History
Origins
The origins of the Gambino crime
family can be traced back to the emergence of Italian mafioso Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila upon the New York Mafia scene around 1906, which is when
D'Aquila's name first appears on police records for running a confidence
scam, a racket that requires a great
deal of intelligence and patience. D'Aquila had immigrated to the United States
as an influential Palermitano mafioso, and quickly used his ties to other Mafia
leaders across the country to create a network of connections and to gain influence
within the Italian-American underworld. By 1910 D'Aquila had become the leader
of his own New York–based Sicilian Mafia group, one of four that emerged by the
mid 1900s.
These four crime families included
D'Aquila's own crime family based in East
Harlem, Manhattan, which was also the base of the "first family",
the Morello crime family. The Morello family was originally led by Giuseppe
Morello and his half-brothers, Vincent,
Ciro and Nick Terranova, and then by Joe
Masseria, who became D'Aquila's biggest
rival in New York. Two Brooklyn-based crime families emerged: one was the
Castellammarese clan, led by Nicola
"Cola" Schiro from Roccamena, Sicily
(not from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, where the majority of his Brooklyn crime family
members came from), and second was a group led by Alfred
Mineo based in Brooklyn. Eventually, two
more Mafia groups emerged in New York City during Prohibition: This was a
break-away faction from the Morello crime family based in the Bronx and led by Gaetano
Reina, who was once aligned with boss Ciro
"The Artichoke King" Terranova,
and the last group formed in the late 1920s based in Brooklyn and led by Joe
Profaci. Profaci became boss of one of the
Five Families of New York that soon emerged once power in New York's Italian
underworld was consolidated and the factions re-structured into the crime
families that ruled organized crime in the city and across the country for the
next eight decades.
By the mid 1910s D'Aquila had become
the most influential Mafia boss in New York, in part because former New York
Mafia "boss of bosses", Giuseppe Morello and his brother-in-law and
second-in-command, Ignazio Saietta,
had been imprisoned for 30 years in 1909 for counterfeiting. D'Aquila continued
to amass power and influence within New York's Sicilian underworld and across
the nation as his crime family grew in numbers and territory.
The expansion of the D'Aquila crime
family was aided by the decimation of the Brooklyn Camorra
led by Neapolitan Mafia boss, Don Pellegrino
Morano, when Morano and his
second-in-command, Alessandro Vollero
were imprisoned for life in 1917, following a war with the Morello crime
family, which led to the murder of boss Nick Morello (born Terranova) in 1916,
for which Morano and Vollero were convicted.
By the beginning of Prohibition, the
remaining Neapolitan Mafia members and the territory once under control of
bosses Morano and Vollero were absorbed into the D'Aquila crime family. Soon
after the Brooklyn-based Mineo group was also absorbed into Toto D'Aquila's
crime family, making it the largest and most influential in New York City. The
only remaining rival that D'Aquila needed to fear was the expanding forces and
growing influence of boss Giuseppe
"Joe the Boss" Masseria.
Masseria had taken over the Morello crime family interests and territory by
1920, and quickly began to amass a great deal of power and influence, enough to
rival D'Aquila by the mid 1920s.
By the late 1920s D'Aquila and
Masseria were headed for a showdown and inevitable war, but Masseria struck
first and D'Aquila was killed on October 10, 1928 by Masseria family gunmen.
The crime family D'Aquila had led passed into the hands of his
second-in-command or underboss, Alfred
Mineo and his top lieutenant Steve
Ferrigno, who at the height of the Prohibition era commanded the largest and most influential Sicilian
crime family in New York City.
The Castellammarese War,
between rival New York bosses Joe
Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano
claimed many victims, including Mineo and Ferrigno who were ambushed and killed
on November 5, 1930, outside Ferrigno's home at 759 Pelham Parkway South. It
was the latest in a long line of killings on both sides of the war, which
ultimately ended with the deaths of both principals - Masseria in April 1931
and Maranzano five months later. The main beneficiary (and organizer of both
hits) was Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, who rearranged New York's organized crime and established
the basis of the "Five
Families" of New York, which became
known as the Commission
of the Cosa Nostra.[5]
After
the Castellammarese War
Following a brief period under the
control of Frank Scalice,
the first recognized leader of what became the Gambino family was Vincent
Mangano, an older mafioso who was still
very much steeped in the Old World traditions of "honor,"
"tradition," "respect" and "dignity." However, he
was somewhat more forward-looking than Masseria and Maranzano. He branched out
into activities including extortion, union racketeering, and illegal gambling
operations including horse betting, running numbers and lotteries.
Mangano also established the City
Democratic Club, ostensibly to promote bedrock American values but in reality
as a cover for Murder, Inc.,
the notorious band of mainly Jewish hitmen who did the bidding of the
Italian-American run families, for a price. The operating head of the troupe
was Mangano family underboss Albert
Anastasia, known as the "Lord High
Executioner". Vince's brother Phil Mangano was also a prominent member.
He also had close ties with Emil
Camarda, a vice-president of the International
Longshoremen's Association. Through
the association, Mangano and the family controlled the Manhattan and Brooklyn
waterfront with a mailed fist. From 1932 onward, the president of Local 1814 of
the ILA was Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasio, Albert Anastasia's younger brother (Anthony kept the
original spelling of their last name). He was one of the family's biggest
earners, steering millions of dollars in kickbacks and payoffs to the Mangano
coffers. Tough Tony made no secret of his ties to the mob; he only had to say
"my brother Albert" to get his point across.
Around this time, Carlo
Gambino was promoted within the
organization, as was another future boss of the family, Gambino's cousin Paul
Castellano.[6]
Mangano
brothers murdered
Anastasia and Mangano never entirely
saw eye to eye, even though they worked together for 20 years. Mangano wasn't
pleased that Anastasia preferred the company of other gangsters rather than
those in his own family. He also resented how the other families used
Anastasia's services without his permission. On numerous occasions the two
almost came to blows. This was only going to end badly for Mangano, and in
April 1951, Phil Mangano was discovered murdered, while his brother disappeared
without a trace. Although it has never been proven, it is generally believed
that both were murdered by Anastasia.
Called to answer for the crimes of
which he was suspected by the other New York bosses, Anastasia never admitted
to his involvement in the deaths of the Manganos, but did claim that Vince had
been planning to have him killed. He was already running the family in
Mangano's "absence," and few in the organization found themselves
inclined to depose one of the most feared killers of the age. With the support
of Frank Costello,
boss of the Luciano crime family, Anastasia was formally acclaimed boss of the renamed
Anastasia family. Carlo Gambino, a wily character with designs on the
leadership himself, maneuvered himself into position as underboss.[6]
Anastasia
eliminated
For most of the 1950s, the Luciano
and Anastasia families' fortunes were closely linked, and provided solidarity
in the National Crime Syndicate for the two bosses. This particularly helped Costello, as Vito
Genovese was angling to replace him, but
knew he couldn't make a move as long as Anastasia was in the picture.
Genovese thus jumped on the 1952
killing of a Brooklyn man named Arnold
Schuster, who Anastasia had killed for the
most minor of indiscretions (acting as a prosecution witness against a bank
robber Anastasia didn't even know), as evidence that Anastasia was unbalanced
and generated too much heat for the syndicate. With Gambino secretly siding
with Genovese against his own boss, the wheels were in motion for the removal
of Anastasia.
On October 25, 1957, Anastasia was
murdered while sitting in a barber's chair at the Park Sheraton Hotel on West
56th Street. For many years, the murder was believed to have been committed by Joseph
"Crazy Joe" Gallo. Later, Colombo crime family boss and Gallo foe, Carmine
"Junior" Persico claimed
credit. Modern historians believe that Carlo Gambino ordered caporegime Joseph
"Joe the Blonde" Biondo
to kill Anastasia and Biondo gave the contract to soldier Stephen
Armone. On the morning of October 25, 1957
Armone, along with Arnold Wittenburg and Stephen
Grammauta, murdered Anastasia in the
barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel. As Anastasia sat in the barber chair the
three assailants rushed in, shoved the barber out of the way, and started
shooting. The wounded Anastasia allegedly lunged at his killers, but only hit
their reflections in the wall mirror. Anastasia died at the scene. Anastasia's
underboss Carlo Gambino took the reins of the family, which from then on bore
his name. Biondo was rewarded with the underboss position, which he kept until
being demoted in 1965. Stephen Grammauta eventually became a caporegime in the
1990s. Six months earlier, Costello had been driven into retirement by an
attempt on his life, clearing the way for Genovese.
Gambino
promotes the family
By all accounts, Genovese was
angling to become Boss of all Bosses, and believed that Gambino would support
him. Gambino, however, had his own mind. He secretly joined forces with Luciano
and Costello to get Genovese out of the way as well. Gambino helped trick
Genovese into a lucrative drug deal, then paid a small-time Puerto Rican dealer
to testify against him. Genovese was sent to prison in late 1957, and died
there in 1969.
Gambino quickly built the family
into the most powerful crime family in the United States, with close ties to Meyer
Lansky's offshore gaming houses in Cuba
and the Bahamas, a lucrative business for the Mafia. The failure of Joseph
"Joe Bananas" Bonanno,
the head of the Bonanno crime family and Gambino's top rival, to kill off Gambino and the heads
of other New York crime families in the aftermath of the Bonanno War, saw
Gambino become the most powerful leader of the "Five Families".[7]
Gambino allegedly stretched his
power as far as to organize the shooting of Joseph
Colombo, head of the Colombo crime family,
on June 28, 1971. Colombo survived the shooting but remained in a coma until
his death in 1978. He was buried next to Joseph Gallo.
In either case, Gambino's influence
stretched into behind-the-scenes control of the Lucchese crime family, led by Carmine
"Mr. Gribbs" Tramunti.
Gambino also allegedly influenced the selection of Frank "Funzi" Tieri as front boss of the Genovese crime family, after the
murder of Thomas Eboli,
whom Gambino, allegedly, had had killed over money owed. It is also more likely
believed Eboli was killed by own crime family for his erratic ways.
Under Gambino, the family gained
particularly strong influence in the construction industry. It acquired
behind-the-scenes control of Teamsters Local
282, which controlled access to most building materials in the New York area
and could literally bring most construction jobs in New York City to a halt.
On October 15, 1976, Gambino died of
a heart attack, and control of the family passed not to the obvious choice,
longtime underboss Aniello "Mr. Neil" Dellacroce, but to Paul
Castellano, whose sister was married to
Gambino. Allies of Dellacroce were thoroughly unhappy about that move, but
Dellacroce himself kept his men in line, and was kept on as Castellano's
Underboss.[7]
The
FBI closes in on Castellano
The Dellacroce faction remained
displeased, believing that Castellano had inherited the role rather than
earning it. They were also annoyed that Castellano saw himself more as a
businessman than a crime boss, even though he expanded the family's influence
in the construction industry. For all intents and purposes, the Gambinos held
veto power over all construction projects worth over $2 million in New York
City.
Castellano did retain a degree of
muscle to keep Dellacroce's allies in check, including the notorious crew run
by Anthony "Nino" Gaggi and Roy DeMeo,
which was believed to have committed over 200 murders during Castellano's
regime from the late 1970s and mid 1980s. While Castellano was still in charge,
most of the family affairs were run and controlled unofficially by a four-man
ruling panel which included powerful Garment District leader Thomas
"Tommy" Gambino,
bodyguard and later Underboss Thomas
"Tommy" Bilotti, and
powerful Queens
faction-leaders Daniel
"Danny" Marino and James
"Jimmy Brown" Failla,
all top rivals of John Gotti.
It was not a time for the family to
be embroiled in inner turmoil and argument, as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation had targeted the Gambino family as
the easiest of the five families to infiltrate – FBI tapes obtained from a bug
planted in a lamp on Castellano's kitchen table caught him discussing illegal
deals with his subordinates, and by the early 1980s Castellano was up on a
number of charges and faced with conviction. He let it be known that he wanted
Carlo Gambino's son Thomas
to take over the family should he be sent to jail, with Thomas
Bilotti (Castellano's chauffeur and
bodyguard) as his underboss, which further enraged the Dellacroce faction,
particularly John Gotti.[8]
In 1983, a federal indictment
charged 13 members of the Gambino family with drug trafficking. This group
included John Gotti's brother, Gene, and his best friend, Angelo
"Quack Quack" Ruggiero,
who got his nickname for his non-stop talking. The feds had in fact been
listening in on his home phone conversations since 1980 – they had Ruggiero on
tape discussing family business, making drug deals, and expressing contempt for
Castellano. If Castellano knew they were dealing drugs, in violation of his
no-drug policy, Ruggiero would be killed. By law, the accused were allowed
transcripts of wiretap conversations to aid their defense, and Castellano
demanded to be shown them, though Dellacroce did his best to put him off.[8]
Dellacroce was by this time
suffering from cancer, but with Ruggiero desperate for help, his friend John
Gotti stood up for him. All the same, Castellano maintained that he wanted the
transcripts, or he would have Ruggiero and Gotti removed. Gotti realized he had
to act fast, and the death of his mentor Dellacroce on December 2, 1985, paved
the way for him to take out Castellano.
John
Gotti takes over
On December 16, 1985, Bilotti and
Castellano arrived at the Sparks Steak House
in Manhattan for a dinner meeting with capo Frank
DeCicco. As the two men were exiting their
car, four unidentified men shot them to death. Right after the shootings, John
Gotti proclaimed himself the new boss of the Gambino crime family. Gotti
appointed DeCicco as underboss and promoted Ruggiero to caporegime. At that
time, future underboss Salvatore
"Sammy the Bull" Gravano
was allegedly elevated to caporegime.
Known as the "Dapper Don,"
Gotti was well known for his hand-tailored suits and silk ties. Unlike his
colleagues, Gotti made little effort to hide his mob connections and was very
willing to provide interesting sound
bites to the media. Gotti's home in
Howard Beach, Queens, was frequently seen on television. Gotti liked to hold
meetings with family members while walking in public places so that law
enforcement agents could not record the conversations. One of Gotti's neighbors
in Howard Beach was his dear friend Joseph
"Big Joe" Massino,
underboss of the Bonanno crime family. Another of Gotti's neighbors, John
Favara, accidentally killed Gotti's
12-year-old son in a traffic crash. Soon after the boy's death, Favara was
kidnapped and murdered.[9]
Mob leaders from the other families
were enraged at the Castellano murder and disapproved of Gotti's high-profile
style. Gotti's strongest enemy was Genovese crime family boss Vincent
"The Chin" Gigante,
a former Castellano ally. Ironically, Gigante had participated in the last
unsanctioned hit on a Cosa Nostra boss, that of Frank
Costello in 1957. Gigante allegedly
conspired with Lucchese crime family leaders Vittorio
"Vic" Amuso and Anthony
"Gaspipe" Casso, to put
out a contract on Gotti's life. On April 13, 1986, a car bomb meant for Gotti
instead killed DeCicco.[9]
Eventually, Gotti's brash demeanor
and belief that he was untouchable (he was acquitted on federal charges three
times, earning the nickname the "Teflon Don") proved his undoing. The
FBI had managed to bug an apartment above the Ravenite Social Club in Little Italy, where an elderly widow let mobsters hold
top-level meetings. Gotti was heard planning criminal activities and
complaining about his underlings. In particular, he complained about Gravano,
portraying him as a "mad dog" killer. Gravano responded by turning
state's evidence and testifying against Gotti.
On April 2, 1992, largely on the
strength of Gravano's testimony, Gotti and consigliere Frank
"Frankie Loc" LoCascio
were convicted and received a sentence of life without parole.
The
family since Gotti
Gotti continued to rule the family
from prison, while day-to-day operation of the family shifted to capos John
"Jackie Nose" D'Amico
and Nicholas "Little Nick" Corozzo. The latter was due to take over as acting boss but was
himself sentenced to eight years in prison on racketeering charges. Gotti's
son, John "Junior" Gotti, took over as head of the family, but in 1998 he too was
convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 77 months in jail.
When Gotti Sr died in prison in
2002, his brother Peter
took over as boss, allegedly alongside D'Amico, but the family's fortunes have
dwindled to a remarkable extent given their power a few short decades ago, when
they were considered the most powerful criminal organization on earth. Peter
Gotti was imprisoned as well in 2003, as the leadership allegedly went to the
current administration members, Nicholas Corozzo, Jackie D'Amico and Joseph
Corozzo.[9]
As former rivals of John Gotti took
completely over the Gambino family, mostly because the rest of Gotti's
loyalists were either jailed or under indictments, and because Gotti, Sr died
in prison in 2002, then-current head of white collar crimes
and caporegime, Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo turned state's evidence, due to increased law enforcement
and credible evidence to be presented in his racketeering trial, and chose to
testify against mobsters from all of the Five Families. One of the last Gotti
supporters, DiLeonardo testified against, among others, Peter Gotti and Anthony
"Sonny" Ciccone from 2003
to 2005, and disappeared into the Witness Protection Program. At the same time, Sammy Gravano, Gotti's former Underboss,
had evaded the program in 1995 and was arrested and jailed for operating an Ecstasy-ring that stretched from Arizona to New York City in 2003. During that same year, he was
sentenced to 19 years in prison, ironically due to informants amongst his
associates.
In 2005, Nicholas Corozzo and his
longtime underling Leonard "Lenny" DiMaria were released from prison after serving ten years for
racketeering and loansharking charges in New
York and Florida. That same year, US law enforcement recognized Corozzo as
the Boss of the Gambino crime family, with his brother Joseph Corozzo as the
family Consigliere, Arnold
"Zeke" Squitieri as the
acting Underboss and Jackie D'Amico as a highly regarded member with the
Corozzo brothers.
Jack
Falcone
Retired FBI agent Joaquin Garcia infiltrated the Gambino crime family under the alias of
Jack Falcone beginning in 2002. Greg
DePalma, the Gambino family capo, offered
Garcia the position of made man. However, the FBI investigation ceased in 2005
when Garcia's cover was in danger of being blown. But, with sufficient evidence
to convict DePalma and several other high-ranking mafiosi, DePalma was arrested
and convicted to twelve years in federal prison, thanks in large part to
Garcia's efforts.
Operation
Old Bridge
On Thursday, February 7, 2008, an
indictment and four-year-long FBI investigation known as Operation Old Bridge
was issued, leading to the arrest of 54 people affiliated with the Gambino
crime family that very day in New York City and its suburbs, New
Jersey and Long
Island. A federal grand jury later that
day accused 62 people of having ties to the Gambino crime family, and offenses
such as murders, conspiracy, drug trafficking, robberies, extortion and other
crimes were included in the indictment. By the end of the week, more than 80
people were indicted in the Eastern District of New York. The case is now referred to as United States of America
v. Agate et al. It was assigned to Judge Nicholas
Garaufis. The FBI was able to collect the
needed information through informant Joseph
Vollero, the owner of a truck company on
Staten Island, who secretly recorded several conversations between him and
members of the Gambino family about three years prior to when the indictment
was handed out.[10]
Among the arrested were the current
Gambino crime family leaders John
"Jackie Nose" D'Amico,
Joseph "Jo Jo" Corozzo and Domenico
"Italian Dom" Cefalu,
including Gambino family caporegime Leonard
"Lenny" DiMaria, Francesco
"Frank" Cali, Thomas
"Tommy Sneakers" Cacciopoli.
However, recognized captain and co-acting boss Nicholas
"Little Nick" Corozzo,
one of the main leaders indicted in the case, fled his home on Long Island,
acting on prior knowledge, and was considered a fugitive by US law enforcement,
until his arrest before turning himself in on May 29, 2008, after almost four
months on the run.
The federal operation broke up a
growing alliance between the Gambinos and the Sicilian Mafia, which wanted to
get further into the drug trade.
One of those arrested in the raids in the US was Frank
Cali, a captain in the Gambino family.
He is allegedly the "ambassador" in the US for the Inzerillo crime family.[11]
Current
position and leadership
From 2005 to 2008, federal
authorities successfully prosecuted the Gambino administration, several capos,
and many soldiers and associates. Since both federal and New York State
authorities rounded up the entire Gambino family hierarchy in early 2008, a three-man
panel of street bosses Daniel
"Danny" Marino, John
Gambino and Bartolomeo
"Bobby" Vernace was
running the Gambino family while the administration members were in prison.
Marino, Vernace, Gambino, Cefalu, D'Amico, Nicholas
Corozzo, and Arnold
Squitieri have all been listed as leaders in
the family. In July 2011, it was reported that Domenico
Cefalu has been promoted to official boss
of the crime family, putting an end to the Gotti reigeme.[12]
Today the Gambino family still
controls the piers in Brooklyn and Staten Island through infiltrated labor
unions.[13] A pair of indictments in 2009 and 2010, respectively, show
that the family is still very active in New York City. During the 2009 calendar
year, the Gambino family saw many important members released from prison.[14] In 2009, former National Basketball
Association (NBA) referee Tim
Donaghy said that Gambino associate James
Battista used Donaghy's knowledge of NBA games to pick winners in illegal
sports gambling.[15][16][17]
On November 18, 2009, the NYPD arrested
22 members and associates of the Lucchese and Gambino crime families as part of
"Operation Pure Luck".[18] The raid was a result of cases involving loan sharking and
sports gambling on Staten Island. There were also charges of bribing New York
City court officers and Sanitation Department officials.[19] On April 20, 2010, Gambino capo Daniel Marino and thirteen
other members/associates were arrested and indicted for numerous criminal
activities. In addition to the racketeering charges, the fourteen defendants
were charged with murder, sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor, jury tampering,
extortion, assault, wire fraud, narcotics trafficking, loan-sharking and
gambling.[20][21][22] All the defendants pleaded guilty to lesser charges.[23]
Historical
leadership of the Gambino crime family
Bosses
(official and acting)
·
1910–1928— Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila [24][25][26] – took over the Brooklyn Camorra in 1916 and merged with "Al
Mineo's gang" forming the largest family in New York. He was killed on
orders of boss Joe Masseria in 1928.
·
1930–1931 — Francesco
"Frank/Don Cheech" Scalise
– demoted after murder of boss of all boss es Salvatore Maranzano.
·
1931–1951 — Vincenzo
"Vincent" Mangano –
disappeared in April 1951, allegedly killed on orders of underboss Albert
Anastasia.
·
1951–1957 — Albert
"Mad Hatter" Anastasia
– murdered in October 1957 on orders of underboss Carlo Gambino.
o
Acting 1974–1976 — Paul Castellano – acting boss during Gambino's
illness, became official boss after his death.
o
Acting 1999–2002 — Peter Gotti – promoted to official boss.
o
Acting 2002–2005 — Arnold
"Zeke" Squitieri –
imprisoned in 2006, projected release date is in November 2011.[27]
o
Acting 2005–2008 — Nicholas
"Little Nick" Corozzo
– convicted in 2008 Operation Old Bridge, projected release date is 2020.
o
Acting 2008–2010 — Ruling Committee/Panel: Daniel Marino (jailed), Bartolomeo
"Bobby" Vernace (jailed),
and John Gambino.
Street
boss
Street boss is a position created
2005. It was the second most powerful position in the organization.
·
2005–2011 Jackie
"Jackie the Nose" D'Amico
(arrested Feb. 17, 2008, release date June 15, 2012) [28]
Underbosses
The underboss was traditionally the
second most powerful position in the Gambino family (after the boss). However,
the 2005 appointment of Jackie D'Amico as "street boss" made that
position more important than underboss.
·
19??-1928 Alfred
Mineo (his group merged with the D'Aquila
family at the start of Prohibition. Mineo was killed in 1930 during the Castellammarese War)
·
1991–1999 Vacant
·
1999–present Arnold
"Squiggy" Squitieri
(imprisoned in 2002 and 2005, projected release date is November 12, 2011)
Consigliere
In Italian, consigliere means
"advisor." The consigliere's highest priority is to help the boss
make decisions. Together, the boss, street boss, underboss, and consigliere are
referred to as "the administration."
·
19??-1930 Giuseppe Triana
·
1957–1967 Joseph "Staten Island
Joe" Riccobono
·
1992–1999
Committee
Several capo committees have
periodically replaced the underboss and consigliere positions, allowing an
imprisoned boss better control of the family.
·
1991–1992 - committee John
A. Gotti Jr., James
"Jimmy Brown" Failla,
Nicholas "Little Nick" Corozzo, John
"Jackie Nose" D'Amico,
Louis "Big Lou" Vallario, Peter "Petey Boy" Gotti
·
1992–1993 - committee John
"Junior" Gotti, James Failla, John D'Amico, Louis Vallario, Peter
Gotti
·
1993–1994 - committee John
"Junior" Gotti, Nicholas Corozzo, John D'Amico, Louis Vallario, Peter
Gotti
·
1994–1996 - committee
Nicholas Corozzo, John D'Amico, Louis Vallario, Peter Gotti
·
1996–1999 - committee John
D'Amico, Louis Vallario, Peter Gotti
Administration
·
Boss Domenico
Cefalu[29] - A Sicilian-born mobster who started out in the Gambino
family as a heroin trafficker.
·
Underboss Arnold
"Zeke" Squitieri - also
the leader of the New Jersey faction.[30] As a capo during the 1980s, Squitieri ran drug trafficking
operations in New Jersey, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. Might have been the definitive
leader of the Gambino crime family for some time.[31] In 2006, Squitieri was convicted of drug trafficking,
illegal gambling and tax evasion and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
His projected release date is November 12, 2011.
·
Consigliere Joseph "Jo Jo" Corozzo - a former capo, Joseph and his brother Nicholas
"Little Nick" Corozzo
control the Queens-based "Corozzo faction". In 1992, Joseph became
consigliere after Gotti's imprisonment. On February 8, 2008, Joseph and
Nicholas were indicted during Operation Old Bridge. In June 2008, Joseph pleaded guilty to a racketeering
conspiracy charge concerning the extortion of a Staten Island concrete firm and
was sentenced to 46 months in prison. His projected release date is June 10,
2011.[32][33]
Current
family capos
During the 1980s and 90s, the
Gambino crime family under boss John Gotti Sr. had 24 active crews operating in
New York City, New Jersey, South Florida, and Connecticut. After 2000, the
Gambino family had approximately 20 crews. However, according to a 2004 New
Jersey Organized Crime Report, the Gambino family had only ten active crews.[34]
New
York
Brooklyn/Staten
Island faction
·
George
"Butters" DeCicco - Capo of
a Staten Island and Brooklyn crew since the 1980s. The brother of former
underboss Frank DeCicco, George is heavily involved in loansharking.[35][36]
·
Joseph
"Sonny" Juliano - Capo of
a Brooklyn crew that operates illegal gambling, loansharking, fraud and wire
fraud activities. Juliano previously managed a multimillion dollar illegal
gambling ring in 30 New York City locations.[37][38]
·
Francesco "Frank" Cali - Capo who operates in Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey.
According to the FBI, Cali is the official Gambino "ambassador to the
Sicilian Mafia" and a rising star in the crime family. Cali and Leonard
DiMaria extorted money from businessman Joseph
Vollero's trucking company on Staten
Island. A major suspect in the drug trafficking between the Sicilian Mafia and
the Gambinos, Cali pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and was sent to
prison. He was released on May 30, 2009.[39][40]
·
Domenico
"Italian Dom" Cefalu
- Capo in the Sicilian faction and former acting underboss. He was indicted on
racketeering charges in Operation Old Bridge, pleaded guilty, and
Queens
faction
·
Thomas
"Tommy Sneakers" Cacciopoli
- Capo of a crew in Queens, New Jersey, and Westchester.[43][44] Recently released on April 4, 2011.[45]
·
Michael
"Mickey Boy" Paradiso-
Capo of a crew in Brooklyn and Queens. Paradiso has been involved in illegal
gambling, loansharking, extortion and narcotics activities. Released on May 15,
2011 .[46]
Manhattan
faction
·
Vincent "Vinny
Butch" Corrao - Capo of a Little Italy, Manhattan
crew. Vincent's grandfather, "Vinny the Shrimp", operated the same
crew and passed it to his son Joseph Corrao. Joseph later passed the crew to his son Vincent.[50][51][52][53]
Bronx
faction
·
Salvatore "Tore" LoCascio - Capo of a Bronx crew and son of Frank
"Frankie Loc" LoCascio.
Along with Richard Martino,
Salvatore introduced the Gambinos to online pornography operations that earned the family up to $350 million per
year. In 2003, Salvatore was convicted and sent to prison. On August 1, 2008,
Salvatore was released from prison.[54][55][56]
·
Louis
"Louie Bracciole" Ricco
- Capo of a crew in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. The crew controls half
of the illegal gambling, loansharking and racketeering activities in the Bronx.[57][58]
Sicilian
faction
The Sicilian faction of the Gambino
crime family is known as the Cherry Hill Gambinos. Gambino Boss Carlo
Gambino created an alliance between the
Gambino family and three Sicilian clans: the Inzerillo's, the Spatola's
and the Di Maggio's. Carlo Gambino's relatives controlled the Inzerillo
clan under Salvatore Inzerillo
in Passo di Ragano, a neighborhood in Palermo,
Sicily. Salvatore Inzerillo coordinated
the major heroin trafficking from Sicily to the US, bringing his cousins John, Giuseppe and Rosario
Gambino to the US to supervise the
operation. The Gambino brothers ran a Cafe on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst and took their name "Cherry Hill Gambinos"
from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The Gambino family in America began increasing in size
with more Sicilian members.[59][60][61][62]
·
Giovanni
"John" Gambino - Capo in
the Gambino Sicilian or Zip faction. Gambino is an Italian national who
belongs to the Inzerillo-Gambino-DiMaggio-Spatola clan of Sicily as well as the
Gambino family. Reputedly a prominent drug trafficker, Gambino allegedly
participates in the three-man ruling panel/committee that runs the crime
family.[63][64][65]
New
Jersey
In Northern New Jersey, the Gambino
family operates crews in Bergen, Passaic, and Essex Counties. In Southern New
Jersey, the family operates crews in South Trenton,[66]
and Atlantic City. The two Gambino crews operating in New Jersey are the Mitarotonda
crew and the Sisca crew. Other capos operating in New Jersey include
John D'Amico, Louis Ricco, Francesco Cali, and Thomas Cacciopoli.[34]
·
Alphonse
"Funzi" Sisca - Capo of
a crew in New Jersey. He was a John
Gotti Sr. ally and a former drug dealing
partner of Angelo Ruggiero
and Arnold Squitieri.
Prior to being convicted in 2006, Sisca had spent 20 of the past 30 years in
prison.[67] He was released from prison on September 27, 2010.
·
Nicholas Mitarotonda - capo of a crew in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mitarotonda was released from federal prison on March 1,
2011.
·
Nicholas
"Looks" DiGiovanni
- Former capo of a crew in Bloomfield, NJ. He is the great grandson of Carlo Gambino
and currently resides in California where he is said to be responsible for
crews in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He was released from federal prison on
August 25, 2008.
Florida
The Gambino family's Florida faction operates in Tampa and the South Florida counties of Broward,
Palm Beach and Dade.
·
Freddy Massaro - Capo of a South Florida crew. Massaro also Beachside
Mario’s, a restaurant in Sunny Isles Beach.[68][69]
Soldiers
·
Blaise Corozzo - Soldier and another of the Corozzo brothers. He is
serving a one to three year sentence in state prison for a 2008 illegal
gambling operation. His son Nicholas Corozzo, also involved with the Gambino
family, was arrested in 2004.[70] In 2009, Blaise Corozzo was released from prison.[71]
·
Andrew "Andy
Campo" Campos - soldier and former acting capo of
the Bronx-based LoCascio crew. Campos supervised Tore LoCascio's crew while he
was in prison.[72]
·
Rosario Spatola - member of the Cherry Hill Gambinos. His cousin is Giovanni
"John" Gambino and his
brother-in-law was Salvatore Inzerillo.
Imprisoned
members
·
Michael Murdocco - Soldier in Carmine Sciandra's crew. Currently serving two
to six years in prison after pleading guilty in March 2010 to enterprise
corruption, grand larceny and receiving bribes.[73] Murdocco and his son-in-law Sanitation Deputy Chief
Frederick Grimaldi, rigged bids to help a New Jersey firm win a sanitation
contract. In exchange for kickbacks, Grimaldi allegedly leaked bid information
to Murdocco in May 2009.
·
Andrew Merola - former acting capo of the Mitarotonda crew. Merola is
connected to Lucchese crime family Jersey
faction leader Martin
Taccetta. Merola's crew operates illegal
gambling, loansharking, extortion and labor racketeering.[74][75] Pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and was sentenced
to 11 years in prison.[76] His projected release date is June 5, 2020.
·
Daniel
"Danny" Marino - Capo of
a Queens crew involved in labor and construction racketeering. A rival of John
Gotti Sr., Marino was involved in the 1986 murder conspiracy that accidentally
killed Frank DeCicco
instead of Gotti.[77][78]
·
Bartolomeo
"Bobby" Vernace - Capo of
a Queens crew. Vernace allegedly operates out of his Vita Cafe in Flushing,
Queens, running illegal gambling
activities.[63][79]
·
Vincent "Little
Vinny" Artuso – capo of a crew in Broward County,
Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach County, Boca Raton
and Palm Beach Island.
Artuso lives in South Palm Beach, Florida. On January 22, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Artuso was charged
with racketeering. In September 2008, Artuso was charged with racketeering,
mail and wire fraud, and money laundering.[80][81] Artuso is currently imprisoned at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida; his projected release date is August 28, 2016.[82] His son, John Vincent Artuso, is also imprisoned at
Coleman; his release date is July 29, 2016.[83]
·
Anthony
"Sonny" Ciccone - Capo of
the Gambino crew on the Brooklyn waterfront. Currently imprisoned on several
extortion charges.[84] His projected release date is April 24, 2013.[85]
·
Louis
"Big Lou" Vallario
- Capo of a crew in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn since the 1980s. From 1996 to 2002, Vallario served as
acting boss in the family's 'Ruling Committee/Panel. One of the last aides to
John Gotti Sr.[86]
His projected release date is October 15, 2013.[87]
·
Leonard
"Lenny" DiMaria - Capo of
a crew in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Florida. A close ally of Nicholas Corozzo
since the early 1970s, DiMaria allegedly operates racketeering and loansharking
activities.[88] His projected release date from prison is September 2,
2012.[89]
·
Anthony
"Tony Genius" Megale
- Capo of the Connecticut faction and co-leader with Domenico
Cefalu of the Sicilian faction. In 2002,
Megale was named acting underboss after Peter Gotti went to prison.[90][91] His projected release date is July 18, 2014.[92]
·
Augustus
"Gus Boy" Sclafani
- former acting capo of the Corrao crew. Sclafani was the overseer of the crew
while Corrao was imprisoned, but Sclafani came under indictment in 2008 Operation Old Bridge and is currently in prison.[93]
·
Nicholas
"Little Nick" Corozzo
- Capo. Brother of Consigliere Joseph Corozzo, uncle of Joseph Jr. and
currently the most influential caporegime in the crime family. Became a
fugitive for almost four months, currently incarcerated on a 13 year sentence.
His projected release date is March 2, 2020.[94][95]
·
Dominick
"Skinny Dom" Pizzonia
- Capo of a crew in Queens. An enforcer and hitman with John
Gotti, Pizzonia is currently serving a
15-year-sentence for gambling and loansharking conspiracy.[96][97] His projected release date is on February 28, 2020.[98]
·
Carmine
Sciandra - Capo of a crew in Staten Island
who also co-owns three "Top Tomato" vegetable and fruit markets. In
December 2005, Sciandra was shot and wounded by a retired policeman while
working at his Staten Island market. On March 25, 2010, Sciandra plead guilty
to enterprise corruption and grand larceny for running a massive sports betting
and loan shark operation and was sentenced to serve between 1½ to 4½ years in
prison.[99]
Crews
Alliances
with other criminal groups
·
The
Gambino-Lucchese-Genovese alliance
(1953–1985) between Carlo Gambino, Tommy Lucchese, and Vito Genovese began with
a plot to take over the Mafia Commission by murdering family bosses Frank
Costello and Albert Anastasia.
At that time, Gambino was Anastasia's new underboss and Vito Genovese was the
underboss for Costello. Their first target was Costello on May 2, 1957.
Costello survived the assassination attempt, but immediately decided to retire
as boss in favor of Genovese. Their second target was Anastasia on October 25,
1957. The Gallo brothers (from the Colombo family) murdered Anastasia in a Manhattan
barber shop, opening the was for Gambino to become the new boss of the
now-Gambino crime family. After assuming power, Gambino started conspiring with
Lucchese to remove their former ally Genovese. In 1959, with the assistance of
Luciano, Costello, and Meyer Lansky, Genovese was arrested and Gambino assumed
full control with Lucchese of the Mafia Commission. Under Gambino and Lucchese,
the Commission pushed Bonanno boss Joseph Bonanno out of power, triggering an
internal war in that family. In the 1960s, the Commission backed the Gallo
brothers in their rebellion against Profaci family boss Joe Profaci. In 1962,
Gambino's oldest son Thomas married Lucchese's daughter, strengthening the
Gambino and Lucchese family alliance. Lucchese gave Gambino access into the New
York airports rackets he controlled, and Gambino allowed Lucchese into some of
their rackets. After Lucchese death in July 1967, Gambino used his power over
the Commission to appoint Carmine
Tramunti as the new Lucchese family leader.
Gambino later continued the alliance with Tramunti's successor, Anthony
Corallo. After Gambino's death, new Gambino
boss Paul Castellano continued the Lucchese alliance. In 1985, the original
Gambino-Lucchese alliance dissolved when John Gotti ordered Castellano's
assassination and took power in the Gambino family without Commission approval.
·
The
Gambino-Lucchese alliance
(1999–present) was initiated by acting Lucchese boss Steven
Crea in 1999. The two families extorted
the construction industry and made millions of dollars in bid-rigging.[101] In early 2002, Lucchese Capo John Capra worked with Gambino
acting Boss Arnold Squitieri, acting underboss Anthony Megale, and Bronx-based
acting Capo Gregory DePalma. The group was involved in illegal gambling and
extortion activities in Westchester County, New York. The members were arrested in 2005 leaving to reveal that
Gambino acting Capo DePalma had allowed an FBI agent Joaquin Garcia (known as
Jack Falcone) work undercover with his crew since 2002.[102][103] In late 2008, Gambino family acting Capo Andrew Merola
teamed with Lucchese Jersey faction acting Boss Martin Taccetta in an illegal
gambling ring, shaking down unions, and extorting car dealerships. Merola was
indicted in 2008 and Taccetta was returned to prison in 2009.[74][75]
·
The
Gambino-Genovese alliance
(1962–1972) was between Carlo Gambino and Genovese family acting boss/front
boss Tomas Eboli. The alliance was short-lived because Eboli was unable or
unwilling to repay Gambino money from a bad narcotics deal. The alliance ended
when Gambino ordered Eboli's murder on July 16, 1972.
·
The
Gambino-Bonanno alliance
(1991–2004) started with John Gotti and new Bonanno boss Joseph Massino. As a member
of the Mafia Commission, Gotti helped Massino regain the Bonanno commission
seat that was lost in the early 1970s. The Gambino family influenced the
Bonanno family to give up narcotics trafficking and return to more traditional
Cosa Nostra crimes (loan sharking, gambling, stock fraud, etc.) By the late
1990s, the Bonannos had become almost as strong as the Gambinos.[104]
·
The
Gambino-Westies alliance
(1970s-present) This alliance resulted from an ongoing war between the Genovese
family and the Westside Gang, an Irish-American street gang in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan. Genovese front boss Anthony "Fat
Tony" Salerno wanted to seized control of
lucrative construction rackets at the new Jacob Javits
Convention Center from the Westies. When the Westies balked, Salerno ordered the murder of the
top gang leaders. Eventually, the Genovese family invited the Gambinos to
broker a peace agreement with the Westside Gang. As part of this agreement, the
Westies formed an alliance with Gambino capo Roy
DeMeo.[105][106]
Government
informants and witnesses
Gambino
family mobsters
·
Robert "Cabert" Bisaccia
·
Joseph Sclafani
·
Volkan Mergen
·
Benny Geritano
·
Nicola Melia
·
Thomas "Spade" Muschio
·
Bartolemeo Vernace
·
Todd LaBarca
·
John "Jackie" Cavallo
·
Jimmy "Higgins" Palmieri
·
Vincent "Juicy" Dimodica
·
Charles "Buddy Musk"
Muccigrasso
Trials
involving Gambino family
In
popular culture
·
Witness to the Mob - A made-for-television movie about the life of Gambino
underboss turned FBI informant Sammy
Gravano.
·
In the 2001 TV movie, Boss
of Bosses, actor Chazz
Palminteri portrays Gambino boss Paul
Castellano.
·
In the movie Goodfellas, Gambino family made member William
"Billy Batts" DeVino
(played by Frank Vincent)
is killed in a fight with Thomas
DeSimone (portrayed as "Tommy
DeVito" by Joe Pesci)
a Lucchese crime family associate.
·
In the video game GTA
IV, in which the setting is based on
New York and New Jersey, the Gambetti family is a reference to the Gambinos.
Also during the mission "Waste Not Want Knots" on route to a Mafia controlled
waste management plant Michael Keane (a character) mentions the Gambinos while
reciting numerous fictional and real Mafia families.
·
Law
& Order commonly references the Gambinos as
a literary flourish but does not involve actual persons except to allude to
them by the court cases that were inspired by actual events, commonly 'Ripped
from the headlines'. The charecter of Frank Machuchi and the Machuchi crime
family were based on John Gotti
and the Gambino crime family.
·
"Mr. Moran" is a song
about Sammy Gravano on the album A Jackknife to a Swan by the ska-core group The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
·
Rapper Raekwon recasts the Wu-Tang
Clan as an Italian mafioso family dubbed
the "Wu-Gambinos" on his debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
·
In his song "Last Real Nigga
Alive," Nas raps about his infamous feud with Jay-Z. In one line he says "...'Cause in order for him to be
the don/ Nas had to go/ the Gam-b-i-n-o rules, I understood..."
·
In Frasier season 4 episode 23, Frasier tells Daphne and Martin
"It's like Christmas morning in the Gambino's household", at the end
of their argument regarding their exchange of gifts.
·
The song "Shiksa Goddess"
from the musical The Last Five Years contains a line about the "Gotti clan," another
name for the Gambino crime family.
·
In the anime Phantom ~requiem for
the phantom, Azuma Reiji kills a member of the Gambino crime family while working
under Inferno.
·
A hip hop group formed in 1998
called Gambino Family (group), had a few songs but the group has not been around since.
·
On the social networking site, Gaia
Online, the most powerful and richest NPC
family in the site are the Gambinos.
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Further
reading
·
Capeci, Jerry. The Complete
Idiot's Guide to the Mafia. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. ISBN
978-0-02-864225-3
·
Davis, John H. Mafia Dynasty: The
Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN
978-0-06-016357-0
·
Jacobs, James B., Christopher
Panarella and Jay Worthington. Busting the Mob: The United States Vs. Cosa
Nostra. New York: NYU Press, 1994. ISBN
978-0-8147-4230-3
·
Maas, Peter. Underboss: Sammy the
Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia. New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, 1997. ISBN
978-0-06-093096-7
·
Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The
Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires. New
York: St. Martin Press, 2005. ISBN
978-0-312-30094-4
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