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  "Crazy Joe" Gallo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gallo ("Crazy Joe") early in his career served as an enforcer for the Brooklyn-based Joe Profaci crime family.
Magliocco died of a heart attack in 1963 and was succeeded by Gambino ally Joe Colombo.
Joe Gallo was released from prison in 1971 and was the prime suspect when Colombo was assassinated in that year.
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 Joey Gallo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gallo earned his nickname in mafia circles because he was a ruthless killer who was a happy shooter and very unpredictable.
Gallo was one of the first mafiosi to predict a shift of power in the New York streets from the Italian mafia to fl gangs, and he started becoming friends with members of the fl gangs.
On April 7, 1972, Gallo was at a restaurant when he was killed by an unknown gunman.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/joey_gallo.html   (155 words)

  
 Joe Gallo Biography | World of Criminal Justice
Crazy Joe Gallo was a member of a New York City organized crime family which was mythologized in a novel by Jimmy Breslin and a song by Bob Dylan.
Gallo was born on April 7, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York.
However, the war came to a sudden end in 1969 when Profaci died of natural causes and Crazy Joe Gallo was convicted of extortion and sentenced to prison.
www.bookrags.com /biography/joe-gallo-cri   (543 words)

  
 SHO NUFF MOB STUDY - DECEMBER 20, 2005
Crazy Joey may be remembered in posterity as a mob maverick and/or an underworld upstart.
“Gallo was out on the town for his birthday, and somehow whoever wanted this done had a good idea he was going to end up his night at Umberto's, and they had a good idea where he was going to be sitting-----off to the left when you walk in from the Mulberry Street door.
Gallo would not have been an easy man to get to at any other time of day, because everywhere he went at a normal hour there could be newspaper photographers nearby on the prowl angling to get a good picture.
gangstersinc.tripod.com /ShoDec2005.html   (3743 words)

  
 AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 46
Joe Profaci, who ruled his vast empire with a bloody, iron fist from his 328 acre estate on Long Island, complete with its own airstrip.
The remaining group, Gallo, his wife, Sina, a dental assistant he had married three weeks before, her ten year old daughter from a previous marriage, Lisa Essary, Joey's sister, Carmella Fiorello and Peter Diapoulos AKA Pete the Greek.
Gallo agrees and suggests Chinese food and Pete the Greek swings the car around to Chinatown, but the entire place is closed.
www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_46.html   (2673 words)

  
 Joe Gallo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gallo, of Texas, contributed a detailed profile of another of his favourite fish: Senegal (Cuvier's) Bichir (Polypterus senegalus), and also one about...
Gallo is co-founder, actor and technical director of the critically acclaimed...
Joe Gerrits is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago (1999) and is...
www.jolt12.co.uk /joe_gallo.html   (312 words)

  
 Joseph Colombo
For one thing, Joe Colombo was an accomplished murderer, part of a five-man hit team for Joe Profaci.
Joe Colombo was nothing if not a survivor, and he'd always been that way in mob affairs.
Gallo knew he and his men would never go close enough to Colombo to hit him, but he had other resources.
www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/colombo.html   (1266 words)

  
 SHO ’NUFF MOB STUDY - MAR 8, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Crazy Joey got his nickname from both his ruthless style and the testimony that a psychiatrist had given in court during one of his criminal trials.
In particular, Crazy Joe Gallo was a student of Nicolo Machiavelli's (December 15, 2004) The Prince, Bedford/St. Martin's, ISBN: 0312149786.
Crazy Joey made sure all posters that referred to the rally were torn down and removed from South Brooklyn.
gangstersinc.tripod.com /ShoMar0805.html   (4624 words)

  
 Colombo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Joe Colombo was ook oprichter en voorzitter van een organisatie die voor de rechten van Italiaanse Amerikanen (Italian American Civil Rights League) moest opkomen.
Gallo die de familie over wou nemen in de tijd van Profaci, had ook problemen met Colombo.
Joe “Crazy Joe” Gallo werd vermoord omdat hij een nog excentrieke karakter had dan zijn baas Joseph Colombo.
home.student.uva.nl /altan.arslan/De_5_Families/Colombo/colombo.html   (959 words)

  
 Joe Gallo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Crazy" Joey Gallo (April 7, 1929 – April 7, 1972) was a New York gangster who was a gunman and racketeer as a member of the Profaci crime family (later known as the Colombo crime family).
Gallo was allied with Carlo Gambino against Colombo.
Another Joe Gallo is a 14-year old website manager of Gallo's Stuff, which specializes in comedy movies and "cool junk like that".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joey_Gallo   (595 words)

  
 Mafia
In a state of war, families would go to the mattresses - rent vacant apartments and have a number of soldiers sleeping on mattresses on the floor in shifts, with the others ready at the windows to fire at rival family members.
Joe Pistone, "Donnie Brasco", an undercover FBI agent
Joe Valachi[?], the first mafioso to publicly betray "omerta[?]"
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Mafia.html   (1513 words)

  
 Colombo Crime Family
Profaci thus served with Lucky Luciano, Vince Mangano, Joe Bonanno and Tom Gagliano as head of one of the five Mafia families in New York that comprised the nucleus of the Mafia force in the national crime syndicate.
A number of his soldiers, including the kill-crazy Gallo brothers, Persico and Jiggs Forlano (a capo and perhaps the biggest loan shark in New York), were rumbling for his demise.
Only Joe Bonanno stood with Profaci and his successor, while the fifth boss, Vito Genovese, was in prison at the time.
carpenoctem.tv /mafia/colf.html   (1074 words)

  
 Gallo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gallo language, a regional language of France, traditionally spoken in Eastern Brittany
Gallo Matese, a comune of 761 inhabitants in the province of Caserta, Italy
The Gallo river, a tributary of the Tagus
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gallo   (204 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM - BROOKLYN NORTH HOMICIDE SQUAD
Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo was born in Brooklyn in 1929.
The Gallos were relatively small, unruly and violent street thugs who lacked the strength to take Colombo on directly.
In 1972 "Crazy Joe" Gallo was killed in Umberto's Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy in retaliation for ordering the murder of Joe Columbo.
www.courttv.com /onair/shows/brooklyn_north/more_brooklyn.html   (1786 words)

  
 AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 273
He had a residence in Endicott because he did business with Joe B. Barbara, an associate and legitimate businessman, who had had longtime connections with Magaddino, the Buffalo capo, and had been involved, since the 1920s, with the Pennsylvania-Western New York combine, of which Bufalino was a major player.
It was only with the failed Apalachin mob meeting of November 1957 at the farm estate of Joe Barbara (six miles from Endicott) that he realized the dimensions and possibilities for him of “Our Thing.” In his heart, the drifter and stand-up Irishman was delighted.
Crazy Joey went to ‘Australia’ [Down Under] on his birthday on a bloody city sidewalk.
americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_273.html   (1533 words)

  
 Hoffa & Crazy Joe: Mysteries No more?
Gallo had been blown away about an hour earlier as he wound down a celebration of his 42d birthday along with his wife, her daughter and a few remnants of the entourage of Gallo-phites that had begun partying hours earlier at the Copacabana, including his bodyguard Peter (Pete The Greek) Diapoulos.
For the Gallo hit, Sheeran said, he packed a.32 caliber handgun and a.38 revolver “with stopping power.” A.38, he said, also makes enough noise to send witnesses ducking for cover, but not as much as a.45, which could bring cops from blocks away.
John The Redhead (right) surfaced five years later when he was nailed along with one of Gallo’s most bitter foes, Colombo boss Carmine (Junior) Persico, in an IRS sting on bribery and tax charges.
www.ganglandnews.com /column384.htm   (1477 words)

  
 Bob Dylan Who's Who   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Joey Gallo was a mafia dude who was shot by some other mafia dudes.
Joey Gallo was a NY (Brooklyn) Mobster who was a fairly interesting character.
Still, he was a vicious, crazy lunatic and not the hero Dylan paints him to be though he was worshipped by the people in his Brooklyn neighborhood.
www.expectingrain.com /dok/who/j/joey.html   (225 words)

  
 The Men Who Killed Albert Anastasia
Early on, Crazy Joe Gallo (left) and his crew were said to have been at the scene.
Joe Piney served 10 years, became a capo, an underboss for Gotti in 1986.
Sidney Slater, an associate of Gallo and his crew, told acquaintances that Gallo had acknowledged his involvement while they were hoisting a few about a week after the hit.
www.ganglandnews.com /column250.htm   (1185 words)

  
 The American "MAFIA" - New York Crime Bosses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Gallo grievance involved regular fees Profaci assessed against made members of his crime family and Profaci's failure to pay the Gallos for a job.
On April 7, 1972, the Gallo revolt in the family was ended, as "Crazy Joe" Gallo was shot five times in Little Italy's Umberto's Clam House restaurant.
Gallo died on the sidewalk outside the eatery on his 43rd birthday.
www.onewal.com /maf-b-ny.html   (2690 words)

  
 Colombo Crime Family - The Crime library
Gallo and his bodyguard, "Pete the Greek" Diapoulas, made the mistake of sitting with their backs to the door, figuring they were safe on Mafia holy ground.
Gallo assumed that he was the intended target, so he got up from the table and ran for the door, drawing fire away from the innocent.
Gallo made it outside to the sidewalk, where he collapsed and died next to his Cadillac.
www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/colombo/6.html   (925 words)

  
 MurderInc.COM - Joe Profaci (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Joe Profaci insisted on instituting the "Slush Fund" which would pay for legal fees for his soldiers, bribery money, and support the families of fallen or imprisoned soldiers, a tradition long since forgotten by the other crime bosses at the time.
The Gallo brothers were tired of Profaci's lust for more and more money without giving back to the men that earned it for him.
The Gallos began to recruit other members who were disenchanted with the crime boss.
www.murderinc.com.cob-web.org:8888 /fam/profaci.html   (634 words)

  
 Gang Land Contest (2)
What Crazy Joe Gallo associate was wrongly suspected of killing another Crazy Joe Gallo associate outside his Brooklyn home in 1991?
What mobster is credited by law enforcement officials with the 1991 killing of the Crazy Joe Gallo associate outside his Brooklyn home.
Joe Valachi was a member of which crime families during his career.
www.ganglandnews.com /column77.htm   (506 words)

  
 TIME.com: Death of a Maverick Mafioso -- Apr. 17, 1972 -- Page 1
Gallo, wounded in a buttock, an elbow and his back, staggered toward the front of the café.
Gallo had been counted among the walking dead ever since he also aroused the anger of the biggest boss of them all, aging Carlo Gambino.
If that act seemed foolhardy, it was nevertheless typical of Gallo, who never had the sense to play by the rigid rules of the brotherhood.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,944461,00.html   (831 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: 'Law & Order' Star Jerry Orbach Dies at 69
Orbach's performance, Gallo called up the actor, who was stunned by the mobster's command of literature, including Sartre and Camus.
Orbach took Gallo to chic Broadway parties, and Gallo reciprocated with invitations to nightclubs.
Orbach and his wife were with Gallo at the Copacabana nightclub on April 7, 1972, and left the party just hours before Gallo was gunned down while eating scungilli at Umberto's Clam House in Manhattan.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33356-2004Dec29?language=printer   (1125 words)

  
 History of the DEA: 1975 - 1980
The lab was by far the largest of its kind ever dismantled in the West and one of the largest of any type ever seized in the United States.
Gallo had wanted to be a major force in the Harlem drug trade, but he lacked the personnel.
With the help of a lawyer provided by Gallo, Barnes' conviction was reversed and he was released from prison.
www.deamuseum.org /dea_history_book/1975_1980.htm   (7056 words)

  
 Funerals of the Infamous
Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia and Ben Siegel walked into restaurant and fired 20 shots at his back - six slammed into him.
The Madonna Cemetery, in Fort Lee, N.J., is where Joe Adonis is buried, beneath a stone with his true surname of Doto.
Said to be behind the murders of both Albert Anastasia and Joe Colombo, "Crazy Joe" Gallo, himself, was gunned down April 7, 1972, his 43rd birthday celebration, in Umberto's Clam House in New York City's Little Italy.
www.funeralplan.com /funeralplan/idea/infamous.html   (4541 words)

  
 Brooklyn: The Mobster Tour MAXIM ONLINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Gallos had their headquarters on President Street in Red Hook.
Crazy Joey Gallo is buried there, and so is Albert Anastasia, head of Murder, Inc. (the most brutal crime syndicate in Mob history), whom Gallo and his boys murdered in ’57.
Rap sheet: Diagnosed schizophrenic in 1950, Gallo got started as a jukebox racketeer and later muscled in on the Profaci family, touching off some of the bloodiest gangland wars in history.
www.maximonline.com /articles/index.aspx?a_id=4240   (1739 words)

  
 Crazy Joe - Movie Info - Moviefone
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 The Austin Chronicle Screens: Review - Crazy Joe
Joey Gallo was a real-life New York mobster who began as a $100 hitman and aspired to knock over the entire NYC mafia hierarchy to become a capo di capo himself.
Boyle plays Joey Gallo in this luridly violent mobster saga, which traces his ascent from 1960 through 1971 as he goes from being a knock-around guy to assembling his own audacious little crew to taking on the city's crime families.
During a stay in prison, Gallo befriends a fl prison gang (he is even called in to help mediate a settlement during a prison riot).
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-01-12/screens_video.html   (640 words)

  
 Joey Gallo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gallo by Harvey Aronson (Unknown Binding - 1973...
Gallo earned his nickname in mafia circles because he was a ruthless...
GALLO A New York hitman and racketeer who enraged traditional mobsters by working with fl gangs.
www.jolt12.co.uk /joey_gallo.html   (332 words)

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