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	Carlo Gambino's grave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Carlo Gambino (August 24, 1902 - October 15, 1976) was a native of the town Caccamo in Palermo, Sicily, he was born to a family that belonged to the Honored Society for centuries.
		Colombo was the head of the Colombo crime family from 1963 until he was shot in the head and critically wounded at a rally for the Italian American Civil Rights League at Columbus Circle in New York City on June 29, 1971.
		Gambino died of a heart attack in 1976 and was buried in Saint John's Cemetery, Queens in New York City.
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /GravesOutofLA/gambino.htm (732 words)

	The Gambino family
		The soldiers and captains in the Gambino family began to resent this.
		Gotti then took control of the Gambino family and was known as the "teflon don" for his acquital in three separate trials in the late 1980's.
		The Gambinos were the strongest family in the city only seven or eight years ago, but now they are at a key time that will determine how far they go in the future.
	www.carvelli.com /noFlash/gambino-family.html (648 words)

	Gambino Crime Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gambino, with the departure of Costello from the active scene, became Meyer Lansky's most important partner in national syndicate enterprises and became recognized, as Luciano was in the 1930s, as the de facto boss of bosses.
		Gambino foiled the plots of Joe Bonanno to assassinate him and other crime leaders and so to become the most powerful don in the United States.
		To further his plans, Gambino counted on the support of Frank "Funzi" Tieri, who he had installed as the head of the old Genovese family after he arranged to have boss Tommy Eboli "clipped." Tieri was Dellacroce's match and could be counted onto remain loyal to Gambino after death and to be supportive of Castellano.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/gambinof.html (984 words)

	Gambino crime family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gambino Crime Family is one of the "Five Families" that controls organized crime activities based in New York City, USA, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or La Cosa Nostra).
		Vito Genovese was a power-hungry underboss in the family and needed a way to remove the close ties between Costello and Anastasia, which provided solidarity in the National Crime Syndicate for the two bosses.
		Gambino had ordered the hit himself (it was organized by "Crazy" Joe Gallo and his two brothers, though the shooters were never formally identified).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gambino_crime_family (1910 words)

	Gambino
		With the fates of Castellano and Gotti so fresh in the minds of Gambino family mobsters, it will not be surprising if less and less of them push for the leadership of the family in the future.
		He was elected boss by the family which was more an indication of a desire to not anger Maranzano than faith in Scalise's leadership.
		As the new Millennium began, the family was headed by the onetime Dapper Don's older brother Peter, a former sanitation worker.
	www.ganglandnews.com /gambino.htm (2043 words)

	17 Associates of the Gambino Organized Crime Family Indicted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Today’s announcement is the latest in a series of assaults on organized crime’s activities on the New York/New Jersey waterfronts, and the third time in a decade that the government has prosecuted the Boss of the Gambino crime family.
		Historically, the Gambino family and the Genevose crime family divided up control of the New York and New Jersey waterfronts, with Brooklyn and Staten Island falling under the Gambino family’s control.
		The families are alleged to have coordinated efforts to select ILA officials at the highest levels.
	www.oag.state.ny.us /press/2002/jun/jun04a_02.html (959 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. indictments target organized crime - June 20, 2002
		The combination of the two recent busts, in addition to Gotti's death this month, has seriously altered the face and weakened the grip of a crime family whose power and influence in the 1980s was unrivaled, prosecutors said.
		But government officials were quick to point out that the Gambino family and other mob organizations still pose a threat to the industries they have traditionally corrupted with their criminal activities.
		His victims included "Big Paul" Castellano, head of the Gambino family, who was shot dead in 1985 as he sat in his limousine outside a steak house in midtown Manhattan, allowing Gotti to assume leadership.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/06/20/gambino.indictments/index.html (652 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		With the Genovese family controlling the Manhattan and New Jersey piers, the Gambino family controlling the Brooklyn and Staten Island piers, and both families controlling the International Longshoremen's Association and the union locals that supply the laborers who work at the piers.
		And today, we announced that the leaders and members of the Gambino family will be brought to justice as well for their unlawful control of the New York waterfront.
		Peter Gotti, the boss of the Gambino family, his brother Richard, V. Gotti, a Gambino captain, and his nephew, Richard V. Gotti, a Gambino soldier, have all been charged today for their role in overseeing and profiting from the many illegal undertakings of the Gambino family.
	archives.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0206/04/se.01.html (840 words)

	Gambino Family
		In the late 1920s, the boss of the gang that would come to be known as the Gambino Family was Al Mineo, one of Joe "The Boss" Masseria's strong supporters in the Castellammarese War.
		In fact, he served as chairman, probably due to the fact that his Family was the largest of the seven.
		Gambino controlled his own Family, plus the other four bosses sought to appease him.
	mafiasite.8m.com /gambino.htm (1118 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. attorney announces indictments of alleged Gambino members - June 4, 2002
		The 68-count indictment detailed allegations of the Gambino family's stranglehold on the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), representing 65,000 maritime workers in North America, and its alleged illegal influence on businesses on the Brooklyn and Staten Island waterfronts.
		Vinegrad said the Gambino crime family exerted its control over the union by putting hand-picked ILA nominees in high-ranking positions, and "through mob muscle," forced the union's health benefits fund to award a prescription drug contract to a company which kicked back $400,000 to the family.
		According to the state Attorney General's office, the Gambino family and the Genovese family have historically divided control of the New York and New Jersey waterfront, with Brooklyn and Staten Island falling in the Gambino's domain.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/06/04/gambino.indictments/index.html (571 words)

	Cory's Mafia Page: The Gambino Family
		CARLO GAMBINO 1902-1976 At thiry-three started as a soldier in the family run by Vincent Mangano, Carlo became boss of the family in 1957 after arranging the murder of Albert Anastasia.
		He built the family that eventually came to bear is name into the largest and most powerful in the United States.
		Carlo Gambino kept a low profile which was probably why he did not spend a day in jail.
	members.tripod.com /~corytheboss/gambinos.html (607 words)

	Eight members of Gambino crime family plead guilty - Newsday.com
		Eight members and associates of the Gambino organized crime family, including the family's acting underboss, have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a probe in which an FBI agent infiltrated the mob, authorities said Friday.
		The eight were among 11 people charged last year with racketeering in a prosecution aimed at taking down current and future leaders of a crime family more than a century old.
		Prosecutors say Gotti became the family's street boss after his father, John Gotti Sr., was sentenced to life in prison in 1992.
	www.newsday.com /news/local/newyork/am-gamb0401,0,4705904.story (499 words)

	PRESS AVAILABILITY - CHARLES CULLEN PROSECUTION
		McKoy noted that DiModica, the son of convicted Gambino crime family associate Vincent "Juicey" DiModica, has been identified in official reports as a reputed associate in the Gambino organized crime family and the reputed leader of the alleged illegal extortion enterprise.
		The investigation focused on allegations that DiModica was involved in the extortion and shake-down of construction companies working in the North Jersey "territory" purportedly "controlled" by the Gambino crime family.
		In the interest of investigative security and pursuant to established court requirements, the Division of Criminal Justice is limited in discussing specific details regarding the alleged illegal activity and investigative details, including identifying victims and specific details of the alleged extortion activity.
	www.state.nj.us /lps/dcj/releases/2004/dimodica_0503.htm (628 words)

	Law.com: Judge: Defendant Has Right to Choose Attorney With Alleged Ties to Mafia
		Pizzonia is an alleged Gambino captain accused of the Dec. 24, 1992, murder of Thomas and Rosemarie Uva, who had robbed several Mafia social clubs.
		Corozzo's father and uncle are members of the Gambino crime family, the judge said.
		Nonetheless, he said, Corozzo cannot be held to account for the background of his family and alleged crimes for which he has not been charged.
	www.law.com /jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1139997912195 (771 words)

	Gambino Crime Family "Capo" Sentenced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced that Gambino crime family "Capo" Joseph "Sonny" Juliano was sentenced to serve 1-1/2 to 4-1/2 years in state prison for operating an illegal gambling ring in New York City and failing to declare the income from the scheme.
		In a related case, Gambino crime family "soldier" Richard Juliano, the younger brother of "Sonny" Juliano, pleaded guilty to one count of Attempted Enterprise Corruption in Albany Supreme Court, before Judge Joseph Teresi.
		The case was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Mark Fitzmaurice of the Organized Crime Task Force with the assistance of Investigator George Pagnotta, both under the supervision of Christopher Prather, Deputy Attorney General in charge of the Organized Crime Task Force.
	www.oag.state.ny.us /press/2003/oct/oct10a_03.html (557 words)

	Key Gambino family leaders arrested - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
		NEW YORK - The acting boss of the Gambino family and at least 30 other mob figures were arrested after an undercover FBI agent posing as a wiseguy infiltrated the Mafia with an act so convincing he was considered for membership, authorities said Wednesday.
		Some of the crimes — which included the shakedown of a radio station and a beating at Bloomingdale’s — were plotted at a nursing home, court papers said.
		The indictments came after an undercover agent became so embedded in the Gambino family that he was proposed for membership, authorities said — a scenario reminiscent of FBI agent Joe Pistone’s work in the Bonanno family 25 years ago under the alias Donnie Brasco.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7140194 (606 words)

	MafiaNet (tm): Alleged Mafia in New York City, Gambino Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thomas Gambino (allegedly a Gambino crime family captain) and his brother Joseph settled an anti-trust case in 1992 by paying $12 million in fines and selling their local (but not long distance) trucking companies.
		Frank Dapolito (a Gambino crime family captain, according to federal authorities) was the personnel manager of Mr.
		Joseph Corozzo is a captain ("capo") in the Gambino family.
	www.alternatives.com /crime/nycgambi.html (2714 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family: Books: John H. Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most effective leader, shows Davis, was Carlo Gambino, who emerged supreme in 1970, reigned for 19 years and was succeeded by his cousin Paul Castellano until he was killed at the behest of John Gotti, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1992.
		One of New York City's five Mafia families, the Gambinos have been variously bossed by Albert Anastasia, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, and--until his recent conviction (life imprisonment without parole)--most infamously by the flamboyant John Gotti.
		But most of all, there is throughout the undeniable rot of organized crime, where murder is treated not as a sin, but as a business expense.
	www.amazon.ca /Mafia-Dynasty-Gambino-Crime-Family/dp/0061091847 (1432 words)

	GAMBINO CRIME FAMILY "CAPO" AND CREW CHARGED IN ALBANY
		Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced the unsealing in Albany County of a 92-count indictment charging a reputed Gambino crime family "capo" with enterprise corruption in violation of the Organized Crime Control Act.
		We followed it from storefronts in Brooklyn to the pockets of the Gambino crime family." Arthur J. Roth, commissioner of the State Department of Taxation and Finance said: "While there may be a common perception that crime pays, these arrests demonstrate our collective resolve to bringing organized crime to its knees.
		These associates are charged with promoting gambling and with tax crimes for failing to report the income they derived from the gambling ring.
	www.waterfrontcommission.org /newspage3.htm (850 words)

	Bonanno crime family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bonanno Crime Family is one of the "Five Families" that controls organized crime activities in New York City, USA within the nation-wide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
		Due to the past infighting of the Bonanno Crime Family, and Joseph Bonanno's past plot to kill several Commission members, the Family was stripped of their Commission seat in 1964 and would not be represented on the Commission for 30 years.
		By the mid 1990's the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese and Colombo Crime Family Bosses Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, John "Johnny Boy" Gotti, Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and Victor "Little Vic" Orena are all in prison and Joseph Massino and the Bonanno Crime Family have a Commission seat and Massino is Commission chairman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonanno_family (9391 words)

	Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com - this just in ... Mob News and Features
		Saturday December 15 1:01 PM ET MIAMI (Reuters) - Three alleged members of the notorious Gambino crime family were convicted of racketeering and two of them face life in prison for the murder of a stripper, authorities said on Saturday.
		The U.S. attorney in Miami said Anthony ``Tony Pep'' Trentacosta, 62, who supervised the South Florida operations of the family that is headed by the jailed John Gotti, was convicted of racketeering conspiracy on Friday.
		Prosecutors alleged she was ordered killed by the Gambino family after false speculation she was a FBI informant.
	www.americanmafia.com /News/12-15-01_Gambino_Crime_Family.html (322 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation New York Division - Press Release 2004 - Department of Justice July 28, 2006
		As set forth in the Indictment, SQUITIERI was made Underboss of the Gambino Family by John J. Gotti, the former Boss of the Family, shortly after SQUITIERI was released from jail following a narcotics conviction.
		The charges leading to Squitieri’s conviction were the result of an almost three-year long investigation that included obtaining court authorization to intercept conversations among high-ranking members of the Gambino Crime Family at several locations in the Bronx and Westchester County, including at the United Hebrew Geriatrics Home, located in New Rochelle, New York.
		An undercover FBI agent also infiltrated the Gambino Family in the course of the investigation.
	newyork.fbi.gov /dojpressrel/pressrel06/organizedcrime072806.htm (318 words)

	The Gambino Crime Family - The Crime library
		Gambino wielded enormous power from his humble home and the backrooms of dingy social clubs.
		Gigante, who had protected himself and his family for years by pretending to be mentally ill, saw Gotti as a usurper and a danger to the well-being of the mob, so he put out a contract on Gotti's life.
		Carlo Gambino's successors did not learn his lessons well enough to keep their mouths shut, maintain a low profile, and prosper from the shadows.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/gambino/5.html (1693 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - THE US ITALIAN MAFIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bonanno Crime Family was thought to be making a come back but a long list of rats later there isn’t much left.
		The Colombo Crime Family are controlled by father and son Persico, however due to a family war they also are weakened.
		The Lucchese Crime Family, they are the family wich pulled of the Lufthansa heist, they are the family seen in the movie 'Goodfellas' and from the book 'Wiseguy'.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /US.html (276 words)

	Roger Clinton: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Getty, who knew it would be improper for a commissioner to discuss the details of a case with a member of the public, much less the president's brother, said Clinton could meet with her staff.
		Gambino showed Clinton the legal papers he had filed in efforts to get Rosario out of jail, and Clinton later told the FBI he became "passionate" about Rosario's cause, believing that the elder Gambino had not been treated fairly.
		Commission staffers didn't know if the agent was interested in Gambino or Roger Clinton, but they gave the FBI all their documents in the case, including those that mentioned Clinton.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/clinton_roger_106982628.aspx (1364 words)

	Eight in Gambino Crime Family Plead Guilty - CBS News
		The eight were among 11 people charged with racketeering in a prosecution aimed at taking down current and future leaders of a crime family more than a century old.
		The pleas were "significant additional steps in the steady march toward reducing the influence of organized crime," said Mark Mershon, assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York office.
		The pleas came several weeks after a jury deadlocked at the racketeering retrial of John A. "Junior" Gotti, who prosecutors say became the family's street boss after his father was sentenced to life in prison in 1992.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/04/01/ap/national/mainD8GMST1G2.shtml (476 words)

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