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  Gambino crime family - Gambino Crime Family "Capo" Sentenced
The Bonanno crime family; The Colombo crime family; The Gambino crime family.
Gambino crime family soldier, Edward Garafola, 69, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attempted murder of his own cousin and for trying to kill
Today's indictment seeks to hold responsible the Gambino crime family leaders, members and associates that are responsible for this extortionate regime.
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  Gambino crime family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that controlled some organized crime based in New York City, New York, USA within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known familiarly as the Mafia (also known as La Cosa Nostra).
The Gambino family, with the retirement of Costello, soon became one of the most powerful famlies in the National Crime Syndicate as Meyer Lansky's main ally.
The leader of the Gambino family was Carlo Gambino.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gambino_family   (693 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)

  
 AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - New York, New Jersey
The family names come from him, because he testified as to who the bosses were of the five families at the time of his arrest in 1959.
From 1930 to 1953, the family was led by Gaetano Gagliano.
Gambino was angry at Colombo for all of the press that he was attracting.
www.americanmafia.com /Cities/New_York_New_Jersey.html   (2607 words)

  
 Gambino Crime Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
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 Carlo Gambino His rise as New York's mafia king
Carlo Gambino was born on August 24, 1902 from a wealthy family in Palermo, Sicily, that was a part of the so-called Honored Society, a criminal brotherhood that used codes of honor and millions of Italian Lira to control illegal businesses in Sicily.
Gambino would have been happy to remain in Sicily and succeed Don Vito, but the atmosphere of the rise of facism under Vito Mussolini made it diffifult for the Honored Society.
Gambino was close to Vegas star Frank Sinatra, who did not run from associating with the Gambino family killers.
www.ipsn.org /gambino.html   (898 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)

  
 In the Matter of Salvatore Franco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Each capo in the Gambino family is responsible for supervising his crew’s criminal activities and providing crew members and associates with support and protection in return for which the capo receives a share of the earnings of the crew’s members and associates, referred to as “tribute.” GEB Ex.
Gambino family capo, indicted and imprisoned awaiting trial for extortion and labor racketeering.
Gambino family capo, plead guilty, sentenced to 84 months incarceration for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, obstructing justice by murder of grand jury witness.
www.thelaborers.net /decisions/d98-04.htm   (8612 words)

  
 Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino was born on August 24, 1902 in Palermo, Sicily.
Gambinos doctors proved he had heart trouble and would never be able to make that trip.
When the feds were ready to finally deport Gambino, his family, aware of Carlos health, bought off two powerful but always unnamed US Senators, to allow him to remain in the United States.
www.gambino.com /bio/carlogambino.htm   (845 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / FBI sting leads to Gambino family arrests   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
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.
It was a feat not seen since FBI agent Joe Pistone penetrated the Bonanno family 25 years ago under the alias Donnie Brasco, he said.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/03/09/fbi_sting_leads_to_gambino_family_arrests   (482 words)

  
 CNN.com - 'Dapper Don' John Gotti dead - June 11, 2002
John Gotti, reputed head of the Gambino crime family, dies in federal prison of cancer.
Mouw, the retired FBI agent, said the tension between the two groups in the family in the 1985 was a dispute over Gotti's alleged involvement in heroin trafficking.
Within weeks, Gotti, with the consent of the various crew captains, or capos, of the Gambino family, was selected the new godfather.
archives.cnn.com /2002/US/06/10/john.gotti   (954 words)

  
 Bill Bonanno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Carlo Gambino's death in 1976, considered to be the toughest mobster among the New York crime families.
In 1964 Bonanno further enraged the other mobs by plotting to eliminate most of the governing leadership of the rival families, which led to the famous Banana War that ended in the ruination of Bonanno's plans and his hopes to install his son as the successor as head of the crime family.
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.
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 CNN.com - U.S. indictments target organized crime - June 20, 2002
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.
The Gambino family reached the peak of its power in the 1980s under Gotti's leadership.
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.
edition.cnn.com /2002/LAW/06/20/gambino.indictments   (614 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   (571 words)

  
 Notorious Ancestors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For a long time the women and children in the family thought their husbands were in the pharmacy business.
Grandma said half of the family was Proudfit and the other half Proudfoot and she thought they were Indian.
The Hamilton brothers ran with the Barrow Gang known as Bonnie@Clyde my grandmother was the sister of raymond and floyd hamilton she told stories of Bonnie braiding her hair as a young child the stories she told were amazing god bless her sole anyone with info.
www.gensearcher.com /notorious/notoriousg.html   (3007 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - The long tentacles of the mob   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The wit and wisdom of Mikey Scars emerges in hundreds of pages of FBI reports obtained by the Daily News that recount the history of the Gambino family before, during and after Gotti's volatile reign.
Gambino gangsters Danny Marino and Joe Watts - themselves indicted, thanks to Gravano - came up with what they believed was a clever cyberscheme.
Every Gambino capo, soldier and associate was brought into a lawyer's office to be "debriefed" on every crime he had committed with Gravano.
www.nydailynews.com /news/v-pfriendly/story/293755p-251510c.html   (1365 words)

  
 Castellano, Paul "Big Pauly"-Profile
Dellacroce, "a hoodlums hoodlum," was from the old school who followed the tradition of unquestioned loyalty, accepting the deathbed decision of Carlo Gambino to anoint Castellano as the new Gambino family head.
It was one of the main sources of income for the New York Gambino family mob.
It was rumors that Castellano planned to rat on the Gambino family that prompted Gotti to seek his murder.
www.ipsn.org /castell.html   (1284 words)

  
 Gambino Family Fires at 'Trashy Clintons' >> Hypocrites.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thomas Gambino, 72, son of the late mob boss Carlo Gambino, is fuming at reports his family had something to do with Roger Clinton's effort to get a pardon for a New Jersey heroin dealer named Rosario "Sal" Gambino, said Michael Rosen, the New York Gambino's lawyer.
In 1970, Gambino, said to be the "Boss of Bosses" was described as the most powerful racketeer in the country.
Thomas Gambino was convicted of directing Gambino family gambling and loan-sharking operations in Connecticut.
www.hypocrites.com /article130.html   (337 words)

  
 John Gotti   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gotti came up through the ranks of this family and was supported for his present top position by Aniello Dellacroce, an aging sub- boss of the Gambino family.
In 1972, Manny Gambino, nephew to the all-powerful Carlo Gambino, was kidnapped and held for ransom.
On Dec. 2, 1985, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti, both underbosses of the Gambino family, were shot to death as they emerged from a popular Manhattan steak house.
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 Press Releases
In approximately August 2001, it is alleged that MEGALE became a “Capo” within the Gambino Family and, for approximately the past 2 ½ years, has served as the “Underboss” of the Gambino Family.
MEGALE represented to the nightclub owner that he was a high-ranking member of the Gambino Family, that he had met with leadership of the rival organized crime family, and that he had prevented members and associates of the rival family from extorting payments from him.
Finally, the Indictment alleges that, in August 2003, FIORE, a “made” member of the Gambino Family and a close associate of MEGALE and RICCITELLI, attempted to extort $30,000 from the operator of a Fairfield County social club.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/ct/Press2004/20040929.html   (1193 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   (1115 words)

  
 Laborers-LIUNA Mason Tenders and Sammy "The Bull" Gravano
As a "made" member and Underboss of the Gambino Family, I have personal knowledge of the influence of the Gambino Family over the affairs of the Mason Tenders District Council ("District Council") and in particular constituent local union 23 ("Local 23").
Giardina continued to represent the Gambino Family interests at Local 23 and the District Council until he was convicted of RICO conspiracy in l987.
As Underboss of the Gambino Family and through my associations and conversations with members of the other organized crime families in New York City, I knew that the Genovese Family maintained control over the Mason Tenders District Council throughout the 1980's and up until the time of my imprisonment in 1990.
www.laborers.org /Gravano.html   (1317 words)

  
 New York Daily News - News & Views - FBI mole bites deep into mob   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Arrested in the predawn sweep were acting boss Arnold (Zeke) Squitieri, 69; acting underboss Anthony (Genius) Megale, 51, and Gregory DePalma, 72, the confused capo who was ready to propose the FBI agent for membership in the mob.
The agent's work came as the Gottis were finally ceding control of the family taken over by the Dapper Don after the 1985 assassination of Paul Castellano.
In January, the family boss, Peter Gotti, was convicted of murder conspiracy and is likely to die in prison.
www.nydailynews.com /news/story/288590p-247037c.html   (773 words)

  
 Gambino Family continues to fall...WHY?
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.
Among those arrested was Arnold “Zeke” Squitieri, who allegedly took over as acting Gambino boss after Peter Gotti was convicted last year.
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.
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 The Arctic Beacon - The Last Frontier of Truth!
Tony Thomas Gambino of the infamous Gambino crime family is going public with information that could "change the face of America's corrupt leaders" and bring to the surface the real criminal organizations behind what has come to be known as the New World Order.
Gambino said his prime motivation for telling the "inside details" of Mafia corruption is to prove to Americans how the Vatican and U.S. government work together in orchestrating the huge pedophile and drug rings that are destroying the fabric of American society.
In honor of the family members who lost their loved ones on 9/11 and, at the same time exposing and denouncing the insincere antics of agent provocateur, Jones, the Arctic Beacon reprints a feature story about Donna Marsh, a mother who lost her pregnant daughter running from the South Tower.
www.arcticbeacon.com   (10254 words)

  
 Gambino Family
Gambino and his brothers-in-law, Peter and Paul Castellano later went on to work for Vincent Mangano; when Mangano was killed, Albert Anastasia took his place, and gave Gambino the position of underboss.
The mild-mannered Gambino was mostly ignored by his peers, and by Anastasia; a situation which allowed him great freedom to maneuver his way to the top.
Genovese was arrested, and sent to jail, leaving Gambino to delegate power to his closest allies, and take over operations on a larger scale.
www.gambinofamily.com /carlo_gambino.htm   (251 words)

  
 Gambino Crime Family behind Porn Websites illegal billing - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Members of the Gambino Crime family were convicted for charging 230 million in bogus charges to suckers who gave their credit card #'s to these porn sites.
One of the gambinos, I believe it was carlo but I could be way off, murdered the head jew of murder inc, who's last name was anastasia and then took over murder inc and it was then called the gambino family.
gotti was still a gambino by blood and in fact allegedly participated in the killing of another mob big wig and his body guard to gain his power.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=182661   (1657 words)

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