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	Paul Castellano
		Paul Castellano's death was an indication of his ignorance of the pulse of power in the Mafia.
		As Castellano refused to expand the family's activities in certain areas, the Gambinos lost some influence, and the Genovese crime group under Funzi Tieri became the most important organization in the Mafia, as it had been before Gambino had built up his group to primacy through an unremitting mixture of force and cunning.
		While Castellano was smitten with dealing with businessmen, he kept vetoing plans for capo John Gotti, one of the toughest men in the organization, to move into the lush field of airport rackets where a fortune could be made in freight disappearances and union racketeering.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/castellano.html (1374 words)

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		Paul's father despite having his illegal rackets, owned a butchery, and at the tender age of 13 Paul dropped out of school and began to help his dad in the butchers shop cutting meat, he also helped his father run some his smaller rackets, thus bringing young Paul into the underworld gently.
		Paul further angered the members of the fist by not turning up to Dellacroce's wake, another alarming lapse in Mafia protocol, and with this action John Gotti used it to his own leverage, as he would nail the Castellano coffin shut once and for all.
		Castellano's execution in the manner in which it was carried out was a slap, not just to him, but to everything he ever stood for, and for the Gambino crime family a new chapter was already under way.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /castellano.html (1569 words)

	Paul Castellano
		Constantino Paul Castellano (1915-1985), better known as Paul Castellano, was a mafia boss in New York.
		Castellano belonged to the Gambino family[?], then New York's largest mafia family, headed by Carlo Gambino.
		It is said that Castellano tried to run the organization like a company, and his connections expanded to places as far away as Kuwait.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Paul_Castellano.html (233 words)

	Castellano
		Paul's reign as boss would be plauged be F.B.I harrasment, health problems, and a lack of respect by his soldiers.
		Paul saw himself as a businessman and seemed to forget that while running a family was a business it also involved some dirty work.
		Paul's murder was carried out by a young soldier in Dellacroce's crew named, John Gotti.
	www.geocities.com /hollywood/academy/5854/castellano2.htm (548 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - PAUL CASTELLANO
		Paul Castellano was born Constantino Paul Castellano in Brooklyn on June 26 1915.
		Together with 2 friends Castellano was involved in an armed robbery, his 2 friends managed to escape but Castellano wasn't that lucky, he was arrested, convicted and spent 3 months in prison without naming his 2 friends.
		At his White House Castellano was isolated and ran his criminal empire, away from his Family soldiers and away from the tough streets he lost touch with the streets and the basic rules.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /Paul.html (838 words)

	Castellano, Paul "Big Pauly"-Profile
		Castellano suffered from diabetes, and it was aid that one of the side effects was sexual impotency.
		Castellano lived in a mansion on a 3.5 acre estate on Staten Island at the top of Todt Hill, valued at $3.5 million and built as a copy of the White House.
		With Castellano's trusted aide and driver Tom Bilotti at his side, an FBI agent posing as a repairman, planted a bug in the kitchen near the table.
	www.ipsn.org /castell.html (1246 words)

	The Free Information Society - Paul Castellano Biography
		Paul Castellano was born on June 26, 1915 in New York City.
		Paul didn't say a word and was sentenced to five years in prison for contempt of court.
		After Paul neglected to attend Dellacroce's wake, Gotti was able to gain support of most of the Gambino Family and on December 16, 1985 Paul Castellano was gunned down outside of Sparcks Steak House.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=100 (472 words)

	Paul Castellano
		Castellano ran with the typical New York gangs, and was arrested at 19 for robbery.
		Castellano was arrested and charged with racketeering; the evidence against him was a stack of taped phone conversations.
		Paul had done everything from his home phone, and now he'd discovered, rather abruptly, that every single detail of his day-to-day meat work was now federal evidence.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/mafia/paul-castellano (678 words)

	Paul Castellano
		Castellano was born in 1915 into one of the older Mafia clans in the U.S. His family, believed to have been part of the Toto D'Aquila organization, was already working the rackets in New York when a wave of Sicilian Mafiosi arrived here fleeing from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the early 1920s.
		Castellano, who moved into a replica of the White House at 177 Benedict Road on Staten Island, became an important figure on the Commission and is thought to have been boss of bosses in the early 1980s.
		Castellano had inadvertently supplied federal agents with a wealth of information about the inner workings of the Syndicate and the Commission by speaking openly about such things in a room of his house that had been bugged.
	www.onewal.com /w-castel.html (358 words)

	Paul Castellano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Castellano was buried in the Moravian Cemetery, a non-sectarian cemetery located in the New Dorp section of Staten Island.
		During his life, Castellano was able to set up his son in successful businesses, making them become multimillionaires themselves, while not becoming Gambino wiseguys (although their companies certainly benefitted from the fact that their father commanded a network of 350+ made members and hundreds of more associates).
		Gotti succeeded Castellano as head of the Gambino family, a fact that was confirmed by the testimony of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Gotti's Underboss, when he entered into a plea bargain with the government in 1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Castellano (975 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Paul Castellano
		He was born in Brooklyn in 1915, to Giuseppe Castellano and Concetta (maiden name Casatu) and logged his first arrest for armed robbery in 1934.
		In a show of his true ruthlessness Castellano allegedly murdered his own son-in-law, Frank Amato, who was a young thug who married his attractive daughter, Connie Castellano, and then took to beating her up.
		He reportedly called for the assasination of his daughter's boyfriend, Vito Borelli, when Castellano heard he likened his appearance to that of chicken magnate Frank Perdue, which was highly uncomplimentary due to Perdue's balding and elderly appearance (which some likened to a chicken), as well as his comic and dorkish manneurisms in his commercials.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Paul_Castellano (904 words)

	Aniello Dellacroce
		However, when Gambino was dying in 1976, he tapped his brother-in-law Paul Castellano as his successor.
		Castellano laid greater emphasis on loan-sharking, union construction shake-downs and relatively easy crimes, such as car theft on a wholesale level.
		Castellano, who was likely to go to prison for a number of federal offenses, was planning to name Bilotti as underboss to take over as acting boss if need be.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/dellacroce.html (846 words)

	Amazon.ca: Boss of Bosses: the Fbi and Paul Castellano: Books: Joseph F. O'Brien,Andris Kurins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Castellano, however, was fatally shot, gangland style, on a Manhattan street in 1985, while he was being tried for conspiracy to commit murder and for operating a stolen car ring.
		Castellano, boss of the Gambino crime family, was gunned down on a Manhattan street in 1985.
		Paul was known to be a admirer of the government and their quick mobelization - it doesn't really talk about the death of Paul for good reasons.
	www.amazon.ca /Boss-Bosses-Fbi-Paul-Castellano/dp/0440212294 (1222 words)

	DIELAND: Mob: The Gambino Family
		Paul would become the leader of the most powerful family and assume the name as the Boss of Bosses until his assassination in 1985 by John Gotti.
		Upon the death of Paul Castellano it was reported that Lombardozzi was one of the top candidates for the job of family leader.
		By the 1976, with Paul Castellano as the new crime boss,Armone was seen as a regular attendent at Castellano's Staten Island, NYC mansion and became a trusted capo.
	members.fortunecity.com /sosdie/mob/family/gambino/gambino.htm (4532 words)

	Castellano - Moviefone
		Franco Castellano was one half of the immensely popular Castellano/Pipolo filmmaking partnership that took Italy by storm in the 1980s.
		Castellano and often signed his name as C. Paul Castellano because he hated...
		Castellano lived in a mansion on a 3.5 acre estate on Staten Island at the top...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/franco-castellano/84432/main (128 words)

	All about Mob Wives by Anthony Bruno
		Castellano’s execution was as much a statement as a power play orchestrated by John Gotti who muscled his way onto Castellano’s throne and became the next boss of all bosses.
		Castellano, who was tall and gentlemanly, saw himself as a businessman, though he didn’t hesitate to use violence when he deemed it necessary.
		Castellano had never been known as a ladies’ man, but now in the autumn of his years, he was getting himself fixed, presumably to satisfy his new love.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/wives/5.html (1553 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano - Joseph F. O'Brien, Andris Kurins - Product Details ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Castellano was the head of one crime family of five in New York.
		In "Boss of Bosses" the authors tell the vivid story of Paul Castellano's rise to the top of the Gambino crime family, and his sudden fall at the hands of John Gotti.
		At the conclusion of their investigation, agents knew Castellano not only as the Gambino family boss, but as a husband, father and an often cordial, cooperative man, ailing from the same human conditions anyone at his age may be battling.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0440212294-locale-us.html (998 words)

	DIELAND: Mob: Paul Castellano
		Paul Castellano was known as the "Boss of Bosses" during his reign as the Godfather of the Gambino Family in New York.
		However, before the trial had ended, "Big" Paul and his underboss / body guard, Tommy Bilotti, were assassinated in the streets of New York on the way to a sit down.
		They were taken down by associates of the next godfather, John Gotti, because Paul was going to turn over the leadership to Tommy Bilotti, after he went to prison.
	members.fortunecity.com /sosdie/mob/family/gambino/paul.htm (743 words)

	Paul Castellano
		From 1976 until his assassination by John Gotti in 1985, Castellano would come to be known as the "Boss of Bosses".
		Another reason is that Castellano was a diplomat, a negotiator, and he would always try to solve problems through discussion rather than violence.
		The set up was simple, since he had not been able to attend Aniello Dellacroce's funeral, Castellano was invited to Spark's Steakhouse, a regular hangout of his, where he was to meet with Dellacroce's son, and pay his respects.
	www.gambinofamily.com /paul_castellano.htm (258 words)

	Paul Big Pauly Castellano
		Castellano suffered from diabetes, and it was said that one of the side effects was sexual impotency.
		Paul became close to his cousin Carlo, and developed the so called "White Rackets," construction bids, union affairs and political ties, while another Carlo Gambino friend, Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce, managed the "blue collar" side of the family that was head quartered at the Ravenite Social Club in Little Italy.
		Castellano lived in a mansion on a 3.5 acre estate on Staten Island at the top of Todd Hill, valued at $3.5 million and built as a copy of the White House.
	www.gambino.com /bio/paulcastellano.htm (2227 words)

	Vanguard Theatre Ensemble - Paul Castellano
		Paul's acting career began at the age of 2.
		Paul likes parts that require the use of dialects and is facile in French, German, NY, Southern, Irish and Standard British dialects.
		He has a Baritone singing voice which has served him in good stead when he played Judas in "Jesus Christ Superstar" and Jesus in "Godspell." The most significant aspect of his acting however, is the inspiration, encouragement and knowledge he gains from his fellow actors at the Vanguard-thank you guys.
	www.vte.org /bios/castellano.htm (305 words)

	AmericanMafia.com 26 Mafia Cities - New York, New Jersey
		Castellano was Carlo's cousin, and brother in law, so Carlo thought it was a good choice to let Paul take over.
		In 1985, Paul Castellano and his bodyguard, Tommy Bilotti, were assassinated in front of Sparks Steak House in NYC in a move that was orchestrated by Gambino capo John Gotti.
		One of his capos was Paul Vario, who is the basis for the character of Paul Cicero in the movie GoodFellas.
	www.americanmafia.com /Cities/New_York_New_Jersey.html (2607 words)

	Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano - Andris Kurins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From Publishers Weekly: In 1981 Paul Castellano, head of New York City's Gambino crime family, was at the height of his power.
		An account of the life and crimes of Paul Catellano, boss of the Gambino crime family for more than ten years, by the FBI agents who planted the microphone in his kitchen.
		In 1983, FBI agents O'Brien and Kurins planted a microphone in Paul Castellano's opulent Staten Island mansion.
	www.biblio.com /books/89670065.html (470 words)

	Floridian: An offer we can refuse
		Castellano was put in charge of the Gambino crime family in 1976.
		Castellano suffered from diabetes and had an affair with his housekeeper.
		There were rumors that Castellano, 70 at the time, was ready to cut a deal with the feds to avoid a lengthy jail term.
	www.sptimes.com /News/060101/Floridian/An_offer_we_can_refus.shtml (942 words)

	All about Roy DeMeo, by Katherine Ramsland
		Although Castellano despised Roy, since he was a Neapolitan and therefore considered by the Sicilian gangsters as unreliable, Nino kept putting in a good word for him.
		We targeted Castellano's loanshark operation and managed to install a hidden video camera, along with microphones in what was their loan sharking headquarters.
		Castellano withdrew out of the social clubs, meeting with members less often, and since Roy was not called on the carpet for his crimes, he expanded and empowered his killing crew.
	www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/weird/roy_demeo/4.html (1127 words)

	Murder Most Fowl
		When Paul Castellano (right) learned from his daughter that her boyfriend had insulted him royally, the powerful gangster recruited a couple of tough, eager-to-please, budding mob executives to eliminate the problem, permanently.
		One was that, as much as Paul Castellano didn’t want to look like Frank Perdue, he didn’t mind doing business with him.
		A year after Borelli’s murder, Castellano rose to become boss of the family with the death of his brother in law, Carlo Gambino.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column381.htm (1203 words)

	Big Paul Hit Plays Out in NY Courts
		For John A. Gotti, who tried with little success to fill his father’s shoes, the Castellano hit is part of the backdrop in the still-unresolved blood-feud between Junior and ABC radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa.
		As Gang Land reported last week, state prosecutors in Manhattan have argued that Rampino’s status as a “backup shooter” in the hit should negate his claim that his 25-years-to-life drug dealing rap should be cut by 17 years due to recent reforms in the tough Rockefeller drug laws under which he was sentenced.
		He is about to conclude a five year rap for a shake down on a Long Island porn dealer in which Scala, 62, reaped a grand total of $50, according to court papers.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column461.htm (1161 words)

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