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	Vincent Gigante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gigante was arrested and charged in 1990 on charges of racketeering and murder, but it was another 7 years before he was brought to trial.
		Gigante was finally convicted on several racketeering, conspiracy, and related charges in the summer of 1997 and sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison.
		Gigante was cremated at the historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vincent_Gigante (1105 words)

	Vincent Gigante; 'Oddfather' kept feds at bay with mental-illness pretense \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Vincent Gigante, who feigned mental illness for decades to camouflage his position as one of the nation's most influential and dangerous Mafia leaders, died Dec. 19 at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo. He was 77.
		Gigante was serving a 12-year prison sentence imposed in 1997 after he was convicted on federal charges of racketeering and conspiring to kill other mobsters.
		Vincent Gigante was born March 29, 1928, in New York City and grew up on the same streets in Greenwich Village where he would spend most of his adult life.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20051225/news_lz1j25gigante.html (1020 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - VINCENT "CHIN" GIGANTE
		Vincent 'Chin' Gigante was one of the weirdest and oddest gangsters out there, famous for wandering trough the streets in his bathrobe, mumbling and talking to himself for over 30 years.
		Vincent Gigante was born in New York on March 29, 1928, and lived most of his life in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan.
		Gigante went up to Costello in a hotel lobby with a shotgun and shot him in the head, but the shot only grazed the head so Costello survived, Gigante thought he had done his job well and left Costello in a pool of blood.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /Gigante.html (1218 words)

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		Vincent Gigante was born in New York on March 29th 1928.
		In the early 1950's Gigante was married and had 5 children with his wife, but Gigante also had 3 children to a mistress.Vincent Gigante first came to the public eye when he was the man who attempted to murder the family boss Frank Costello in 1957, under orders from the power hungry Vito Genovese.
		Gigante's place at the top of the Genovese family was taken by Dominick Cirillo, known as Quiet Dom, but while Cirillo has control of the family it is still Gigante who calls the shots from his prison cell.
	glasgowcrew.tripod.com /chingigante.html (1136 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante, last of Mafia giants, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco, a spokeswoman for the FBI, the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars.
		The trial was a spectacle, with Gigante in a wheelchair, mumbling silently, seemingly oblivious to the proceedings.
		In 1957, Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then-boss Frank Costello.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-12-19-giganteobit_x.htm (591 words)

	Navy SEALs.com - Articles: Viewing Article
		Vincent Gigante, who feigned mental illness for decades to camouflage his position as one of the nation's most influential and dangerous Mafia leaders, died today in federal prison in Springfield, Mo., officials told The Associated Press.
		Gigante as the pre-eminent Mafia leader in the early and mid-1990's, and prosecutors identified him as the dominant force in the early 1990's inside the Commission, the Mafia's ruling body, which resolves significant disputes among the five major families in the New York region.
		Gigante was charged with being the head of the Genovese family and sanctioning the murders of six mobsters and conspiring to kill three others, including John Gotti, the boss of the Gambino family.
	www.navyseals.com /community/articles/article.cfm?id=8628 (2523 words)

	The Free Information Society - Vincent Gigante Biography
		Vincent Gigante was born in New York City on March 29, 1928.
		Vincent was given his first big opportunity by Tommy Eboli to do a hit on the Genovese boss Frank Costello.
		Vincent found Costello in a hotel lobby and shot him with a shotgun in the head, but Costello's head was only grazed by the shot and survived.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=108 (376 words)

	AmericanMafia.com - Feature Articles 248
		So shocked and stunned was Gigante over the unprecedented loss of innocent lives that his emotions took the better of him, and he dropped the insanity façade as he spoke to one of his sons from prison, a conversation that was recorded.
		Gigante was regarded by many as something of a pure businessman, and the Genovese Family of which he was the alleged head of for many years was run as a sophisticated operation that ran many white-collar, non-criminal operations, including in the recording industry and motion picture industry.
		As Gigante’s stature grew, he became so revered, respected, and feared that most "connected" men would never dare speak his name in public, but rather refer to him by stroking their chin, a reference that goes back to his days as a boxer when he sported a prominent and defiant chin to his opponents.
	www.americanmafia.com /Feature_Articles_248.html (1387 words)

	Vincent "Chin" Gigante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Gigante was convicted of drug trafficking in 1959 and was sentenced to five years in prison.
		Gigante screened his involvement in the Mafia clan by having Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno (died in 1992) pass himself off as the family boss.
		Gigante was sentenced to a dozen years for racketeering in 1997.
	www.onewal.com /w-gigant.html (399 words)

	Vincent "Chin" Gigante, Boss of the Genovese Crime Family, Together with Genovese Acting Boss, Former Acting ...
		VINCENT GIGANTE, also known as "Chin," is the boss of the Genovese family and is currently serving a twelve-year sentence resulting from a 1997 racketeering conviction in United States District Court in Brooklyn.
		In fact, GIGANTE successfully delayed his 1997 trial for nearly seven years while hearings were held regarding his competency, and several doctors testified that he was unable to speak a complete sentence, was essentially incoherent, and had been so disabled for years.
		Tape recordings of VINCENT GIGANTE in prison and of high-level Genovese family members made during this investigation confirmed that GIGANTE remained the boss of the Genovese family notwithstanding his conviction and incarceration, and in a coherent, careful and intelligent manner directed the family's activities from jail.
	www.ipsn.org /characters/gigante/2002jan23.htm (1778 words)

	Mob boss admits insanity an act, pleads guilty / Mafia 'Oddfather' gets 3 more years
		Gigante, already serving a sentence for racketeering and facing a trial on new charges that could have drawn another 10 years in prison, took a plea Monday and admitted what the authorities had long maintained: For years, to avoid prosecution, he had deceived the psychiatrists evaluating his mental competency.
		Gigante, known to his associates as Chin, did not admit to running the Genovese organized crime family from prison, though that was the main charge against him in the current case.
		Gigante's latest trial was scheduled to begin Monday, and prosecutors had said they planned to play audiotapes and videotapes showing him "fully coherent, careful and intelligent," running crime operations from behind bars.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/04/08/MN89146.DTL (592 words)

	Our Daily Dead » 2005 » December
		Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, the powerful New York mob boss who avoided prison for decades by wandering Greenwich Village’s streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness, died Monday in prison, federal officials said.
		Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield — the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died.
		Today’s ODDGuest Vincent Gigante wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in a bathroom and slippers for decades, but everyone said he was just faking it to avoid prison.
	www.ourdailydead.com /?m=20051221 (722 words)

	wmob: the wiretap network
		VINCENT "CHIN" GIGANTE: Dubbed the "Oddfather," the bizarre Genovese family boss is either mentally ill, as his family claims, or putting on an act, as government investigators assert.
		Gigante liked strolling about Greenwich Village in his pajamas and a robe and was known to urinate in the street.
		VINCENT D'ACUNTO: Angelo's younger brother, is referred to affectionately by Fritzy as "baby brother." A Genovese associate who works in the liquor industry, D'Acunto (and his brother) were regularly spotted by the FBI in "Chin" Gigante's company, usually in the boss's townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
	www.wmob.com /cast.html (1427 words)

	Getting away with murder: Vincent Gigante and exculpatory psychiatry - Law & Justice USA Today (Society for the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		By 1997, Gigante was almost three decades into his "crazy" act, which enabled him, with the help of the mental health community, to postpone prosecution on racketeeiing and murder charges, as Capeci relates it, for seven years until he was convicted that year.
		Gigante knew that his choice was clear: he could walk around in a crazy stupor on the street or go to prison, as had happened to Gigante's enemy, John Gotti.
		Gigante ultimately was convicted in 1997 for racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2706_132/ai_114740974 (886 words)

	Vincent ‘Chin’ Gigante, 77; mafia don donned pj’s
		Vincent “Chin” Gigante, boss of the Genovese crime family, who was noted for walking the streets of the Village near his Sullivan St. social club dressed in pajamas and bathrobe and mumbling to himself, died in a federal prison hospital in Missouri on Dec. 19 at the age of 77.
		A doorman at The Majestic apartments on Central Park West identified Gigante as the shooter in the 1957 attempted assassination of the crime lord Frank Costello, whom Genovese was trying to supplant.
		Gigante rose in the Genovese family and in 1985 became the boss, succeeding Philip Lombardo, according to a Daily News article.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_138/vincentchingigante.html (537 words)

	Vincent Chin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vincent Chin (Chinese: 陳果仁) (1955 - June 23, 1982) was a Chinese American industrial draftsman murdered in 1982 in the Detroit, Michigan enclave of Highland Park by two white autoworkers - Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his recently laid off step-son, Michael Nitz.
		The murder was controversial because of Ebens mistaking Chin as Japanese and the subsequent miscarriage of justice that occurred during the criminal and civil trials of Nitz and Ebens.
		The case of Vincent Chin became a rallying point for the Asian American community and is often considered the beginning of the pan-Asian American movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vincent_Chin (622 words)

	Death of the Oddfather - World - smh.com.au
		Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante, famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity, has died in prison.
		Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself, looking dishevelled and unshaven in a robe and slippers.
		His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2005/12/20/1135031991860.html (327 words)

	The Biography Channel - Vinnie Gigante Biography
		Known for wandering the streets in a bathrobe mumbling to himself, Vincent Gigante is one of the strangest gangsters of our time.
		Gigante was born in New York in 1928 and grew up in Greenwich Village.
		Gigante's rise through the world of organized crime was bizarre.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/1290:0/Vinnie_Gigante.htm (366 words)

	Feds Crack Down on Genovese Crime Family
		NEW YORK (AP) — Vincent "Chin'' Gigante, the Mafia "Oddfather'' who escaped prosecution for years by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe like a madman, was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison.
		Gigante, the longtime boss of New York's powerful Genovese crime family, was also fined $1.2 million.
		Gigante was convicted in July of murder conspiracy and racketeering.
	www.angelfire.com /sc/Centner/Genovese.html (1123 words)

	Capital punishment and retardation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Gigante, claiming dementia while presenting eminently qualified testimony that used everything from psychological testing and radiological scans, fooled six of my eminent colleagues that he had hired who vouched for his incompetence.
		Gigante, with supposed advanced degenerative dementia, was indicted - for continuing to run waterfront crime in NYC from his cell in a federal prison in Texas, with prosecutors having gathered videotaped and audiotaped evidence.
		One reason for the Gigante debacle, by the way, is that whatever the credentials of the people involved, they simply did not, or chose not, to do all of the background work that is a must.
	www.forensicpanel.com /aboutus/pressroom/2003_04_08_texastestimony2.htm (1961 words)

	Ex-Mafia boss Gigante dies in prison - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
		Vincent Gigante, known to law enforcers as "The Chin," is shown in handcuffs on July 8, 1958, as he arrives at New York's Federal Courthouse for arraignment on narcotics conspiracy charges.
		Gigante, who had suffered from heart disease, died at the federal prison in Springfield, Mo., said prison spokesman Al Quintero.
		Gigante, head of the Genovese crime family, had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors, but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10533911 (495 words)

	CNN - Gigante gets 12 years on racketeering charges - December 18, 1997
		NEW YORK (CNN) -- Mafia boss Vincent "Chin" Gigante, who evaded prosecution for decades by claiming insanity, was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison for racketeering.
		Prosecutors had argued that Gigante, who once headed New York's powerful Genovese crime family, should be sentenced to the mandatory maximum of 30 years.
		Family members cried and blew kisses to the 69-year-old Gigante as he was being led away.
	www.cnn.com /US/9712/18/gigante.sentencing (372 words)

	CNN - Gigante could be tried for murder - Mar 5, 1996
		When Gigante was arraigned six years ago on racketeering charges, he shuffled out of federal court in a bathrobe and pajamas with a vacant look on his face.
		The government maintains Gigante's habit of wandering around New York's Greenwich Village in pajamas while babbling incoherently and claiming to hear voices is an act to conceal his role as boss of the Genovese crime family, the most powerful in America.
		Father Gigante says he fears that if there is a trial, his brother's feeble mind and frail heart will not be able to handle the process.
	edition.cnn.com /US/9603/crazy_godfather (533 words)

	Mob Boss Vincent 'Chin' Gigante Dies In Prison - News - wnbc.com \| WNBC
		Gigante's death organizataion that worked for years to put him behind bars as part of a full-court offensive against the five New York-based Mafia families.
		Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield -- the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died.
		Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison, the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed.
	www.wnbc.com /news/5577860/detail.html (1186 words)

	Chin Fesses Up; His Lawyer Doesn't
		On the other side sat Gigante’s sons Vincent and Salvatore, daughters Carmela and Lucia, and his brother, Father Louis Gigante, who for years had walked arm-in-arm through Greenwich Village with pajama-clad Vincent as the straight man for the crazy-man act of the legendary Mafia boss.
		Gigante listened attentively as Glasser (right) told him that according to his plea bargain, any relatives who may have aided him obstruct justice would not be prosecuted.
		More likely, however, as law enforcement and defense sources say, the aging and ailing gangster was doomed to be convicted again, and Brafman engineered a good plea deal for Gigante because he was able to convince his codefendants, some who had cases they could win, to plead guilty too.
	www.ganglandnews.com /column326.htm (1275 words)

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