He was a quiet man who dressed inconspicuously, and was known for not losing his temper. But there is no doubt, Carlo Gambino, with its enormous aquiline nose and enigmatic smile, she was one of the most powerful mafia boss of all time.
Gambino was born in Palermo on August 24, 102. The area of Palermo, called Caccamo, where Gambino grew up in, had such an intense presence mafia, police and even the military, they were afraid to enter his dominion. Who left the mob to rule the area with impunity, knowing all that they did would not be reported to the police, if the police even cared what happened there in the first place.
maiden name of the mother was Carlo Castellano, and he used his influence with his family, who were mobsters, to introduce Gambino to "men of honor" when Gambino was just a teenager. Gambino, who was slight built and only 5-foot-7, quietly impressed his superiors with his calm, his intellect and his ability to do what was needed to be done, even if it means killing someone who needed to be killed.
In 1921, just before his twentieth birthday, Gambino was rewarded for his good work to be inserted in the Mafia, or what was known in Italy as "Honored society." However, because of Benito Mussolini's vendetta against the mafia (mafia Mussolini had arrested many, including top Mafia boss Don Vito Cascio Ferro, who was sentenced to life imprisonment), many Mafioso, including Gambino, it decided that Sicily was too dangerous for them to exist in the way that they were used to. As a result, there was a massive exodus of mafia to that mountain of gold across the Atlantic Ocean called America.
At the end of 1921, Gambino has left Sicily on the ship SS Vincenzo Florio, which was directed towards America. Throughout the trip, Gambino subsisted on nothing but wine and anchovies, that in addition olive oil were the only foodstuffs on board the ship.
The SS Vincenzo Florio docked in Norfolk, Virginia, December 23, 1921, and Gambino landed like a stowaway. Wearing a three-piece suit Natty and a black felt hat, Gambino walked the boardwalk looking for a car, was told when he left in Palermo, would be waiting for him when he anchored in America, with the flashing lights at the end of dock. He saw the car and when it got to him, Gambino saw a cousin Castellano sat behind the wheel. The two men embraced, and within seconds they were heading to New York City.
When Gambino arrived in New York he was pleased to find that his cousins Castellano had already rented an apartment on Navy Street in Brooklyn, near the waterfront. Gambino also put to work in a company of his first cousins owned trucking Peter and Paul Castellano. Gambino soon segued into illegal smuggling business, run by his friend Tommy Lucchese Palermo. Ban was established by the passage of the Volstead Act in 1919, which banned the production, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors, but not consumption. On thing led to another, and soon Gambino was a main cog in the team of Joe "The Boss" Masseria, the most powerful mafia in America.
However, a mobster another had escaped the wrath of Mussolini and arrived in America in the mid 1920. His name was Salvatore Maranzano, second in command of Don Vito Cascio Ferro in Sicily. Maranzano understood the Sicilian mafia were much higher than those in America, so it was natural that it should become the top mafia boss in America. This is not comfortable with the Colonial, and the result was the Castellammarese war, which flooded the streets of New York City with dozens of corpses from 1929-1931.
The crew of Masseria was soon joined by the best men of the Mafia as Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, and Vito Genovese, who were well connected to jew gangsters Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. However, as Masseria did not like his men who do business with non-Sicilian (Costello, real name Castile, was Calabrian), Luciano, Costello, Anastasia, Genovese and bided their time, hoping that perhaps both Masseria and Maranzano would beat each other off, so that more young people could take control of all operations.
However, it was Gambino who made the first move in rectifying this situation. Feeling that was on the side of the losers of the battle, Maranzano Gambino secretly approached and offered to go alongside Maranzano. Maranzano readily agreed, and soon Luciano, Costello, Anastasia and Genovese, also wanted to join the Maranzano forces. Maranzano has accepted their offer, on the proviso that they do away with the Masseria, once and for all. This task was completed April 15, 1931, when Luciano attracted to Masseria Nuova Villa Tammaro restaurant on Coney Island. While Luciano was taking a bathroom break, Siegel, Genovese, Anastasia, and murderess jew Red Levine burst if the front door and full of lead Masseria, making it quite dead Castellammarese and end the war.
Maranzano immediately called for a meeting of all the top mobster in town (apparently over 500 men) in a warehouse in the Bronx. At this meeting Maranzano said, "What has happened in the past is the past. There is to be no hatred between us. Those who lost someone in the war must forgive and forget."
Maranzano then proceeded to form five families, each with a boss and underboss. Under the two best men every family would capiregimes, or captains, who would rule over the rest of the family: Soldatos, or soldiers. The five were boss Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Lucky Luciano, Tommy Lucchese and Vincent Mangano. Albert Anastasia became underboss Mangano, and Carlo Gambino - a captain in the Mangano family. Of course, Maranzano became "chief of chiefs" (Chief Of All Heads), which does not sit well with the rest of the young mafioso.
Despite all the nice talk about "no hatred between us", Maranzano had a secret plan to kill Luciano, Genovese, and Costello - Maranzano men thought to be ambitious and a threat to his rule. Maranzano called vicious murderess Irish Vincent "Mad Dog" Cole to eliminate its perceived competition. Maranzano paid Cole $ 25,000 on the spot, with another $ 25,000 coming when the dirty deed was done. To set the trap, Maranzano called Luciano, Genovese, and Costello in his office in midtown Manhattan.
However, Luciano caught wind of the plot through an informant close to Maranzano, which are believed to be Tommy Lucchese. Rather than show up at the office of Maranzano, Luciano sent four Jewish killers to the proposed meeting, led by Red Levine, one of the men who had offed Masseria. The four men, posing as a detective, bulldozers their way past guards at Maranzano body outside the office. Then they blew up in the office of Maranzano, where they stabbed and shot to death. On the way out of the building, the four killers ran into "Mad Dog" Cole. They told him not to worry - that Maranzano had died and the police were on the road. Cole made a face on, whistling a happy tune, after making a $ 25,000 payday without firing a single shot.
soon Luciano called the boss of the other four Mafia families and told them the title of "chief of chiefs" was eliminated with Maranzano. Luciano then formed a National Crime Commission, which included Jewish mobsters Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Dutch Schultz.
Gambino, now firmly rooted as a captain in the Mangano family, became the biggest money maker in the New York Mafia. And the mafia, money brings prestige.
In 1932, the bursting pockets with cash, Gambino married his first cousin, Caterina Castellano Carlo Gambino and Catherine finally she raised three sons and a daughter. (Marrying a first cousin was common in Italy, and not frowned upon in the United States as it is today, in fact, marry a first cousin it is now illegal in most, but not all, states note: .. My grandparents from my father's side were first cousins, married in Sicily in the early 100s).
When prohibition was repealed in 1933, Gambino was already set to cash in on the business alcohol daylight saving time, but did so illegally. While Prohibition was booming in illegal sales to the Mafia, Gambino scheduled for the days when he knew it would end Prohibition. To achieve its objectives, Gambino collected the largest number of illegal stills he could; in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and also as Maryland. When Prohibition ended, and the price of alcohol blasted through the roof, Gambino had the largest illegal liquor distribution system on the east coast of the United States. And since he was producing alcohol itself and not have to pay any state taxes, Gambino might lower than the legal distributors, thereby making himself, and the Mangano family, a small fortune for all the middle-end of 1930.
the beginning of World war II gave Gambino another opportunity to make even more illegal money through his rations during the war racket time stamps. With the impending war against Germany and Japan, August 28, 1941, the US government created the Office of Price Administration (OPA), whose task was to print and distribute ration stamps for the American public. Without these stamps, people could not buy gasoline, tires, shoes, nylon, sugar, fuel oil, coffee, meat, and processed foods. Gambino figured the only way he could get his hands on ration stamps to sell on the black market was to steal them outright.
Gambino sent his best safe-cracker and the men of the second floor at times within the office of Price Administration, and emerged with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ration stamps. When some low-level employees of the OPA made ration stamps were stolen from the crowd, they decided to cut themselves in on the deal, stealing the same ration stamps and selling them to the Gambino and his boys, of course, provided -basement prices. Gambino understood why risk stealing ration stamps, with the possibility of being caught. So it took the wrong OPA employees offer, and started buying ration stamps from them en masse.
The beauty of this system is that Gambino had a ready-made distribution network in place: its network of illegal alcohol distributors. In the month of October 1963 Mafia informant Joe Valachi testified before Arkansas Senator John L. McClellan Investigative Subcommittee on government operations, which in one deal stamp rations, Gambino made a profit of over $ 1 million.
Being the man of what was experienced businessman, Gambino knew he could not live the high life without suffering substantial income for the government. So Gambino invested the money he made from his illegal operations, estimated to be several million dollars in legal activities such as meat markets, pizzerias, olives and cheese importers, karts companies, garment factories, bakeries, and restaurants.
In 1951, the Mangano family, thanks to the incredible ability to generate income Gambino, was one of the most prosperous of the Mafia. The problem was Mangano did not get along with his underboss Anastasia. Mangano was jealous of Anastasia proximity to other boss, as Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano, who was in exile in Italy; a pardon contract clause that received by the US government after serving nine years in prison on charges of prostitution invented. Mangano repeatedly physically attacked Anastasia, a stupid move because the younger and stronger Anastasia easily beat his boss in a fistfight.
With rumors abound that Mangano was plotting to kill Anastasia, Anastasia, with the blessing of a boss Frank Costello, he decided to strike first. April 19, 1951, the body of Phil Mangano, the brother of Vincent Mangano, was found in the marshes near Sheepshead Bay. It 'was shot five times in the head. When the police investigating the murder tried to contact Vincent Mangano for the death of his brother, who could find no trace of him. The body of Vincent Mangano was never found.
Within days, Anastasia sat down with the other boss, and explained that he first killed Mangano Mangano could have killed him. With the support of Costello, Anastasia has been bumped up to the head of the Mangano family, and the name was changed to the Anastasia family. Anastasia did Frank Scalise and Joe Adonis underbosses her, and gave her boss Carlo Gambino more men, and more power within the organization.
However, the reign of Anastasia lasted less than seven years. Anastasia constantly collided with vicious boss Vito Genovese, who was trying to take over all the rackets in New York, even if it meant killing the other bosses one by one. Anastasia has received a terrible blow when his underboss Joe Adonis was deported to Italy as an undesirable alien. Anastasia knew that his days were numbered, when in early 1956, Frank Costello was hit in the head by Genovese henchman Vincent "The Chin" Gigante. Costello survived the shooting, and the Giant process, Costello, faithful to the "code of silence," Mafia code has refused to appoint Gigante as her attacker.
However, this greatly decreased the power to Costello in the Mafia, and at the insistence of the Genovese, Costello was started as one of the Five Mafia boss to the Commission. This left Anastasia without his closest ally, Anastasia and put in a vulnerable position. Shortly after, another Anastasia underboss Frank Scalise was killed while shopping for fruits and vegetables on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx.
The final shoe dropped when October 25, 1957 Anastasia was shot to death while sitting in a barber's chair in the Park Sheridan Hotel in midtown Manhattan. With Anastasia now dead, Genovese called for a sitdown with the other boss, and proposed that Carlo Gambino, who had left on his plot to kill Anastasia, should take the Anastasia family. The Commission agreed and have renamed the Family The Gambino family.
The greedy Genovese called for a meeting of all the crime boss, underbosses, captains, and respected men of the Mafia in America, which was to take place in the sleepy town of Apalachin, New York, to the house of Joseph Barbara, a head of the crime family of Buffalo boss Stefano Magaddino. There were several items on the agenda of the Genovese, but the first was the one that Genovese would announce as the "Boss of all bosses," or "boss of bosses", a title that had been vacant after the death of Salvatore Maranzano.
The November 17, 1957 dozens of mobsters headed to Barbara's house. Included in the group were crime boss John T. Scalish, from Cleveland, Sam Giancana from Chicago, Frank DeSimone from California, Santo Trafficante from Florida, Gerardo Catena and Frank Majuri from New Jersey, and Carlo Gambino, Joe Profaci, Tommy Lucchese, and Vito Genovese from New York City.
However, before the festivities got under way, was Sergeant Edgar Roswell, along with a dozen government soldiers stormed the house. Roswell later said he became suspicious when he saw Joseph Barbara Jr. make hotel reservation for a dozen out-of-strangers. Roswell said that then led by Barbara residence and saw dozens of parked luxury cars parked in and around Barbara property. Roswell said that called for heavy backup, and when his soldiers arrived, they made their move.
Another voice then subsequently around who was Meyer Lansky himself, no big fan of Vito Genovese, who had tipped off the soldiers of the State about the impending Mafia convention.
Whatever the reason, when the soldiers broke into the house, the Mafia, like a Chinese fire drill, scattered in all directions. Men in expensive suits skipped even if the windows open, and if they could not do in their cars, they hightailed walk through the woods, ruining their patent leather shoes. Sam Giancana safely escaped by fleeing into the woods, as did Carmine Bonanno underboss Galente. But both men were a disaster; their clothes destroyed by thorny bushes. Some cars have made it off the property before a road block was put in place, but most do not. When the dust cleared 58 mafia members were arrested and told to empty their pockets. A total of $ 300,000 in cash was found on the 58 men, making the state even more suspicious police about the meeting.
What was noteworthy about the meeting was the men who choose not to participate. Besides Lansky, Frank Costello were absent, Carlo Marcello from New Orleans, and a friend of Lansky Joseph "Doc" Stracher.
Of the 58 men arrested, 27 were indicted for obstruction of justice, 20 of whom were convicted for refusing to answer questions about the purpose of the meeting. One of the convicted men was the cousin of Gambino Paul Castellano, who has wrapped to make a year in jail as a result.
The aborted meeting, more than anything else, led to the fall of Vito Genovese. Not only does he not get the exalted title of "boss of bosses", but has become a pariah in the Mafia; ridiculed as stupid and greedy to call so many important men in the same place at the same time for their own purposes.
The day after the raid, the entire nation's newspapers ran front-page stories about the incident. It could no longer Mafia men say that the Mafia does not exist. The police and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who for years has denied the existence of the Mafia, went on a rampage, putting extreme pressure on the Mafia operations.
Although at first, Carlo Gambino appeared to be a victim of circumstance, the crowd veteran plotted to turn the incident to her advantage. In fact, there was speculation that Gambino was aware of the raid in advance, and we went there on purpose so that no one would suspect would be of betrayal; that would make sense in the light of further developments.
With Genovese still stewing from his loss of face, Gambino colluded with Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano (still in exile in Italy, but able to move freely to Cuba to meet with her friends) to Genovese get up to the neck in a multi-million dollar international drug deal. Even thought deals with drugs have been forbidden by the Mafia, the greedy Genovese could not resist the temptation to make a ton of dough.
When the time was right, Gambino tipped the Office Narcotics about the drug deal, resulting in arrest of Genovese. At the trial of Genovese, Gambino has paid a false witness named Nelson Cantellops, who insisted on the witness stand that Genovese has not only been involved in this particular drug deal, but it was, in fact, involved in dozens of drug deals During the years. Consequently, Genovese was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Genovese served a little 'more than ten years of his sentence before he died in prison 14 February 1969.
By Anastasia died, Genovese in jail, in exile Luciano, Frank Costello pretty much out of the loop mobster, Joe Profaci getting older and weaker, and Joe Bonanno have a relatively small crime family, Carlo Gambino has become arguably the most powerful mafia boss in America. Its crew of over 500 men filled the streets including his underboss Joe Biondo, his advisor Giuseppe Riccobono, capos and Armand "Tommy" Rava, Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce, Paul Castellano, Carmine "The Doctor" Lombardozzi, Giuseppe "Joe Piney "Armone, and Carmine" Wagon Wheels "struggle.
Gambino expanded its business throughout the United States. Besides New York, Gambino had his fingers in the pot in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Gambino also established the powerful International Longshoremen Union, which controlled all the docks of New York, the main port for imports in America.
After Joe Valachi became the first known whistleblower Mafia, Gambino reinforced the rule prohibiting the sale of drugs in his crew. Gambino rational was that the penalties for the sale of drugs were so severe, the men could shoot rats at the time of arrest, instead of doing their time in prison, as "real men" of the Mafia had done in the past. The policy of the Gambino family was "Deal Die", and imposed this rule without exception.
riding on top of the pile mafia, Carlo Gambino became a popular figure on the streets of New York's Little Italy. While the other bosses have barricaded themselves in their homes, with the guard of the army corps, burglar alarms and electric fences, Gambino walked the streets with impunity, stopping to talk with old friends, while fruits and vegetables be purchased from street vendors. Gambino went to Ferrara on Grand Street between Mott and Mulberry, pastry. Then he would walk down the block to get Italian meats, cheeses and Italian specialties from Aleva of the corner of Mulberry and Grand.
in March 1970, Gambino started having problems with the law. As he was walking along a street in Brooklyn, Gambino was surrounded by New York City police and members of the FBI. Gambino was arrested on charges of masterminding a scheme to steal $ 30 million in cash from an armored truck company located in the Bronx. Gambino was later indicted, but the case was dropped due to lack of evidence.
This forced the Feds to try another tactic to get Gambino from the streets. In 1966 the Government had issued a deportation order on Gambino, but for some reason the order was never implemented. In early 1971, after the wife of Gambino Catherine had died of cancer, the feds have in fact seek to implement this order, but hearing about his imminent danger, the wily Gambino pretended to severe heart attack. The feds were inflamed maneuver Gambino, so they had the US Public Health Service Gambino give a complete physical. The feds were horrified when it was determined that in fact Gambino had a serious heart condition. This was confirmed in 1972 when Gambino was rushed from his home at 2230 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, for the Columbus Hospital in Manhattan with a heart attack. Because a hospital in Brooklyn was not suitable for Gambino it has never been revealed.
While recovering at home, Gambino broke one of the laws decreed himself - "Drug Deal and die." Acting Genovese boss Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli Gambino approached with a proposal "can not miss" for mediate a multi-million dollar drug deal with Louis Civillo, considered by the federal to be the largest retailer of narcotics in America. The problem was, Eboli, a former boxing manager and notoriously bad gambler, did not have the $ 4 million needed to proceed with the operation. Gambino Eboli fronted the $ 4 million, but lost everything when the feds arrested Civillo, and confiscated drugs and money. When approached Gambino Eboli his disappearance $ 4 million, Eboli turned his pockets inside out, indicating that it was broke.
This did not please Gambino too. As a result, about 01:00, July 16, 1972 Eboli was shot five times as he was leaving the apartment of his girlfriend in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Eboli died on the spot, and Gambino had enough influence in the Mafia Commission to order that his close friend, the Genoese captain Frank "Funzi" Tieri, now would be the new boss of the Genovese family. And so it was done.
Gambino had another setback when in early 1973, his 29-year-old nephew Emmanuel "Manny" Gambino was kidnapped for ransom. This same group had previously abducted a captain Gambino Crime Family, Frank "Frankie the Wop" Beef for $ 100,000. After this amount has been paid for the safe return of beef, the band's most ambitious with Manny Gambino kidnapping - this time to ask for $ 0,000. Gambino tried to bargain, offering them only $ 50,000. Shortly after, the body was Manny Gambino was found in a sitting position in a New Jersey landfill near the Earle Naval Ammunition Depot. On June 1, 1973 degenerated player Robert Senter plead guilty to murder and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Apparently, Senter had fallen into debt to Gambino and it was easier to kill then Gambino to pay the debt.
After the death of his nephew compounded the agony of his wife's death, Gambino became a recluse at his home on Ocean Parkway. He surrounded himself with family members, especially his cousin Paul Castellano. In 1975, it had been the clear Gambino heart would not allow him to live much longer. So he began to plan his succession as head of the Gambino crime family. Wanting to retain power in his blood family, Gambino anointed his cousin Paul Castellano to succeed him.
This did not go over well with the rest of the Gambino, who expected a long time mobster Aniello Dellacroce to be the natural successor to Gambino. To appease Dellacroce, Gambino gave him all racquets Manhattan controlled by the Gambino family. And that was a really great gift.
The Carlo Gambino took his last breath, like the heart, finally, on October 15, 1976, gave out. The Gambino funeral was one of the most elaborate ever to be held in Brooklyn. More than 100 cars took part in the funeral procession, which ended at St. John Cemetery in Queens, New York City; the same cemetery his lifelong friend Charles "Lucky" Luciano was buried.
In the 1985 film "Prizzi's Honor", directed by John Huston and starring Jack Nicholson, actor William Hickey played Don Corrado Prizzi, a character based on Don Carlo Gambino.
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