STOWED AWAY on a freighter bound for Norfolk in November 1921 was a 19-year-old Sicilian-born creep named Carlo Gambino. That's not quite fair.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone. Murder Inc. is out of business. Las Vegas has been so cleaned up it resembles Disneyland. And Havana? Forget about it since Castro took over. But Albert "Chinky" Facchiano, at 96, is still standing. And like Michael Corleone in "The Godfather III," he is still very much involved in the family business, according to the FBI.
Joseph Valachi took few secrets to his grave. The infamous mob rat unloaded years before his death in 1971, when a mysterious Niagara Falls mistress had his body shipped from a Texas federal prison for burial in Gate of Heaven Cemetery near the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge.
... of the five New York crime families: Carlo Gambino, Gaetano Lucchese, Giuseppe Magliocco, Bo...
Mobster John Gotti, "The Teflon Don," was convicted by a federal jury in New York on racketeering and murder charges on April 2, 1992. Gotti, the head of the Gambino crime family, had beaten charges on three separate occasions before he was taken down by the testimony of former underling Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Gotti began his life of crime as a 17-year-old in a street gang but rose in Mafia ranks when, in 1973, he helped killed a man who had kidnapped boss Carlo Gambino's nephew. He became the "capo di tutti capi," the big boss, when he ordered a hit on predecessor Paul Castellano outside a Manhattan steakhouse in 1985.
Talk to writer/actor William DeMeo for a few minutes, and you'll have no problem imagining him in a movie about the mob. He doesn't have to work on his tough-guy Brooklynese to play the lead in "The Sixth Family." That's just how he talks.
... in 'Analyze That.' I played (mobster) Carlo Gambino as a kid in 'Boss of Bosses.' ". He did vo...
Even though Tyrone Christopher lives in New York, he's still is as Milwaukee as can be. In the premiere issue of his magazine Mob Candy (its tagline reads: "The Underground Magazine of Mafia Politics, Power and Pleasures"), coming out later this month, he gave props to growing up in the 'hood, "where crime was as common as unwanted pregnancies.
... includes stories on legendary mob boss Carlo Gambino, an interview with Vito from the Sopranos,...
Joey Gallo was a minor player in New York's crime scene. He never had the power of the Gambinos, the clout of the Profacis or the juice of the Colombos. A pint-size, blue-eyed, blond-haired hood who looked best in blue suits, dark glasses and a pinky ring, Joey patterned himself after Tommy Udo, the nutsy movie anti-hero killer of "Kiss of Death," played by Richard Widmark. He was known as Crazy Joe. Because he kept a lion in his basement? Maybe. Because he could go nutsy on you? Maybe. Maybe also because he had spent time in psycho wards.
... message, one that had been approved by Carlo Gambino, New York's most powerful crime boss at th...
NEW YORK - The Beach Boys. Frank Sinatra. Liberace. Sonically, the trio shared little - from the California group's soaring harmonies to Sinatra's saloon singing to Liberace's marshmallow soft vocals. But their offstage antics were music to the ears of the FBI, where all three became the subject of muckraking files in the agency's Washington headquarters.
... Marion Barry and Frank Rizzo; mobsters Carlo Gambino and Mickey Cohen. The memos even contain i...
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