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Rosario "Sal" Gambino (Italian pronunciation: [roˈzaːrjo ɡamˈbiːno]; born January 12, 1942) is an Italian mobster in the Gambino crime family. He became nationally [ clarification needed ] known when he and his brothers set up a multimillion dollar heroin cartel during the 1970s and 1980s.
The Baltimore Crew was an Italian American organized crime group that ultimately became a faction of the Gambino crime family operating in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland, from about 1900 until the 1990s. It was originally an independent organization led by the D'Urso family until the Corbi takeover in the 1920s.
Gambino and Luciano then allegedly provided a part of the $100,000 paid to a Puerto Rican drug dealer to falsely implicate Genovese in a drug deal. [38] In April 1959, Genovese was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, where he died in 1969. [39] Gambino quickly built the family into the most powerful crime family in the United States.
Nicholas is the older brother of alleged reputed Gambino consigliere Joseph "Jo Jo" Corozzo as well as twin brothers Blaise Corozzo, a Gambino soldier, and Anthony Corozzo, who was an associate of the Gambino crime family. Anthony Corozzo is a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of Loreto Church located at the corner of Pacific Street & Sackman ...
Leonard "Lenny" DiMaria (born October 10, 1941), also known as "Prateek" and "the Conductor", is an American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family of New York. [1] He is considered by law enforcement to be a close associate of Nicholas Corozzo and has served as his right-hand-man for almost 30 years.
Joseph Watts (born 1942) also known as "The German" is an associate of the Gambino crime family. He was a close confidant of former boss John Gotti and participated in the infamous 1985 assassination of Paul "Big Paul" Castellano. [1] [2] Watts was not a made man due to being only Italian on his maternal side, while being German, Welsh on his ...
Rapper Young Thug is a free man after changing his plea to guilty today (Oct. 31) as part of what had become the longest criminal trial in Georgia history. The 33-year-old artist, whose real name ...
In 1957, Biondo and underboss Carlo Gambino conspired to assassinate family boss Albert Anastasia in a Manhattan barber shop. When Gambino took over after Anastasia's death, he appointed Biondo as underboss. In 1965, Gambino became dissatisfied with Biondo's independence and replaced him as underboss with capo Aniello Dellacroce.