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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.
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.
Rosario DeSimone, "The Chief" (1873–1946) Thomas DeSimone , "Two-Gun Tommy" (1950–1979) Mario Anthony DeStefano (born Mario Antonio DeStefano , 1915–1975)
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.
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family [7] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [8] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Thomas Francis Gambino (Italian: [ɡamˈbiːno]; August 23, 1929 – October 3, 2023) was an Italian-American New York City mobster and a longtime caporegime of the Gambino crime family who successfully controlled lucrative trucking rackets in the New York City Garment District.
Giuseppe Giacomo Gambino (1941–1996) John Gambino (1940–2017) Rosario Gambino; Carlo Gambino (1902–1976) Raffaele Ganci (1932–2022) Giuseppe Genco Russo (1893–1976) Nicola Gentile (1885–1966) Nenè Geraci (1917–2007) Antonino Giuffrè; Giuseppe Graviano; Giuseppe Greco (1952–1985) Michele Greco (1924–2008) Salvatore "The ...
Operation Old Bridge is the code name for the February 7, 2008 arrests in Italy and the United States that targeted the Gambino crime family; among the indicted were the reputed acting bosses Jackie D'Amico, Nicholas Corozzo and Joseph Corozzo. The indictments included murder, drug trafficking, robbery, and extortion. [1]