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July 2 – Paul Castellano is arrested for the armed robbery of a Hartford, Connecticut store. Sentenced to one year imprisonment in the Hartford County Jail, Castellano serves three months before being released in December. July 22 – John Dillinger killed in Chicago by the FBI.
Constantino Paul Castellano was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, on June 26, 1915.His parents, Giuseppe and Concetta Castellano (née Cassata), were both Italian immigrants; his father was a butcher and an early member of the Mangano crime family, the forerunner of the Gambino crime family.
According to former Lucchese acting boss Anthony Casso, DeMeo was killed at Patrick Testa's Canarsie home by Joseph Testa and Senter following an agreement with Casso, who was given the contract by Gambino crime family Boss Paul Castellano and Frank DeCicco after they were unable to kill DeMeo in the fall of 1982. DeMeo was seated, about to ...
Acting 1964–1976 – Paul Castellano – acting boss for Gambino, became official boss after his death. 1976–1985 – Paul Castellano – murdered in December 1985 on orders of capo John Gotti. Acting 1985–1986 – John Gotti – became official boss. 1986–2002 – John Gotti – imprisoned in 1990, died in 2002.
Thomas "Tommy" Bilotti (March 23, 1940 – December 16, 1985) was an American mobster who briefly served as underboss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.It was his promotion that helped trigger the 1985 assassination of Gambino boss Paul Castellano; Bilotti would end up killed as well as part of the assassination.
A Bellingham child was injured in an alleged hate crime as a group of students returned from a field trip Wednesday afternoon in downtown Bellingham, police and school officials said.
A young woman who pepper-sprayed a Muslim Uber driver on the Upper East Side over the summer was indicted for a hate crime in the attack, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
Shortly after the murder of Paul Castellano in 1985, Capeci was hired by the New York Daily News. [4] He wrote the "Gangland" column in the Daily News from 1989 until August 1995, when the column was discontinued by the newspaper. In February 1996, Capeci took the column online with his Gangland News website. [5] "