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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.
Angelo Salvatore Ruggiero Sr. (Italian: [ˈandʒelo rudˈdʒɛːro]; July 29, 1940 – December 4, 1989), also known as "Quack Quack", was an American gangster.He was a member of the Gambino crime family and a friend of John Gotti's.
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.
Stephen Caracappa (November 12, 1942 – April 8, 2017) had worked in the Organized Crime Homicide Unit of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) since the late 1970s before he eventually retired on a disability pension in 1992, living for a time in Great Kills, Staten Island. [6]
Gambino capo James Eppolito told Castellano that Gaggi and DeMeo were trafficking drugs. Eppolito claimed that DeMeo had cheated Eppolito's son, a Gambino soldato, in a drug deal. In addition, Eppolito accused Gaggi of being a police informant. Eppolito asked for permission to murder Gaggi and DeMeo, but Castellano broke his own rules and sided ...
Growing up, Anthony Senter became close friends with Joseph Testa. When Testa was fifteen, a thirteen-year-old neighbor was mugged by a knife-wielding Puerto Rican man from East New York. The assault victim complained to Testa, who gathered Senter among others and led the group in a borrowed car, spending the day searching for the assailant.
Rosario Dawson and daughter Isabella have been inseparable since she welcomed her into the family as a preteen.. In 2014, Dawson adopted Isabella when she was 11-years-old. Since she was a little ...
William "Billy Batts" Bentvena (February 22, 1933 – June 11, 1970), also known as William Devino, [2] was an American mobster with the Gambino crime family who was a longtime friend of John Gotti in the 1960s.