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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.
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. [37] In April 1959, Genovese was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, where he died in 1969. [38] Gambino quickly built the family into the most powerful crime family in the United States.
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.
Joe Adonis – capo; Adolfo Bruno - capo; Peter DeFeo – capo; Anthony Provenzano – capo; Anthony Strollo – capo; Tino Fiumara – capo; Vincent Alo – capo; Anthony Carfano – capo ...
Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (/ ˈ ɡ l ʌ v ər /; born September 25, 1983), also known by his musical name Childish Gambino (/ ɡ æ m ˈ b iː n oʊ /), is an American actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker.
Based on a true story, the film follows the rise of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano in the ranks of the Gambino crime family, one of the "Five Families" of the New York Cosa Nostra, culminating in his becoming underboss to John Gotti, his decision to betray Gotti by testifying in the fourth and final trial that saw him sentenced to life imprisonment and his life in the Witness Protection Program.
In 1990, Gambino boss John Gotti inducted Cefalù as a made man, or full member, into the Gambino family. Cefalù was a member of the Sicilian "Zip" crew headed by captain Pasquale Conte and operated in Queens and Brooklyn. In 1992, a New York grand jury summoned Cefalù to testify in an investigation of Conte. After answering a few questions ...
He had two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis, and two brothers, Robert and Anthony. Both of his brothers were associates of the Gambino crime family; Anthony was murdered by mobster Thomas Agro in 1979. Phyllis was a mistress of James Burke from the time she was aged 16. DeSimone was also the brother-in-law of mobster Joseph "The Barber" Spione, who ...