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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.
Joseph N. Gallo was born on January 8, 1912, in Calabria, [1] but grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. [2] Gallo was married and was the father of Gambino associate Joseph C. Gallo. Joseph N. Gallo and his family lived in Mill Basin, Brooklyn and Long Island City, Queens. [3] In the 1930s, Gallo was convicted in New York of illegal ...
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.
Robert "DiB" DiBernardo (May 31, 1937 – June 5, 1986) was an American caporegime in the Gambino crime family, who was reputed to control much of the commercial pornography in the US. During the 1984 US presidential election , publicity about DiBernardo having rented business premises from the husband of Geraldine Ferraro embroiled her in ...
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.
Joseph Corozzo, Sr. started with the Gambino family as a transport truck hijacker. Corozzo earned the nickname "Miserable" because he allegedly suffers from bipolar disorder . In 1971, Corozzo was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to answer grand jury questions about organized crime.
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 ...
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 ...