He was a quiet man, who quietly dressed and, as we know, never lost his temper. But there is no doubt that Carlo Gambino, with his huge hawk and mysterious smile, was one of the most powerful bosses of all time.
Gambino was born in Palermo, Sicily, on August 24, 1902. In the area of Palermo, called Kakkamo, in which Gambino grew up, there were such strong presence of the mafia, the police and even the military, were afraid to enter its domain. This forced the mafioso to manage this area with impunity, knowing what they would do is not reported to the police, if the police even care about what happened there in the first place.
Carlo's mother's maiden name was Castellano, and she used her influence with her family, which was the mafia, to present Gambino to the “Respect Man” when Gambino was hardly a teenager. Gambino, who was a small one built and only 5 feet 7, quietly impressed his superiors with his calmness, his intellect and ability to do what needed to be done, even if it meant killing the one who had to be killed
In 1921, on the eve of his twentieth birthday, Gambino was rewarded for his good work, being involved in the mafia or what was known in Italy as the “Honored Society”. However, because of the vendetta Benito Mussolini against the mafia (Mussolini arrested many mafiosi, including the main mafia boss Don Vito Cascio Ferro, who was sentenced to life imprisonment), many mafiosi, including Gambino, decided that Sicily was too dangerous for them to exist, as they used to. As a result, there was a huge exodus of the Mafioso on this mountain of gold across the Atlantic Ocean, called America.
At the end of 1921, Gambino left Sicily on an SS cargo ship Vincenzo Florio, which was heading for America. Throughout the trip, Gambino existed for nothing but wines and anchovies, which contained olive oil, were the only food substances on the ship.
SS Vincenzo Florio docked in Norfolk, Virginia, on December 23, 1921, and Gambino landed as an illegal immigrant. Shaking a three-piece smart suit and a black windshield, Gambino went down the ramp looking for a car, he was told when he left for Palermo, he would wait for him when he was docked in America, with flashing lights at the end of the dock. He noticed the car, and when he approached her, Gambino saw cousin Castellano sitting behind the wheel. The two men embraced, and after a few seconds they headed to New York.
When Gambino arrived in New York, he was pleased to find that his cousins Castellano had already rented his apartment on Naval Street in Brooklyn, not far from the waterfront. They also put Gambino to work for a cargo company owned by his first cousins Peter and Paul Castellano. Soon, Gambino went to the illegal business bootlegger, managed by his pal-a-friend Tommy Lucchese. The ban was introduced as a result of the adoption of the Volsteed Act in 1919, which prohibited the production, sale or transportation of crude liqueurs, but not consumption. The other was driving things, and soon Gambino was the main cog in the Joe "Boss" Masseria team, the most powerful mafia in America.
However, the other mafioso escaped Mussolini’s anger and arrived in America in the mid-1920s. His name was Salvatore Maranzano, second in command to Don Vito Cascio Ferro in Sicily. Maranzano believed that the Sicilian mafioso was far superior to Sikhs in America, so it is only natural that he should become the main mafia boss in America. This did not fit very well with Masseria, and the result was the war in Castellammare, which flooded the streets of New York with many dead bodies from 1929 to 31.
The Masseria team soon included the best mafia men, such as Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia and Vito Genovese, who were well connected with Jewish gangsters Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. However, since Masseria did not like his people who were engaged in business with non-thessists (Costello, real name Castilla, was from Calabria), Luciano, Costello, Anastasia and Genovese laid out their time, hoping that, perhaps, Masseria and Maranzano would beat each other so that young people can take control of all their operations.
However, it was Gambino who took the first step in correcting this situation. Feeling that he had lost the battle, Gambino secretly approached Maranzano and offered to jump to the side of Maranzano. Maranzano soon agreed, and soon Luciano, Costello, Anastasia and Genovese also wanted to join the forces of Maranzano. Maranzano accepted their offer, making a reservation that they would do away with Masseria once and for all. This task was completed on April 15, 1931, when Luciano lured Masseria to the restaurant Nuova Villa Tammaro on Koni Island. While Luciano was taking a break in the bathroom, Siegel, Genovese, Anastasia, and the Jewish killer Red Levin burst, despite the front door, and filled Masseria with lead, making him completely dead and ending the war in Castellammare.
Maranzano immediately called for a meeting of all the top mafiosos in the city (reportedly more than 500 people) at a warehouse in the Bronx. At this meeting, Maranzano said: “Whatever happened in the past is over: there should be no hatred between us. Those who lost someone in the war should forgive and forget. ”
Then Maranzano moved to the formation of five families, each of which was a boss and a chest. Under the top two people, each family would have fireplaces or captains who would rule the whole family: soldiers or soldiers. The five bosses were Joe Bonanno, Joe Profasi, Lucky Luciano, Tommy Lucchese and Vincent Mangano. Albert Anastasia was the selection of Mangano, and Carlo Gambino - the captain in the family Mangano. Of course, Maranzano made himself the “Boss of all bosses” (Capo Di Tutti Capi), which did not fit well with the rest of the young mafia.
After all the pleasant talk of “no hatred between us,” Maranzano had a secret plan to kill Luciano, Genovese and Costello - men whom Maranzano considered ambitious and threatened his rule. Maranzano called on the unholy Irish killer Vincent “Mad Dog” Cole to eliminate his alleged competition. Maranzano paid Cole $ 25,000 on the spot, and another $ 25,000 was ready when the dirty work was done. To set the trap, Maranzano invited Luciano, Genovese and Costello to his office in Midtown-Manhattan.
However, Luciano caught the conspiracy wind through an informant close to Maranzano, who is believed to be Tommy Lucchese. Instead of appearing in the office of Maranzano, Luciano sent four Jewish murderers to the proposed meeting, led by Red Levin, one of the men who had left Massaria. Four men, portraying detectives, snuck past the bodyguards of Maranzano in the external office. Then they exploded in the office of Maranzano, where they slaughtered and shot him to death. On the way out of the building, the four killers collided with "Cats-crazy dog." They told him not to worry - Maranzano was dead, and the police were on their way. Cole made a face about it, whistling a happy tune, paying a salary of $ 25,000 without a shot.
Luciano soon called the bosses of the other four Mafia families and told them that the title “Boss of All Bosses” was eliminated by Maranzano. Then Luciano formed a national crime control commission, which included Jewish bandits Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz.
Gambino, now firmly entrenched as the captain of the Mangano family, became the largest money maker in all of the New York mafia. And in the mafia money hesitates.
In 1932, his pockets were torn from cash, Gambino married his cousin, Catherine Castellano Carlo and Catherine Gambino, initially raised three sons and a daughter. (Marrying the first cousin was common in Italy, and he did not frown in the United States, as it is today. In fact, marrying a cousin is now illegal in most, but not all, states. Editor's Note: my grandparents in my father & from the side were the first cousins, married in Sicily in early 1900.)
When the ban was lifted in 1933, Gambino was already set up to cash in on the now legitimate binge business, but he did it illegally. Despite the fact that the ban was illegal for the mafia, Gambino was planning on those days when he knew that the ban would end. To achieve his goals, Gambino picked up as many illegal still images as he could; in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and even to Maryland. When the ban ended and the price of alcohol exploded through the roof, Gambino had the largest illegal liquor distribution system on the East Coast of America. And since he himself produced the goods himself and did not pay any state taxes, Gambino could undermine the legitimate distributors by making himself and the Mangano family a small fate in the mid-to-late 1930s.
The beginning of World War II Gambino Caves is another opportunity to make even more illegal cash through its wartime missile rocket brands. After the war inevitable against Germany and Japan, on August 28, 1941, the United States government created the Securities Administration (OPA), which intended to print and distribute rations brands to the American public. Without these brands, people could not buy gasoline, tires, shoes, nylon, sugar, fuel oil, coffee, meat and processed foods. Gambino decided that the only way he could get his rations to sell on the black market was to steal them straight.
Gambino sent his best secure crackers and people on the second floor to the vaults at the Securities Administration, and they came out with marks of hundreds of thousands of dollars. When some low-level OPA employees realized that the brands of the rank were stolen by the crowd, they decided to take the deal, stealing the brands of the rations themselves and selling them to Gambino and his boys, of course, under the contract, phase prices. Gambino thought, why take theft of ration marks, with the possibility of getting caught. Thus, he accepted the offer of the curves of the OPA employees and began to buy brands of rations from them in droves.
The beauty of this scheme was that Gambino already had a ready-made distribution network: its network of illegal drink distributors. In October 1963, Mafia informant Joe Valachi tested before a subcommittee on government operations in Arkansas State Senator John L. McClellan that in only one transaction with the impression of a Gambino solder made a profit of more than 1 million dollars.
Being a sensible businessman, he was, Gambino knew that he could not live a high life without reporting a significant income to the government. Thus, Gambino invested the money he made from his illegal operations, which are estimated to be several million dollars, in law firms such as meat markets, pizzerias, olive and cheese importers, production companies of cards, clothing factories. , bakeries and restaurants.
By 1951, the Mangano family, thanks to Gambino’s incredible ability to earn income, was one of the most prosperous in the mafia. The problem was that Mangano did not get along with his sole Anastasia. Mangano envied Anastasia’s intimacy with other bosses, such as Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano, who was in exile in Italy; the pardon clause he received from the United States government after serving 9 years in prison on a fabricated charge of prostitution. Several times, Mangano physically attacked Anastasia, a stupid step, since the young man and stronger than Anastasia easily beat his boss in a fist fight.
With rumors abound that Mangano was going to kill Anastasia, Anastasia, blessing the criminal boss Frank Costello, decided to strike first. On April 19, 1951, the body of Phil Mangano, brother of Vincent Mangano, was found in the swamps near Shepshead Bay. He was shot five times in the head. When the police investigating the murder attempted to contact Vincent Mangano about the death of his brother, they could not find any traces. The body of Vincent Mangano was never found.
A few days later, Anastasia sat down with the other bosses and explained that he killed Mangano before Mangano could kill him. With the support of Costello, Anastasia stumbled upon the boss of the Mangano family, and the name was changed to the Anastasia family. Anastasia made Frank Skaliz and Joe Adonis his submarines, and he sang his capos Carlo Gambino more men and more forces in the organization.
However, the reign of Anastasia lasted less than seven years. Anastasia constantly hit heads with vicious criminal boss Vito Genovese, who was going to take all the racks in New York, even if it meant killing other bosses one by one. Anastasia received a terrible blow when his chest Joe Adonis was sent to Italy as an unwanted alien. Anastasia knew that his days were numbered when, in early 1956, Frank Costello was shot in the head by Genoese minion Vincent “Chin” Gigante. Costello survived the shooting, and at the trial Gigante Costello, loyal to the mafia’s “Omert” code, reflected Gigante’s name as his attacker.
However, it significantly ended the power of Costello in the mafia, and at the insistence of Genovese, Costello was loaded as one of the five bosses in the Mafia Commission. This left Anastasia without his closest ally and put Anastasia in a vulnerable position. Shortly afterwards, Anastasia, Frank Scalise's other chin, was shot while shopping for fruits and vegetables on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx.
The last shoe collapsed when, on October 25, 1957, Anastasia was shot dead while sitting in a hairdresser's chair at the Park Sheridan Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. After Anastasia died, Genovese demanded a meeting with other bosses and suggested that Carlo Gambino, whom he allowed on his plot to kill Anastasia, should take over Anastasia's family. The Commission agreed, and they renamed the family to the Gambino family.
Greedy Genovese called for a meeting of all criminal bosses, mean-spirited, captains and respected mafia men in America, who were to be held in the sleepy city of Apalachins, New York, in the house of Joseph Barbara, capo in the criminal family of buffalo criminal boss Stefano Magaddino. There were several items on Genovese's agenda, but the main thing was that Genovese would declare himself "Capo Di Tutti Capi" or "Boss of All Bosses", a title that was vacant after the death of Salvatore Maranzano.
On November 17, 1957, dozens of thugs made their way to Barbara's house. The group included crime boss John Skalish from Cleveland, Sam Giancana from Chicago, Frank DeSimone of California, Santa Traffante from Florida, Gerardo Catena Majuri and Frank from New Jersey, Carlo Gambino, Joe Profsaki, Tommy Lucchese and Genovese from New York
However, before the festivals began, state sergeant Edgar Roswell, along with a dozen state soldiers, burst into the house. Roswell later said that he became suspicious when he saw Joseph Barbara Jr. making a reservation at the hotel for about a dozen or so. Roswell said he then drifted to the residence of Barbara and saw dozens of parked luxury cars parked in and around Barbara’s estate. Roswell said that he required a heavy backup, and when his soldiers arrived, they made their move.
Later another rumor spread that Meyer Lansky himself was not a big fan of Vito Genovese, who overthrew state soldiers about the upcoming mafia convention.
Be that as it may, when the soldiers stormed the house, the mafioso, as in a Chinese firearm, is scattered in all directions. Men in expensive suits jumped, although they opened windows, and if they could not get to their cars, they would take him up in the woods on foot, destroying their patent leather shoes. Sam Dzhankana safely escorted, running away through the forest, as well as Bonnanno chin Carmine Galente. But both men were a mess; their costumes are destroyed by thorny bushes. Some cars passed from the property before the checkpoint was installed, but most of them did not. When the dust cleared, 58 members of the mafia were fired and told to clean their pockets. A total of $ 300,000 in cash was found for 58 people, which makes the state police even more suspicious about the meeting.
What was impossible in this meeting was people who decided not to attend. Apart from Lansky, Frank Costello, Carlo Marcello from New Orleans were absent, and Lansky was absent from Joe Joseph "Doc" Stracher.
Of the 58 men laid off, 27 were listed by obstruction in justice, 20 of whom were denied the opportunity to answer questions about the purpose of the assembly. One of the men denied that he was Gambino's cousin Paul Castellano, who as a result made a year in a helmet.
Прерванная встреча, больше всего на свете, привела к гибели Вито Дженовезе. Он не только не получил возвышенного титула «Босс всех боссов», но он стал парией в мафии; высмеивали как глупо и жадно за то, что призвали так много важных людей в одно и то же место одновременно для своих целей.
На следующий день после рейда газеты всей страны рассказали об этом инциденте. Больше не могли мафиозные люди утверждать, что мафии не существовало. Полиция и директор ФБР Дж. Эдгар Гувер, который в течение многих лет отрицал существование мафии, продолжали буйствовать, оказывая сильное давление на операции мафии.
Хотя сначала Карло Гамбино оказался жертвой обстоятельств, ветеран хитроумной толпы задумал превратить инцидент в свою пользу. На самом деле были предположения, что Гамбино заранее знал об этом рейде и специально направился туда, чтобы никто не подозревал, что он находится в состоянии предательства; что имеет смысл в свете дальнейших событий.
Когда Дженовезе все еще тушил от потери лица, Гамбино вступил в сговор с Фрэнком Костелло, Мейером Ланским и Лаки Лучано (все еще в изгнании в Италии, но мог свободно передвигаться на Кубу, чтобы встретиться со своими приятелями), чтобы заставить Дженовезе подняться на шею многомиллионная международная сделка с наркотиками. Даже мысль о наркотиках была запрещена мафией, жадный Дженовезе не мог удержаться от желания сделать тонну теста.
Когда настало время, Гамбино опрокинул Бюро по наркотикам за сделку с наркотиками, в результате чего был арестован Дженовезе. На испытании Дженовезе Гамбино заплатил ложному свидетелю по имени Нельсон Кантеллопс, который записал на свидетельском стенде, что Дженовезе не только участвовал в этой конкретной сделке с наркотиками, но и фактически занимался десятками сделок с наркотиками на протяжении многих лет , В результате Дженовезе было отправлено на 15 лет тюрьмы. Дженовезе служил чуть более десяти лет после его приговора, прежде чем он умер в тюрьме 14 февраля 1969 года.
Когда Анастасия умерла, Дженовезе в тюрьме, Лучано в изгнании, Фрэнк Костелло в основном из петли Мафии, Джо Профачи стал старше и слабее, а Джо Бонанно, имевший надежно маленькую преступную семью, Карло Гамбино стал чрезмерно самым могущественным боссом мафии в Америке. Его команда из более 500 человек вышла на улицы, в том числе его нижестоящий Джо Биондо, его собеседник Джозеф Риккобоно и капос Арманд «Томми» Рава, Аниелло «Мистер Нил» Деллакрос, Пол Кастеллано, Кармин «Доктор» Ломбардоззи, Джо Пиней "Армоне и Кармине" Вагонные колеса "Фатико.
Гамбино расширил свои предприятия по всей территории Соединенных Штатов. Помимо Нью-Йорка, Гамбино держал пальцы в горшке в Чикаго, Лос-Анджелесе, Майами, Бостоне, Сан-Франциско и Лас-Вегасе. Гамбино также управлял мощным Международным союзом Longshoremen, который контролировал все доки в Нью-Йорке, главном порту для импорта в Америку.
После того, как Джо Валачи стал первым известным информатором мафии, Гамбино укрепил правило, запрещающее продажу наркотиков в его команде. Разумеется, Гамбино считал, что штрафы за продажу наркотиков были настолько серьезными, что мужчины могли бы превратиться в крысу, когда ее арестовали, вместо того чтобы делать свое время в тюрьме, как это делали в прошлом «настоящие мужчины» мафии. Семейная политика Гамбино была «Сделка и смерть», и он применял это правило без каких-либо исключений.
Вернувшись на вершину кучи мафии, Карло Гамбино стал популярной фигурой в окрестностях Нью-Йорка в Маленькой Италии. В то время как другие боссы забаррикадировались в своих особняках, с вооруженным телохранителем, охранными предупреждениями и электрифицированными крыльями, Гамбино безнаказанно ходил по улицам, останавливаясь, чтобы поговорить со старыми друзьями, а покупал овощи и фрукты у уличных торговцев. Гамбино отправился в Феррару на Гранд-стрит, между Малберри и Моттом, на выпечку. Затем он прогулялся по кварталу, чтобы получить итальянские мясные блюда, сыры и итальянские деликатесы от Алевы, на углу Малберри и Гранд.
Начиная с марта 1970 года у Гамбино возникли проблемы с законом. Пока он прогуливался по улице Бруклина, Гамбино был окружен полицией Нью-Йорка и членами ФБР. Они арестовали Гамбино и обвинили его в том, что он попытался украсть 30 миллионов долларов наличными из бронированной бронированной компании, расположенной в Бронксе. Гамбино был первоначально указан, но дело было прекращено из-за отсутствия доказательств.
Это вынудило ФРС попробовать другую тактику, чтобы вывести Гамбино с улицы. В 1966 году правительство издало распоряжение о депортации на Гамбино, но по какой-то причине заказ так и не был реализован. В начале 1971 года, после того, как жена Гамбино Кэтрин умерла от рака, ФРС действительно пытались выполнить этот приказ, но, узнав о его непосредственной опасности, хитрый Гамбино подделал серьезный сердечный приступ. Федералы были разгромлены на уловке Гамбино, поэтому Служба общественного здравоохранения США предоставила Гамбино полное физическое. Федералы были ошеломлены, когда было установлено, что у Гамбино действительно тяжелое сердечное заболевание. Это было подтверждено в 1972 году, когда Гамбино был брошен из своего дома в 2230 Ocean Parkway, в Бруклине, в больницу Колумба в Манхэттене с массивным сердечным приступом. Почему больница в Бруклине не была подходящей для Гамбино, так и не была раскрыта.
Во время выздоровления дома Гамбино нарушил один из законов, которые он сам постановил - «Наркотики и смерть». Исполняющий обязанности генуэзского босса Томас «Томми Райан» Эболи подошел к Гамбино с предложением «не пропустить», чтобы бросить сделку на многомиллионный наркотик с Луи Сивилло, которую, по мнению ФРС, стали крупнейшим дилером по наркотикам в Америке. Проблема была в том, что Эболи, бывший менеджер по боксу и, как известно, плохой игрок, не имел 4 миллиона долларов, необходимых для продолжения операции. Гамбино выставил Эболи 4 миллиона долларов, но он потерял все это, когда ФРС арестовали Чивилло и конфисковали лекарства и деньги. Когда Гамбино подошел к Эболи о пропавших без вести 4 миллиона долларов, Эболи повернул карманы наизнанку, показывая, что он был сломан.
Это не очень понравилось Гамбино. В результате примерно в 1 час ночи, 16 июля 1972 года, Эболи был снят пять раз, когда он покидал квартиру своей подруги в Crown Heights, Бруклин. Эболи умер на месте, и Гамбино имел достаточно влияния в Комиссии по мафии, чтобы заказать, чтобы его близкий друг, генуэзский капитан Фрэнк «Фунзи» Тири, теперь станет новым боссом семьи Дженовезе. И так было сделано.
У Гамбино была еще одна неудача, когда в начале 1973 года его 29-летний племянник Эммануэль «Мэнни» Гамбино был похищен за выкуп. Эта же банда ранее похитила капитана семьи преступников Гамбино, Фрэнка «Фрэнки Уоп» Манзо за 100 000 долларов. После того, как эта сумма была выплачена за безопасное возвращение Манцо, банда стала более амбициозной с похищением Мэнни Гамбино - на этот раз просят 200 000 долларов. Гамбино пытался торговаться, предлагая им всего 50 000 долларов. Вскоре после этого тело Мэнни Гамбино было найдено в сидячем положении на свалке в Нью-Джерси возле департамента боевых боеприпасов Эрла. 1 июня 1973 года дегенерированный игрок Роберт Сентер признал себя виновным в непредумышленном убийстве и был отправлен на пятнадцать лет тюрьмы. Почти, Сентер упал в долгу перед Гамбино, и было легче убить Гамбино, чтобы заплатить долг.
После смерти его племянника усугублялась агония смерти его жены, Гамбино стал отшельником в своем доме на Ocean Parkway. Он окружил себя членами семьи, и, конечно же, его двоюродным братом Полом Кастельяно. К 1975 году было ясно, что состояние сердца Гамбино не позволит ему жить намного дольше. Поэтому он начал планировать свою преемственность как глава семьи преступников Гамбино. Желая сохранить власть в своей семье, Гамбино помазал своего кузена Пола Кастеллано, чтобы преуспеть в этом.
Это не соответствовало остальным Гамбиносам, которые ожидали, что давний Мафиозо Аниелло Деллакрос станет естественным наследником Гамбино. Чтобы успокоить Dellacroce, Гамбино пещера все руны Манхэттена, контролируемые семьей Гамбино. И это был большой подарок.
15 октября 1976 года Карло Гамбино сделал последний вздох, так как его сердце наконец вышло. Похороны Гамбино были одним из самых элитных, когда-либо состоявшихся в районе Бруклина. Более 100 автомобилей приняли участие в похоронах, которые закончились на кладбище Святого Иоанна в Квинсе, Нью-Йорк; на том же кладбище был похоронен его пожизненный друг Чарльз «Лаки» Лучано.
В 1985 году в фильме «Призз« Приз »режиссера Джона Хьюстона и звезды Джек Николсон актер Уильям Хикки сыграл дон Коррадо Приззи, персонаж, основанный на доне Карло Гамбино.
