" He would later portray Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce in the 1996 HBO film Gotti.

He had two brothers, Gaspare Gambino, who later married and was never involved with the Mafia, and Paolo Gambino who, on the other hand, had a big role in his brother's family.

One month later, Magliocco died of high blood pressure, but Gambino had other plans for Bonanno.

Sinatra would later testify about this in court, but announced that he didn't know any Carlo Gambino, but it got to a point where he had to explain why he was attending the Havana Conference in Cuba in 1946, showing up with $ 2, 000, 000 in a silver suitcase and a picture that showed Sinatra, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, and Carlo Gambino having a drink by a pool.

Originally a mobster for the Colombo crime family, and later for the Brooklyn faction of the Gambinos, Gravano participated in the conspiracy to murder Gambino boss Paul Castellano.

Gravano later became a mentor to Colucci's son, Jack Colucci, who became involved in the construction industry as a Gambino associate.

Three months later, Gravano was approached by Robert DiBernardo, a fellow Gambino member acting as an intermediary for Gotti.

Lynda Milito would cry foul in her book after Gravano testified he had not been the shooter in Louie Milito's murder ; she said that a Gambino family member later informed her Gravano had shot and killed Louie Milito, contrary to what Gravano had told the FBI.

The two took on controversial civil rights and criminal cases, including cases where they represented Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, head of the Egyptian-based terrorist group Gama ' a al-Islamiyah, responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ; Colin Ferguson, the man responsible for the LIRR shootings, who would later reject Kuby & Kunstler's legal counsel and choose to represent himself at trial ; Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, accused of plotting to murder Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam ; Glenn Harris, a New York public school teacher who absconded with a fifteen-year-old girl for two months ; Nico Minardos, a flamboyant actor indicted by Rudy Giuliani for conspiracy to ship arms to Iran ; Darrell Cabey, one of the persons shot by Bernard Goetz ; and associates of the Gambino crime family.

Vincent Mangano now became the first boss of what 26 years later would be called the Gambino family.

This panel consisted of powerful Garment District leader Thomas Gambino, bodyguard and later underboss Thomas Bilotti, and powerful Queens faction-leaders Daniel Marino and James Failla.

A federal grand jury later that day accused 62 people of having ties to the Gambino crime family, and offenses such as murders, conspiracy, drug trafficking, robberies, extortion and other crimes were included in the indictment.

The narcotics shipped to the New York docks would be overseen by the Luciano crime family ( later the Genovese ) and the Mangano crime family ( later the Gambino ).

Besides the Vario crew, the well-known Gambino family crew ( led by Carmine Fatico and later John Gotti ), also exploited the airport for their own criminal gain.

Paolo LiCastri, a Sicilian shooter, was later included as a representative of the Gambino crime family, which had been promised a tribute payment to sanction the crime.

Although the Gambino family was making more money, the internal strife continued to grow.

After Gambino's death, new Gambino boss Paul Castellano continued the Lucchese alliance.

Gambino Boss Carlo Gambino created an alliance between the Gambino family and three Sicilian clans: the Inzerillo's, the Spatola's and the Di Maggio's.

* The Gambino-Lucchese-Genovese alliance ( 1953 – 1985 ) between Carlo Gambino, Tommy Lucchese, and Vito Genovese began with a plot to take over the Mafia Commission by murdering family bosses Frank Costello and Albert Anastasia.

In 1962, Gambino's oldest son Thomas married Lucchese's daughter, strengthening the Gambino and Lucchese family alliance.

In 1985, the original Gambino-Lucchese alliance dissolved when John Gotti ordered Castellano's assassination and took power in the Gambino family without Commission approval.

* The Gambino-Genovese alliance ( 1962 – 1972 ) was between Carlo Gambino and Genovese family acting boss / front boss Tomas Eboli.

The alliance was short-lived because Eboli was unable or unwilling to repay Gambino money from a bad narcotics deal.

The alliance ended when Gambino ordered Eboli's murder on July 16, 1972.

As part of this agreement, the Westies formed an alliance with Gambino capo Roy DeMeo.

DeMeo found what he needed to ensure that he would be officially inducted into the Gambino family when he formed an alliance with a gang of Irish-American criminals known as the Westies soon to be headed by James Coonan.

It was his pivotal role in the Westie / Gambino alliance that reportedly convinced Castellano to give DeMeo his " button ", or formally induct him into the crime family.

During 1988 Falcone collaborated with Rudolph Giuliani, at the time U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in operations against the Gambino and Inzerillo families.

Soon, Magliocco began to have troubles with the rebellious Joe Gallo and his brothers Larry and Albert, who were now backed by Lucchese and Gambino.

After leaving school he devoted himself to working with the mafia-associated Fulton-Rockaway Boys gang, where he met and befriended fellow future Gambino mobsters Angelo Ruggiero and Wilfred " Willie Boy " Johnson.

In his last two years as the Bergin Capo, Gotti was indicted on two occasions, with both cases coming to trial after his ascension to Gambino Boss.

Gotti, meanwhile, began conspiring with fellow disgruntled Gambino family members Sammy Gravano, Frank DeCicco, Robert DiBernardo and Joseph Armone ( collectively dubbed " the Fist " by themselves ) to overthrow Castellano, insisting despite the boss ' inaction that Castellano would eventually try to kill him.

DeCicco tipped Gotti off that he would be having a meeting with Castellano and several other Gambino mobsters at Sparks Steak House on December 16, 1985, and Gotti chose to take the opportunity.

At the time of Gotti's takeover the Gambino family was regarded as the most powerful American mafia family, with an annual income of $ 500 million.

According to the DeCavalcante capo-turned-informant Anthony Rotondo, Gotti attended his father's wake with numerous other Gambino mobsters in a " show of force " and forced boss John Riggi to agree to run his family on the Gambino's behalf.

The trial commenced with the prosecution's opening statements on February 12 ; prosecutors Andrew Maloney and John Gleeson began their case by playing tapes showing Gotti discussing Gambino family business, including murders he approved, and confirming the animosity between Gotti and Castellano to establish the former's motive to kill his boss.

Despite his imprisonment, and pressure from the Commission to stand down, Gotti is believed to have held on to his position as Gambino boss with his brother Peter and his son John A. Gotti Jr. relaying orders on his behalf.

She guest starred with Tyler the Creator and Childish Gambino on Regular Show.

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

In the major reorganization of the New York Mafia that resulted, Vincent Mangano took over the Mineo family, with Anastasia as his underboss and Gambino as a capo.

Anastasia was named the new boss of the family, with Gambino as his underboss.

Gambino was now one of the most powerful mobsters in the business, with a crew making profit of extortion, illegal gambling, hijacking, bootlegging and murder.

Genovese knew this as well, and in early 1957 convinced Gambino to side with him against Anastasia, Costello and Luciano.

Genovese now believed that with Costello and Anastasia out of the way and Gambino supposedly in his debt, the way was clear for him to become Boss of Bosses.

However, Gambino had his own mind, and secretly aligned himself with Luciano, Costello and Lansky against Genovese.

Sinatra of course, happily obliged and Gambino, Castellano and other mobsters got a picture with Sinatra in the middle.

Gambino hated publicity, always preferring to work in the shadows and was said to have been quite upset with Columbo about this.

Gallo had recently been in prison where he had formed close associations with black prisoners who could serve as muscle, a fact that was well known to Gambino.