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From Sicily heroin was moved to the Gambino crime family in New York, who were related to the Inzerillos.
" This group of " Young Turk " mafiosi was led by Luciano and included Costello, Genovese, Adonis, Gambino and Anastasia on the Masseria side and Profaci, Gagliano, Lucchese, Magliocco and Magaddino on the Maranzano side.
Meanwhile, Bonanno was also feeling threatened by Lucchese and Gambino.
John Joseph Gotti, Jr ( October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002 ) was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.
John was one of five brothers who would become made men in the Gambino Family ; Eugene Gotti was initiated before John due to the latter's incarceration.
" It was also around this time that Gotti met Gambino underboss Aniello " Neil " Dellacroce.
In 1973, after Carlo Gambino's nephew Emanuel Gambino was kidnapped and murdered, John Gotti was assigned to the hit team alongside Ruggiero and Ralph Galione for the main suspect, Irish-American gangster James McBratney.
After his death Gotti was also identified by Joseph Massino as the killer of Vito Borelli, a Gambino associate killed in 1975 for insulting Paul Castellano.
He was subsequently initiated into the Gambino family, now under the command of Paul Castellano, and immediately promoted to replace Fatico as Capo of the Bergin crew.
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.
In 1984, Castellano was arrested and indicted in a RICO case for the crimes of Gambino hitman Roy DeMeo's crew.
He was formally acclaimed as the new boss of the Gambino family at a meeting of 20 capos held on January 15, 1986.
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.
Gotti's son John Gotti Jr. was initiated into the Gambino family on Christmas Eve 1988.
Based on tapes from FBI bugs played at pretrial hearings the Gambino administration was denied bail and attorneys Bruce Cutler and Gerald Shargel were both disqualified from defending Gotti after determining they had worked as " in-house counsel " for the Gambino organization.
Giuseppe was a butcher and an early member of the Mangano crime family, the forerunner of the Gambino family.
Castellano's sister Kathryn was married to Carlo Gambino, his cousin and a future boss of the Gambino crime family.
In 1978, Castellano allegedly ordered the murders of Gambino capo James Eppolitto and his son, mobster James Eppolitto Jr. Eppolitto Sr. had complained to Castellano that Anthony Gaggi was infringing on his territory and asked permission to kill him.
On March 30, 1984, Castellano was indicted on federal racketeering charges in the Gambino case, including the Eppolitto murders.
" Don " Carlo Gambino ( pronounced gam-BEE-noh ), ( August 24, 1902-October 15, 1976 ) was a Sicilian mobster, notable for being Boss of the Gambino crime family, which is still named after him.

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The tapes also created a rift between Gotti and Gravano, showing the Gambino boss describing his newly-appointed underboss as too greedy and attempting to frame Gravano as the main force behind the murders of DiBernardo, Milito and Dibono.
Constantino Paul " Big Paul " Castellano ( pronounced cass-TAY-lah-noh ) ( June 26, 1915 – December 16, 1985 ), also known as " The Howard Hughes of the Mob " and " Big Paulie " ( or " PC " to his family ), succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family, then the nation's largest Cosa Nostra family.
Castellano also handled the Gambino interests in the " Concrete Club ," a consortium of mob families that divided revenue from New York developers.
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.
Gambino also made a sizable profit during World War II by bribing Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) officials for ration stamps, which he then sold on the black market.
Gambino also, to regain complete control of Manhattan, took over the New York Longshoremen Union, where more than 90 % of all New York City's ports were controlled.
Gambino also made his own family policy: " Deal and Die.
" This was Gambino's message to every Gambino family member ; heroin and cocaine were highly lucrative, but were dangerous, and would also attract attention.
Gambino also allegedly said to Castellano: " I want a picture of me and Frankie ".
It has also been theorized that Gambino went so far as to organize the shooting of Joe Colombo, head of the Colombo crime family, on June 28, 1971.
It was also the way Gambino operated, very intelligently, very quietly but with final brutality.
Gravano is also the brother-in-law of Gambino capo Edward Garafola and Mario Garafola.
He also ordered the failed murder attempt of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti in 1986.
Flatlands is also home to the Gemini Lounge where Roy DeMeo of the Gambino Mafia Family frequented during the late 1970s-early 1980s.
Mob Boss Carlo Gambino also lived much of his life in Gravesend.
His son Nicholas Corozzo, also involved with the Gambino family, was arrested in 2004.
On June 17 of that year Frank Scalice, Anastasia's underboss and the man identified as directly responsible for selling Gambino memberships, was also assassinated.
Giuseppe Nicholas Gallo, Jr., also known as Joseph Nicholas Gallo and Uno-Punzone ( One-Punch ), ( January 8, 1912 – September 1, 1995 ) was a New York mobster who served as consigliere of the Gambino crime family under three different bosses.
* James Failla ( 1919 – 1999 ), also known as Jimmy Brown, member of the Gambino crime family
Victoria Gotti ( born November 27, 1962 ) is a writer and reality television personality who is also the daughter of the Gambino crime family Mafia boss, John Gotti.

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The extravagance of Castellano's mansion and lifestyle only served to increase resentment and envy within the Gambino family.
While the Mafia had abolished the title of " boss of bosses ," Gambino's position afforded him the powers such a title would have carried, as he was now the boss of the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful crime family in the country and was the head of The Commission, a position only Luciano had held before Gambino.
About that time, Eboli was the only one who could re-organize the Genovese crime family, but Eboli needed money to start his reign as boss, which is why he borrowed $ 4, 000, 000 from Gambino, the richest Don of New York City.
The only problem was that Eboli's crew was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison, which was allegedly arranged by Gambino because he wanted his friend Frank Tieri as boss.
For Manny Gambino, the kidnappers asked for $ 200, 000, but Gambino claimed he could only come up with $ 50, 000.
Carlo Gambino was the only other boss besides Luciano to have complete control of the Commission and virtually every Mafia family in the United States.
However, according to a 2004 New Jersey Organized Crime Report, the Gambino family had only ten active crews.
They are rivaled in size by only the Gambino crime family and are unmatched in terms of power.
In 1998, Gotti was slapped with a wide-ranging RICO indictment charging that he was not only the acting boss of the Gambino family, but received millions of dollars from numerous Gambino rackets.
It was only after Gotti went to prison in 1992 that Corozzo was finally promoted to Caporegime, along with Gambino soldier Leonard " Lenny " DiMaria.

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