By David Amoruso
Posted in 2002
Carlo Gambino was born on August 24, 1902 in Palermo, Sicily. He arrived in the US in 1921 and settled in Brooklyn with help of relatives and friends who had already made it their home. He would later help his two br
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By David Amoruso
Posted: March 10, 2007
Updated on: August 12, 2008
"I know my father loved me, but I got to question how much, to put me with all these wolves. This is the world you put your kid in? So much treachery. ... My father couldn't have
By David Amoruso
Five members and associates of the Gambino Crime Family pleaded guilty in New York yesterday to a host of crimes including racketeering, drug trafficking, extortion, gambling and murder conspiracy. The five Gambinos were part of the
By David Amoruso
The underworld of Montreal is at war. Several high profile mafia bosses have been murdered and yesterday Bonanno family boss Salvatore Montagna was the latest victim as he was shot to death in a suburb near Montreal.
When paramedics
By David Amoruso
It was one of the most disgraceful busts in American La Cosa Nostra history when fourteen Gambino Family mobsters were charged with pimping out underage girls. Though they were also charged with other crimes such as murder and exto
By David Amoruso
Posted on April 5, 2010 - Updated on November 25, 2011
Salvatore Montagna burst onto the front page of the New York Daily News in 2006 when authorities labeled him the new acting boss of the Bonanno Crime Family. But before the pub
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
Benjamin 'Lefty Guns' Ruggiero was one of the true Cosa Nostra Mafioso, a guy who was old school and knew how Mafia politics worked. Lefty was a Bonanno soldier who was feared and respected by his fellow Mafioso and
By Thom L. Jones
Way back in 1955, Alfred Hitchcock made this great movie called ‘The Trouble with Harry’ starring John Forsythe. An offbeat, hilarious black comedy about a bothersome corpse that keeps getting buried and then keeps re-appearing, cau
Special Agent in Charge George Venizelos speaking on the Gambino Arrests.
Photo Credit: Rebecca Callahan, FBI
By David Amoruso
Posted on June 30, 2010
The general public sees Italian-American mobsters as honorable gangsters. Thugs with a heart and
In three days one mobster dead, another wounded
By David Amoruso
Posted June 25, 2007
On Tuesday morning, June 5, Robert DeCicco got in his father's fiancé's Cadillac DeVille after picking up a prescription at Dolinsky's Pharmacy. As he sat in hi
By David Amoruso
Posted: February 1, 2007 - Updated on October 12, 2014
On January 30, 2007 the FBI arrested several mobsters and charged them with racketeering, bribery, extortion, money laundering, loan sharking and bank fraud. Among the arrested
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
Paul Castellano was born Constantino Paul Castellano in Brooklyn on June 26, 1915. His parents were from Sicily and had traveled to the United States to give their children a better life. Castellano's father was a bu
By David Amoruso
- Read: Sammy the Bull Gravano is a free man, but also a poster boy for the dangers of dealing with gangsters
Profile below posted in 2001
Sammy The Bull Gravano has gone down in Mafia history as the biggest rat ever to walk the s
By David Amoruso
When you ask people about their favorite scene in the classic mob movie Goodfellas, a lot will answer they loved the "You think I'm funny? I'm funny how?" scene. The scene illustrates perfectly how mobsters could go from having a
By David Amoruso
Posted on June 7, 2008
Nicholas Corozzo, nicknamed Little Nicky because of his 5 foot 5 stature, is one of the Gambino Family's most powerful members, and definitely one of its biggest earners. According to Bruce Mouw, who headed F
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2003
Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo was born in 1955 in Bensonhurst, New York. He was brought up in a working class family. As a young boy Mikey was bitten in the face by a dog. The attack left a semi-circular scar on h
By David Amoruso
Posted on March 4, 2010
When Charles Carneglia was arrested on the morning of February 7, 2008, he looked (see photo on the right) like more like Charles Manson than a slick member of New York’s Gambino Crime Family. But though loo
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2003
Samuel "Little Sammy" Corsaro was born in 1943 in Nutley, New Jersey. Later he moved to Clifton, New Jersey where he would remain till his death. Like all mobsters Corsaro also started out in petty crime but in 1969 he
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
Evsei Agron arrived in the U.S. on October 8th 1975. Arriving at Kennedy Airport he was one of the 5200 Sovjet jews who fled Russia and arrived in the U.S. in that year. Many of these jewish immigrants were tough Rus
By David Amoruso
Posted in 2001
Most of you probably never heard of John Pappa and probably for good reasons. Pappa wasn't a made member, he didn't belong to a big mafia family and his criminal career didn't even last that long. Still, I think tha
