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    Carmine Galante (Italian: [ˈkarmine ɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was de facto boss of the Bonanno crime family...
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  • all Castellammarese. The family included mobsters Joseph Bonanno, Carmine Galante, and Gaspar DiGregorio. Maranzano was also close to Joseph Profaci...
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  • Carmine Galante (1910–1979), American mobster Carmine Gallo (born 1965), American author Carmine Gallone (1885–1973), Italian film director Carmine Biagio...
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    George Steinbrenner; Aristotle Onassis; Mafia figures Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, John Gotti and Mario Gigante; Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian...
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  • pageant titleholder Carmine Galante (1910-1979), a member of the Bonanno crime family Cecilia (Plummer) Galante, American author Fabio Galante (born 1973), Italian...
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  • "Rusty" Rastelli was imprisoned. Rastelli's reign was threatened by Carmine "Lilo" Galante, who felt he was the rightful boss because he had been underboss...
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    "Zips" due to their fast speech. Bonanno acting boss (unofficial) Carmine Galante brought Bonventre to New York to be his bodyguard. Bonventre soon became...
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  • met and became close friends with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, Carmine Galante, Joseph Bonanno and Joseph Massino. On December 3, 1953, Rastelli and...
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    closely with Nicholas Marangello, Galante's underboss and became a close confidant to his former captain Carmine Galante, who by the mid-1970s had become...
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  • Lucchese crime family, the "CEO" of the group); "Managing Directors" were Carmine Galante and Anthony Mirra. On February 14, 1959, Bentvena went to Bridgeport...
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    Michael's Cemetery in East Elmhurst, Queens. In 1974, after his enemy Carmine Galante was released from prison, he allegedly ordered the bombing of the doors...
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    the underboss of the Bonanno crime family under Carmine Galante and saw himself demoted after Galantes death. He's the father-in-law of Robert Perrino...
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    of $25,000. In 1979, Bonanno boss Carmine Galante was murdered, creating a power vacuum in the family. After Galante's murder, Philip Rastelli took over...
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    Avenue South Prospect Lefferts Gardens. He was one of two bodyguards to Carmine Galante who allegedly lured their own boss to the scene of his assassination...
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    reign in and out of prison, but was able to get the assassination of Carmine Galante, a mobster vying for power, approved in 1979. Originally a truck hijacker...
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  • aware that Carmine Galante had been stopped by state troopers following a visit to Barbara's estate the previous year. A check of Galante by the troopers...
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    Balistrieri of the Milwaukee crime family. After the 1979 murder of Carmine Galante, Pistone reported to captain Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano. Pistone...
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  • Napolitano, another Philip Rastelli loyalist capo, after the 1979 murder of Carmine Galante. Both men were themselves threatened by another faction seeking to...
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  • holdings. The remaining investors lost their investments. In 1977, boss Carmine Galante inducted Coppa into the Bonanno family in recognition of his ability...
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  • Bonanno and Gambino families. Both Carmine Galante and Carlo Gambino used zips for drug-running and contract killing. Galante's two personal bodyguards, Cesare...
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  • After official boss Philip Rastelli went to prison in 1975, capo Carmine Galante took control of the family. It is suspected that the heads of the other...
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    newspaper office in Manhattan. The shooter was later alleged to be Carmine Galante, a member of the Bonanno crime family. No one was ever charged in the...
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    Mafia. He was assassinated in New York, January 1943 allegedly by Carmine Galante. Carlo Tresca was born March 9, 1879, in Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy, the...
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  • with the exception of Indelicato who was convicted of murder (of Carmine Galante), and were sentenced by judge Richard Owen on January 13, 1987, as...
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  • brother-in-law to Michael Zaffarano. In 1979, after the murder of Bonanno boss Carmine Galante, Asaro became a capo of a Queens crew in the Bonanno family. In February...
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  • aware that Carmine Galante had been stopped by state troopers following a visit to Barbara's estate the previous year. A check of Galante by the troopers...
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  • "Nino" (1925–1988) Tommy Gagliano (1883–1951) Carmine Galante, "The Cigar", "Lilo" (1910–1979) James Galante (born 1953) Joseph Galizia, "Joe Glitz" (1941–1998)...
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  • subject of The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob, a 2011 biography Carmine Galante (1910–1979), American mobster also known as "Cigar" Paul McKinney (1925–2013)...
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    of Joe Gallo, but was released on $5,000 bail. After the murder of Carmine Galante in 1979, a fight for control of the family started. Joseph Massino...
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  • contracted to be hit with Carmine Galante, but were demoted to soldiers because they were well liked by Family members. After Galante's murder "Zips" capo Salvatore...
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