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Carlo Gambino (Italian: [ˈkarlo ɡamˈbiːno]; August 24, 1902 [nb 1] – October 15, 1976) was a Sicilian crime boss who was the leader and namesake of the Gambino crime family of New York City.
Aug 28, 2024 · Carlo Gambino was the head of one of the Five Families of organized crime—the Bonanno, Colombo, Genovese, Lucchese, and Gambino crime families—in New York City from 1957 to 1976, with major interests in Brooklyn, and reputedly the “boss of bosses” of the U.S. national crime syndicate.
Apr 27, 2024 · Longtime boss and namesake of the New York Mafia's feared Gambino crime family, Carlo Gambino wielded unprecedented power in the late 1950s and '60s.
Known for his quiet, understated demeanor and razor-sharp criminal savvy, Gambino was a teenage hitman in Sicily, alleged to be “made” into the Mafia overseas before coming to the United States in 1921 at age 19 and going to work for cousins connected to gangland factions in New York.
Aug 9, 2024 · Founded in the early 1900s and named after boss Carlo Gambino, the Gambino family remains the most infamous of the New York City Mafia's Five Families.
Apr 16, 2013 · Carlo Gambino was a low-key mob boss, who had more power than the Mayor, and it was this secretive characteristic that helped him become one of the most strongest mob bosses of all time. He was born in Sicily, in the city of Palermo which is located in the northwest of the island.
Gambino boss Carlo Gambino created an alliance between the Gambino family and three Sicilian clans: the Inzerillos, the Spatolas and the Di Maggios. Carlo Gambino's relatives controlled the Inzerillo clan under Salvatore Inzerillo in Passo di Ragano, a neighborhood in Palermo, Sicily.
Though he eschewed ostentatious mansions, flashy cars, and sharp suits, he was perhaps the most intelligent and most powerful of any mob boss of any era. With the cunning of a fox and the stealthy bite of a viper, Carlo Gambino was in spirit a descendent of the cutthroat Borgias of the Renaissance. Aniello Dellacroce.
Gambino embodied the essence of what Niccolò Machiavelli, the philosopher of power, described as the “ideal leader”. He possessed the cunning of a fox, navigating the treacherous world of ...
Carlo Gambino was arguably the most powerful boss of the Five New York Crime Families. Quiet and unassuming, this longtime and legendary boss of the Gambino ...
