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Carmine Galante ( Italian: [ˈkarmine ɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was acting boss (unofficial) of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar hanging from his mouth, leading to the nickname " The Cigar " and " Lilo " (a Sicilian term for cigar).
Jan 2, 2022 · Carmine Galante had a mental age of 14 and an IQ of 90 — and yet he ruled the Mafia's narcotics trade until his brutal assassination.
Jul 23, 2020 · Galante, Turano, and Coppola were killed instantly, but the bodyguards, who didn’t interfere, were left unharmed. Carmine Galante passed away with a cigar in his mouth, dying from multiple gunshot wounds, 84 to be exact.
Jul 12, 2019 · Carmine Galante was shot dead, along with two other men, at Joe & Mary’s Italian-American Restaurant in Brooklyn on July 12, 1979. The death of the Mob boss exacerbated divisions within the Bonanno crime family that festered for years afterward.
Jun 9, 2018 · Thanks to the ruthless mob boss Carmine Galante, heroin flooded the city. It was 87 degrees when Carmine Galante, 69, showed up for lunch at Joe & Mary’s with his entourage. However, he led his group to a spot not inside but at a table in the quiet patio garden out back.
Nov 20, 2010 · In fact, he was Carmine Galante, one of the most dangerous hoodlums ever to operate in the organized mob underworld of New York. Here in the heartland of his criminal empire, he probably felt as safe as houses.
Aug 1, 2021 · Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the U.S. in the 1970s. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way and recruited ruthless Sicilian...
