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Carlo Gambino — Part 11
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"The grand jury wants to know also how the Mafia's
ruking commission came to select Bonanno's successor, : Accord~}
ing to the Department of Justice, Bonanno's leadership Was
transferred at first to Gasperino DiGregorio, who later
yielded it to Paul Sciacca. Some of the Bonanno rackets re-
portedly were given to members of the Gambino family.
ere -. "fhe -rackets grand jury took over in May, 1968, the
:* Investigation that another grand jury had conducted for i8
months into organized crime in Brooklyn.
"The grand juries have so far questioned several
- members of the Gambino and former Bonanno families and of
the family reputedly headed by Joseph Colombo. Eighteen
former Bonanno followers who refused to answer questions
ta after being granted immunity have either served jail terms
at for contempt or are in various stages of contempt proceedings.
Sonn
"Exhumation Report Due
: "Colombo, according to Federal authorities, was also
- @ member of the Mafia's national commission when Bonanno was
< deposed. Colombo, a Brooklyn real estate man, reportedly i”
" succeeded to the family leadership of Joseph (Fat Man) Magiioeco —
. who died in December, 1963, in Good Samaritan Hospital at West —
Islip of what a Suffolk County Deputy Medical Examiner
» -gertified as a heart attack.
"Magliocco! S body was exhumed 10 days ago because
two Mafiosi had expressed the belier, in a conversation re-
corded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ‘that Magliocco
had been poisoned by Bonanno. The findings of a chemical |
analysis of Dodn ti ocae mre expected to be soedy thin vere
; "Althouch the conversation that raised suspicion
of murder in Maglicecce's death wns recorded by the F.B.I,
. in 1964, it was not made public until two months ago when
4 the Government filed 2,000 pases of transcripts of taped
‘ trike in We Japral Court, Newsr s an connect ton with another
case. Colombo, who served 30 days in 1966 for contempt
. after refusing to answer questions of a rackets grand Jury,
“0 is subject to recall by the current grand jury.
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