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Carlo Gambino — Part 12

107 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Carlo Gambino · 107 pages OCR'd
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The op : oh, he my ‘yot fo + Coon md ‘ Clas ; hee, ne edit eae otek bye a isa etsy x 5 ‘ESTES STtoTs SB, roe ve toe git wat” ‘ = rt, . \ ; ‘ ~ Bs ~ Re still is a silent partner in these wade ether businesses-—conatruction, real estate, imported cheeson = — , and olive oi, meat products, fat "rendering, paper. preducts, garbage hauling, and so on, Many of his firms enploy Italian alicns who entered the U.S. by jumping ship. just as Don Carlo did -a half-century . ALU. Gambino also is a Inbor consultant. He formerly was n partner in $.G.S. Associates, a Inbor relations firm whose clients included several ma,or business MA O-4 Oe PR TR AT am yt and industria! companies. One client said a contract . at with S.G.S, was “a virtual guarantee that there would © be no strikes or other labor trouble.” ot 8.G.5, (the “G” stood tor Gambino;-his partners . Sf were Henry Saltzstein, a convicted burglar and book- bt ic, and George Schiller} folded in the heat of in- jrestigations by the FBI, two federal grand juries bl and other probers. * Gambino works hoth sides of the Inbor street, : scleezing money from empleyers, uions and workers, . . His men have infiltrated and taken over several union % locals. ew seen . During an investization of mob activities in New 6: York locals of the Mason Tenders’ Union, electronic Bi eavesdroppers recorded a conversation between. ~ Michael Seandifia, Peter (Petey Pumps) Ferrara and = © - Accursion (Cus) Marinelli, Scandifia and Ferrara are ¢ | beth captains in the Gambino crime familys Marinelli - js 2 seldier in the same group. Se They discussed a meeting of thelr gang leaders, Fi respectfully called “the acministration,” at which it zc was decided that a shop steward called Tommy should | ° be made assistant business representative of Mason ¢ - Tender Local 47, te Marinelli: “Who was present?” Or Ferrara: “Jee Riecobono, Carlo. (Gambino), Car- t mine (Lombaraozzi), Joe Bandi and myself and doe §7 Zingara, They made it up, the Administration, that Py Tommy is to be the next delegate.” ‘ How one thing Yeads to another in Don Carto's “. cuongiomerate was described during the State Investi- 92 gation Commission's 1969 hearings on criminal ine 2] filtration of honest businesses,: $c Witresses testified that the Gambino clan moved wz inte the cutlery- serinding trade a few years age & ert of the New Yerk Grinders Association £2 Bay Seat wo lye. ASE. 22 tion officers said they lost 2 ugtommeré: | 7 and $474 000 worth of busineza in three gan té= > a new grindin outfit” headed by Paolo Not gurprisingly, nmiany of the customers | 6 gitched to the Gambino service were store owners. - wao had been buying meats and other products troui, t Gambino-controlled firms. : c . Peolo finally offered to get ont of the grinding gt game for $300,000. The association said this W . too much, #0 he settled for $175,000. oT Don Carlo’s more shadowy enterprises tnciods PI beokmaking, shylocking, extortion, hijacks . the underworld operations on the New Yo: aan ec 4 front end Kennedy Airport. Investigators valor ke a has becr deeply invelved in the ‘scone ee tT and narcotics. Ake Gambino was the jast Mafia boss to collect Se othe v y “dues” from his followers, Each of the estimated {000 members and associate members of hia crime family kicked in §25 a month ‘to the ehief -711il this traditional levy was discontinued four or _ ve years AZO. Don Carlo dees not: fisunt his wealth. His cow- fortabie homes in Brooklyn and Long Istue’ «re not the most expensive ‘) their neighborhow: But > Ppiie ee awith_hig-ogerations say by. suld .. $xise F1t million cash pn a feed herve’ retire. * - 2d ENO Foe oe . om mere ae. ae 6 ae) 3 - 9s Stillailant partner Beta. + a
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