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Carlo Gambino — Part 11
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"The grand jury wants to know also how the Mafia's
ruling 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.
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: - "fhe rackets grand jury took over in May, 1968, the
oa * “investigation that another grand jury had conducted for 18
2 months into organized crime in Brooklyn.
$ "The grand juries have so far questioned severai
- 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
:.- after being granted immunity have either served jail terms
‘for contempt or are in various stages of contempt proceedings.
teen : :
"Exhumation Report Due
: "Colombo, according to Federa] authorities, was also
@ member of the Mafia's national commission when Bonanno was
deposed. Colombo, a Brooklyn real estate man, reportedly
succeeded to the family leadership of Joseph (Fat Man) Maglioeco
:. ga. Who died in December, 1963, in Good Samaritan Hospital at West
“- "a= “Islip of what a Suffolk County Deputy Medical Examiner
+ certified as a heart attack.
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"Mapliocco's body was exhumed 10 days ago because
. two Mafiosi had expressed the belief, in a conversation re-
5 corded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ‘that Magliocco
had been poisoned by ‘Bonanno. The findings of a chemical
antiysis of body ne nara expected to tr os edy thin wees.
wo "Although the conversation that raised suspicion
: of murder in Magliccce's death was recorded by the FBI,
in 1964, it was not made public until two months ago when
the Government filed 2,000 pages o? transcripts of taped
trike in Felorel Court, Newars, in cunnection with another
case. Colombo, who served 30 days in 1966 for contempt
after refusing to answer questions of a rackets grand Jury,
is ‘subject to recall by the current grand jury.
NOR
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