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3 4 3 ] 3 4 4 < it aa now he pachased Y domand for low- He Coal etatny Soe SET a rake ee nen ne a z ws 6: as 2° ae 9S 1 1 a StilLeilent partner — we = Tie still is a silent partner in these and ethef. a businesses--eonstruction, real estate, fmported cheeson 8 - and olive oil, meat products, fat ‘rendering, paper. ¢ 7 products, garbage hauling, and so on, Many of his 7° firms enploy Italian aliens who entered the U8. by 1 ¢ jumping ship, just as Don Carlo did-a half-century . ce ALD, = Gambino also 1s a Tabor consultant, He formerly. 6+ was x partner in S.G.S. Associates, a labor relations . firm whose clients included several ma,or business . and industria? companies. One client said a contract. , ¢ . was “a virtual gua inter that there would ‘es or other labor trouble.” ot .S. (the “G” stood tor Gambino; "his partners Sf were Si tt Saltzstein, a convicted burglar and book- 44 je, and George Schiller} folded in the heat of in- vestigations by the FBI, two federal grand juries r ‘and other probers. . Gambino works both sidex of the Jabor street, smueezing money from employers, unions and workers, | Hite mien have infiltrated and taken over several union ocals, —— __ During an investigation of mob activities in New York locals of the Mason Tenders’ Union, electronie eavesdroppers recorded a conversation between Michaei Seandifia, Peter (Petey Pumps) Ferrara and Accursion (Cus) Marinelli, Seandifia and Ferrara are beth captains in the Gambino crime family, Marinelli is 2 scldier in the same group. They diseusced a meeting of thelr rang leaders, respectfully called “the acmunistration,” at whieh it was decided that a shop steward called Tommy should be made assistant business representative of Mason Tender Local 47, Marinelli: “Who was present?” Ferrara: “Joe Riccobono, Carlo (Gambino), Car: mine (Lombercozzil, Joe Randi and myself Zingara, They made it up, the Administration, that Tommy is to be the next delegate.” How one thing leads to another in Don Carle's cup jomerate was described during the State Investi- ion Commission's 1969 hearings on criminal in- fits ration of honest businesses.* Witresses testified that the Gambino clan moved into the cutlery-grinding trade a few years age and oostumambers of the New Yerk Grinders Association nearly $650,000, ncaa 7 —Assaciztion officers suid they lost ere. and $474,000 worth of business in cour iz a new grinding outfit’ headed by Paolo Gamb Not surprisingly, miany of the customers.” fwitched to the Gembino service were store owners who had been buying meats and other products ron, Gambino-controlled firms. © Prolo finaly of offered to get out of the Eee 9} geme for association said toa much, 80 he settled for for $175,000. * Don Carlo’s more shadowy enterprises “tncinde ri bookmaking, shylecking, extortion, ‘bilaek and- all the underworld operations on thi York water: front and Kennedy Airport. Investigators tellers be he ts t has becr. deeply involved in the smuggling ef-aliens 5 © and narcotics. ety eo Gambino was the last Mafia boss to collect ‘month. v ly “dues” from his followers. Each of the extimated 5,000 members and associate members of his erime family kicked in $25 a month ‘to the ehief «til this traditional levy was ¢:scontinued four or ve years ago. Don Carlo does not flaunt his wesith. Hir com- fortabie homes in Brooklyn and Long Jstuy <re not the most expensive ‘y their neighborho.. But - fam liar. -with—bis- rations say he. ld ee ty illion cash pa a few her" rotire. © - pe semen QOtuMrNO, TNO ame rd . x i) ne On wor 0 abt ANA AOR