A longtime rival to the Genovese family as the dominant entity ... This paved the way for the immensely powerful Carlo Gambino and later the infamous John Gotti, who orchestrated the 1985 hit ...

Boss from 1963 to 1978. In a Gambino hit, he was shot in the head at a rally for Italian-American civil rights in Manhattan. * Vito Genovese “Boss of all Bosses” while at the helm of own crime ...

Though the crime organization in question had been operating for decades, the Gambino family’s name came from Carlo Gambino ... Colombo, Genovese and Lucchese — have stuck since.

Ten alleged mafioso from the Gambino crime family — one of New ... bosses today are more likely to flip on their underlings. Vito Genovese (left in a 1959 file photo), reputed “king” of ...

Anastasia's right-hand man was Carlo Gambino. After Anastasia was assassinated, Gambino became the boss of the family. The crime family exerted control over the construction industry as well as ...

Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Carlo Gambino are long gone ... and possibly kill a witness against the powerful the Genovese family of New York in 2005. He is also accused of helping to run ...

I've been hearing stories about the five New York crime families of La Cosa Nostra ( Gambino, Genovese ... In 1957, when Vito Genovese moved to take over the crime family, he sent assassin ...