“Paul was going to jail anyway ... Bruce Mouw, who was head of the FBI’s Gambino squad when Castellano was hit, recalled getting a call on his kitchen phone from Scala — no cell phones ...

John Gotti ordered the hit on Castellano. Paul Castellano’s body is pictured here after he was gunned down in front of Sparks Steak House on Dec. 16, 1985, in New York City. Shown is the sheet ...

Don't Edit Paul Castellano is shown in New York in this ... Gotti and Gravano watched from half a block away as a hit squad in matching raincoats ambushed Castellano and Bilotti.

Referred to as “Big Paul,” Castellano presided over the Gambino ... He met a messy end at the hands of a four-man hit crew working for John Gotti on Dec. 16, 1985. The crew waited outside ...

The spectacular December 16, 1985, slaying of Mafia boss Paul Castellano and one of his henchmen riveted ... “Junior” Gotti, who tried with little success to fill his father’s shoes, the Castellano ...

Sure, there were mob hits, but the violence was kept within families. The most recent take-out of a boss, the slaying of Gambino head Paul Castellano at Sparks Steak House in 1985, was an inside ...

The murder of reputed Gambino crime family boss Frank Cali on Wednesday recalled New York City’s last major mob hit nearly 35 years ago: the assassination of Paul Castellano outside a Manhattan ...

It has been 35 years this week since the most brazen mob hit, rivaling the ... Gambino crime family head Paul Castellano, and his driver, Tommy Bilotti, fell to the ground. The two were ambushed ...

Here’s a look at some other high-profile mob hits in New York. Paul Castellano led the Gambino crime family for years, conducting business from a mansion in Todt Hill — the same Staten Island ...