Word: gambino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mafia family are alleged to control many of the topless and bottomless bars, where youthful dancers are enticed into prostitution. The racketeers are also believed to own quick-turnover hotels where prostitutes work and are expanding their control of New York's numerous massage parlors. In addition, the Gambino Mafia family has a large interest in the child pornography business...
...progress they have made in expanding their rackets. Bruno's men came to complain about the New Yorkers who are moving into Atlantic City, traditionally Philadelphia Mob territory. And everyone wanted to pay respect to Dons Aniello Dellacroce and Carmine Galante, front runners to succeed Carlo Gambino as the Mafia's next boss of bosses...
...heyday of Bugsy Siegel in the 1940s, the only important criminal clan was Jack Dragna's family in Los Angeles. When Dragna's nephew Louis turned down a chance to become boss in 1974 ?he was promptly dubbed "the Reluctant Prince"?the Outfit and New York's Gambino clan made an extraordinary agreement to exploit the West together. Frank Bompensiero, consigliere (chief adviser) of the fading Dragna family, outlined the arrangement to the FBI before he was executed...
Fratianno, 62, is believed by police to have made up to 16 hits as the Mob's West Coast executioner. When the Gambino and Chicago mobsters decided in 1975 to move into the West, they tapped Fratianno as their point man. With their blessing, he recruited Rizzitello, now 50, a handsome stickup artist who migrated to Los Angeles in the early 1960s because he wanted an easy racket and the respect that he had never got from the hoodlums back home. Both were a long time coming, but now he is rising quickly in influence and power. Says a West...
...ironic fact of life in the Mafia is that its mobsters always have money problems. For one thing, the tidal wave of cash from the rackets, mostly in small bills, is difficult to handle. The Gambino family solves this by paying friendly bank employees to exchange small bills for big ones that can be transported easily in satchel-size bundles...