Word: gambino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police spokesman included Carlo Gambino, "boss of all bosses" of organized crime in the New York area, in the list of underworld figures to be questioned in the slaying of Eboli, found early Sunday morning in Brooklyn's Crown Heights district...
...Gambino caper proved so perplexing that a special federal grand jury was impaneled last week to sort out the details. As pieced together by Justice Department officials, the case sounds like a chapter out of The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. It seems that the missing nephew, Emmanuel ("Manny Boy") Gambino, 29, was not one of Uncle Carlo's favorites. Assigned as a loan shark, Manny doled out the better part of $1,000,000 in Gambino family money to borrowers who were very tough in resisting his demands for repayment. Worse yet, a few months...
Steep. The next day a man telephoned Don Carlo's home and said that Manny had been kidnaped and was being held for a $350,000 ransom. Following instructions, Gambino sent his men racing off to a phone booth in New Jersey, but they somehow lost their way and arrived too late to receive another message. Four days later the deal was renegotiated; Don Carlo claimed that $350,000 was steep and wondered if the kidnapers would be satisfied with $60,000. After a day of haggling, the abductors agreed. The FBI, which had got wind of the goings...
...days later the FBI traced an abandoned rented truck believed to have been used in the plot to Robert Sentner, a New Jersey souvenir manufacturer. Sentner is a high-rolling gambler who just happened to be in hock to Manny Gambino for $40,000. As the FBI focused its investigation on Sentner...
...kidnaping, he confessed, was a hoax engineered by Manny, who hoped to bilk Uncle Carlo out of the ransom so that he could run off with his blonde girl friend. Sentner said that he assisted Manny in return for having his $40,000 debt erased from the Gambino books. Sentner, who enlisted four friends for the job, claims that Manny was alive when he last saw him but that he has no idea of his whereabouts. Manny's girl friend, who has secluded herself in her apartment, says, "If Manny ran off, it certainly wasn't with...