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...death last fall of New York Don Carlo Gambino, who as capo di tutti capi had brought a measure of peace to the nation's Mafia families through guile, diplomacy and strong-arm discipline. His elaborate funeral marked the end of an era, for he was the last of the graybeard Godfathers who dominated the Mafia in the 1950s and 1960s. The others are either in their graves or living in expensive Sunbelt retirement homes in Florida, Arizona and Palm Springs, Calif...
Some mobster money ends up in the pockets of the high-priced lawyers who keep them out of jail. Carlo Gambino's cousin Joseph Gambino...
When Carlo Gambino died last October at 74, practically every cop, crook and crime reporter in the country wondered who would replace him as the new capo di tutti capi, the boss of all bosses -in other words, the Godfather. Last week, a rash of stories in the New York press-the Times, the Daily News and New York magazine-crowned a new Godfather: longtime Racketeer Carmine Galante...
...bankrolled the DC-6 flight for $500,000 (based on roughly $20 a pound−the Bogota rate−plus $180,000 for the plane and other transportation costs). Galente has long wanted to re-establish the New York mob in the narcotics trade. Since the death of Carlo Gambino last fall, he has been struggling with another mobster, Aniello Dellacroce, for control of the New York underworld (TIME, Nov. 1). The plane's loss can hardly help Galente's leadership bid. Meanwhile, the feds can add a big new airplane to their fleet, which now totals...
Whoever takes over as Boss of All Bosses, dramatic departures from Gambino's style are certain. Gambino preferred peaceful solutions. He limited membership in the Mafia, ostensibly to lessen the risk that informants might join the families but actually to keep down the numbers he had to oversee. Gambino's would-be successors believe in expanding membership-in part to strengthen their own forces and provide themselves with point men for any future Mafia shootouts. For the past three years, they have brought into the country, via Montreal, a number of young, hardened, reliable Sicilian gangsters called "greenhorns...