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...before excluded him from all its activities, believing that the investigations he had inspired had crimped Mob business in Chicago. The gang-slaying theory was lent credence by a shadowy report that on hearing of the shooting, the Mafia's Boss of Bosses, New York's Carlo Gambino, promptly passed word that Giancana's killer was to be executed-again a frequent Mafia precaution after a major...
LAWRENCE A. GAMBINO...
...last vestiges of this problem have been rooted out." That is going to take some big-time rooting, since there is obviously more to all of this than a couple of dishonest clerks dipping their hands in the till. TIME has learned that two Mafia families-those of Carlo Gambino and Joe Bonanno -were involved. The Gambinos set up the looting, authorities say, and have already pushed 169 lbs. of the stolen drugs in Harlem. The going price: around $100,000 per pound...
...hardly that. Though Gold predicts that the evidence amassed by him could "break the back" of organized crime, doubters point out that no subpoena was served on Carlo Gambino, the ailing "boss of bosses." Nonetheless, the investigation affords an intriguing look at the workings of both cops and capos and if Gold is right could result in a stunning series of indictments that would attack New York's embattled Mafia clans on yet another front...
...Corse also supplied and financed the new gangs of South Americans, Puerto Ricans and blacks, who moved into the vacant territories. All members of the milieu were instructed to avoid disturbing those Mafiosi who still continued to deal in narcotics-chiefly the capos and soldiers of the Bonanno and Gambino families...