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Open Contract. New York police were certain that they were on the trail of Joey Gallo's killer. As they now reconstruct the assassination, an open contract for Gallo's death had been offered by the Carlo Gambino family at the urging of the Colombos-meaning any Mafia member could execute it. Gambino, the East's strongest Mafia boss, supplied both gangs with guns and encouraged the warfare...
...sighted at Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy on April 7 by a small-time racketeer who quickly spread the word. Most interested was Carmine ("Sonny Pinto") DeBiase, a soldier in the Mafia clan once headed by the late Vito Genovese. He recruited Phil ("Fat Fungi") Gambino, a distant relative of Carlo's, and two Brooklyn mobsters identified so far only as brothers...
...recognized him and cursed, "You son of a bitch," as DeBiase began shooting. The Brooklyn brothers opened fire from the clam bar over the heads of patrons to force everyone to duck for cover. DeBiase and the brothers fled in the confusion, apparently in a car driven by Phil Gambino...
...report has it that it was the Gambinos, not the Gallos, who ordered Colombo hit last summer. (Gambino was said to have been angered by the embarrassing publicity Colombo was arousing with his civil rights league.) At the same time, the Gambinos had a "contract" out on Gallo-although it is not clear yet who finally killed him. (A contract, which may or may not involve a fee, is a boss's official sanction for an execution.) Now, to complete a Machiavellian circle, the Gambinos are supplying both the Colombos and the Gallos with new guns and ammunition...
...Gallos would be disastrously thinned if they lost as few as a half dozen men. Yet they have wartime experience that the Colombos lack. Before a Mob Götterdämmerung ensues, however, both the Gallos and Colombos may realize that their feud is merely part of Carlo Gambino's larger design...