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...sister Carmella promised: "The streets are going to run red with blood, Joey." Within the space of six days, a total of five other bodies turned up, and the word was around that three more executions had been approved by the family of New York Mafia Overlord Carlo Gambino...
...Police do not believe that Gallo plotted that murder attempt, but friends of Colombo, who remains unable to talk or walk, thought he had. Gallo had been counted among the walking dead ever since he also aroused the anger of the biggest boss of them all, aging Carlo Gambino. Told to stop muscling into Gambino's operations, including the lucrative narcotics traffic in East Harlem, the cocky Gallo hurled the ultimate Mafia insult at Gambino: he spat...
...were checking hotel records in Florida and other places to determine whether Irving ever met Hughes, as he claims, for more than 100 hours of talk. Other federal men pursued a lead that Irving may have needed money to pay off loan sharks of the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino. Meantime the Internal Revenue Service signed tax liens against all of Irving's 1971 earnings, including the $650,000 in publisher's advances to "H.R. Hughes" that the Irvings had banked in Zurich. Swiss officials issued warrants for the Irvings' arrest...
...increasing doubt that Johnson was in the service of Brooklyn Mobster Joe Gallo, as was initially theorized. There is no evidence to link Johnson with the black gangsters recruited by Gallo. Moreover, there is a growing rumor that the contract for the Colombo "hit" was let by Carlo Gambino, the most powerful of the New York Mafiosi; and that Carmine ("Snakes") Persico, a Colombo caporegime, played a key role in carrying out the attempt...
According to this thesis, the Colombo rackets will fall to Persico as his reward. Then, the scenario goes, Persico, who has never been much of a leader, will botch up, leaving the road clear for Gambino to take uncontested control of the Colombo interests...