Word: profaci
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Carna and Frank ("Punchy") Illiano. The cops made the arrests-the technical charge was consorting with criminals, that is, each other-after word got around that the Gallo mob was about to declare a shooting war on a rival Brooklyn gang headed by an olive oil distributor named Joseph Profaci, who stands high enough in the underworld to have attended the convention of hoods in Apalachin, N.Y., in 1957. True to their leader's image, the Gallo mobsters laughed off their arrests...