Carmine Galante (pronounced gah-LAN-tay), also known as "Lilo" and "Cigar" (February 21, 1910 - July 12, 1979), is a mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family. Galante is rarely seen without a cigar, leading to the nickname "Cigar" and "Lilo" (Italian slang word for cigars).
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Biography
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Camillo Carmine Galante was born on February 21, 1910, in a tenement house in the East of Harlem Manhattan. His parents, Vincenzo "James" Galante and Vincenza Russo, had emigrated to New York City in 1906 from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, where Vincenzo was a fisherman.
Carmine Galante has two brothers, Samuel and Peter Galante, and two sisters, Josephine and Angelina Galante. Carmine Galante married Helen Marulli, whom she had three children; James Galante, Camille Galante, and Angela Galante. During the last 20 years of his life, Carmine Galante actually lived with Ann Acquavella; the couple had two children together. He is the uncle to Bonanno family capo crime James Carmine Galante.
Galante stands about 5 feet 6 inches and weighs about 160 pounds. When in prison in 1931, doctors diagnosed Galante having a psychopathic personality.
Galante owns Rosina Costume Company in Brooklyn, New York and is associated with Abco Seller Company in West New York, New Jersey.
Initial years
At the age of 10, Galante was sent to reform school for his criminal activities. He immediately formed a gang of street teenagers on the Lower East Side of New York. At the age of 15, Galante has quit seventh grade. As a teenager, Galante became a Mafia colleague during the Prohibition era, becoming the principal enforcer at the end of the decade. During this period, Galante also worked as a fish sorter and in artificial flower shop. On December 12, 1925, the 15-year-old Galante pleaded guilty to allegations of assault. On December 22, 1926, Galante was sentenced to at least two and a half years in state prison.
In August 1930, Galante was arrested for the murder of police officer Walter DeCastilla during a payroll robbery. However, Galante was never charged. Also in 1930, New York Police Department (NYPD) officer Joseph Meenahan arrested Galante and other gang members who tried to hijack a truck in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In the next gun battle, Galante injured Meenahan and a six-year-old boy, both survived. On February 8, 1931, after pleading guilty to a robbery trial, Galante was sentenced to 12 and a half years in state prison. On May 1, 1939, Galante was released from prison on parole.
In 1940, Galante did a "blow" to Vito Genovese, the official underboss of Luciano's crime family. Galante has an evil reputation for his crimes and is suspected by the New York Police Department (NYPD) involved in over eighty murders. Galante reportedly had a cold gaze, dead eyes with eyes that betrayed indifference to human life, frightened both law enforcers and other Mafia members. Ralph Salerno, a former New York Police Department detective, once said, "Of all the gangsters I've met personally, and I've met with dozens of them in all my years, there are only two that when I see them directly in my eyes, I decided I did not want them to be really mad at me.Antiello Dellacroce is one and Carmine Galante is the other They have bad eyes, I mean they have killer eyes You can see how frightening they are, the cold stare of a murderer. "
In 1943, Galante allegedly killed Carlo Tresca, the publisher of the anti-fascist newspaper in New York. Genovese, who lives in exile in Italy, offers to kill Tresca in aid to Italian President Benito Mussolini. Genovese allegedly gave Galante's assassination contract. On January 11, 1943, Galante allegedly shot and killed Tresca as he stepped out of the newspaper office in Manhattan, and then got into the car and left. Although Galante was arrested as a suspect, no one was accused of murder. After the assassination of Tresca, Galante was sent back to prison with a parole violation. On December 21, 1944, Galante was released from prison.
On February 10, 1945, Galante married Helena Marulli in New York.
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Underboss
Galante changed from being a driver of the Bonanno family boss, Joseph Bonanno, to a caporegime and then an underboss. He is said to be loyal to Bonanno and often talks about him with amazing admiration. They also share a common enemy, Carlo Gambino from the Anastasia crime family (before the organization carrying the Gambino names from 1957).
In 1953, Bonanno sent Galante to Montreal, Quebec to oversee the family medicine business there where he worked with Vincenzo Cotroni in French Connection. The Bonanno family imported large quantities of heroin by ship to Montreal and then sent it to the United States. In 1957, due to Galante's powerful squeezing tactics, the Canadian Government deported him back to the United States.
In October 1957, Bonanno and Galante held a hotel meeting in Palermo, Sicily planning to import heroin into the United States. Participants included the boss who exiled Lucky Luciano and other American mafia, with a Sicilian Mafia delegation led by Giuseppe Genco Russo's mobster. As part of the agreement, the Sicilian mafia will come to the US to distribute narcotics. Galante brought many youths, known as Zip, from his family's house Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani, to work as bodyguards, assassins and drug traffickers. These Sicilian villains have total trust and confidence for Galante.
In 1958, after being indicted on charges of drug conspiracy, Galante was hiding. On June 3, 1959, New Jersey State Police officers arrested Galante after stopping his car at the State Parkway Park near New York City. The federal agency recently discovered that Galante was hiding in a house on Pelican Island off the coast of South Jersey. After posting $ 100,000 bail, he was released. On May 18, 1960, Galante was indicted on the second narcotics charge; he gave up voluntarily.
Galante's first narcotics trial began on 21 November 1960 and one of the other defendants was William Bentvena ("Billy Batts" who was killed by Tommy DeSimone). From the outset, the first trial was characterized by judges and alternatives who dropped out of school and the courtroom display imposed by the defendants. On May 15, 1961, the judge announced the cancellation of the trial. The foreman jury had "fallen" down several stairs in a building abandoned in the middle of the night and could not continue the trial because of an injury. Galante was sentenced to 20 days in prison for insulting the court. On July 10, 1962, after being found guilty in a second narcotics trial, Galante was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
Power grab
In 1964, Joseph Bonanno and his ally, the boss of the crime family Profaci Joseph Magliocco, failed to plan to kill three members of the rivals of the Mafia Commission. When the plot was found, the Commission ordered Bonanno to retire. Over the next 10 years, Bonanno tried to set up his son Salvatore Bonanno as the boss while the Commission tried to run the family with a series of ineffective superiors.
In January 1974, Galante was released from prison on parole. A few days after being released from prison, Galante allegedly ordered the bombing of the door to the tomb of his enemy, Frank Costello, who died in 1973.
In November 1974, the Commission appointed Philip "Rusty" Rastelli as the official boss of the Bonanno family. However, Rastelli was immediately sent to prison and Galante seized effective family control. As a former underboss, Galante considers himself the legitimate successor to Joseph Bonanno, a man who has always been loyal to him.
During the late 1970s, Galante allegedly organized the killing of at least eight members of the Gambino family, with whom he experienced fierce competition, to take over the massive drug trade operation.
On March 3, 1978, Galante's parole was withdrawn by the United States Parole Commission and he was sent back to prison. Galante allegedly violated parole by associating with other Bonanno mafia. However, on February 27, 1979, a judge ruled that the government had illegally revoked Galante's parole and ordered immediate release from prison. At this stage, Galante is bald, bespectacled and stooped.
Death
New York crime families are worried about Galante's fond of taking over the narcotics market. Galante also refused to share drug profits with other families. Although Galante realized that he had many enemies, he said, "Nobody will kill me, they will not dare." Genovese crime family boss Frank Tieri began contacting the leaders of Cosa Nostra to build a consensus for Galante's killing, even obtaining the consent of the exiled Joseph Bonanno. They received encouragement when Rastelli, the official boss, sought the Commission's approval to kill Galante as an illegal usurper. In 1979, the Mafia Commission ordered Galante's execution.
On July 12, 1979, Galante was killed just as he finished lunch on the open terrace at Joe and Mary's Italian-American Restaurant at 205 Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Galante was dining with Leonard Coppola, a Capo Bonanno, and the owner of Giuseppe Turano's restaurant/cousin, a Bonanno warrior. Also seated at the table are Sicilian Galante bodyguards, Baldassare Amato and Cesare Bonventre. At 2:45 pm, three masked men of ski entered the restaurant, walked to the porch, and opened fire with guns and pistols. Galante, Turano, and Coppola were killed instantly. Galante's picture shows a cigar still in his mouth at the time of his death. Amato and Bonventre, who did nothing to protect Galante, were left unscathed. The gunmen then ran out of the restaurant.
Those involved in the killing were later identified as Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato, Dominick Trinchera, Dominick Napolitano and Louis Giongetti. These people are employed by Alphonse Indelicato. However, in Philip Carlo's 2009 book, "Ice Man: Confession of a Mafia Contract Killer", Carlo writes that serial killers and Mafia killer Richard Kuklinski ("Ice Man") participated in the Galante killing. He went to the restaurant before, ate and waited for Galante to come. Kuklinski, Carlo wrote, got up from his seat, walked to the back and took the rifle from under his coat, and shot Galante and his bodyguard. Three men also arrived by the time Kuklinski started shooting and made Galante and his men go down. Carlo reports that Kuklinski is defended by Roy DeMeo on behalf of the Gambino family's participation in the Commission's deal to kill Galante.
Aftermath
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York refused to allow the funeral mass for Galante because of his fame. Galante is buried at Saint John's Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens.
In 1984, Bonventre was found murdered in a New Jersey warehouse, allegedly to guarantee his silence in the Galante killing. On 13 January 1987, Anthony Indelicato was sentenced to 40 years in prison, as a defendant in the Commission's hearing, for the killing of Galante, Coppola, and Turano.
Popular culture
In 2005, the assassin Richard Kuklinski (who died in 2006 in Trenton State Prison, New Jersey) claimed that he was one of the assassins who killed Galante.
Although never mentioned by name, Galante is mentioned twice in the movie Donnie Brasco . Galante first appeared as a smoking-cigar character known as the "Boss". Later in the film, Galante's killing was reported on the front page of a newspaper. Mobster Lefty Ruggiero pointed to his story and said, "Can you believe it? The damn boss has been beaten!"
The HBO Event The Sopranos refers to Galante's murder in the episode "A Hit Is a Hit". Tony Soprano plays golf with his neighbor, Dr. Bruce Cusamano. After someone asked Cusamano if he had ever seen a picture of Galante who died with a cigar hanging from his mouth, Cusamano described the killing as "a very good blow".
Galante is depicted in the first episode of British TV history channel, Yesterday's documentary series Mafia's Greatest Hits.
References
- Pistone, Joseph D.; & amp; Woodley, Richard (1999) Donnie Brasco: Life of My Crickets in Mafia , Hodder & amp; Stoughton. ISBNÃ, 0-340-66637-4.
- Pistone, Joseph D.; & amp; Brandt, Charles (2007). Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business , Running Press. ISBNÃ, 0-7624-2707-8.
- DeStefano, Anthony. The Last Godfather: Joey Massino & amp; The Fall of the Family of Bonanno Crime . California: Citadel, 2006.
External links
- "FBI Files Carmine Galante 1 to 12"
- Seize the Night: Carmine Galante
- Carmine "Lilo" Galante in Find A Grave
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