Carmine Galante (Italian:[ˈkarmineɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was acting boss (unofficial) of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar hanging from his mouth, leading to the nickname "The Cigar" and "Lilo" (a Sicilian term for cigar). He was assassinated on Commission orders in 1979 while dining in a restaurant.
CarmineGalante (Italian: [ˈkarmine ɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was acting boss (unofficial) of the Bonanno...
Steinbrenner, Aristotle Onassis, and Mafia bosses Fat Tony Salerno, CarmineGalante, and John Gotti. Cohn was born in The Bronx in New York City and educated...
pageant titleholder CarmineGalante (1910-1979), a member of the Bonanno crime family Cecilia (Plummer) Galante, American author Fabio Galante (born 1973), Italian...
met and became close friends with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, CarmineGalante, Joseph Bonanno and Joseph Massino. On December 3, 1953, Rastelli and...
"Rusty" Rastelli was imprisoned. Rastelli's reign was threatened by Carmine "Lilo" Galante, who felt he was the rightful boss because he had been underboss...
"Zips" due to their fast speech. Bonanno acting boss (unofficial) CarmineGalante brought Bonventre to New York to be his bodyguard. Bonventre soon became...
closely with Nicholas Marangello, Galante's underboss and became a close confidant to his former captain CarmineGalante, who by the mid-1970s had become...
Michael's Cemetery in East Elmhurst, Queens. In 1974, after his enemy CarmineGalante was released from prison, he allegedly ordered the bombing of the doors...
Avenue South Prospect Lefferts Gardens. He was one of two bodyguards to CarmineGalante who allegedly lured their own boss to the scene of his assassination...
of $25,000. In 1979, Bonanno boss CarmineGalante was murdered, creating a power vacuum in the family. After Galante's murder, Philip Rastelli took over...
reign in and out of prison, but was able to get the assassination of CarmineGalante, a mobster vying for power, approved in 1979. Originally a truck hijacker...
the underboss of the Bonanno crime family under CarmineGalante and saw himself demoted after Galantes death. He's the father-in-law of Robert Perrino...
Lucchese crime family, the "CEO" of the group); "Managing Directors" were CarmineGalante and Anthony Mirra. On February 14, 1959, Bentvena went to Bridgeport...
Engleman Ray Ferritto Stephen Flemmi Vincent Flemmi Jimmy Fratianno CarmineGalante Vito Genovese Sam Giancana Fred Goetz Martin Goldstein Sammy Gravano...
DeMeo. He said he was one of the murderers of Bonanno family boss CarmineGalante in July 1979, and Gambino family boss Paul Castellano in December 1985...
aware that CarmineGalante had been stopped by state troopers following a visit to Barbara's estate the previous year. A check of Galante by the troopers...
After official boss Philip Rastelli went to prison in 1975, capo CarmineGalante took control of the family. It is suspected that the heads of the other...
Mafia. He was assassinated in New York, January 1943 allegedly by CarmineGalante. Carlo Tresca was born March 9, 1879, in Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy, the...
of Joe Gallo, but was released on $5,000 bail. After the murder of CarmineGalante in 1979, a fight for control of the family started. Joseph Massino...
contracted to be hit with CarmineGalante, but were demoted to soldiers because they were well liked by Family members. After Galante's murder "Zips" capo Salvatore...
Bonanno and Gambino families. Both CarmineGalante and Carlo Gambino used zips for drug-running and contract killing. Galante's two personal bodyguards, Cesare...
brother-in-law to Michael Zaffarano. In 1979, after the murder of Bonanno boss CarmineGalante, Asaro became a capo of a Queens crew in the Bonanno family. In February...
Napolitano, another Philip Rastelli loyalist capo, after the 1979 murder of CarmineGalante. Both men were themselves threatened by another faction seeking to...
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