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Alleged Gambino mob boss gunned down in New York
AP ^ | 14 March 2019

Posted on 03/14/2019 3:06:38 AM PDT by zeestephen

A man said by federal prosecutors to have been a top leader of New York's notorious Gambino crime family was shot and killed Wednesday on Staten Island. Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, 53, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to his body at his home in the borough's Todt Hill section just after 9 p.m.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 201903; anthonycamello; cali; francescocali; frankcali; frankyboy; gambino; gambinocrimefamily; gambinos; genegotti; gmbino; goodriddance; mafia; mob; newjersey; newyorkcity; sicily; statenisland; todthill
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To: Sooth2222

The perps were Sicilians from Italy who emigrated here and have NO PROBLEM letting you know you can get whacked ANYWHERE.

Just like they do in Sicily.


41 posted on 03/14/2019 10:10:13 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: JonPreston

Driveway I think


42 posted on 03/14/2019 10:10:43 AM PDT by wardaddy (Progressives are simply unhappy people attacking the world rather than fixing themselves)
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To: dp0622

Tommy Bilotti’s sister taught my kids at Our Lady Star of the Sea way back when. Castellano’s house on Todt Hill was a “fixer” for Sector Charlie in the 122 pct. prior to his dinner at Sparks. I know it all very, very well.


43 posted on 03/14/2019 10:16:36 AM PDT by JonPreston (If you think we're treated badly now wait untill we're disarmed.)
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To: wardaddy

Yes.


44 posted on 03/14/2019 10:17:09 AM PDT by JonPreston (If you think we're treated badly now wait untill we're disarmed.)
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To: JonPreston

Sicilians are a lot different than the American born mobsters.

They have risen through the ranks of all 5 families very quickly and are much more vicious than American born.

Especially when today’s Italian American mobsters grew up in million dollar houses.

Doing time is not appealing AT ALL.

The neighborhood my father grew up in, in the 20s, going to prison was for some a step up.


45 posted on 03/14/2019 10:19:59 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: JonPreston

A good friend of mine was one of Jr’s lawyers in his fourth mistrial.

He said the government has ENDLESS money to throw at a case.

4 mistrials is amazing.


46 posted on 03/14/2019 10:22:03 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622
He said the government has ENDLESS money to throw at a case.

Yep. It's almost impossible to win.

47 posted on 03/14/2019 10:25:16 AM PDT by JonPreston (If you think we're treated badly now wait untill we're disarmed.)
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To: JonPreston

Jr eats at my friend’s restaurant here and there.

I would have loved to have sat on one of those juries.

RICO can go back 7 years, I think.

Murder can go back forever.

WTH did the defense say that resulted in FOUR mistrials?

And that movie that Jr. made about his father, with John Travolta in it, boy was that some revisionist history :)

The guy was tough as they come but he was a monster.


48 posted on 03/14/2019 10:29:01 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: COBOL2Java
That’s the second Umbertos location The original where Joey got clipped ....deservedly in my opinion.... Was the northwest corner of Mulberry and Hester and it was white with light blue trim Joey died on the sidewalk on the Mulberry side after being shot inside with his family and friends.....the restaurant owner was mobbed up and was likely complicit...Lanniello....Gallo had Joe Colombo killed or mortally wounded to be precise....the old bosses probably liked that frankly given Colombo’s public life but Gallo did it on his own....can’t do that....Gallo was far too pedestrian to be a family boss honestly...like Gotti

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49 posted on 03/14/2019 10:38:47 AM PDT by wardaddy (Progressives are simply unhappy people attacking the world rather than fixing themselves)
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To: dp0622

Gotti was just a brute

When his mentor and brainpower Aniello Dellacroce died

It was just a matter of time Gotti would do himself in by his stupidity and excess

Dellacroce was saavy and respected

Being a showy mob guy is akin to akin to Julia Roberts doing porn movies insofar as poor career choice


50 posted on 03/14/2019 10:45:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (Progressives are simply unhappy people attacking the world rather than fixing themselves)
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To: dp0622
The Travolta movie was a bomb; the Godfather remains the gold standard for me, followed by the Sopranos for it's realism.

I was living in a new development near Richmond Ave when Gotti whacked a member of the Irish Westies. That was his beginning.

51 posted on 03/14/2019 10:47:01 AM PDT by JonPreston (If you think we're treated badly now wait untill we're disarmed.)
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To: zeestephen

“These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know, you gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they was just asking for trouble.”


52 posted on 03/14/2019 10:51:42 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: wardaddy

Agreed!!

Nowadays these bloods and crips post their stolen goods on facebook!!!

Morons.


53 posted on 03/14/2019 10:52:47 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: JonPreston

The Westies are so small in number but INSANE!!

“State of Grace”, loosely based on the Westies, was a VERY GOOD movie.

Came out the same year as Goodfellas. Bad break

Gary Oldman was great.

Gottia whacked a Westie?

I was born in ‘68 so am not familiar with the 70s to mid 80s goings on.

I read that the FBI went to Castellano and asked him to stop giving the green light to the westies to murder because they were going nuts with it!


54 posted on 03/14/2019 10:55:03 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: JonPreston

“Leave the gun....take the cannolis”

That was Richard S. Castellano.


55 posted on 03/14/2019 10:58:50 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: dp0622

I forget what family the Westies were connected to, but I do recall a kid named Featherstone?, a Vietnam vet, who rolled a hand grenade into a room full of folks. Yep, they were insane.


56 posted on 03/14/2019 11:01:18 AM PDT by JonPreston (If you think we're treated badly now wait untill we're disarmed.)
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To: JonPreston

Featherstone!! They mostly did things for the Gambinos but they were nuts.

Featherstone turned state’s evidence.

FBI guys said at the time that they were the “most feared white criminals” of their day.

wow.

Rolled a hand grenade. He was a NUT! He used to chop people’s hands off and freeze them use as fingerprints later on!!

If I had to chop a hand off Id be in psych for months! :)


57 posted on 03/14/2019 11:04:41 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: 1217Chic

Thanks!


58 posted on 03/14/2019 11:05:07 AM PDT by JonPreston (If you think we're treated badly now wait untill we're disarmed.)
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To: zeestephen; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Yaelle; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion; Rebelbase
Maybe he didn't want the house in Toscana. Should have reconsidered. Millione lire. Molto generoso!


59 posted on 03/14/2019 11:12:55 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dp0622
Surely you must remember this tidbit from Jimmy Coonan's trial.

Can't find the NYC Post front page

60 posted on 03/14/2019 11:32:10 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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