Alleged Gambino mob boss gunned down in New York

AP ^ | 14 March 2019

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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.

[dp0622]

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.

[wardaddy]

Driveway I think

[JonPreston]

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.

[JonPreston]

Yes.

[dp0622]

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.

[dp0622]

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.

[JonPreston]

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

Yep. It's almost impossible to win.

[dp0622]

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.

[wardaddy]

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

[wardaddy]

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

[JonPreston]

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.

[Jim Noble]

“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.”

[dp0622]

Agreed!!

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

Morons.

[dp0622]

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!

[1217Chic]

“Leave the gun....take the cannolis”

That was Richard S. Castellano.

[JonPreston]

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.

[dp0622]

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! :)

[JonPreston]

Thanks!

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe he didn't want the house in Toscana. Should have reconsidered. Millione lire. Molto generoso!

[Covenantor]

Surely you must remember this tidbit from Jimmy Coonan's trial.

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