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  • Famed mobster Vinny “The Chin” Gigante’s grandson a candidate in local mayoral race

    03/13/2015 8:38:38 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 9 replies
    Rockland Cty Times ^ | 3/12/15 | DYLAN SKRILOFF
    It’s one of Rockland’s worst kept secrets. GOP and Preserve Airmont candidate for mayor Philip Gigante is the grandson of the late Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, longtime godfather of the Genovese crime family and arguably the most powerful gangster of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The Chin Gigante was best known for an intricate act he put on to appear insane, so clever that he was able to fool court-appointed psychiatrists, and for walking around in bathrobes and talking to himself around Greenwich Village. The act earned him the monicker “The Oddfather.” He also gained fame for a...