Seeking clarification on "Joe from the Bronx" Gambino

[bronx]

B. you are correct bronx joe was closer with carlo, when carlo was boss he was a bath beach guy or bensonhurst. castellano's gambino and all the extended inter married people were co mingled..massota's ect. darpa's ferro's plenty to go around giamona's, the list is very long.so if joe from bronx at one time had guys from bklyn ,not a surprise.

[felice]

well actually on giuseppe gamino fbi files the fbi states they have found no track of familiar relationship between joe from the bronx and the other gambino. joe from the bronx was married with a spatola who was the sister of the salvatore spatola there in the picture with sinatra. spatola was a made man too. they were originally from passo di rigano area in palermo

[CornerBoy]

so who is Joe "Red" Gambino?

[CabriniGreen]

Is Sal Spatola this guy?? Or is there ANOTHER Sal Spatola, lol. Also, could these two guys named possibly be the crew members?




Three Indicted in Shooting of Pizza Connection Defendant
SAMUEL MAULL
May 28, 1987
NEW YORK (AP) _ Three men who prosecutors say wanted to ″teach someone a lesson″ have been indicted in the shooting of a man later convicted in the ″pizza connection″ narcotics case.

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said Wednesday that a grand jury had charged Salvatore Spatola, 38, of Queens, Guiseppe Amico, 29, of Brooklyn, and Phillip Ragosta, 32, of Brooklyn, with conspiracy and attempted murder in the Feb. 11 shooting.

Ragosta also was charged with second-degree attempted murder and assault for shooting a bystander, Morgenthau said.



Last week, federal prosecutors, without explanation, dropped charges against two other men accused of ordering Pietro Alfano shot.

U.S. Magistrate Sharon E. Grubin on May 20 dismissed charges against Vincenzo Pullara, 32, of Brooklyn, and supermarket executive Pasquale Conte Sr., 61, of Roslyn. Conte was identified in court papers as a capo in the Gambino organized crime family allegedly run by John Gotti.

The charges were dismissed ″without prejudice,″ however, meaning prosecutors may file them again.

The day before, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn quietly withdrew drug trafficking charges against Conte.

Published reports said the charges against Conte and Pullara were dismissed because an informant, identified as Satola, reneged on his agreement to testify.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, Deborah Corley, said his office would have no comment.

The Manhattan grand jury charged that Spatola contacted Mario DeGrezzia in September 1986 and asked whether he knew anyone ″who could teach someone a lesson.″ DeGrezzia said he did, and put him in contact with Amico, the district attorney said.

Spatola allegedly offered Amico $40,000 to kill Alfano. Alfano was on trial at the time in a federal narcotics case dubbed the pizza connection because ring members dealt heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors nationwide.

Amico subsequently enlisted Ragosta to help with the planned killing, offering him a share of the money, according to the indictment.

Morgenthau said Amico, Ragosta and a third man, Frank Bavosa, waited outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan for Alfano on Feb. 11 and followed him to Greenwich Village.

Ragosta ran up behind Alfano and shot him several times with a pistol furnished by Spatola, Morgenthau said. Bystander Ronald Price was struck by a bullet that went awry, the district attorney said.



Alfano, paralyzed from the waist down in the shooting, is now serving time in a federal prison in Chicago. He was one of 18 men convicted in the international, Mafia-controlled heroin importing conspiracy that prosecutors said handled more than $1 billion in drugs.

Conspiracy and attempted murder carry maximum penalties of up to 25 years in prison. First-degree assault carries a maximum 15-year penalty.

Federal murder-for-hire charges filed last Feberuary against Ragosta, Amico and Bavosa are pending, prosecutors said. Morgenthau said he does not plan to seek an indictment against Bavosa here because he faces up to 40 years in prison in New Jersey on the federal charges.

[NYNighthawk]

Where is Sal Spatola these days?

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Sorry guys.... this is a little better....

By Leonard Buder
Dec. 15, 1984

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In a series of raids that began before dawn yesterday, Federal agents, New York City detectives and state troopers arrested 32 people described as members of three interrelated heroin and cocaine rings here. Seven other people were still being sought last night.

Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward said the arrests marked ''a dismantling of interrelated drug importation networks'' with bases in New York City ''which did a combined gross business of $100 million annually.''

''These arrests reach very high in the drug trade in terms of importing narcotics,'' the Commissioner said at a news conference at Police Headquarters.

The arrests were carried out in the city, Long Island, upstate New York, New Jersey and Florida. There was no reported resistance. Authorities said they seized five and a half pounds of heroin and a pound and a half of cocaine, with a combined street value of $3 million, and $137,000 in cash and seven guns. 'Enormous Amounts' of Heroin


Federal prosecutors, who joined Commissioner Ward in announcing the arrests, said most of the defendants were natives of Sicily who had come to this country in the last 10 or 20 years and become American citizens. Many, they said, were related by blood or marriage.

Because of their backgrounds, they were ''able to exploit contacts in Sicily who supplied them on demand with enormous amounts of higher quality heroin,'' the authorities said in a joint announcement.

The officials declined to say whether those arrested were involved with organized-crime groups in Sicily or New York, or with the so-called Pizza Connection, which has resulted in many arrests in recent months.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the United States Attorney for the Southern District, said that according to an affidavit filed in Federal court, when an undercover agent who was buying drugs as part of the investigation complained about the price, one of the defendants replied: ''The price is not set by me, it's set by the capo.'' The term usually refers to a high-ranking organized- crime figure.






Authorities said the defendents operated out of a barbershop, restaurants, an auto body repair shop and other places of businesses, largely in Brooklyn and Manhattan, to conceal their illegal activities.

The officials said that among the more prominent members of the rings were Joseph Spatola, 32 years old, and his brother, Frederico, 41, both of Astoria, Queens, and their cousin, Salvatore Spatola, 36, of Maspeth, Queens; Vito Pepitone, 35, of Ridgewood, N.J., and Nicolo Argano, 41, of Williston Park, N.Y.

All 32 defendants were charged with conspiracy to sell drugs and some were charged with the sale of drugs.

Raymond J. Dearie, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District, described the rings as ''triple threat'' operations that had the ability to import drugs and sell to wholesale and retail markets ''without breaking the lines of the organization.''

The arrests were the culmination of separate investigations started 18 months ago under the auspices of the President's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.

[felice]

that's another spatola.

[don-shunter]

Could you imagine how complex a chart would be trying to connect all the Gambinos, castellanos etc

[Ivan]

Could you imagine how complex a chart would be trying to connect all the Gambinos, castellanos etc

yeah especially with all the incest

[NYNighthawk]

Joe Gmbinpo who is sitting in the Sinatra pic often has his face blured with Fratiano's pic. Anyone know why?

[B.]

well actually on giuseppe gamino fbi files the fbi states they have found no track of familiar relationship between joe from the bronx and the other gambino. joe from the bronx was married with a spatola who was the sister of the salvatore spatola there in the picture with sinatra. spatola was a made man too. they were originally from passo di rigano area in palermo

Good to know. Even members/associates thought the Gambinos were related.

An article says he entered the US illegally in 1957. It's more interesting that he came to NYC and rose through the ranks quickly if he wasn't closely related to Carlo.