1941 killing of Emil Camarda by Salvatore Sabbatino

[Dwalin2014]

There is this murder case from 1941, when Emil Camarda was killed by Salvatore Sabbatino, both were important characters on the waterfront in New York. I read about Camarda before, if I got it right he was a mafioso (although don’t know whether a made one or an associate) and was powerful enough, so that Albert Anastasia even had Peter Panto killed in 1939, to do him a favor. There were also mentions about Camarda’s relatives being involved in the racketeering activities on the waterfront, somebody went to jail in the 50s after a large scale investigation, although the sentences were short. But I am more interested in the killer, Sabbatino: who was he exactly? Was he a mafioso too, or at least an important underworld character like Camarda, or was he just a “normal” guy who committed a crime of rage? In the 2 link article it’s said it was just an argument about whether hire more Irish or Italian workers and that Sabbatino was underpaying the workers. But was it really not premeditated or did they just make it look like that, while Sabbatino killed Camarda at somebody’s request? I mean, it would be an exceptional coincidence if a “big fish” like Camarda got killed over a drunken argument and nothing more, he was important enough that even Albert Anastasia barely missed the electric chair for the Panto murder he organized for Camarda. He exposed himself directly in that case, was present during the murder, such favors aren’t done to people unless they are important. So could somebody tell me please about Salvatore Sabbatino, was he a “big player in the game” too or was he not an underworld character?

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1941 ... -union-aid

https://www.transportworkers.org/node/1618