LCN Bios: Gambino Sicilian Crew Info (1980s) / John Gambino

[CabriniGreen]

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http://lcnbios.blogspot.com/2018/11/gam ... 1980s.html

Interesting details:
- Doesn't specifically say that Sicilian mafia leaders requested Antonino Inzerillo's murder, but that they sent word from several sources asking Paul Castellano if he was backing Inzerillo's actions in Sicily, which Castellano wasn't, and then he (Castellano) ordered the murder. This is limited to Gravano's info, though, so there is likely more he didn't know or didn't get 100% right.
- After capodecina Antonino Inzerillo's murder, the Gambino Sicilian crew didn't have a captain until John Gotti took over as boss and John Gambino was quickly promoted, at which point the former Inzerillo members were finally assigned to a new captain in John Gambino. However, John Gambino had been transferred to Jimmy Brown Failla's decina following Inzerillo's murder and later transferred to Tommy Bilotti's decina. The other Inzerillo soldiers weren't assigned to a captain despite being made members in NYC because of their potential ties to what was going on in Sicily;

Compelling.... My only question, at that point in time did he really have a choice?

[RONALD]

the pic that i got is from the book The Mafia.. by Claire Sterling, and the book begins whit detective Douglas Le Vien, who in 1976,
got undercover, trying to get Enzo Napoli. The Gambino brothers are described as big heroin dealers.

[B.]

Have to point out too that the surveillance photo of Castellano with Bilotti and Failla is cool. We don't often see street surveillance photos of figures like Castellano or many other bosses from his generation and earlier. Had a similar reaction when I first bought Blood and Honor and saw the cover photo of Angelo Bruno strolling through Philly in street clothes.

[Eld]

Unfortunatly John Gambino's arrival year is blanked out in the documents (Pennsylvania crime commission) I have, but it's probably 1962, the same year Rosario arrived. John was deported shortly afterward but allowed to come back to the US some later years when he married his cousin Victoria who likely was a US citizen. Rosario was granted residence in 1966. Their father Tommaso b. 1912, who was a mafioso and a second cousin to Carlo, arrived with Giuseppe in 1964, withTommaso opening a butcher shop in Brooklyn.

Surveillance photos of the Gambino sicilian crew in Brooklyn, probably taken 1987 or 1988. (I'm not the source of these pics and I don't know whom we should credit).

[Eld]

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[felice]

I originally posted them

[bronx]

very good picture, tommy spinelli ,jimmy brown robbie debella,zupietro pete inzerillo,pete piacente,john gambino far left,veterans and friends club or pauls club

[Manhattan_]

Have to point out too that the surveillance photo of Castellano with Bilotti and Failla is cool. We don't often see street surveillance photos of figures like Castellano or many other bosses from his generation and earlier. Had a similar reaction when I first bought Blood and Honor and saw the cover photo of Angelo Bruno strolling through Philly in street clothes.

Good photo with Paul ,Tommy , Jimmy . Notice the Hagler / Hearns poster in the window behind them , that poster would date this photo to be mid 1985. Hagler Hearns fight was 4/15/85.

[RONALD]

Wow awesome pics, never seen them before, thanks for posting them.

[felice]

very good picture, tommy spinelli ,jimmy brown robbie debella,zupietro pete inzerillo,pete piacente,john gambino far left,veterans and friends club or pauls club

Where are them? (Spinelli, De Bella, Piacenti and Failla)

[felice]

Piacenti may be the bald guy, ok, what about the rest

[bronx]

john gambino left by tree maybe talking to frank decicco height ,hair color, inzerillo 2sd left looking at faila his back is to the picture,bald guy looking at failla is piacente,guy with back to picture is robbie debellla talking to the short guy who is murdered tommy sparrow spinelli,

[felice]

Yeah, no idea they could be De Bella and Spinelli. Thank you bronx. I knew about Gambino and Inzerillo

[JeremyTheJew]

Awesome pics of Rosario Naimo with everyone

[bronx]

debella also had a brother paul who was also made.