Ten members and associates of the Gambino crime family were arrested on racketeering charges Wednesday morning, according to law enforcement sources.
The defendants will be arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court on Wednesday afternoon, sources said.
The alleged mobsters are from Manhattan, Staten Island, the Bronx, New Jersey, and Long Island, sources said.
Over the past 27 years, the infamous Italian-American crime syndicate and one of the ‘Five Families’ wreaked havoc in New York racketeering, gambling and loansharking.
The family, led by Salvatore D’Aquila in the early 1900s, made millions of dollars by carrying out extortion, money laundering and fraud.
Frank Cali was the last known leader of the group before he was killed in 2019, it remains unclear who leads the syndicate at this time.
Ten people associated with the Gambino crime family were arrested on racketeering charges Wednesday morning, law enforcement sources say. Pictured is Paul (left), a high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family, who was previously arrested with eight other men on charges of loansharking
After his murder in 1928, the leadership went to Frank Scalise, for the next three years closely followed by Vincent Mangano who ruled with an iron fist for almost two decades.
Under Mangano, the family became the World’s largest criminal organization in the 1950s.
In 1951, Albert Anastasia became its new leader. Anastasia was best known for starting Murder Incorporated – which carried out Mob-related assassinations.
John Hogan(left) Assistant Director of the FBI New York office, holds the arm of Joe Gallo, (center) who was identified as the consigliere of the Gambino family in a seventeen count indictment read in New York in June 1986
He was killed in 1957 by a plot carried out by his own people leading to Carlo Gambino taking control.
Carlo Gambino’s leadership, the Gambino Crime Family reached new heights of power and infamy.
After his death in 1976, Paul Castellano took over the family but he was usurped by John Gotti in 1985 until his arrest in 1992.
Officials gave him a life sentence and he died on June 10, 2002.
Domenico Cefalu took charge of the family in 2011 after he had served time for racketeering and extortion.
Cefalu alongside, Frank Cali, began handling business until 2015.
After Cali took over, he operated the syndicate until 2019 but was killed outside his home in Staten Island.
It remains unclear who the current head of the Gambino family is or who those arrested were connected to.
In October, the eldest son of crime boss Carlo, Thomas ‘Tommy’ Gambino, once known in New York City as the ‘Mafia Prince’ died aged 94.
While surviving one of the bloodiest crime eras in history, he reportedly earned more than $75 million in cash bonds and blue chip stock, according to the New York Times.
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Joe DeCicco (left) and Jackie ‘Nose’ D’Amico (right) of the Gambino crime family, led by John Joseph ‘Johnny Boy’ Gotti, Jr. (center), were on trial for racketeering, murder, illegal gambling, obstruction of justice, tax fraud, and a list of other crimes
After Carlo Gambino’s death in 1976, Paul Castellano (left) took over the family but he was usurped by John Gotti (right) in 1985 until his arrest in 1992
Members of the Gambino family including Richard Gotti (right) and Vincent Gotti (left) are transported from Manhattan to Brooklyn Federal Court by FBI agents in 2008
In 1992, he and his brother took a plea deal after being charged with enterprise corruption, agreeing to pay $12 million in restitution and fines.
He had a younger brother, Joseph, who died in 2020, aged 83.
Together they ran a series trucking companies in Manhattan’s, dominating any competition who would reportedly find themselves with flat tires – or worse – if they ever parked vehicles on the West Side streets.
He survived one of the bloodiest crime eras in which he earned more than $75m
While Thomas followed his father into the Gambino crime organization and became a ‘made man’, Joseph kept running the business end after dropping out of New York University in the 1950s.
The empire came crashing down in October 1990, when state authorities charged the Gambino brothers with racketeering.
New York authorities used undercover police and surveillance technology to gather evidence in the investigation which yielded scores of criminal charges, including enterprise corruption, larceny, extortion, coercion, and restraint of trade.
During the trial, the prosecution presented evidence which included tapes of conversations secretly recorded with Mafia traitor Salvatore Gravano, the New York Post reports.
One of the prosecutors working the case was then-Assistant District Attorney Eliot Spitzer.
Spitzer devised a plan to set up a competing sweatshop in the Garment District that churned out shirts, pants, and sweaters.
The shop manager, who hired 30 employees to work in the factory, managed to get close enough to the Gambino brothers that he planted a hidden microphone in the ceiling of their office.
For decades, they intimidated competitors until New York State investigated
After the brothers were charged, they agreed to a plea deal in which they paid $12million in fines and agreed to leave the trucking business.
Spitzer who would go on to become attorney general and then governor of New York, though he eventually resigned when it was revealed he frequented prostitutes.
‘I send my condolences to his family,’ Spitzer told The Post.
Gambino was later convicted on racketeering charges in relation to loan sharking operations in Connecticut. He was sent to prison for four years in 1996 – 2000.
The Gambino crime family was named after their father, Carlo Gambino, who was the head of the organization in 1963, when crime syndicates began gaining national attention due to the federal government’s investigations.
During more than 50 years in organized crime, Carlo Gambino, who was known as ‘boss of bosses,’ served just 22 months in prison for tax evasion.
