Editing Frank Costello (section)

== Retirement and death ==
[[File:Frank Costello 1964.jpg|Costello, 1964|thumb|200px|right]]
During his retirement, Costello was still known as "The Prime Minister of the Underworld". He still retained power and influence in New York's Mafia and remained busy throughout his final years.<ref name="costello coronary" /> ''[[Cosa Nostra]]'' bosses and old associates such as Gambino and Lucchese still paid visits to Costello at his [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel|Waldorf Astoria]] [[Penthouse apartment|penthouse]], seeking advice on important Mafia affairs. Costello's old friend Meyer Lansky also kept in touch. Costello occupied himself with gardening and displayed some of his flowers at local horticultural shows.

On February 20, 1961, the [[United States Supreme Court]] upheld a lower court order that stripped Costello of his US citizenship.<ref name="supreme court">{{cite news|title=Costello Loses Citizenship Plea|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 21, 1961}}</ref> But on February 17, 1964, the same court set aside a deportation order for Costello, citing a legal technicality.<ref name="deportation set aside">{{cite news|title=Court Sets Aside Order For Costello Deportation|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1964/02/18/97170231.pdf|access-date=19 October 2014|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 18, 1964}}</ref>

In early February 1973, Costello suffered a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] at his Manhattan home and was rushed to [[Doctors Hospital (Manhattan, New York)|Doctors Hospital]] in Manhattan, where he died on February 18.<ref name="costello coronary">{{cite news|title=Frank Costello Dies of Coronary at 82; Underworld Leader|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/02/19/79843536.pdf|access-date=6 June 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 19, 1973}}</ref> Costello's sedate memorial service at a Manhattan funeral home was attended by 50 relatives, friends, and law enforcement agents.<ref name="costello buried">{{cite news|title=Costello Buried After Brief Rites|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/02/22/79844843.pdf|access-date=27 June 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 22, 1973}}</ref> Costello is interred in a private mausoleum in [[St. Michael's Cemetery (New York)|St. Michael's Cemetery]] in [[East Elmhurst, Queens]]. In 1974, after his enemy [[Carmine Galante]] was released from prison, he allegedly ordered the bombing of the doors to Costello's mausoleum.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=li1ZCwAAQBAJ&q=Costello+Mausoleum+at+Saint+Michael%27s+Cemetery&pg=PA194|title=Crimes of the Century|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2016|author1=Steven Chermak|author2=Frankie Y. Bailey|isbn=9781610695947}}</ref>