Editing Carlo Gambino (section)

=== Tommy Eboli murder ===
After Genovese's death, [[Gerardo Catena]] became the new boss of the Genovese family. However, he was indicted and jailed in 1970.<ref>Catena Now Expected to Meet Gambino. ''The New York Times'' August 21, 1975 [https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/21/archives/catena-now-expected-to-meet-gambino.html]</ref> [[Thomas Eboli]] then became the "front boss" of the family for the next two years. However, Eboli wanted to run the family for real and borrowed $4 million from Gambino to finance a new drug trafficking operation.<ref name="newton 115">{{cite book|last=Newton|first=Michael|title=The encyclopedia of unsolved crimes|year=2009|publisher=Facts on File|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4381-1914-4|pages=115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gijG7fSwvjAC&q=%22Thomas+Eboli%22&pg=PA115|edition=2nd}}</ref> However, law enforcement soon shut down Eboli's drug racket and arrested most of his crew. Gambino allegedly ordered Eboli's murder. While it was initially thought that this was due to Eboli's failure to pay back the loan, it is now believed that Gambino actually wanted to replace Eboli with [[Frank Tieri (mobster)|Frank "Funzi" Tieri]], and that Gambino used the loan as a pretext.<ref name="newton 115" /> On July 16, 1972, Eboli left his girlfriend's apartment in [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn]], and walked to his chauffeured [[Cadillac]]. As he sat in the parked car, a gunman in a passing truck shot him five times. Hit in the head and neck, Eboli died instantly.<ref name=funerals>{{cite news|last=Pace|first=Eric|title=Funerals Aren't What They Used to Be|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/07/23/91337694.pdf|access-date=23 March 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 23, 1972}}</ref><ref name="gang figure">{{cite news|last=Perlmutter|first=Emanuel|title=A Key Gang Figure Slain in Brooklyn|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/07/17/83448308.pdf|access-date=23 March 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 17, 1972}}</ref> No one was ever charged in this murder.