Editing Carlo Gambino (section)

== Criminal career ==
=== Castellammarese War and The Commission ===
In New York, Gambino joined a criminal organization headed by [[Joe Masseria]], another Sicilian-born gangster.<ref name=nydies/> In 1930 Gambino was arrested in [[Lawrence, Massachusetts|Lawrence]], [[Massachusetts]], as a suspicious person. That charge was dismissed, but he was seized a month later in [[Brockton, Massachusetts]], on a [[larceny]] charge. A warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to show up in court.<ref name=bail/> Four years later, he was arrested in [[Manhattan]] as a fugitive and was returned to Brockton, where the larceny charge was dropped when he made restitution of $1,000.<ref name=bail/>

By the early 1930s, Masseria found himself in a fierce rivalry with [[Salvatore Maranzano]], the head of the [[Bonanno crime family|Castellammarese clan]], which eventually escalated into the bloody [[Castellammarese War]]. Masseria and Maranzano were so-called "[[Mustache Pete]]s": older, traditional Mafia bosses who had started their criminal careers in their home country and believed in upholding the supposed "Old World Mafia" principles of "honor", "tradition", "respect" and "dignity". The Mustache Petes refused to work with non-Italians and were skeptical of working with non-Sicilians. Some of the most conservative bosses worked only with men having roots in their own Sicilian village.<ref name=MafEnc>Sifakis</ref>

When the war began turning poorly for Masseria, his second-in-command, [[Lucky Luciano|Charles "Lucky" Luciano]], saw an opportunity to switch allegiances. In a secret deal with Maranzano, he agreed to engineer Masseria's death in return for taking over Masseria's [[racket (crime)|racket]]s and becoming Maranzano's lieutenant.<ref name="five families book">{{cite book |title=The Five Families |date=13 May 2014 |publisher=MacMillan |isbn=9781429907989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5nAt6N8iQnYC |access-date =June 22, 2008}}</ref> On April 15, 1931, Masseria was killed at Nuova Villa Tammaro, a restaurant on [[Coney Island]], ending the Castellammarese War.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pollak|first=Michael|title=Coney Island's Big Hit|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/nyregion/answer-to-a-question-about-a-mobsters-death-in-coney-island.html?_r=0|access-date=31 October 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>Sifakis, (2005). pp. 87–88</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Martin A. Gosch|author2=Richard Hammer|author3=Lucky Luciano|title=The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano|year=1975|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=978-0-316-32140-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lasttestamentofl00gosc/page/130 130–132]|url=https://archive.org/details/lasttestamentofl00gosc/page/130}}</ref><ref name="five families book"/>

With Masseria gone, Maranzano reorganized the Italian gangs of New York into [[Five Families]] headed by Luciano, [[Joe Profaci]], [[Tommy Gagliano]], [[Vincent Mangano]] and himself. He called a meeting of crime bosses in [[Wappingers Falls, New York]], where he declared himself ''[[capo di tutti capi]]'' ("boss of all bosses").<ref name="five families book"/> Maranzano also whittled down the rival families' rackets in favor of his own. Luciano appeared to accept these changes but was merely biding his time before removing Maranzano.<ref name=MafEnc /> Although Maranzano was slightly more forward-thinking than Masseria, Luciano had come to believe that he was even more greedy and power-hungry than Masseria had been.<ref name="five families book"/>

By September 1931, Maranzano, realizing the threat Luciano posed, hired Irish hitman [[Vincent Coll|Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll]] to eliminate him.<ref name="five families book"/> However, [[Tommy Lucchese]] alerted Luciano that he was marked for death.<ref name="five families book"/> On September 10, Maranzano summoned Luciano, [[Vito Genovese]] and [[Frank Costello]] to his office at [[Helmsley Building|230 Park Avenue]] in Manhattan, where Maranzano was killed.<ref name=Cohen>{{cite book|last=Cohen|first=Rich|title=Tough Jews|year=1999|publisher=Vintage Books|location=New York|isbn=0-375-70547-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/toughjews00cohe/page/65 65]–66|url=https://archive.org/details/toughjews00cohe|url-access=registration|quote=Genovese maranzano.|edition=1st Vintage Books}}</ref><ref name="Dec. 7, 1998">"Lucky Luciano: Criminal Mastermind," ''Time'', [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989779,00.html Dec. 7, 1998]</ref><ref>"The Genovese Family," ''Crime Library'', [http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/genovese1/2.html ''Crime Library''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214043547/http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/genovese1/2.html |date=December 14, 2007 }}</ref>

Later in 1931, Luciano called a meeting in [[Chicago]] with various bosses, where he proposed the creation of a [[National Crime Syndicate|governing body for organized crime]] that would later evolve into [[The Commission (mafia)|The Commission]].<ref name=origins>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/20/nyregion/the-commission-s-origins.html|title=The Commission's Origins|date=1986|work=The New York Times|access-date=22 February 2017}}</ref> Designed to settle all disputes and decide which families controlled which territories, the Commission has been called Luciano's greatest innovation.<ref name="five families book"/> His goals with the Commission were to quietly maintain his own power over all the families, and to prevent future gang wars; the bosses approved the idea of the Commission.<ref name="Capeci guide">[[Jerry Capeci|Capeci, Jerry]]. ''The complete idiot's guide to the Mafia'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=GhfExAeLSBAC&q=commission&pg=PA43 "The Mafia's Commission" (pp. 31–46)]</ref>

=== Mangano family ===
After Masseria's death, Gambino and his cousins became [[soldato|soldiers]] in the family headed by Mangano. Despite being a mob power in his own right, [[Albert Anastasia]] was nominally the [[underboss]] of the Mangano family.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mass|first=Peter|title=The Valachi Papers|year=1968|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=0-671-63173-X|edition=1986 Pocket Books revised|page=78}}</ref> During his twenty-year rule, Mangano had resented Anastasia's close ties to Luciano and Costello, particularly the fact that they had obtained Anastasia's services without first seeking Mangano's permission. This and other business disputes led to heated, almost physical fights between the two mobsters.<ref name="Davis 62">Davis, pp. 62-64</ref>

Gambino was arrested in 1937 for [[tax evasion]] related to operating a million-gallon distillery in [[Philadelphia]]. He served twenty-two months in prison at the [[United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg|United States Penitentiary]] in [[Lewisburg, Pennsylvania|Lewisburg]], [[Pennsylvania]], the only period in his long criminal career during which he was incarcerated.<ref name=nydies/><ref name=bail/>

In 1951, Mangano and his brother [[Philip Mangano|Philip]] were murdered, reportedly on the orders of Anastasia.<ref>[http://www.lacndb.com/php/Info.php?name=Family%20-%20Gambino%20(Mangano) New York|  Family - Gambino (Mangano)]</ref><ref name="gambino dies">{{cite news|last=Gage|first=Nicholas|title=Carlo Gambino, a Mafia Leader, Dies in His Long Island Home at 74|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1976/10/16/284661052.pdf|access-date=30 December 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 16, 1976}}</ref> Philip's body was found near [[Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn]], on April 19, 1951.<ref name="shot dead">{{cite news|title=Aide of Joe Adonis is Found Shot Dead|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/04/20/87242113.pdf|access-date=26 February 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 20, 1951}}</ref> Vincent's body was never found and he was [[declared dead]] by the [[New York Surrogate's Court|Surrogate's Court]] in Brooklyn on October 30, 1961, ten years after he had disappeared.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=127560&search=carlo_gambino#relPageId=5&tab=page|title=showDoc.html|date=11 February 1965|website=www.maryferrell.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-28}}</ref>

=== Anastasia murder ===
In 1957, Genovese decided to move against Costello and Anastasia, enlisting Gambino{{ndash}}Anastasia's underboss{{ndash}} in the murder conspiracy.<ref>Davis, pp. 78-79</ref><ref name="mafia encyclopedia">Sifakis, Carl. ''The Mafia Encyclopedia''    [https://books.google.com/books?id=jgCpxTpPCPcC&dq=we+only+kill+each+other+Anastasia+Schuster&pg=PA15 (p. 15)]</ref> Genovese ordered [[Vincent Gigante]] to carry out the hit on Costello, which was attempted outside Costello's apartment building on May 2, 1957.<ref name="costello shot">{{cite news|title=Costello is Shot Entering Home; Gunman Escapes Wound|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/05/03/317458602.pdf|access-date=31 December 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 3, 1957}}</ref> Although the wound was superficial, the brush with death persuaded Costello to relinquish power to Genovese and retire. Although a doorman identified Gigante as the gunman, Costello claimed to not recognize him at Gigante's 1958 trial; Gigante was [[acquittal|acquitted]] on charges of [[attempted murder]].<ref name=nyt191205>[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/obituaries/vincent-gigante-mob-boss-who-feigned-incompetence-to-avoid-jail.html Vincent Gigante, Mob Boss Who Feigned Incompetence to Avoid Jail, Dies at 77], by [[Selwyn Raab]], The New York Times, December 19, 2005</ref>

With Costello gone, Genovese and Gambino allegedly ordered Anastasia's murder. Gambino gave the contract to Profaci, who then allegedly assigned the hit to [[Joe Gallo|Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo]]. Anastasia was murdered on October 25, 1957, in the barbershop of the [[Park Central Hotel|Park Sheraton Hotel]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Anastasia Slain in a Hotel Here; Led Murder, Inc. |work=The New York Times |first=Meyer |last=Berger |date=October 26, 1957}}</ref> 

Gambino subsequently took over the Mangano crime family, which took his name going forward.<ref name=fivefamilies>{{cite book |last=Raab |first=Selwyn |title=Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires |year=2006 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-312-36181-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s8f3/page/116 116] |url=https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_s8f3/page/116 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Gage |first=Nicholas |title=The Mafia at War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3-YCAAAAMBAJ&q=Albert+Anastasia+Gallo+Gambino&pg=PA44 |access-date=March 11, 2016 |newspaper=New York Magazine |date=July 10, 1972 |page=44}}</ref> He appointed [[Joseph Biondo]] as underboss, though Biondo was replaced by [[Aniello Dellacroce]] in 1965.<ref name="capeci 9">{{cite book |last=Capeci|first=Jerry|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia |page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhfExAeLSBAC&q=%22Joseph+Biondo%22&pg=PA9 |publisher=Alpha Books |year=2005 |isbn=9781592573059}}</ref>

=== Apalachin and Genovese's fall ===
Shortly after Anastasia's murder, Genovese took control of [[Genovese crime family|Luciano's crime family]] from Costello. Seeking to legitimize his new power, he called a [[Apalachin meeting|meeting]] in which leaders of both the American and Sicilian crime syndicates would be in attendance.<ref name=Niagara>{{cite news|last=Glynn|first=Don|title=Glynn:Area delegates attended mob convention|url=http://niagara-gazette.com/opinion/x681291359/GLYNN-Area-delegates-attended-mob-convention|access-date=28 May 2012|newspaper=Niagara Gazette|date=November 11, 2007}}</ref> Among the items on the meeting's [[Agenda (meeting)|agenda]] were the Mafia's interests in [[gambling]] and [[drug smuggling|narcotics smuggling]] in pre-revolutionary Cuba, as well as their interests in New York City's garment industry.<ref>{{cite news| title =Narcotic Traffic Called Topic In Apalachin Talks| newspaper =Toledo Blade| pages =1| publisher =Associated Press| date =February 28, 1960| url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wggwAAAAIBAJ&pg=6688,4469677&dq=apalachin+meeting&hl=en| access-date =27 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title =Narcotics Agent Calls Racketeers Black-Handers| newspaper =Toledo Blade| pages =2| date =July 1, 1958| url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DToxAAAAIBAJ&pg=7143,3653278&dq=apalachin+meeting&hl=en| access-date =27 May 2012}}</ref> The meeting took place on November 14 at the home of mobster [[Joseph Barbara (mobster)|Joseph Barbara]] in [[Apalachin, New York]].<ref>{{Cite news| pages = 1| last1 = Fitchette| first1 = Woodie| first2 = Steve| last2 = Hambalek| title = Top U.S. Hoods Are Run Out of Area After 'Sick Call' on Barbara| work = Binghamton Press| location = Binghamton, NY| date = 1957-11-15| url = http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper4/Binghamton%20NY%20Press%20Grayscale/Binghamton%20NY%20Press%20Grayscale%201957.pdf/Binghamton%20NY%20Press%20Grayscale%201957%20a%20-%204247.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| pages = 8| last1 = Fitchette| first1 = Woodie|  first2 = Steve| last2 = Hambalek| title = Hoods Run Out of Area--| work = Binghamton Press| location = Binghamton, NY| date = 1957-11-15| url = http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper4/Binghamton%20NY%20Press%20Grayscale/Binghamton%20NY%20Press%20Grayscale%201957.pdf/Binghamton%20NY%20Press%20Grayscale%201957%20a%20-%204258.pdf}}</ref> 

Edgar D. Croswell, a trooper with the [[New York State Police]], had become aware that Barbara's son was reserving rooms in local hotels and that a large quantity of meat from the local butcher was being delivered to the Barbara home.<ref name=Ralph>{{cite news|last=Blumenthal|first=Ralph|title=For Sale, a House WithAcreage.Connections Extra;Site of 1957 Gangland Raid Is Part of Auction on Saturday|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/nyregion/for-sale-house-with-acreage-connections-extra-site-1957-gangland-raid-part.html?src=pm|access-date=2 June 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 31, 2002}}</ref><ref name=Croswell>{{cite news|last=Narvaez|first=Alfonso A.|title=Edgar D. Croswell, 77, Sergeant Who Upset '57 Mob Meeting, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/21/obituaries/edgar-d-croswell-77-sergeant-who-upset-57-mob-meeting-dies.html|access-date=28 May 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 21, 1990}}</ref> Suspicious, Croswell decided to monitor Barbara's house.<ref name=Host>{{cite news| title =Host To Hoodlum Meet Dies Of Heart Attack| newspaper =Ocala Star-Banner| pages =7| agency =Associated Press| date =June 18, 1959| url =https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OcswAAAAIBAJ&pg=4958,4554355&dq=apalachin+meeting | access-date = 27 May 2012}}</ref> When the State Police found numerous luxury cars parked at the estate, they took down the [[license plate]] numbers and discovered the vehicles were registered to known criminals. Police reinforcements came to the scene and a [[roadblock]] was set up.<ref name=Croswell/> 

When the mobsters discovered the police presence, they started fleeing the gathering by car or by foot. Many ''mafiosi'' escaped through the woods surrounding the Barbara estate; Gambino is thought to have attended the meeting, but was not one of the mobsters apprehended.<ref name="mafia-news1">[http://www.mafia-news.com/apalachin-raid-on-mafia-reverberates-50-years-later/ "Apalachin Raid on Mafia Reverberates 50 Years Later"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212065600/http://www.mafia-news.com/apalachin-raid-on-mafia-reverberates-50-years-later/ |date=2010-02-12 }} Mafia News</ref><ref name=bail/> The police stopped a car driven by Pennsylvania boss [[Russell Bufalino]], whose passengers included Genovese and three other men. Bufalino said that Genovese had come to visit a sick Barbara,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/285/408/161203/|title=United States of America, Appellee, v. Russell A. Bufalino, Ignatius Cannone, Paul C. Castellano, Joseph F. Civello, Frank A. Desimone, Natale Evola, Louis A.larasso, Carmine Lombardozzi, Joseph Magliocco, Frank T.majuri, Michele Miranda, John C. Montana, John Ormento, James Osticco, Joseph Profaci, Anthony P. Riela, John T.scalish, Angelo J. Sciandra, Simone Scozzari and Pasquale Turrigiano, Defendants-appellants, 285 F.2d 408 (2d Cir. 1960)|website=Justia Law}}</ref> while Genovese himself said he had come to attend a barbecue. The police let him go.<ref name="apalachin visit">{{cite news|last=Perlmutter|first=Emanuel|title=Genovese Depicts Apalchin Visit|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/06/17/80584854.pdf|access-date=14 January 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 17, 1959}}</ref>

Gambino and Luciano allegedly helped pay part of $100,000 to a [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] drug dealer to falsely implicate Genovese in a drug deal.<ref>Sifakis, p. 186</ref> On April 17, 1959, Genovese was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for drug offenses;<ref name="15 years">{{cite news|last=Feinberg|first=Alexander|title=Genovese is Given 15 Years in Prison in Narcotics Case|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/04/18/80770381.pdf|access-date=15 January 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 18, 1959}}</ref><ref name="jersey mafia">{{cite news|last=Grutzner|first=Charles|title=Jersey Mafia Guided From Prison by Genovese|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/12/25/76924531.pdf|access-date=June 25, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 25, 1968}}</ref> he died in custody on February 14, 1969.<ref name="genovese dies">{{cite news|last=Grutzner|first=Charles|title=Ruled 'Family' of 450. Genovese Dies in Prison at 71. 'Boss of Bosses' of Mafia Here|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/02/15/archives/ruled-family-of-450-genovese-dies-in-prison-at-71-boss-of-bosses-of.html?sq=%2522Vito%2520Genovese%2522&scp=6&st=cse|access-date=30 November 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| quote=Vito Genovese's throne, from which he ruled as "Boss of All Bosses" of the Mafia in the New York area, rested on the coffins of several predecessors -- in whose murders he is believed to have conspired. ... |date=February 16, 1959}}</ref>

On January 26, 1962, Luciano died of a heart attack at [[Naples Airport|Naples International Airport]].<ref name="luciano dies">{{cite news|title=Luciano Dies at 65. Was Facing Arrest in Naples|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/27/90129087.pdf|quote=Lucky Luciano died of an apparent heart attack at Capodichino airport today as United States and Italian authorities prepared to arrest him in a crackdown on an international narcotics ring.|access-date=June 17, 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 27, 1962}}</ref> Three days later, 300 people attended a funeral service for Luciano in [[Naples]], during which his body was conveyed along the streets in a horse-drawn black [[hearse]].<ref name="service naples">{{cite news|title=300 Attend Rites for Lucky Luciano|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/30/90132724.pdf|access-date=June 17, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 30, 1962}}</ref> With the permission of the U.S. government, Luciano's relatives took his body back to New York for burial at [[Saint John's Cemetery, Queens|St. John's Cemetery]] in [[Middle Village, Queens|Middle Village]], [[Queens, New York|Queens]]. More than 2,000 mourners attended his funeral. Gambino, Luciano's longtime friend, gave his [[eulogy]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zTetDwAAQBAJ&q=lucky+luciano+2000+mourners&pg=PT48|title=The World's Most Evil Gangs|author=Nigel Blundell|year=2013|publisher=Kings Road |isbn=9781782198031}}</ref>

=== Boss ===
After Genovese's imprisonment, Gambino took control of The Commission. Under his leadership, the Gambino crime family had 500 soldiers and over 1,000 associates.<ref name="mobstar">Mustain, Gene; Capeci, Jerry. ''Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=QbDFyjuaQGYC&q=500+made+men (p. 295)]</ref>

In 1962, Gambino's oldest son, Thomas, married Lucchese's daughter Frances.<ref>[http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/gambino/3.html The Gambino Crime Family — A Squirrel of a Man — Crime Library on truTV.com<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520091550/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/gambino/3.html |date=2013-05-20 }}</ref> Over 1,000 guests attended the wedding, at which Gambino presented Lucchese with a $30,000 gift. In return, Lucchese gave Gambino a part of his rackets at Idlewild Airport (now called [[John F. Kennedy Airport]]).<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/20/nyregion/police-say-their-chinatown-sting-ties-mob-to-the-garment-industry.html?scp=18&sq=Joseph%20Lucchese%20dies&st=cse | work=The New York Times | first=Selwyn | last=Raab | title=Police Say Their Chinatown Sting Ties Mob to the Garment Industry | date=March 20, 1990}}</ref> Lucchese exercised control over airport security and airport [[labor union|unions]]. As a team, Lucchese and Gambino now controlled the airport, the Commission, and most organized crime in New York.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/05/nyregion/gambino-gained-mob-tax-with-fear-prosecutor-says.html?scp=3&sq=Tommy%20Lucchese%20brother&st=cse | work=The New York Times | first=Ronald | last=Sullivan | title=Gambino Gained 'Mob Tax' With Fear, Prosecutor Says | date=February 5, 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/02/nyregion/thomas-gambino-it-s-all-in-the-name.html?pagewanted=1 | work=The New York Times | first=James | last=Barron | title=Thomas Gambino: It's All in the Name | date=December 2, 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1999/05/06/1999-05-06_jailed_capo_out_2m_stuck_in_.html |location=New York |title=Jailed Capo Out 2m Stuck In Stock Scam, Gambino Charges - New York Daily News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608110032/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1999/05/06/1999-05-06_jailed_capo_out_2m_stuck_in_.html |archive-date=June 8, 2009 }}</ref>

=== Conspiracy against the Commission ===
In 1963, [[Joseph Bonanno]], the head of the [[Bonanno crime family]], made plans to assassinate several rivals on The Commission—bosses Gambino, Lucchese, and [[Stefano Magaddino]], as well as [[Frank DeSimone]].<ref name="Life Magazine 1967">Staff (September 1, 1967) [https://books.google.com/books?id=UFYEAAAAMBAJ&q=Colombo&pg=PA18 "The Mob: How Joe Bonanno Schemed to kill – and lost"] ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' p.15-21</ref> Bonanno sought [[Joseph Magliocco]]'s support, and Magliocco, bitter over being previously denied a seat on The Commission, readily agreed. Bonanno promised to make Magliocco his right-hand man in exchange for his assistance.<ref name=trouble /> 

Magliocco was assigned with killing Lucchese and Gambino, and he gave the contract to [[Joseph Colombo]], one of his top [[contract killing|hit men]]. However, the opportunistic Colombo revealed the plot to his intended targets. The other bosses quickly surmised that Magliocco and Bonnano were colluding, and summoned both men to explain themselves.<ref name=trouble>{{cite web|last=Bruno|first=Anthony|title=Colombo Crime Family: Trouble and More Trouble|url=https://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/colombo/4.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914110850/https://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/colombo/4.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 September 2008|work=TruTV Crime Library|access-date=27 November 2011}}</ref> Fearing for his life, Bonanno went into hiding in [[Montreal]], leaving Magliocco to deal with the Commission. Badly shaken and in failing health, Magliocco confessed his role in the plot. The Commission spared his life but forced him to retire as boss of the Profaci family and pay a $50,000 fine. As a reward for turning on his boss, Colombo took over Magliocco's family, which was subsequently renamed the [[Colombo crime family|Colombo family]].<ref name=trouble />

=== Health and deportation order ===
[[Deportation]] proceedings against Gambino were started by the [[Immigration and Naturalization Service]] as early as 1953, but made no headway for several years because of his heart condition and constant hospitalizations.<ref name=bail/> In 1970 he was [[indictment|indicted]] on charges of conspiring to hijack an armored car carrying $3 million, and was arrested on March 23, 1970.<ref name=bail/> He was released on $75,000 [[bail]], and was never brought to trial because of his health.<ref name=nydies/><ref name=bail>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/24/archives/gambino-arrested-and-charged-with-plotting-3million-theft-gambino.html|title=Gambino Arrested and Charged With Plotting $3-Million Theft|work=The New York Times|date=March 24, 1970}}</ref> The same year, the [[United States Supreme Court|U.S. Supreme Court]] upheld a 1967 order, that he previously appealed, that he be deported because he had [[illegal immigration|entered the country illegally]]. When the government tried to carry out the order, Gambino was rushed to a hospital after he had suffered a massive [[heart attack]].<ref name=nydies/>

=== Colombo assassination ===
On June 28, 1971, Colombo was shot three times by Jerome A. Johnson, one being in the head, at the second Italian Unity Day rally in [[Columbus Circle]] sponsored by the [[Italian-American Civil Rights League]]; Johnson was immediately killed by Colombo's bodyguards.<ref name="colombo dies"/> Colombo was permanently [[paralysis|paralyzed]] from the shooting, and later died in 1978.<ref name="colombo dies">{{cite news|title=Joseph A. Colombo, Sr,. Paralyzed in Shooting at 1971 Rally, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/24/archives/joseph-a-colombo-sr-54-paralyzed-in-shooting-at-1971-rally-dies.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 24, 1978}}</ref>

Although many in the Colombo family blamed Gallo for the shooting, the police eventually concluded that Johnson was a lone gunman after they had questioned Gallo.<ref name=grudges>{{cite news|last=Gage|first=Nicholas|title=Grudges with Gallo Date to War with Profaci|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/04/08/79466327.pdf|access-date=November 25, 2011|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 8, 1972}}</ref> Since Johnson had spent time a few days earlier at a club run by the Gambino family, one theory was that Gambino organized the shooting. Colombo had refused to listen to Gambino's complaints about the League, and allegedly spat in Gambino's face during one argument.<ref name="suspect shooting">{{cite news|last=Ferretti|first=Fred|title=Suspect in Shooting of Colombo Linked to Gambino Family|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 20, 1971}}</ref> However, the Colombo family leadership was convinced that Gallo ordered the murder after his falling out with the family.<ref name=Abadinsky>{{cite book|last=Abadinsky|first=Howard|title=Organized crime|year=2010|publisher=Wadsworth/Cengage Learning|location=Belmont, Calif.|isbn=978-0-495-59966-1|url=https://archive.org/details/organizedcrime00howa|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/organizedcrime00howa/page/n124 103]|quote=Joseph Colombo.|edition=9th}}</ref> Gallo was murdered on April 7, 1972.<ref name="story murder">{{cite news|last=Gage|first=Nicholas|title=Story of Joe Gallo's Murder|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1972/05/03/82222661.pdf |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 3, 1972 |access-date=November 3, 2011}}</ref>

=== 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.