Editing Sammy Gravano (section)

===Fiala murder===
By the early 1980s, the Plaza Suite was a thriving establishment.<ref name="brotherhoods">{{cite book|last=Lawson|first=Guy|author2=William Oldham |title=The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia|publisher=Pocket|date=August 28, 2007|pages=768|isbn=978-1-4165-2338-3}}</ref> Patrons often had to wait an hour to get in and the club featured high-profile live acts such as singer [[Chubby Checker]].<ref name="brotherhoods"/>

In 1982, Frank Fiala, a wealthy businessman and drug trafficker, paid Gravano $40,000 to rent the Plaza Suite for a birthday party he was throwing for himself. Two days after the party, Gravano accepted a $1,000,000 offer from Fiala to buy the establishment, which was much higher than the property value.<ref name="trutv"/> The deal was structured to include $50,000 cash as a down payment, $650,000 in [[gold bullion]] [[under the table]], and a $300,000 payment at the real estate [[Closing (real estate)|closing]].<ref name="Underboss"/>

Before the transaction was completed, Fiala began acting like he already owned the club. Later, after leaving the Plaza Suite, Gravano called Garafola and set up an ambush outside the club, involving Garafola, Milito, D'Angelo, [[Nicholas Mormando]], [[Michael DeBatt]], [[Thomas Carbonara]] and Johnny Holmes in the plan.<ref name="Underboss"/> Later that same night, Gravano confronted Fiala on the street as he exited the Plaza Suite among a group of people, asking, "Hey, Frank, how you doing?"<ref name="brotherhoods"/> As Fiala turned around, surprised to see Gravano, Milito came up behind him and shot him in the head. Milito stood over the body and fired a shot into each of Fiala's eyes as Fiala's entourage and the crowd of people on the street dispersed, screaming. Gravano walked up to Fiala's body and spat on him.<ref name="Underboss"/>

Gravano was never charged for the crime; he had made a $5,000 payoff to the later discredited and disgraced [[New York Police Department]] homicide detective [[Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa|Louis Eppolito]] to ensure the investigation yielded no leads.<ref name="brotherhoods"/>

Although Gravano evaded criminal charges, he incurred Castellano's wrath over the unsanctioned killing. Afterwards, Gravano attempted to lie low for nearly three weeks, during which time he called his crew together and made the decision to kill Castellano if necessary.<ref name="trutv"/> Gravano and Milito were then summoned to a meeting with Castellano at a Manhattan restaurant. Castellano had been given the details of what Fiala had done, but he was still livid that Gravano had not come to him first for permission to kill Fiala. Gravano was spared execution when he convinced Castellano that the reason he had kept him in the dark was to protect the boss in case something went wrong with the hit.<ref name="trutv"/>

Fiala's murder posed one final problem for Gravano in the form of the [[Internal Revenue Service]] (IRS). The high publicity generated by the incident triggered an IRS investigation into Gravano and Fiala's deal for the sale of the Plaza Suite and Gravano was subsequently charged with [[tax evasion]]. Gravano was represented by [[Gerald Shargel]] and was acquitted at trial.<ref name="trutv"/>

D'Angelo was later killed by a [[Colombo crime family|Colombo family]] associate celebrating his having been proposed for membership. The killer was then murdered on orders from the Colombo family.<ref name="trutv"/>