How The Gambinos Became The Most Feared Mafia Family

How the Gambinos Created History's Most Powerful Mafia Family

Talk about patronizing somebody, I mean the people would come in and they would fall all over themselves to kiss his reign, it would be like visiting the Pope.]

This is Carlo Gambino.

He might look like a jolly elderly man. But for half a century, he led the most powerful, dangerous, and blood-thirsty organized crime family in the United States.


This guy was calling the shots, and those shots ended in murder. How he himself avoided being murdered is an astonishing mystery to me.

The Gambinos did it all: racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution, fraud, hijacking, and fencing. But somehow, they remained hidden from the public eye. Illegal business was thriving while the police were helpless.

And this lasted for whole generations, each mob boss passing the crown to another until a strange twist in the story led to the end of the Gambinos as we know them.


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