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15 months' imprisonment. Thomas Gagliano (born Tommaso Gagliano; Italian: [tomˈmaːzo gaʎˈʎaːno]; May 29, 1883 − February 16, 1951) was an Italian-born American mobster and boss of what U.S. federal authorities would later designate as the Lucchese crime family, one of the "Five Families" of New York City. He was a low-profile boss for ...
Jul 8, 2013 · Tommy Gagliano – The Quiet Don. Tommaso “Tommy” Gagliano was an early leader of the Lucchese crime family in New York City, a low-key don who believed in secrets and knew how to keep them. Little is known about his reign at the top of one of the nation’s most powerful criminal organizations, and that’s exactly the way he would have ...
Gaetano “Tommy” Gagliano was born on May 29, 1883 in the long-time mob stronghold of Corleone, Sicily. Fun fact: This is the same city that Vito Corleone, the great Don played by Marlon Brando in the Godfather, takes as his surname upon arriving in America. Anyhow, back to Gagliano. Tommy was said to be born to Luciano Gagliano and Lucia ...
The next boss was Tommy Lucchese, who had served as Gagliano's underboss for over 20 years. Lucchese led the family to become one of the most powerful families to sit on the Commission . Lucchese teamed up with Gambino crime family boss Carlo Gambino to control organized crime in New York City.
Tommy Gagliano had risen to leadership of the Reina family with the assassination of Gaetano Reina at the outset of the Castellammarese War and retained that position after Luciano's ascension. From 1932 onward, Gagliano kept a very low profile; almost nothing is known about him from then onward.
Gagliano had been the underboss (second in command) of the crime family led by Gaetano (“Tommy”) Reina, a casualty of the Castellammarese War, murdered by Vito Genovese, who would go on to control another of the families. Thomas (“Tommy” or “Three-Finger Brown”) Lucchese served as Gagliano’s underboss until Gagliano’s death ...
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