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Carmine Galante (Italian: [ˈkarmine ɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was acting boss (unofficial) of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar hanging from his mouth, leading to the nickname " The Cigar " and " Lilo " (a Sicilian term for cigar).
Jan 2, 2022 · Carmine Galante had a mental age of 14 and an IQ of 90 — and yet he ruled the Mafia's narcotics trade until his brutal assassination.
Jul 23, 2020 · Galante, Turano, and Coppola were killed instantly, but the bodyguards, who didn’t interfere, were left unharmed. Carmine Galante passed away with a cigar in his mouth, dying from multiple gunshot wounds, 84 to be exact.
Jul 12, 2019 · Carmine Galante was shot dead, along with two other men, at Joe & Mary’s Italian-American Restaurant in Brooklyn on July 12, 1979. The death of the Mob boss exacerbated divisions within the Bonanno crime family that festered for years afterward.
Apr 9, 2023 · “Galante was so bad,” reported the FBI agent sent to surveil the scene, “no one wanted to be around him even when he was dead.” Mafioso Joseph Bonanno (center main) and doomed mobster Carmine Galante (left).
Aug 1, 2021 · Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the U.S. in the 1970s. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way and recruited ruthless Sicilian henchmen to...
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Jan 7, 2020 · The Carmine Galante Assassination [The Tape Room] Reporter Dan Bowens revisits the 1979 killing of Carmine Galante, the head of the Bonnano crime family.
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