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Joseph Gallo (April 7, 1929 – April 7, 1972), also known as "Crazy Joe", was an Italian-American mobster and Caporegime of the Colombo crime family of New York City, New York. In his youth, Gallo was diagnosed with schizophrenia after an arrest.
On April 7, 1972, infamous mobster Joe Gallo sat down to celebrate his birthday at Umberto’s Clam House in New York’s Little Italy with his family. As they ate, a group of men rushed into the room, guns in hand. The men began to fire as Gallo stood up and pulled out his own gun to fire back.
Gallo was born in Brooklyn, and reportedly began his mafia career working for the Profaci crime family. According to some accounts, Gallo was among the men who killed Albert Anastasia, head of...
From his small business in Orange, Joseph Gallo ascended to the top of the Cleveland Mafia family and helped oversee a $15 million-a-year drug ring that killed seven people.
Joseph Gallo (also known as “Crazy Joe”) was an Italian-American mobster known for his association with the Colombo crime family and role in instigating the First Colombo War. Gallo was born on April 7, 1929, in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
The iconoclastic career of Joesph "Crazy Joe" Gallo and his brothers Albert and Larry is followed from his murder of Albert Anastasia in 1957 until his own assassination in 1972.
An associate of the Mafia family of Joseph A. Colombo Sr. has turned himself in to the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion and said that he and four other men carried out the kill ing of...
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