Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)

Carlo Gambino

American mobster (1902–1976)

Carlo Gambino was a Sicilian crime boss who was the leader and namesake of the Gambino crime family of New York City. Following the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia and played a…