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Paul Castellano
Paul Castellano-Gambino Crime Boss, lived in the Todt Hill
community os Staten Island. Constanino Paul :Big Paul
Castellano was born (June 26, 1915 – December 16, 1985.
He was a Gambino crime boss and succeeded Carlo Gambino
as head of the Gambino crime family, which at the time, was the
nations largest Cosa Nostra family.
The unsanctioned assassination of Castellano by John Gotti, would
spark years of animosity between the Gambinos and the other
New York crime families.
Castellano was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1915, to Giuseppe
Castellano and Concetta (née Casatu). Giuseppe was a butcher and
a early member of the Mangano crime family, the forerunner of the
Gambino crime family.
On December 16, 1985, both Castellano and Bilotti were murdered.
That
evening, Bilotti drove Castellano to the prearranged meeting at the
Sparks Steakhouse in Midtown Manhattan. A hit team, all wearing white
trench coats and black Russian Ushanka hats, was waiting near the
restaurant entrance. The hit team included Gambino mobsters. Vincent
Artuso, Salvatoie Scala, Edward Lino, and John Cameglia. Positioned
down the street were backup shooters Domminick Pizzoria, Angelo
Ruggeiero and Anthony Rampino Gotti and Gravano observed the
observed the scene from a car across the street.
Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano
Salvatore Gravano was born March 12, 1945) is a former underboss
of the Gambino crime family. He is known as the man who helped
bring down John Gotti, the family's boss, by agreeing to become a
FBI government witness.
Originally a mobster for the Colombo crime family, and later for the
Brooklyn faction of the Gambinos, Gravano participated in the
conspiracy to murder Gambino boss Paul Castellano. Gravano played
a key role in planning and executing Castellano's murder; other conspirators
included John Gotti, Angelo Ruggiero Frank DeCicco and Joseph Amone.
After Castellano's death, Gotti elevated Gravano to underboss, a position
he held at the time he became a government witness. At the time, Gravano
was the highest ranking member of the Five Families to break his Coso Nostra
oath and cooperate with the government. His testimony drew a wave of
Coso Nostra members to also become government witnesses.
On November 11, 1991, federal prosecutors announced that Gravano became
a cooperating government witness. Gravano would later testify against Gotti
and other high ranking
mobsters in exchange for a reduced sentence. John Gotti
received a
sentence of life imprisonment. As part of Gravano's cooperation
agreement, he would never be forced to testify against his former crew.
On September 26, 1994, a federal judge sentenced Gravano to five years
in prison.
However, since Gravano had already served four years, the
sentence amounted
to less than one year. The judge said that Gravano's testimony against John Gotti
was the bravest thing he had ever seen.
On February 24, 2003, New Jersey state prosecutors announced they
would indict Gravano for ordering the 1980 murder by mobster Richard
Kukliński of NYPD detective Peter Calabro. Prosecutors later dropped
the charges when Kuklinski, the star witness,
died before he could testify.
Federal inmates who served time with
Gravano claimed that he privately
admitted to a role in the 1980 killing
of a New York cop. Inmates also
claimed that Gravano bragged about
killing many more than 19 people.
Since Gravano's imprisonment on drug charges, he has been diagnosed
with with Graves' Disease and a Thyroid disorder which can cause
fatigue,
weight loss with increased appetite, and hair loss. Gravano
appeared at
his drug trial missing hair on his head and eyebrows and appeared
to
have lost weight. In Phillip Carlo's book Confessions of a Mafia Boss, mobster
Anthony Gaspipe Casso, also imprisoned at Florence, claims that Gravano only
ventures out of
his cell to get food and that Casso has only seen him in the mess
hall a
couple of times. As of April 2012, Gravano is serving his sentence at
ADX Florence. He will not be eligible for release until he is 77 years old, and
will
be on supervised release for the rest of his life after release.
. Jeb Stuart Magruder.
Jeb Stuart Magruder was born November 5, 1934 has had careers as a
businessman, civil servant, political organizer, and Presbyterian minister.
He is also a published writer A Republican Magruder was the second official
in the administration of President Richard Nixon to plead guilty to charges
of involvement with events resulting in the first Watergate burglary and the
subsequent Watergate scandal (the first being Fred LaRue.
Magruder, in his role with CRP, became involved with the Watergate matters
from an early stage, in many aspects of the planning, execution,
and cover-up.
During April 1973, Magruder began cooperating with federal prosecutors.
In exchange, Magruder was allowed to plead guilty in August 1973 to a
one-count indictment of conspiracy to obstruct justice, to defraud the
United States, and to illegally eavesdrop on the Democratic Party's national
headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. On May 21, 1974, Magruder was
sentenced by John Sirica to ten months to four years for his role in the failed
burglary of
Watergate and the following cover-up. In the end, he served just
seven
months of his sentence (in a Federal prison in Allenwood Pa.
After his sentencing, Magruder said, "I am confident that this country will survive
its Watergates and its Jeb Magruders. On 23 July 2007, he was hospitalized
after crashing his car into a motorcycle and a truck in Columbus. It was later
reported that Magruder suffered a stroke while driving. He was charged with
failure to maintain an assured clear distance and failure to stop after n accident
or collision.Magruder pleaded guilty in January 2008 to a charge of reckless
operation stemming from crashes with two vehicles in July. His license
was
suspended and he was fined $300.
How interesting is this information, of Notorious men , and that they were
born or lived in Staten Island New York!
