1. Camillo Carmine Galante was born on February 21,1910, in a tenement building in the East Harlem section of Manhattan.
32 Facts About Carmine Galante
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Carmine Galante's parents, Vincenzo "James" Galante and Vincenza Russo, had emigrated from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, to New York City in 1906, where Vincenzo was a fisherman.
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Carmine Galante had two brothers, Samuel and Peter Galante, and two sisters, Josephine and Angelina Galante.
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Carmine Galante was the uncle of Bonanno crime family capo James Carmine Galante.
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Carmine Galante owned the Rosina Costume Company in Brooklyn, New York and was associated with the Abco Vending Company of West New York, New Jersey.
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At the age of 10, Carmine Galante was sent to reform school due to his criminal activities.
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Carmine Galante soon formed a juvenile street gang on New York's Lower East Side.
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On December 12,1925, the 15-year-old Carmine Galante pleaded guilty to assault charges.
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On December 22,1926, Carmine Galante was sentenced to at least two and a half years in the state prison.
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On February 8,1931, after pleading guilty to attempted robbery, Carmine Galante was sentenced to 12 and a half years in the state prison.
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On May 1,1939, Carmine Galante was released from prison on parole.
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Carmine Galante had an underworld reputation for viciousness and was suspected by the NYPD of involvement in over eighty murders.
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Carmine Galante reportedly had a cold, dead-eyed stare with eyes that betrayed an utter indifference to human life, scaring both law enforcement officers and other Mafia members.
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Aniello Dellacroce was one and Carmine Galante was the other.
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In 1943, Carmine Galante allegedly murdered Carlo Tresca, the publisher of an anti-fascist newspaper in New York.
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On January 11,1943, Carmine Galante allegedly shot and killed Tresca as he stepped outside his newspaper office in Manhattan, and then got in a car and drove away.
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Carmine Galante worked with Vincenzo Cotroni of the Cotroni crime family in the French Connection.
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Police estimated that Carmine Galante was collecting gambling profits in Montreal worth about $50 million per year.
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Carmine Galante brought many young men, known as Zips, from his family home of Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani, to work as bodyguards, contract killers and drug traffickers.
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In 1958, after being indicted on drug conspiracy charges, Carmine Galante went into hiding.
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On June 3,1959, New Jersey State Police officers arrested Carmine Galante after stopping his car on the Garden State Parkway close to New York City.
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Federal agents had recently discovered that Carmine Galante was hiding in a house on Pelican Island off the Jersey shore.
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On May 18,1960, Carmine Galante was indicted on a second set of narcotics charges; he surrendered voluntarily.
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Carmine Galante was sentenced to 20 days in jail for contempt of court.
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On July 10,1962, after being convicted in his second narcotics trial, Carmine Galante was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison and fined $20,000.
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In January 1974, Carmine Galante was released from prison on parole.
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When Rastelli was sent to prison in 1976, Carmine Galante seized control of the Bonannos as unofficial acting boss and in turn becoming de facto boss.
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On March 3,1978, Carmine Galante's parole was revoked by the United States Parole Commission for allegedly associating with other Bonanno mobsters, and he was sent back to prison.
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On July 12,1979, Carmine Galante was killed just as he finished eating lunch on an open patio at Joe and Mary's Italian-American Restaurant at 205 Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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Amato and Bonventre, who had done nothing to protect Carmine Galante, were left unharmed.
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Carmine Galante was buried at Saint John's Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens.
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Carmine Galante is depicted in the first episode of the UK history TV channel Yesterday's documentary series Mafia's Greatest Hits.