Frank Amato was a Sicilian-American mafioso who was the son-in-law of Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano.
10 Facts About Frank Amato
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Frank Amato was born out of wedlock and raised in a blue collar family in New York City.
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Frank Amato worked as a butcher and as a transport truck hijacker for a crew in the Gambino crime family that robbed transport trucks coming in and out of John F Kennedy Airport.
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Frank Amato was a fellow criminal associate of transport truck hijacker Edward Grillo.
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Frank Amato's marriage to Constance was an Old World traditional Sicilian style wedding that was attended by many powerful Gambino mobsters.
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FBI Special Agent Joseph O'Brien states in Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano that after Frank Amato married Paul Castellano's daughter, Constance, Castellano set Frank Amato up in the legitimate business world as a distributor of Italian ice.
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Castellano greatly misjudged Frank Amato who did not share the same keen business sense as Castellano and the Italian ice distribution business failed.
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Frank Amato was later transferred to Castellano's other butcher store chain, Dial Meat Purveyors, Inc.
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On September 20,1980, Frank Amato was lured to the Gemini Lounge in Flatlands, Brooklyn under the pretense of meeting Roy DeMeo to discuss a business deal.
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The DeMeo crew then used a cabin cruiser owned by Richard DiNome to dispose of Frank Amato's remains several miles out to sea.