1. The John Gambino brothers ran the Cafe Valentino on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
14 Facts About John Gambino
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John Gambino was the converging point in the United States for a consortium of heroin traffickers of the Sicilian Mafia, composed of the Inzerillo family and Stefano Bontade, and the final destination for its shipments of heroin that was refined in laboratories in Sicily from Turkish morphine base.
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John Gambino had close relationship with the Italian banker Michele Sindona.
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John Gambino was a frequent guest at New York dinner parties in Sindona's honour.
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John Gambino accompanied Sindona's attempt to recover the money, but the plans failed and Sindona was arrested, leading to the indictment of the Inzerillo-Spatola-John Gambino network.
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However, John Gambino remained free because the US did not agree with Italian requests for extradition.
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John and Joe Gambino were acquitted in a 1984 New Jersey drug case in which their brother, Rosario, was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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John Gambino later was charged in a superseding indictment with narcotics and racketeering violations.
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John Gambino testified he had met with John Gambino personally, who had inspected the quality of the heroin Marino Mannoia was refining in Palermo.
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The Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan received half of the load, while John Gambino took possession of the other 200 kilograms.
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In prison John Gambino survived a stroke, heart attacks, and open-heart surgery.
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The judge ruled that John Gambino had already served a 15-year sentence in the US for drug trafficking and murder and could not be tried again for the same charges in Italy.
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John Gambino was a high-ranking member of the family along with his wife's nephew Frank Cali.
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On November 16,2017, John Gambino died of natural causes in New York.