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Carmine Galante (Italian: [ˈkarmine ɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was acting boss (unofficial) of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar hanging from his mouth, leading to the nickname " The Cigar " and " Lilo " (a Sicilian term for cigar).
Jan 2, 2022 · Carmine "Lilo" Galante rose from chauffeur to Bonanno family crime boss until his 1979 assassination — famously captured with a cigar still in his mouth. Carmine Galante had a mental age of 14 and an IQ of 90 — and yet he ruled the Mafia's narcotics trade until his brutal assassination.
Jul 23, 2020 · Carmine Galante passed away with a cigar in his mouth, dying from multiple gunshot wounds, 84 to be exact. Who Killed Carmine Galante? Mob bosses of the five crime families | Image Credit: Netflix.
Jul 12, 2019 · Carmine Galante was shot dead, along with two other men, at Joe & Mary’s Italian-American Restaurant in Brooklyn on July 12, 1979. The death of the Mob boss exacerbated divisions within the Bonanno crime family that festered for years afterward.
Nov 20, 2010 · In fact, he was Carmine Galante, one of the most dangerous hoodlums ever to operate in the organized mob underworld of New York. Here in the heartland of his criminal empire, he probably felt as safe as houses.
Aug 1, 2021 · Carmine Galante was the mafia boss who industrialized heroin smuggling into the U.S. in the 1970s. A brutal psychopath, he let nothing stand in his way and recruited...
Jul 13, 1979 · Carmine Galante, the reputed organized‐crime leader, was slain in a barrage of gunfire and shotgun blasts in an apparent underworld execution yesterday afternoon as he dined on the patio of a...
