Gambino Boss Whacked Outside his Home

[joe cool23]

Unconfirmed, but tweets are saying he was run over too.

Francesco Cali, Reputed Gambino Crime Boss, Shot and Killed on Staten Island

Francesco Cali, the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, was fatally shot outside his home on Staten Island on Wednesday night, a senior police official said.

Mr. Cali, 53, was shot six times, the official said. The police said they received a report about the shooting outside 25 Hilltop Terrace in the Todt Hill section of Staten Island around 9:20 p.m. There was also a report of a blue pickup truck leaving the scene around the time of shooting.

Mr. Cali was pronounced dead at Staten Island University Hospital.

A 58-year-old neighbor who gave only his first name, Salvatore, said that he heard a burst of about seven gunshots shortly after 9 p.m.

“I just heard the pow-pow-pow-pow-pow,” he said.

He said he rushed to his window but could not see anything. He said the shots were all the same volume, as if fired from the same gun.

Two other neighbors who declined to give their names corroborated Salvatore’s descriptions.

The Gambino family was once the nation’s largest and most influential organized crime group, but several of its leaders were convicted in the 1990s of crimes that included murder and racketeering.

The family was led at the time by the showy crime boss John J. Gotti, who frequented expensive restaurants and nightclubs with a crew of bodyguards. He took power in the family by arranging for the murder of his predecessor, Paul Castellano, in 1985, in front of Sparks Steak House in Manhattan.

Mr. Gotti was convicted of racketeering and murder in 1992 and died of cancer in prison in 2002, at the age of 61. In 2013 his son, the former Gambino boss John A. Gotti, was stabbed in the stomach in Syosset, N.Y. He survived.

The assassination of Mr. Cali came on the same day that Joseph Cammarano Jr., the reputed acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, was acquitted at trial.

While it has been decades since a mafia boss was killed in New York, lower level members have been attacked or killed in recent years.

In October, Sylvester Zottola, 71, a reputed associate of the Bonanno crime family was shot and killed as he waited in his S.U.V. to pick up an order at the drive-through window of a McDonald’s in the Bronx.

Just three months earlier, Mr. Zottola’s son, Salvatore Zottola, was ambushed by a gunman and left for dead on a leafy street outside his family’s Throgs Neck compound. He survived.

On Staten Island, Todt Hill is known for its mafia history. Castellano, who was the last Gambino boss to be assassinated, owned a home on Benedict Road. A home on nearby Longfellow Road served as the filming location of the Corleone compound in “The Godfather.”

Since the 1990s, the fortunes of the city’s five traditional mafia clans have been on the decline. Federal and state authorities increased their focus on the mob’s control of certain industries and unions beginning in the 1980s and improved their use of racketeering laws to loosen the mafia’s control. And since eight mob leaders were convicted in 1986 in a federal racketeering trial of operating a commission that ruled the mafia in the United States, mafia leaders have avoided the spotlight in fear of coming to the attention of federal and state prosecutors.

By early Thursday morning on Staten Island, the police had strung yellow tape across the street leading to Mr. Cali’s home, a large red-brick, two-story colonial style house whose front door stood open.

Prashant Ranyal, 39, who lives in the neighborhood, said he was shaken by the killing. “Whenever you see nice areas you feel like it’s peaceful,” he added. “When something like this happens you definitely have a second thought about it.”

Salvatore, the other neighbor, said he had lived in his house for 12 years and did not know any of his neighbors, which struck him as unusual. “Nobody talks to nobody around here; it’s crazy,” he said. “People kind of keep to themselves. They like their privacy.”

He described the street where the shooting happened as quiet and full of old homes. “Dead street,’’ he said. “Dead quiet all the time.”

 

[alchemist iq]

fluid hips

It happened in Staten Island, not thread worthy.

 

[SupremeBeing5]

 

[nawghtyhare]

White folks weird
He heard gunshots
So ran to the window

 

[nawghtyhare]

Hmmmm
Kinda sorta cracked a smile at this

 

[freeze]

My brain made me read Childish Gambino. I was sick.

 

[putting in work]

Is this the same dude they tried to kill not to long ago and then they attempted to kill his son too?

 

[ace]

^Nah I think you’re talking about the mob hit at Mickey D’s in the BX that happened a few months ago. They tried to clap the son first before the mickey d’s hit.

 

[eracism]

RIP. Frank had a thing for the sistas.

 

[fluid hips]

That part of SI is a mafia den

 

[alchemist iq]

White folks weird
He heard gunshots
So ran to the window

When the detectives come to your door asking if you heard or saw anything..

Black people:

 

[Nouss]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nj...mob-killer-arrested-in-nj.html?outputType=amp

So he was killed by some 24y/o, with no mob ties, that wanted to date one of his neices?

Dude really got caught slippin.

 

[GTA 809]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nj.com/crime/2019/03/what-we-know-about-anthony-comello-the-mob-killer-arrested-in-nj.html?outputType=amp

So he was killed by some 24y/o, with no mob ties, that wanted to date one of his neices?

Dude really got caught slippin.

Son, im far from a conspiracy theorist, but you really believe that story?

 

[waitwut]

dude lived in a nice home/area too that mob money good

 

[Nouss]

Son, im far from a conspiracy theorist, but you really believe that story?

What do you think happened?

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Gambinos ain't been the same since Carlo died.

I wonder how the mafia still moving around with all technology police have now and snitches.

 

[mplsdunk]

Gambinos ain't been the same since Carlo died.

I wonder how the mafia still moving around with all technology police have now and snitches.

Pay them.

 

[putting in work]

Gambinos ain't been the same since Carlo died.

I wonder how the mafia still moving around with all technology police have now and snitches.

They are more prominent and making more money then they ever did in the past.

They all moved into legal extortion... union's.

They smartened up over the years and realized you don't get a lot of time for those businesses as you would with drugs.

If you guys don't think the police are in with them too

 

[putting in work]

^Nah I think you’re talking about the mob hit at Mickey D’s in the BX that happened a few months ago. They tried to clap the son first before the mickey d’s hit.

Not 100% sure, but I remember dude lived and he dropped and rolled while being shot and survived that hit. Dudes pulled up in a Nissan Altima black and tried to kill him.

 

[retailorbust]

i usually like to get whacked inside my house...

 

[Maximus Meridius]

If you guys don't think the police are in with them too

I mean of course the police are dirty.


J Edgar Hoover let the mafia slide for a long time cuz they knew he was gay.


That's a different discussion than what I was saying though. It's a lot harder for the mafia operate now compared to back then. The mafia ran Vegas. They've been running unions since at least the 80's and they still get heavy time for that under the rico law.

 

[mplsdunk]

Waaaay before the 80s.

Jimmy Hoffa’s son is the president of my union and it isn’t a bad thing... we’re doing well here.

 

[Arthur Shelby]

 

[Kinfolk]

The most interesting thing to come out about this story has been the bogus respect and reverence that the media gives Italian drug dealers--- because at this point after RICO destroyed the American Mafia as we knew it, they are no more than a glorified drug ring with a greatly romanticized and exaggerated history.

The Mafia no longer controls Unions and they no longer have the foothold in society that they once allegedly had.

When compared directly to the Mexican Cartels (who the media routinely refers to as filthy low-life animals, rapists etc), the Mob is a bunch of smalltime crumb snatchers clinging to the legacy of a movie from the 70's and times that have long passed.

They called this bull**** an "assasination" as if dude was a respected official of some sort.

They still call these degenerates "crime families" when they're really just a rag tag group of thugs.

 

[mplsdunk]

And yeah they don’t control labor unions.

Is their still remnants of the old days? Sure, but it’s not like the old days.