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Joseph Castellano is a 60-year-old pizza-maker with heart trouble and a fierce desire to live out his days in peace, which might explain why he defends his father's killer.
Jun 2, 2023 · 35-year-old Audrey Torres died following a Brazilian Butt Lift procedure performed by Dr. Joseph Castellano more than three years ago. Castellano has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit...
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Gambino family crime boss Frank Cali’s murder is the first Mafia don assassination in New York City since John Gotti had “Big Paul” Castellano killed in 1985.
Just before 5:30 on a December evening in 1985, mob boss Paul Castellano stepped out of a limo in front of Sparks Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan and was shot to death. The four assassins who gunned him down were conspicuously dressed in trench coats and Russian fur hats. John Gotti, the man who arranged the hit, sat in a car nearby to make sure “Big Paul” was dead.
“It was daring in the sense that it was done in Manhattan, in the Christmas season, early in the evening,” says Howard Blum, author of Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob. “They planned it like a military operation.”
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The 70-year-old Castellano was the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, a decades-old Mafia family in New York City. Gotti was a 45-year-old member of the Gambino family who didn’t like boss Castellano’s recent instruction not to trade in drugs. Castellano was worried the federal government was paying too much attention to their drug activities.
Gotti ignored Castellano’s edict and continued to have his people trade heroin. But because the federal government was watching, news of wiretaps showing Gotti and his associates were still dealing drugs became public.
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On Saturday August 24th we lost an amazing friend, brother, son, and husband to a terrible car accident. Joe Castellano died on impact. Amazingly his wife Kate Castellano managed to escape the car and survive the crash. She was flown to a D.C. hospital with life threatening injuries.
Sep 26, 2021 · The head of the Gambino family, Paul Castellano was killed outside Sparks Steak House in Manhattan on John Gotti's orders on December 16, 1985.
Jul 24, 2020 · On December 2 1985 Dellacroce died of cancer. His death sparked a chain of events that would lead to Castellano’s assasination a fortnight later.
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Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano and his underboss, Thomas Bilotti, are killed outside a Manhattan steakhouse by an assassin led by John Gotti, who inherits leadership of the crime family.
