What does the future hold for this senior Gambino member?

At 74 hopefully he is smart and retires

He should have been the boss after they killed Paulie not john

Retirement!And vitto i totaly agree with you he would have been a better boss than gotti,always thought that..him and jimmy brown..In the tread on this page they say he was one of the best earners,now it's time for him to take it easy.

Depends on his health a guess. Quite a few of his crew are in jail..Modica, Orefice about a douzen associates..who knows what he'll do.

He's 73. It's not that old these days. It's not like he's worked an honest day in his life. With a healthy lifestyle, modern healthcare and that mediterranean blood there is no reason why he can't become a power in The Gambino's again.

Look at Little Vic. He's 80 and still (supposedly) calling the shots.

True.73 years is not the same 73 years it was 1955 i guess.my great grandfather lived for 98 years,died in 1998..was lucid till the day he died.danny's got 10 good years at least,offcourse the condition is that he want's to be a part of it again.

What're we, in the Navy?!

He still is a power in the Gambino's, he will be til the day he dies.

If he is smart,and and if he's got some money left he should retire.

Do you remember the American television show "Jag," Sonny?

It was about the Judge Advocate General's office in the American Navy. It was far-fetched at times, but a fun show nonetheless. Anyway, for a season or two there was a character named Brumby. He was a Commander in the Australian Navy. He was the single most annoying character in the history of television. The actor who played him died of a heroin overdose. I forget his name. But as it turns out, he was actually an Englishman obsessed with Australian culture, so he adopted an Australian personality and accent.

I thought there was a point to this, but I guess not. Hey, you brought up the Navy, not me

LMAO.

Well played sir. Well played

I have a lucid moment or two every so often.

It did make me smile.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwlBVJYM38o

When you're smiling . . . .

Holy shit. That episode is on Channel 11 in New York RIGHT NOW!!!!

I swear on my kids!

I only remember JAG for Catherine Bell

But she's the very best reason anyway .

capeci wrote preety good article on marino today and the whole nephews situation. so he still lives in dyker heights next down to his cousin johnny g also read persico's live in the area. that's one mobbed up neighborhood how far from cefulo do these guys have sitdowns at the corner store playing megabucks.

I remember JAG. I used to watch it as a kid.

Well, thats all I have to add. Seems to fit the topic

Off topic,there is a "cafe besa" at the corner of e189th street and beaumont ave in the bronx.anybody knows something about it?

Can you post it here? or PM me?

Voice From The Grave Paints Gambino Capo As Heartless Brother-In-Law

Gang Land Exclusive! When Gambino family capo Daniel Marino discovered that his gangster nephew had stolen $400,000 from him, he allegedly used a tried and true mob tactic: He threatened to kill someone. In this case, the death threats were close to home. According to his late sister-in-law, Marino allegedly told her and her husband that unless they signed their Brooklyn home over to him as payback, he'd kill them and their son.

This previously untold Gang Land tale from the early 1980s first emerged when Marino's sister-in-law, Betty Hydell, was preparing to testify at the 2006 murder trial of Mafia Cops Lou Eppolito and Steve Caracappa. Hydell's son Jimmy, who had stolen the $400,000 from his uncle, later became one of the mob cops' many victims after they kidnapped and delivered Hydell to his death at the hands of Luchese mobster Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso.

Betty Hydell related the family saga to a law enforcement official who befriended her, but the tale never surfaced at the trial, in court documents, or anywhere else. Until now.

According to Hydell, after her brother-in-law threatened her and her husband, they were forced to sign their Dyker Heights home over to Marino and move their six-member family to an apartment in Staten Island, Gang Land has learned.

Also delivered to Marino was a family plot of land in the Poconos they had planned to develop and enjoy later in their lives.

"She was fearful about testifying against the cops, but she was absolutely terrified that Marino would kill her and her husband if it ever got out that she had opened her mouth about it," the source recalled. "She said, 'When we're both six feet under, you can shout it from the rooftops, but not until then.'"

James P. Hydell died in 2007, at age 87. He quit working in 1995, after 29 years as a city bus driver, and 11 years driving a school bus. Betty Hydell, who worked as a secretary for a Staten Island auto-driving school for 25 years, died last September, at age 75.

Marino, 73, who is married to Betty's sister Linda, was officially released from federal custody yesterday after a five year sentence for taking part in the 1998 murder of Jimmy Hydell's younger brother Frank, an FBI informer who was killed by the Gambino family. Until yesterday, Marino, who lives two blocks from where his late in-laws used to reside, was serving the balance of his prison term under house arrest. His home confinement began in April, following a short stay at a halfway house in Brooklyn. He was released from federal prison in February.

What follows is the story of the long-running feud between the Marino and Hydell families; how it began and continued for 30 years. It is based on information Betty Hydell gave Gang Land's law enforcement source, court records, real estate, bank and property records, as well as sources who furnished details about related matters, including the deaths of Jimmy, 27, and Frank Hydell, 31.

In the early 1980s, most likely in 1982, Danny Marino and his wife asked Betty Hydell, who was more amenable to the request than her husband would have been, to open up a safe deposit box that Danny could use to hide cash and other valuables just in case the law came looking. She got one in a bank on Bay Parkway, in Bensonhurst.

"The box was in Betty's name," said the source. "She and Danny each had a key," the source continued, noting that banks were less strict about allowing access to safe deposit boxes. "If you had a key, they would take you down to the vault and give you the box," he said.

"One day, she said it was probably early 1984, Danny went to the box, and it was empty. When he confronted Betty, she was silent. She clammed up. Gave him no explanation at all. Told him she didn't know anything about it. But she knew, just like Danny knew, that Jimmy had done it," said the source.

By time Jimmy Hydell disappeared, and was murdered, he had become a murderer himself. By 1984, he had established himself as a larcenous thug. He'd had several scrapes with the law, including an arrest for a $125,000 armed robbery of a stamp and coin shop in December of 1982, when he was 24, and still living at his parents' home at 1326 83d Street.

"Betty knew Jimmy took the money, but she wouldn't give Jimmy up because she knew Danny would have killed him. 'He was furious,' she told me. So Danny approached Big Jim and told him, 'I want your house, and I want your property in the Poconos. They're mine now.'"

"Betty had no choice. She was angry with her son, but she wasn't going to give him up. You know what they say about a mother's love. She told me, 'I know he behaved like an animal. But he was the most caring protective son for me that a mother could want.' The way she acted, Betty almost made it look like she took the money, but she didn't. When Danny forced them to move, that's when Betty and her sister stopped talking."

Records show that on September 18, 1984, James P. Hydell signed over his home to Linda Marino. No money changed hands, according to a deed that was witnessed by Alexandria Gammarano, the wife of Gambino soldier John (Johnny G) Gammarano, who lives on 85th Street in Dyker Heights, right next door to the Marinos.

Two years later, on October 18, 1986, Betty Hydell saw her very troublesome son the last time, the same day she saw two men in a blue sedan casing her Staten Island home, she testified at the Mafia Cops trial. The "big one," Eppolito, the driver, was wearing a white shirt and a necklace; the "little one," Caracappa, was in the passenger seat. She drove up alongside and "asked who they were," she testified. "The driver pulled out a badge. I said you should let people know what you're doing," she said.

That day, the cops picked up Hydell in Brooklyn, put him in the trunk of their car, and gave him to Casso, who tortured him and got him to admit, with two Gambino mobsters as witnesses, that he was part of a hit team that tried to kill Gaspipe a year earlier on orders from Gambino capo Angelo Ruggiero. Sources say Marino, with Hydell's transgressions against him fresh in his mind, did nothing to dissuade Casso from carrying out threats to kill his nephew. His body was never found.

Two years later, the elder Hydell who had purchased his attached one family home in 1952, and had refinanced it in early 1984, continued paying off the $15,000 mortgage he owed Citibank until it was satisfied in January, 1988, according to bank records recorded at the Kings County Clerk's office on February 10, 1988.

Ten years later, when the Gambino family suspected — correctly — that Frank Hydell was an FBI informer and decided to kill him, then-family boss Peter Gotti sent word of the plan to Marino, who was then behind bars for taking part in a gangland-style slaying for John Gotti.

In December of 2010, Marino, who was charged with two mob hits as part of a racketeering indictment, was prepared to cop a plea calling for five years by admitting taking part in Hydell's murder. But when he told Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan he "took no steps" to prevent the killing, Kaplan refused to take the plea, saying that the stated non-action was not a crime.

Marino, after speaking to attorney Gerald Shargel, satisfied the judge. "When my co-conspirators came to me in prison," Marino said, "it was clear to me that they were seeking my permission or approval, and by not stopping it, I implicitly gave then a green light to go ahead."

Which is one more reason why Betty Hydell had no use for Daniel Marino. "I had two sons, and my brother-in-law, a powerful mob captain, did nothing to stop the mob from killing either one," she said, according to Gang Land's law enforcement source.

How are judges so lenient on these heartless bastards, just because they are relatively old?

This bastard has caused so much misery, even to his own family; and there is no contrition! At his sentencing, when he was proffering phantom heart problems as a means to avoid a lengthy prison term and/or as a way to avoid a stringent prison, he was so arrogant and smug.

How come Jimmy Hydell's final resting place has never been divulged? Surely Casso would have offered that up when he was cooperating?

Does anyone think he'll quarterback for the Dolphins again?

Only if Reggie Roby comes back to punt but, rumor has it he's got 2 years left on his scholarship.

The hydell kid sounded both remarkably stupid and treacherous. Oh well.

He may have thought he was untouchable bc of his uncle or he was very stupid . We may never know.

Thank you pal!