Hey; everyone.

I just saw on a highly credible and heavily followed mafia Instagram account that Thomas Gambino died yesterday (Oct 3rd/Tuesday)

Do anyone have anymore news? I believe the news Is true because this page is highly credible but would love other sources!

If he is dead; We are nearing the end of guys of his generation that was part of the life.

Update: More and more people are saying he did indeed pass away yesturday.

That's been on YT several hours already, I believe first reported by DiLeonardo.

I'm still sour over there not being more photos of Tommy Lucchese. I mean, he was pretty damn notorious. I would expect there not to be many pics of the boss before him, Tommy Gagliano.

It's true. Thomas Gambino passed away yesterday.

Interesting man. Born into it. Had the reputation of being an absolute sweetheart

How old was Tommy? Looking at some of the pics, he looks quite old....

He's one of those people who looks old throughout their entire adult lives and never really changes. . He was 94.

Tnx

RIP...always felt like he was probably a decent human being.

What instagram account was saying this?

The sit down podcast twitter account tweeted it yesterday afternoon, but thats all i saw.

RIP. Seemed like a sweet old man. I wish more was known about his mob career.

I know he was a captain and had interests in the garment district. Any other info on him?

I don't know much about him, but I know that he was extremely wealthy. Yeah, they say he was a very kind hearted individual. He was big into philanthropy, hosting benefit dinners and things of that nature.

Here he is at some of those events

Tommy Gambino had the well earned reputation as a gentleman and businessman, as much as a so-called mafioso. In fact, he was really more a businessman, He was not a hoodlum type. But with a multi-multimillion dollar inheritance from his father and the position his father put him in as a mafioso as well as a garment mogul in control of a huge block of the garment district through trucking and dress shops, I guess he really didn't have to be. lol.

Still, he was more cultured and good natured than were many of his underworld brethren. (remember too that he married the daughter of Tommy Lucchese, so his wife Frances inherited her fathers vast wealth as a boss as well.)

He was an EXTREMELY wealthy man.

His main racket was the Garment business. He controlled one of the biggest trucking company in the garment district and it is well documented that Tommy Lucchese gave him a piece of the Lucchese's garment racket after he married his daughter.

Not much is know about his crew. Do we know who were the soldiers in his crew ?

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Look it up; Very credible and legit!

Was Thomas Gambino ever on the hit-list to be whacked along with Paul Castellano? Did know about the plot like Joe N. Gallo but refused to partake?

Who was in Thomas Gambino's crew?

I don't believe that Tommy was ever brought in on the plot. After all, he wasn't that type of guy, he wasn't pivotal or needed for the success of the plot, and Castellano was his uncle/cousin - he was blood family.

In fact, after the hit, the one commendable thing Gotti did was to have a heart to heart talk with Tommy and treated him with kid gloves out of respect.

As far as his "crew" goes, Tommy was elevated to and maintained a "capo" post, out of formality and respect for his surname and his dad, Carlo. He was given just a few men to oversee, and had a small crew. Because his real value to the borgata was his control of garment industry rackets for himself and on behalf of the Gambino Family.

And with the exception of two or three key aides/soldiers, he had a few another "associates" as part of him. Just enough to run around and help facilitate his garment interests.

Gotti later assigned him as the "capo" to oversee the family's Connecticuts rackets, which was a big mistake! It turned out that Tommy's only arrest stemmed from getting mucked up in Gotti's later indictment.

Had Gotti left Tommy alone (because he did not need, nor want, to "oversee" CT) he most probably would never have seen the inside of a jail cell.

Def a legend! At his father's behest, he studied at one of the best universities in New York, graduating with excellent grades. When his father Carlo became the boss of the mafia family that bears his name in 1957, the young Thomas, although not yet officially a "man of honor", began to take care of the financial affairs of the "family" .

He was cut from a different cloth...as his dad intended for him. Carlo didn't even want his brother Joe "in," he only allowed Tommy to get inducted. What else did they need?

He had a very Sicilian upbringing, he was no push over.

When did Thomas Gambino get inducted? Did he get made while Carlo was alive or was he made under Castellano??

Also off topic; Do anyone have more Information about Frances Lucchese? And her relationship with Thomas Lucchese (her father)? And to a lesser extent Carlo Gambino.

A conversation among Gotti, Gravano and Locascio on November 30, 1989 in the apartment above the Ravenite which was intercepted and recorded was played for the jury. On that recording, Gotti is overheard relating a conversation at which Thomas Gambino was present in which accusations were voiced against Neil Dellacroce, a captain in the Gambino Family (Tr. at 307) and in which he related a stated intention of Paul Castellano to put "young soldiers" . . . "in the crews of Tommy Gambino and Joe Butch Corrao." (Tr. at 309). Not once during the playing of this recorded conversation was the name of Giuseppe Gambino mentioned.

A conversation between Gotti and Giuseppe Gambino in the hallway of 247 Mulberry Street on December 14, 1989 was intercepted, recorded and played for the jury. The subject of the conversation was the need to provide a lawyer for Tony Megale who was indicted in Connecticut on December 6, 1989 and arrested on the following day, the expenses a trial would entail, and who would provide for payment of those expenses. (Tr. at 324-26).

Five days later, on December 19, 1989, a conversation between Gotti and Thomas Gambino in that same hallway was intercepted, recorded and played for the jury. The discussion once again centered about the representation of Tony Megale. (Tr. at 327). The testimony of Agent Gabriel regarding that conversation would have permitted the jury to find that Tommy Gambino was going to pay for the services of Tony Megale's lawyer (Tr. at 328, 332); that Tommy Gambino was involved with loansharking (Tr. at 329); that Tommy Gambino was the captain of a crew of which Giuseppe Gambino was a member (Tr. at 330); that Tommy Gambino was keeping Gotti apprised of the events surrounding the indictment of Tony Megale (Tr. at 333); that he pledged his fealty to John Gotti (Tr. at 335, 336); and that Gotti was pleased that Tommy Gambino was available to assist Tony Megale (Tr. at 336).

After the recorded conversations were played for the jury, the government then presented surveillances of the activity in the vicinity of the Ravenite Social Club which were captured on video tape. Thomas Gambino was shown entering and leaving that club on December 19, 1989 and Giuseppe Gambino was then shown on December 14 and 19, 1989.

Wasn't there also a recording of Tommy Gambino where he said that everything he did, he did for his father?

He seemed like a very smart man, a CEO of a huge company type of a man had he not went the route he did.

RIP.

Is Frances alive?

Probably Thomas Gambino met the greatest Mafia leaders as a young boy.

I'm sure I read a bug transcript where Gotti Sr is talking to Remini ??and saying
" I want you to see/ be with Tommy G. That doesn't embarass you does it?

I think it was something like that. Embarass how??

Tommy was not part of the group's military wing, like Gotti's men.

Yes he seemed most concerned with pleasing his father. Poor guy acted like he never had a choice lol

Who was/is Giuseppe Gambino mentioned in the Ravenite tapes?

The man was a criminal, period. Just because he appeared to be a gentleman and more educated than the thugs around him doesn’t eliminate the fact he was stealing from everyday citizens. He donated his time and his victims money all because it looked good when and if the time came he was arrested. Don’t make him out to be a saint now that he died. He lived his entire life on your dime and the dime of his criminal father and father in laws victims. He didn’t immigrate, work his way up thru the Italian slums selling newspapers as a 5 year old and make a living breaking his back like 1000s of his victims. Sorry, you live a life of crime, when you die you’re still a criminal you don’t get a pass from me. My two cents.

No, he was a member due to his family, but all his money, or almost all, came from legitimate income. He did donate millions to charity and hospitals, but it all came from his business earnings. He did not live on my dime, your dime, or anyone else's. As for Carlo Gambino, him and his peers made most of theirs through things like bootlegging and later gambling. There was drugs sold way back when, and stealing. Let's at least be honest in discussing it. Not everyone back then was going to sell newspapers for small change, work menial jobs, then grow old and die broke.