Originally posted by Boss_of_bosses:
Actually, Turnbull, there is still no proof that Gambino gave the order to Colombo's death. But whether he did so or not he also ordered the death of another Don. I can't think of his name nor can i remember what Family, of the four in New York, he ruled.
I was very careful to choose the word "supposedly" in identifying Gambino with Columbo's death, BofB. :rolleyes:
Gambino and Lucchese encouraged the Gallo brothers' revolt against Joe Profaci in the early '60's, but Profaci died of cancer, not their bullets. His successor, brother-in-law Joe Magliocco, also died of natural causes before assassins could get to him. Columbo was Gambino's choice to become Don after Magliocco, and he did become Don. Gambino also sided with Stefano Magaddino in deposing Joe Bonanno, but Bonanno lived into his nineties. Both the Genovese and Lucchese families had relatively orderly transitions after their namesakes died. That accounts for all the NY families in the 60's.
