@ Bronx

That's what I suspected, I keep trying to find some confirmation on a 1948 meeting in Sicily with Luciano. Anti mafia has a post of him meeting with Ontario mobsters in 1970, so I guess he was still alive at least until the early seventies.

One of the reasons I ask, it occurred to me, why not Paulo for acting boss when Carlo was under police scrutiny and getting older? But if he's busy managing an international network, flying here, flying there,I guess he couldn't really run the family. Being that heavy a guy, he HAD to have been more respected than Castellano, or is this wrong?

He MUST have been either still managing the drug network when Carlo died, or he died shortly before Carlo did. It just occurred to me, maybe John Gambino just replaced his uncle as the Gambino drug boss, keeping it in the family.

Any other info anyone has would be greatly appreciated..