@ MightyDR

Great find!!

That post pretty much confirms without a doubt what I read about the Gambinos in Mafia Dynasty: The rise and Fall of the Gambino Family.

In it, they say that the Gambinos bought up all the bootlegging interest of mobsters getting out of the liquor business after repeal. And the distillery equipment, everything, as they understood, that there would still be a market for bootleg liquor after it was legal again . They said they had a monopoly on bootleg liquor within a hundred mile radius, or the whole NY region, or something like that. They said it was the source of their First fortune, the ration stamps being the second.

@ Giacomo

Are you sure he was never a Capo? Seems strange that he wouldn't be, but Joe Gambino was, as well as Paul Castellano