Paul Castellano

So let's start from here.

Let's recap a little bit with Paul Castellano.

I say Castellano, I know it's Castellano.

But let's talk about, you know, after the hit with Paul Castellano, how you guys gained or garnered all that respect and take it from there.

Yeah.

Well, after the hit, the hit was amazing.

All right, Sammy, then work on it.

So Frankie the Chico says, Sammy, just off the top of your head, where would I be? I says, I got to plan it.

Eddie Lino, a lieutenant for John Gotti, the boss of the Gambino family.

Before John Gotti took control of the Gambino family, the boss was Paul Castellano.

At the time, Anthony Casso approached Castellano with a warning.

that Angelo Ruggiero, one of his trusted men, was working as an informant.

It's a beautiful area.

Where Paul Castellano lived.

That's right.

It was probably heavily a lot of cameras and a lot of security and so on and so forth.

The patriarch decided all of the important matters in the family, including who would live and who would die, as well as the enterprises in which the clan made money.

Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano, for example, forbade drug dealing among family members, especially heroin, because the stiff penalties could easily turn dealers into government informants.

Those who participated in this illegal and forbidden venue risked being made a memory.

Everyone, writes author Richard Gambino in Blood of My Blood, was responsible to the capo di famiglia.

Then, two more soldiers from the same family were assassinated, including his brother, which provoked a war in the underworld.

By the end of that year, Anastasia was murdered, which meant someone could take over the reins.

Carlo Gambino and his cousin and trusted underboss, Paul Castellano, rose to the top of the heap, and Nino, having proven himself in the lesser rungs of the latter, now became a made man.

To become a made man in a crime family, one had to demonstrate two abilities on a continuous basis.

Everything's sort of quiet for the moment.

Big Paul working.

There's a curve inside for ball two.

And as we look down from our mutual broadcasting booth, high up above the plate, top of the stands, we see Derringer for the first time behind to a hitter.

No score.

Sundra continues throwing.

Willard Hershberger, Lombardi, made the last out, comes up with the middle to warm up Big Paul while Lombardi goes back, put on the tools of his trade.

Here he comes now.

And Paul Derringer starts hurriedly to get ready down in the Chicago bullpen.

So big Paul Derringer is starting to throw very rapidly.

Runners at first and third for Detroit.

No outs.

One ball, one strike.

Derringer doesn't throw that knuckler a great many times, but he's got pretty good control of it.

Big Paul winds now, kicks high, throws a fastball.

It's taken low under the knees.

The patriarch decided all of the important matters in the family, including who would live and who would die, as well as the enterprises in which the clan made money.

Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano, for example, forbade drug dealing among family members, especially heroin, because the stiff penalties could easily turn dealers into government informants.

Those who participated in this illegal and forbidden venue risked being made a memory.

Everyone, writes author Richard Gambino in Blood of My Blood, was responsible to the capo di famiglia.

Then, two more soldiers from the same family were assassinated, including his brother, which provoked a war in the underworld.

By the end of that year, Anastasia was murdered, which meant someone could take over the reins.

Carlo Gambino and his cousin and trusted underboss, Paul Castellano, rose to the top of the heap, and Nino, having proven himself in the lesser rungs of the latter, now became a made man.

To become a made man in a crime family, one had to demonstrate two abilities on a continuous basis.

However, if the mob does still have power, and it does in parts of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan, the Bronx, there is one family that is way further ahead than everybody else.

We all know the Gambino crime family were people like John Gotti, Carla Gambino, Paul Castellano, and others.

The truth of the matter though is, if we're talking about power in the mob today in America, there is no family that comes anywhere close.

Today we're going to put out exclusive information about the hierarchy, members, what they're up to today, and things you're only gonna hear on the sit down.

We know that in the 80s, the Cherry Hill Gambino is operated out of this supper club in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

What were they doing? Moving narcotics.

People like Paul Castellano were benefiting.

They've always had a part in this family.

Sure.

That's the, the famous place where Paul Castellano, I think, took out-

Yeah, that's right.

That's where he got clipped