Carmine Lombardozzi
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Carmine "The Doctor" Lombardozzi (February 8, 1913 – May 9, 1992) was a made member of the Gambino family in New York. He was involved in loansharking and racketeering, and was said to have earned the Gambino crime family a substantial sum of money during his criminal career. Also known as the "King of Wall Street" and "The Italian Meyer Lansky" Lombardozzi, though only a caporegime (lieutenant), allegedly ran the entire Gambino shylock and stock market rackets. he brought his nephews Daniel Marino and George Lombardozzi into the crime family with his nephew Daniel reaching Caporegime and controlling his uncle's crew. [1]
He attended the infamous Apalachin Meeting in November 1957, where he was arrested along with many other high profile mobsters.
He died of natural causes in 1992, at the age of 79.
[edit] Further reading
- Capeci, Jerry. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia. Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. ISBN 0-02-864225-2
- Davis, John H. Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 0-06-016357-7
- Kwitny, Jonathan. Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace. New York: W.W. Norton, 1979. ISBN 0-393-01188-7
- Summers, Anthony. Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. ISBN 0-399-13800-5
- Weiss, Gary R. Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street. New York: Warner Books, 2003. ISBN 0-446-61398-3
[edit] References
- ^ Carl Sifakis, The Mafia Encyclopedia, (Facts on File, 2005), p.271
