Carmine Fatico

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Carmine "Charley Wagons" Fatico (born January 19, 1910 in New York ; † August 1, 1991 ) was a Capo regime in the New York criminal family Gambino . Fatico used to be the mentor of the prominent Gambino boss John Gotti .

Life

Fatico was born in East New York ( Brooklyn ). He was a short, slim man known more for his intelligence than his brutality. However, Fatico did not shy away from physical violence if, in his opinion, it was necessary. Fatico quickly rose to become a capo in the Mangano family, later called the Gambino family. Fatico was on the one hand very loyal and on the other hand he made a lot of money. Fatico's nickname "Charley Wagons" resulted from his specialty in robbing trucks. Carmine Fatico had a brother, Daniel Fatico, who worked with him as an accomplice.

Fatico had been on record since the 1930s and had been charged with robbery, aggravated assault, and extortion. In 1951 the mobster Albert Anastasia became head of the Mangano family and put Fatico in charge of all crime operations in East New York. Around 1952, twelve-year-old John Gotti became an errand boy for the Fatico clubhouse in East New York. After Anastasia's murder in 1957, Carlo Gambino took over the management of the family, which has since been classified as the Gambino family. Fatico became a capo in East New York. Since 1966 Fatico commanded a crew of around 120 men.

In 1972 Fatico and his crew moved from East New York to Ozone Park . The reason for this was that the ethnic composition of Brooklyn changed to the disadvantage of the Italian-Americans and Fatico was dissatisfied with it. It was also closer to JFK , which the Gambinos and Luccheses routinely robbed. In Ozone Park, Fatico bought a social club and named it Bergin Hunt and Fish Club . The name was reminiscent of Bergen Street in East New York, where the crew had their old hiding place. In the same year, Fatico Gotti was responsible for the illegal gambling business in East New York. Fatico appreciated Gotti's way of getting debtors to pay their debts.

Fatico regularly robbed Kennedy Airport and the Brooklyn docks. He traded in stolen goods, got money from usurious credit business, illegal bookmaking, illegal gambling. His crew is said to have made up to $ 30 million a year.

On May 23, 1972, Fatico was indicted in Suffolk County, New York, on charges of bankruptcy and conspiracy to commit various crimes. In 1973, Fatico was tried again and was placed on probation not to contact any of his crew members. Fatico appointed Gotti as an acting capo (which means that he was temporarily active as a capo). Gotti reported directly to the Gambino underboss Aniello Dellacroce . Fatico was sentenced to five years in prison for robbery in the mid-1970s.

Gotti officially became the capo of Fatico's former crew in 1977.

On 1 August 1991 Fatico died of natural causes at the age of 81. He is buried in the Saint John Cemetery in Middle Village ( Queens ).

literature

  • John H. Davis: Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family . HarperCollins, New York 1994, ISBN 0-06-109184-7 .
  • Anthony M. DeStefano: Mob Killer . Pinnacle Books, New York 2011, ISBN 0-7860-2858-0 .
  • Gene Mustain, Jerry Capeci : Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti . Penguin, Indianapolis 2002, ISBN 0-02-864416-6 .
  • Selwyn Raab: Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires . Macmillan, New York 2006, ISBN 0-312-36181-5 .
  • Victoria Gotti : This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti . Simon and Schuster, New York 2009, ISBN 1-4391-5450-3 .
  • Colin Wilson: The World's Greatest True Crime . Barnes & Noble Publishing, New York 2004, ISBN 0-7607-5467-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e John H. Davis: Mafia dynasty: the rise and fall of the Gambino crime family , 1st Harper paperbacks .. edition, Harper Paperbacks, New York, NY 1994, ISBN 0-06-109184-7 , pp. 142.
  2. ↑ a b c d Selwyn Raab: Five families: the rise, decline, and resurgence of America''s most powerful Mafia empires , 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed .. Edition, Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-312 -36181-5 .
  3. ↑ Suffolk indicts 4 in Loan-Shark Case . In: New York Times , May 24, 1972. Retrieved December 11, 2011. 
  4. ↑ Anthony M. DiStefano: Mob Killer . Pinnacle Books, 2011, ISBN 0-7860-2858-0 .
  5. ↑ Carmine Fatico . In: Find A Grave . Retrieved December 11, 2011.

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personal data
SURNAME Fatico, Carmine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagons, Charley (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American criminal and mafioso
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH East New York, Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1991