Robert DiBernardo

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Robert "DB" DiBernardo , (born May 31, 1937 Hewlett , New York City , † June 5, 1986 Bensonhurst , Brooklyn ) was an Italian-American mobster of La Cosa Nostra in New York City. He had the rank of a capo regime in the Gambino family .

Life

Ascent

Little is known about his early years. He made a lot of money with pornographic products for Mafia standards and was highly regarded within the families.

John Zaccaro and Geraldine Ferraro

In 1984 the Democratic Party nominated Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro as presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the 1984 election. During the campaign , tax returns by John Zaccaro, Ferrari's husband, were made a campaign issue. The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper also attempted to prove that Zaccaro had made real estate deals with DiBernardo, but it was withdrawn. The husband's finances were used in the election campaign against Ferraro. Mondale and Ferraro lost to Reagan and Bush like a landslide.

assassination

The underboss of the Gambino family, Sammy Gravano, told his boss John Gotti that Capo Angelo Ruggiero had told him that DiBernardo was not to be trusted. Gravano asked to be allowed to murder DiBernardo and Gotti agreed.

On June 5, 1986, DiBernardo was asked to speak to Gravano, who had brought one of his henchmen, Joseph Paruta , with him - also for assassinations. Paruta got up to get DiBernardo some coffee and shot him in the back of the head. Gravano later testified that he learned that Ruggiero owed $ 250,000 to DiBernardo, and probably because of it, had spread rumors about him.

This story could also have been made up, because Gravano also benefited from the murder and took over DiBernardo's Teamsters -Lokal 282 .

Adaptations

literature

  • Goombatah: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang by John Cummings and Ernest Volkman
  • Underboss: Sammy The Bull Gravano's Story of Life in The Mafia by Peter Maas
  • Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family by John H. Davis
  • Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/interviews/taylor.html (English)
  2. ↑ Gerth, Jeff and Blumenthal, Ralph: Rep. Ferraro's Transactions Detailed in Public Records , The New York Times . July 26, 1984. 
  3. ↑ Goldman and Fuller, The Quest for the Presidency 1984 , p. 213.
  4. ^ Thomas E. Patterson, Dani, Richard: The Media Campaign: Struggle for the Agenda . In: Nelson, Michael (ed.) (Ed.): The Elections of 1984 . Congressional Quarterly, Inc. , 1985, ISBN 0-87187-330-3 . Page 119.
  5. ↑ Germond and Witcover, Wake Us When It's Over , 537.
  6. ↑ "Ferraro's Husband Is Said To Have Met Mob Figure" The New York Times September 12, 1992 by Ralph Blumenthal (English)
  7. ↑ Jane Perlez: (April 10, 1984). "Woman in the News: Democrat, Peacemaker: Geraldine Anne Ferraro," The New York Times. (English)
  8. ↑ Geraldine A. Ferraro: Francke, Linda Bird (1985). My story. Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-05110-5 . Page 17.
  9. ↑ Ferraro: Framing a Life, pp. 65-67.
  10. ↑ Geraldine Anne Ferraro (1935-): Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 30, 2008
  11. ↑ Maas, Peter . Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia. New York City: HarperCollins , 1996. ISBN 978-0-06-093096-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Robert DiBernardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mobster
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1937
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1986