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Carmine Galante (Italian: [ˈkarmine ɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was de facto boss of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar hanging from his mouth, leading to the nickname " The Cigar " and " Lilo " (a Sicilian term for 'cigar').
Joseph Massino began jockeying for power with Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano, another Philip Rastelli loyalist capo, after the 1979 murder of Carmine Galante.Both men were themselves threatened by another faction seeking to depose the absentee boss led by capos Indelicato, Dominick "Big Trin" Trincera and Philip Giaccone. [2]
After Galante's murder, a power struggle erupted between two factions of the Bonanno family. One faction included capos Dominick Napolitano and Joseph Massino , who were loyal to Rastelli. The second faction, which included Indelicato's father Alphonse, Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera , wanted to murder the leaders of the Massino faction ...
Philip "Rusty" Rastelli succeeded Galante as boss of the family, even though he was incarcerated at the time and Joseph Massino became underboss, although some believed Massino was the real power in the family. After Galante's death, Bonventre was promoted from soldier to capo and joined Salvatore Catalano's Brooklyn crew. [6]
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June 25 - Carmine Galante convicted for drugs charges. [3] October 27 – On a flight from Sicily to the Milan Linate Airport, the Saulnier jetplane of Enrico Mattei crashes in the surroundings of the small village of Bascapè in Lombardy. Together with Mattei, his pilot Irnerio Bertuzzi and the American Journalist William McHale also died.