Sicilian Side Of Gambino Boss Frank Cali
" It is absolutely out of the question that a Sicilian man of honor could become a made member of the American Cosa Nostra ..." --Tommaso Buscetta, aka the "boss of two worlds" Tall Pete Inzerillo and Frank Cali Frank Cali, the reputed leader of the Gambino crime family who was shot to death outside his house in Staten Island, allegedly was made acting boss in 2015. Strong factors leading to his ascension were his strong ties to both the Sicilian Mafia and the Calabrian Ndrangheta. His rise also was part of an attempt by the Gambinos to lower the crime family’s profile after John Gotti shot his way to the top in December 1985, according to law enforcement officials. The Brooklyn-born Cali was related by blood to, and married into, Palermo's Inzerillo family and had cultivated close ties with members of the Ndrangheta's Siderno Group, a global drug trafficking network based in the southern Italian town of Siderno in Calabria. In the 1950s, ...
