Gambino "Underboss" Arrested But Who Is He?
You never would've heard of Frank Palmeri, a Gambino crime family mobster, if he wasn't incorrectly identified as an underboss by Italian officials. Francesco Palmeri US and Italian law enforcement officers arrested Palmeri, 61, in December 2014 in his Brooklyn apartment as part of a larger crackdown in Italy and Brooklyn. Two other alleged mobsters were arrested in the US and five in Italy. When Italian police identified tbe Sicilian-born Palmeri as the underboss of New York City’s Gambino family, the story was given instant global coverage. Who is Francesco Palmeri? In December 2014, there was no relevant information about a Gambino mobster named Palmeri. The arrests were said to be related to a Ndrangheta-Gambino ring that law enforcement previously smashed apart . Gambino crime family consiglieri Bartolomeo "Baboots" Vernace, was this year sentenced to life in prison for the 1981 "Shamrock murders," a double homicide. Jos...