Toppling Carlo Gambino on 1966 La Stella Meeting Agenda?
We left off with Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce facing allegations for attempting to unseat his crime family's namesake: Carlo Gambino . The charge was levied at Dellacroce by the Joint Legislative Committee on Crime in a public forum seemingly designed after an earlier, national inquiry into organized crime, the McClellan Hearings. Where Dellacroce was arrested in 1966 for alleged plotting. To advance the story, we next turn to Dellacroce's obituary. The Gambino underboss (and historical mentor to John Gotti ) died on Dec. 2, 1985, of cancer at age 71. The mobster's New York Times obituary, written by Ralph Blumenthal (author of the important but somwhat overlooked Last Days of the Sicilians ), point-blank stated : In 1966, Mr. Dellacroce was arrested in a police raid of the La Stella restaurant in Queens, where, the Joint Legislative Committee on Crime later charged, he and other Mafia leaders were plotting to depose Mr. Gambino... ( The La (?) S...