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The following includes a detailed interview with former Gambino associate Salvatore (Fat Sal) Mangiavillano.... After publication, this story earned the certification of former Gambino capo  Michael (Mikie Scars) DiLeonardo . In one of his latest podcasts, A Hit Team From New York Came To Arizona To Kill Me (posted below), Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano describes what he would like to do to Thomas (Huck) Carbonaro, the Gambino soldier who more than 20 years ago flew to Arizona with associate Salvatore (Fat Sal) Mangiavillano expressly to kill the former Gambino underboss. (Hint: Gravano doesn’t want to share a slice of pizza with Huck.) FBI surveillance: from left: Louis Saccenti, Huck, John Gammarano, Sammy Gravano.  Gravano details a hypothetical scenario that involves two guys bringing Huck into a room to have a brief chat with Sammy the Bull. “I would tell him, bro, we went through a lot. You were in my crew. I broke your cherry – you did your first hit with me.” Sam...

If Thomas (Huck) Carbonaro's compassionate release motion were granted, a crew of violent, prison-hardened felons—led by two Carbonaro relatives—would be ready to follow the longtime Gambino soldier's orders, sources tell Cosa Nostra News . They also discussed how some on the street view Sammy the Bull's recent podcast. Gravano crew, from left: Ed Garafola, Lou Vallario, Joe D’Angelo, Frankie Flapp, Huck Carbonaro, who came up in Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano's Brooklyn crew, has been seeking to get a judge to put an early cap on his 70-year sentence. He was convicted in 2003, and his lawyers are using chronology to Huck's benefit, arguing that so much time has passed ("decades of distance between" him and the mob) that he has transformed himself into a new person who is not a violent criminal with a Gambino button. Today, Huck "is a simple convict doing his time, trying to improve himself and attempting to maintain relationships with his large, ...

Thomas (Huck) Carbonaro, 73, saying he is a changed man who deserves a break, is filing for compassionate release in an attempt to delete the balance of the 70-year sentence he got for several mob murders, including for plotting to kill Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano in Arizona. Huck Carbonaro In addition to being convicted for his role in the infamous Gambino family conspiracy to find and kill Sammy the Bull out West around the turn of the 20th century, Huck was found guilty of participating in the 1998 slaying of Gambino associate Frank Hydell and the 1990 killing of construction official and reputed Gambino mobster Edward Garofalo. The Staten Island Advance recently reported on Huck's CR , noting that the Gambino soldier wants to spend what time he has left with his family. His projected release date is in March of 2063.  “Mr. Carbonaro is no longer the man who committed his offenses of conviction,” attorney Harlan Protass wrote, according to the Advance.  “Rather, toda...