Update On New Connection Gambino-Inzerillo Probe
New York wiseguy Thomas Gambino, 47, Sicilian mobster Tomasso Inzerillo, 72, and three other men, all wearing bathing suits, converged on a dinghy in the bay of Palermo, Sicily last summer. Frank Cali, left. They met to discuss the divvying up of profits from the sale of some Caribbean property formerly owned by then-New York-based Gambino underboss Francesco (Franky Boy) Cali, who wouldn't be alive to experience another summer; he was shot and killed in March on Staten Island in an unrelated shooting (that nearly derailed the probe). Of course that dinghy was bugged by Italian investigators working with the FBI. Italian police have since said that the last summer meeting in Palermo of those five gangsters (the Daily Beast report ed the dinghy details) was the first solid lead regarding the criminal connection between the American and Sicilian groups. The discovery kicked the investigation into high gear, with central command for the Italian and US joint operation sc...