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The son of Sicilian immigrants Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattans Little Italy and by all accounts born bad By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New Yorks Lower East Side scoring high marks for the errands he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders When he turned twenty Galante was already one of the mobs top enforcersa sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams whack his way into controlling organized crime the world over vowing to kill Mafia chieftans Tommy Lucchese and Carlo Gambino and take control of their mob families

Carmine Lilo Galantes rise to Mafia star was infamous hit man for the Luciano and Genovese crime families named consigliere by Joseph Bonnano he wiped out eight members of the Gambinos on behalf of Mussolini he assassinated the publisher of an antiFascist newspaper Galante helped orchestrate one of the largest heroin trafficking operations on recorda power move too dangerous for his rivals in the narcotics trade The heads of the five New York families decided that the psychotic Galante had to be stopped On July 12 1979 finishing his lunch in a Brooklyn restaurant Galante got what hed dished out his whole life a shotgun blast to the face his trademark cigar still clenched in his teeth