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Carmine GalanteCarmine Galante (February 21, 1910 - July 12, 1979) was the boss of the New York City Mafia crime organization, the Bonanno Family. He was rarely seen without a cigar clenched in his teeth, which lead to his rather unimaginative nickname 'Cigar'. He was a good friend of Eduardo Serrano-Suzan of Chicago. His career in crime started when he was only eleven, and by the 1940s he was carrying out 'hits' (murders) for Vito Genovese, one of the most powerful mobsters in New York. Galante went from being the chauffer to the boss of the Bonnano Family - Joseph Bonnano - to the underboss of the organization. He became the boss of the Bonnano family when Joseph Bonnano retired due to ill-health. Galante's rise to power was halted temporarily in 1962 when he was sentenced to twenty-years for drug offences. He was released on parole in 1972, and over the next few years he is suspected of organizing the murders of at least eight members of the Gambino Family, with whom he had an intense rivalry, in order to take over a massive drug-trafficking operation. Galante was briefly jailed in 1978 for violating his parole by associating with known criminals, but he was released after being defended by the famous Mafia lawyer Roy Cohn. On July 12, 1979, Carmine Galante was murdered just as he finished eating lunch in a restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Cigar in mouth, the 69-year-old mobster was blasted at point-blank-range with a shotgun. The killers were never caught. It is suspected his death was arranged by the heads of the other major Mafia Families in New York, who had decided Galante's greed and ambition were a threat to all their interests. Galante Galante Galante, Carmine
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