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Impact of the Gambino crime family FBI surveillance photo of Gambino boss John Gotti and underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano meeting with Victor Amuso and Anthony Casso of the Lucchese Crime Family. The impact of organized crime is generally regarded as a global phenomenon, and the Italian Mafia in the United States is seen as having connections to other ethnic criminal organizations operating within the United States (including the Asian Triad, Russian, Albanian Organized Crime, Biker Gangs, etc.), to their
counterparts in Sicily and southern Italy, as well as to other international criminal organizations including stolen car rings and drug cartels abroad. The Gambino Crime Family has been connected to narcotics trafficking, labor racketteering, counterfeiting, loansharking and extortion, gambling, and automobile theft among other criminal operations that bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in profit each year, in addition to many legitimate enterprises over which they exercise control. Law enforcement estimates that the Gambino family consists of approximately 200 members, and perhaps 800 associates, and operates in all five boroughs of New York City, and throughout the country especially in Hartford, Connecticut, Atlantic City and Newark, in New Jersey, Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, San Francisco, California, Los Angeles, California, Las Vegas, Nevada, Baltimore, Maryland. Lynda Milito was bon and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She was married to Louie Milito for twenty-two years. After 22 years of marriage, Louie Milito was murdered by the mob--and his body has never been found. She still dreams of the day she could find him.
Presently Lynda is single and still looking. Admitted mass murderer and Mafia turncoat Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano was sentenced in October 2002 to 19 years in prison for heading an Arizona-based narcotics syndicate specializing in the club drug Ecstasy. Before he became a pusher, Gravano served as John Gotti's right-hand man in the Gambino crime family. After testifying against the Dapper Don, Gravano was relocated out west, courtesy of the witness protection program. It was there that Gravano resumed his life of crime--and had this mug shot taken by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
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