Carmine Fatico

Carmine " Charley Wagons " Fatico ( born January 19, 1910 in East New York, Brooklyn; † August 1, 1991 ) was a capo regime in the New York Gambino crime family. Fatico was early mentor of the prominent Gambino boss John Gotti.

Life

Fatico was a small thin man, who was known more for his intelligence than his brutality. However Fatico did not shy from physical violence if this was necessary for his opinion. Fatico quickly rose to Capo in the Mangano family, which was later called the Gambino family, on. Fatico was both very loyal and on the other hand, he brought a lot of money. Faticos nickname " Charley Wagons " resulted from his specialty, rob trucks. Carmine Fatico had a brother, Daniel Fatico, who worked as an accomplice with him.

Since the 1930s Fatico was on record and he had been charged with robbery, aggravated assault and extortion. In 1951, the mobster Albert Anastasia was boss of the Mangano family and sat Fatico as responsible for all the crimes operations in East New York. To 1952, the twelve year-old John Gotti errand boy for the clubhouse of Fatico in East New York. After the assassination of Anastasia in 1957, Carlo Gambino took over the management of the family, which is classified as Gambinofamilie since. Fatico Capo was in East New York. Since about 1966, Fatico commanded a crew of about 120 men.

1972 moved Fatico with his crew from East New York to Ozone Park, Queens. Reason for this was that the ethnic composition of Brooklyn to the detriment of Italian Americans changed and so Fatico was dissatisfied. In addition, he was the closer at the John F. Kennedy Airport, which the Gambino and Lucchese who robbed the regular. In Ozone Park Fatico bought a social club and called him Bergin Hunt and Fish Club. The name was a throwback to the Bergen Street in East New York, where the crew had had their old haunt. In the same year put Fatico Gotti as the person responsible for the illegal gambling business in East New York. Fatico estimated Gotti way of moving debtors to pay their debts.

Fatico let the Kennedy Airport and the docks in Brooklyn rob regularly. He traded in stolen goods, took money from credit profiteering, illegal bookmaking, illegal gambling. His crew is said to have earned up to $ 30 million dollars per year.

On May 23, 1972 Fatico in Suffolk County, New York has been accused of various crimes because Kreditwucherei and conspiracy. 1973 Fatico was indicted again and it was imposed on probation commitment to include no contact with his crew members. Fatico Gotti appointed to acting Capo ( which means that he was provisionally worked as Capo ). Gotti reported directly to the Gambino underboss Aniello Della Croce. Fatico was sentenced mid-seventies to five years in prison for robbery.

Gotti was in 1977 officially Capo of Faticos former crew members.

On 1 August 1991 Fatico died of natural causes at the age of 81 He is buried in the Saint John Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens.