"The Godfather" of the Gambino family is bored of bullets at the door of his house

UNITED STATES, New York.- Head of the infamous criminal gang of Carlo Gambino, one of the "five families" of the New York Mafia, Frank Cali, 53 years oldHe was taken alive to the hospital from his home in Staten Island, New York, but was later declared dead.

Surprisingly, Cali, also known as "Frank Boy", had in his record only one crime: an extortion charge in 2008, for which he spent 10 months in jail . Responsible for the family since 2015, he is the first godfather to have been murdered by the New York Mafia since 1985.

According to the police, under Cali's direction, the Gambino family was more focused on heroin trafficking and on the painkiller OxyContin, an abuse.

Active since the early twentieth century, the Gambino family controlled many illegal activities such as extortion, fraud, gambling, money laundering, commission murders, theft and drug trafficking.

The deceased had links with the mafia from the time he was born in New York on March 26, 1965, to Sicilian parents. His great uncles were the gangster Vito Bonventre (1875-1930) and Giovanni Bonventre (1901-1970). It is said that Cali became a "tailor made" man of the Gambino family in 1997 and quickly became a powerful capo before 40 years of age.

Cali was a political nephew of the mafioso John Gambino (1940-2017) and maintained close ties with the Italian "cosa nostra" through the Inzerillo family in Palermo, Sicily. He was married to Rosaria Inzerillo, cousin of Frank Inzerillo, a Gambino badociate.

Police investigate who is behind the crime. At the present time, there is no arrest, but suspicion hangs over other mafia families in New York.