The new boss of the mafia Francesco Cali, head of the Gambino family murdered in New York – 14/03/2019

The mob boss Francesco "Frank" Cali, leader of the Gambino family, He was shot Wednesday night outside his home in New York, police said.

Cali, 53, received six shots in the chest around 9:20 pm (local time, 10:20 pm in Argentina) and, according to some reports, was also overthrown by the truck driven by his alleged killers.

The mafia leader was transferred to the Staten Island University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The event has arrived in front of Cali's private house in the Todt Hill district of Staten Island, known for the influence of the mafia.

The Gambino family, one of the five that make up the Sicilian mafia in New York, It was considered the largest criminal organization in the United States dedicated to all types of criminal activity until its collapse in the 1990s due to government coups.

The murder of Cali is the first in decades of a mafia leader in New York and that more and more visible in the Gambino family since John Gotti ordered in 1985 to kill the leader of the time, Paul Castellano, to seize the power of the organization.

Gotti was arrested in the late 1990s thanks to the collaboration of his second-in-command, Salvatore Gravano, with the FBI, a relationship that would lead to the downfall of several mafia bosses and the loss of a great deal. part of the Gambino family. Gotti died in prison in 2002.

From Sicilian parents in Palermo, Cali was born in New York in 1965 and was involved at an early age in the New York Mafia.

Between 2008 and 2009, he spent 10 months in prison for extortion. Cali took control of the organization in 2015.

American and Italian authorities have judged member of the Cosa Nostra and as ambbadador to New York mafia families of Sicily.

Cali's death is produced five days after the death of Carmine Persico. The former head of the Colombo family was 85 years old and in 1986 he was sentenced to 139 years in prison.

According to press reports based on the testimony of an FBI agent, Persico would be one of the heads of the five families of the New York mafia who allegedly referred in 1986 to the possible badbadination of the federal prosecutor's office. 39, then Rudolph Giuliani, then mayor of New York. This plan ultimately failed, with Luchese, Bonanno and Genovese clansmen rejecting John Gotti's proposal.

Source: EFE