Joe Gallo put together a plan to kidnap the top tier of the Profaci family, much like “the Turk,” Virgil Sollozzo, bagged the Corleone family consigliere Tom Hayden, played by Robert Duvall. It was the first time a mob family hierarchy was openly challenged. would raise their profiles and fatten their wallets, but they found themselves stuck at the same dead end. The Gallo brothers thought the high profile execution of the man who co-created Murder Inc. Joe Gallo is credited as being one of the “Barbershop Quintet” that did the job on Albert “the Lord High Executioner” Anastasia while he was getting a shave. “Crazy” Joe “The Blond” Gallo and his brothers Kid Blast and Larry ran rackets for the Profaci Family. The mafia mythology of The Godfather would have you believe that “sleeping with the fishes” was an old Sicilian message, but it only went back about a decade to the time a gang that couldn’t shoot straight went to the mattresses on President’s Street in Brooklyn. The Gallo-Profaci war took the lives of 13 gang members and changed the Profaci Family name to Colombo. Joseph Bonanno told Gay Talese, for the book Honor Thy Father, the story of how the bloody gang war gave rise to the Commission and the price. The Gallo-Profaci war was the biggest mob war since the Castellammarese war, named for the town of Castellammarese del Golfo of Sicily, of 1930-31. But he wasn’t protected from going to the mattresses. While his Lucky Luciano-sanctioned family was one of the biggest in the Commission, Profaci’s legitimate business protected him from tax evasion charges. Profaci was at the Decemmafia summit thrown by Cleveland boss Joseph Porello at the Statler Hotel. Corleone also imported olive oil (so did my great grandfather Don Guiseppe Giannusa, but that didn’t make him Mafiosi). Profaci was the Olive Oil king of Long Island. He came to America on the same boat as future Gambino family boss Vincent Mangano and his brother Phillip. Giuseppe “Joe” Profaci was born on Octoin Villabate, a province in Palermo, Sicily. The Gambino Family had a “deal and die” policy on heroin and both were bugged by the fucking FBI, who don’t respect nothing. Corleone and Gambino had three sons and a daughter. But he went to jail a few times and was usurped on the Commission. When Marlon Brando was preparing to play Corleone, he listened to tapes of Costello testifying to the Kefauver Committee on Organized Crime.Ĭarlo Gambino never went to jail and also died of natural causes, though it was in 1976, after The Godfather came out. Like Corleone, Costello survived a hit, and died of natural causes. Costello made money off harmless vices like gambling and bootlegging, had operations in Las Vegas and Cuba, and kept his soldiers from dealing heroin. Costello was born January 26, 1891, in Cassano all’Ionio, Italy. Vito Andolini was born in Corleone, Sicily, the city that gave him his famous name, on December 7, 1891. In Mario Puzo’s book, Vito Corleone and Frank Costello were born in the same year.
The diplomatic Costello opted for reason over violence and had enough judges and politicians in his pocket to stay in power.
He stayed out of the limelight that put mobsters like Al Capone in the headlines and jail. Frank Costello, of the Luciano/Genovese family, was known as “The Prime Minister” of the Mafia. As a reasonable man, he is willing to do whatever is necessary to find a peaceful solution to problems. The Corleones are also part of the Five Families and Don Vito Corleone himself is a composite of real-life mobsters Frank Costello, Carlo Gambino, and Joe Profaci.ĭon Corleone, in the book and the movie, had a reputation for being a reasonable man, a modest man who will always listen to reason.
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