Because like the mob, you're all intertwined, you're all family.” He trusted the Sicilian people more than he trusted anyone else. He was a born and raised New Yorker.Īngela: “My father should have been born on Sicily. Though he loved and trusted Sicilians and both his parents were from Castellammare del Golfo, he himself was not born there. He surrounded himself with them, using them as bodyguards. READ: How the Sicilian Mafia flooded the US with heroinīesides dope, Galante also began importing Sicilian Mafiosi.
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Why he chose pizza places I'll never know, but it was nice getting free pizza all the time.” I remember he opened up one not far from my house in Broadway. “My father started opening up pizza restaurants. Galante was no different, his daughter says. This was based on the practice by many of the participants to use pizza parlors as fronts for their drug business. The heroin pipeline that now flowed from Europe to North America was dubbed the Pizza Connection. He knew that this was gonna be his big shot.” “What he did might be wrong, but he excelled at it. “He saw drugs as his opportunity to almost take over the world,” Angela says. Bonanno and Galante would play a significant part in flooding the United States with their product. It was at this meeting that the old and new Mafia divided the lucrative heroin trafficking routes and roles each clan would play. In 1957, he accompanied his boss to Palermo, Sicily, where both men attended the infamous meeting of American and Sicilian Mafia bosses at the Grand Hotel et des Palms. Traveling the world, surrounded by beautiful women, driving the fanciest cars, and always looking over his shoulder. Galante did lead the life of a secret agent. I was under the impression that he worked for the CIA or FBI and that he was on these missions.” “We were so excited when daddy would come home. Her father didn’t have a job working 9 to 5 and it was cause for a lot of guesswork. It never dawned on me ‘Oh this is a great place for dad to bring in his drugs.’ I didn't know any of that.” So even when I was younger I knew my daddy owned a restaurant in Canada. In passport it said ‘restaurant owner’ as his occupation. “At that time it never felt like anything but a vacation to me. “Montreal to me was a very glamorous city,” she says.
In the 1950s, Bonanno sent Galante to Montreal, Canada to oversee the family’s drug business there. Chief among them, Joseph Bonanno, the leader of the Mafia family Galante had become a member of and would one day come to lead himself. Powerful bosses relied upon his areas of expertise. Galante was now moving among the elite of the underworld. Galante was arrested as a suspect, but no charges were ever brought against him or any one else. Tresca was shot to death, allegedly, by Galante in front of his office in Manhattan on January 11, 1943. Among them Vito Genovese, who allegedly ordered the death of anti-fascist newspaper publisher Carlo Tresca. He did contract murders for some of the biggest names in the New York underworld of the 1930s and 1940s. When he hit you, he hit you.”īy now, Galante had established himself as a capable and reliable hitman. He put up one of those punching bags in the basement and I used to watch him and it would just blow my mind. And he had a punch that you wouldn't believe. Angela: “He was stocky, but it wasn't fat, he was all muscle. At 5’ 5” tall, some people might not see the brute force that Galante was capable of.
READ: The Shoot-Out on Troutman Street: The Mafia at War.Petty gang crimes led to a career in bootlegging and connections to powerful figures in the Mafia. By the time he was a teenager, he led his own gang on New York’s Lower East Side. Galante got into trouble at an early age. “Even in the early stages he feared nothing, and I think that that was a big part of him becoming what he was and who he was.” She believes it also gave her father a mindset that helped him overcome any obstacle he faced in the violent environment he moved in. I'm sure that this made him get into the wrong company.”
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“My dad told me a story once,” Angela told the producers of documentary series Narco Wars: The Mob. His daughter Angela talked about her father and what it was like growing up with a man aiming to take over the underworld. But he was also a loving husband and doting dad. New York Mafia boss Carmine Galante was one of the most ruthless mobsters in the world.
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