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16_7ecbplus.xml_20 | train | evt | 16_7ecbplus.xml | 4 | Before he was fatally shot , Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Ortiz was looking for a man considered to be a "career criminal" and was hoping to arrest him on suspicion of attempted murder , officials said Saturday . | 31 | 31 | 168 | 177 | suspicion | 10000000784 | suspicion | ['he', 'fatally', 'shoot', 'los', 'angeles', 'county', "sheriff's", 'deputy', 'jerry', 'ortiz', 'look', 'man', 'consider', '"career', 'criminal"', 'hope', 'arrest', 'he', 'suspicion', 'attempt', 'murder', 'official', 'say', 'saturday'] | Before he was fatally shot , Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Ortiz was looking for a man considered to be a "career criminal" and was hoping to arrest him on <m> suspicion </m> of attempted murder , officials said Saturday . | http : / / articles . latimes . com / 2005 / jun / 26 / local / me - deputy26
Deputy's Alleged Killer Held
A 27 - year - old parolee is found 'cowering in a bathtub' near the house where Jerry Ortiz had been shot in the head a few hours earlier .
June 26 , 2005
Before he was fatally shot , Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jerry Ortiz was looking for a man considered to be a "career criminal" and was hoping to arrest him on <m> suspicion </m> of attempted murder , officials said Saturday .
That man , Jose Luis Orozco , is now the main suspect in the Friday afternoon slaying of Ortiz in Hawaiian Gardens .
Orozco was arrested around midnight Friday by a sheriff's SWAT team , three houses from the scene of the fatal shooting .
He was found "cowering in a bathtub , " Sheriff Lee Baca said .
Ortiz , a gang enforcement officer , was searching for Orozco because he was a suspect in a shooting that occurred in the neighborhood Monday , said Sheriff's Capt . Ray Peavy , a homicide investigator .
Orozco , 27 , a known gang member , was also suspected of violating parole after serving time for a weapons violation , Peavy said .
Ortiz , 35 , was on his own about 3 p . m . Friday when he went to a house in Hawaiian Gardens , a working - class city at the northeast border of Long Beach with long - standing gang problems .
Peavy said the specific reason for Ortiz's visit was unknown but he provided a few details about the encounter : A woman answered the door and a man walked up behind her .
Ortiz asked the man for some identification and was checking it when Orozco appeared from inside the house .
He shot Ortiz once in the head and fled , Peavy said .
Dozens of law enforcement officers worked the case through the afternoon and into the night , fanning out around the 12200 block of 223rd Street and questioning residents .
Deputies believed they knew where Orozco was hiding and obtained a search warrant .
A handgun was recovered during the arrest , Peavy said .
Orozco , who was booked on suspicion of violating his parole , is being held without bail .
Los Angeles County Dist . Atty . Steve Cooley said he expected Orozco to be charged with first - degree murder of a peace officer , which means he could receive the death penalty if he is convicted .
Peavy could not say what Orozco was doing in the house , but said he had been living on the street and sleeping in different places .
Baca , who had been in Kentucky for a meeting of the National Sheriffs' Assn . , returned to Los Angeles for a news conference held Saturday with Cooley and Los Angeles Mayor - elect Antonio Villaraigosa .
Baca praised the work of his investigators , but the arrest seemed to do little to quell his anger .
He called Orozco "the scum of the earth" and an "idiot , " pointing to a photo of the suspect and the "devil horns" tattooed on his bald head .
Cooley unfurled a long trail of printer paper that Baca said contained Orozco's criminal record , including drug and weapon violations , resisting arrest , burglary and assault with a deadly weapon .
The sheriff contrasted the suspect's life with that of Ortiz , a 15 - year department veteran .
Ortiz "not only exemplified the best of what we have , but took it upon himself to work in the toughest job that we also have - - and that is trying to do something about this out - of - control gang problem in Los Angeles County , " Baca said .
Baca urged everyone in Southern California to pay more attention to the gang problem .
He called for broader prevention initiatives , lamented the lack of resources in his department and urged parents to get involved in the lives of their children .
Cooley said the fact that Orozco hadn't been in contact with his parole officer since January was a "failure" of the system , but he did not elaborate .
Undersheriff Larry Waldie said that Ortiz set out without a partner Friday because he had arrived early and was eager to get to work .
Peavy said Ortiz usually partnered with one of two deputies , but both had the day off .
Instead , Ortiz had planned to partner with his sergeant .
But he apparently decided to visit the house first .
Peavy noted that such solo work is not a violation of department policy .
Ortiz , of Diamond Bar , was an Army veteran and the father of two boys , ages 6 and 16 .
He was married for the second time about two weeks ago .
His family declined a request for an interview Saturday through a sheriff's spokesman .
But colleagues described him as someone who lived for police work and was a "fanatic" about boxing .
He fought on the sheriff's boxing team and trained recruits and deputies in hand - to - hand combat .
Lt . Bob Rifkin of Operation Safe Streets , the department's gang unit , said Ortiz became interested in the gang problem while working as a patrol officer from 1996 to 2000 .
He joined the gang unit in 2001 after passing a background check and written exam that tested his knowledge of gang culture .
Ortiz won numerous commendations for his work .
Last year , he was awarded the city of Lakewood's Medal of Valor after he fatally shot a carjacker who drew a gun on him and his partner .
"Jerry was 35 years old and had more motivation than a 21 - year - old just getting on the department , " Rifkin said .
"He always wanted to go toward the action and that's what Jerry was respected for . "
Baca noted that Ortiz's family has had "tremendous tragedies when it comes to those members who've been in law enforcement . "
In January , Ortiz's brother - in - law , Manuel A . Gonzalez , was stabbed to death while working as a corrections officer at a state prison in Chino .
The alleged killer , Jon Christopher Blaylock , was serving a life sentence for the attempted murder of a police officer . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_13 | train | ent | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 15 | 16 | 85 | 97 | gang members | HUM17479034126985528 | member | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for <m> gang members </m> and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for <m> gang members </m> and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_14 | train | ent | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 18 | 18 | 102 | 104 | he | HUM17479043832472136 | he | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and <m> he </m> was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and <m> he </m> was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_3 | train | ent | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 3 | Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood . | 2 | 2 | 14 | 21 | officer | HUM17479043832472136 | officer | ['peace', 'officer', 'gun', 'cold', 'blood'] | Another peace <m> officer </m> has been gunned down in cold blood . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace <m> officer </m> has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_4 | train | ent | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 1 | 1 | 8 | 13 | Ortiz | HUM17479043832472136 | Ortiz | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer <m> Ortiz </m> was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer <m> Ortiz </m> was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_5 | train | ent | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 30 | 32 | 159 | 175 | Jose Luis Orozco | HUM17479022102121768 | Orozco | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member <m> Jose Luis Orozco </m> . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member <m> Jose Luis Orozco </m> .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_11 | train | ent | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 7 | 12 | 41 | 72 | in the city of Hawaiian Gardens | LOC17479063968054394 | Hawaiian | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down <m> in the city of Hawaiian Gardens </m> looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down <m> in the city of Hawaiian Gardens </m> looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_16 | train | ent | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 24 | 26 | 132 | 143 | in the head | LOC17479083454310736 | head | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range <m> in the head </m> by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range <m> in the head </m> by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_12 | train | ent | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 5 | 5 | 30 | 35 | doors | NON17631556270243376 | door | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was knocking on <m> doors </m> down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on <m> doors </m> down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_10 | train | evt | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 3 | Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood . | 5 | 6 | 31 | 42 | gunned down | ACT17479094205244348 | gun | ['peace', 'officer', 'gun', 'cold', 'blood'] | Another peace officer has been <m> gunned down </m> in cold blood . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been <m> gunned down </m> in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_6 | train | evt | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 3 | 3 | 18 | 26 | knocking | ACT17479103446276623 | knock | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was <m> knocking </m> on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was <m> knocking </m> on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_7 | train | evt | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 13 | 13 | 73 | 80 | looking | ACT17479115372550607 | look | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens <m> looking </m> for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens <m> looking </m> for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_8 | train | evt | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | 20 | 20 | 109 | 113 | shot | ACT17479094205244348 | shoot | ['officer', 'ortiz', 'knock', 'door', 'city', 'hawaiian', 'gardens', 'look', 'gang', 'member', 'he', 'shoot', 'point', 'blank', 'range', 'head', 'gang', 'member', 'jose', 'luis', 'orozco'] | Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was <m> shot </m> point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was <m> shot </m> point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
16_11ecbplus.xml_15 | train | evt | 16_11ecbplus.xml | 3 | Another peace officer has been gunned down in cold blood . | 8 | 9 | 46 | 56 | cold blood | 10000000785 | blood | ['peace', 'officer', 'gun', 'cold', 'blood'] | Another peace officer has been gunned down in <m> cold blood </m> . | http : / / powderbluereport . blogspot . nl / 2005 / 06 / rip - la - county - sheriff - deputy - jerry . html
THURSDAY , JUNE 30 , 2005
RIP LA County Sheriff Deputy Jerry Ortiz
Another peace officer has been gunned down in <m> cold blood </m> .
His name is Los Angeles county Sheriff deputy Jerry Ortiz .
Officer Ortiz was knocking on doors down in the city of Hawaiian Gardens looking for gang members and he was shot point blank range in the head by gang member Jose Luis Orozco .
They caught him a few doors down from where the shooting took place .
At least he didn't get a chance to flee to Mexico .
I guess we can be thankful for that .
This is just another example of how hard the job that police officers have .
They truely love what they're doing because they certainly aren't in it for the money .
These guys are constantly getting shot at .
My hat is off to all the police officers around the country . |
26_13ecb.xml_30 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 2 | Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Police | HUM18441875401449335 | Police | ['police', 'say', 'lo', 'presti', 'hang', 'late', 'tuesday', 'night'] | <m> Police </m> said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
<m> Police </m> said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_24 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | 2 | 3 | 12 | 22 | Mafia boss | HUM18441890442259339 | Mafia | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'high-profile', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'his', 'cell', 'italian', 'police', 'source', 'say'] | A suspected <m> Mafia boss </m> arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | A suspected <m> Mafia boss </m> arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_25 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | Gaetano Lo Presti | HUM18441890442259339 | Gaetano | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | <m> Gaetano Lo Presti </m> , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
<m> Gaetano Lo Presti </m> , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_26 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 2 | Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | 2 | 3 | 12 | 21 | Lo Presti | HUM18441890442259339 | Presti | ['police', 'say', 'lo', 'presti', 'hang', 'late', 'tuesday', 'night'] | Police said <m> Lo Presti </m> had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said <m> Lo Presti </m> had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_27 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 2 | Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | 6 | 6 | 33 | 40 | himself | HUM18441890442259339 | himself | ['police', 'say', 'lo', 'presti', 'hang', 'late', 'tuesday', 'night'] | Police said Lo Presti had hanged <m> himself </m> late on Tuesday night . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged <m> himself </m> late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_29 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 13 | 13 | 83 | 86 | his | HUM18441890442259339 | his | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before <m> his </m> re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before <m> his </m> re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_31 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 21 | 29 | 125 | 181 | in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo | LOC18441904201489761 | Pagliarelli | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead <m> in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo </m> . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead <m> in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo </m> .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_32 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | 15 | 16 | 85 | 93 | his cell | LOC18441904201489761 | cell | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'high-profile', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'his', 'cell', 'italian', 'police', 'source', 'say'] | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in <m> his cell </m> , Italian police sources have said . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in <m> his cell </m> , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_33 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 2 | Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | 9 | 10 | 49 | 62 | Tuesday night | TIM18442492397502925 | Tuesday | ['police', 'say', 'lo', 'presti', 'hang', 'late', 'tuesday', 'night'] | Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on <m> Tuesday night </m> . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on <m> Tuesday night </m> . |
26_13ecb.xml_45 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 4 | 4 | 20 | 23 | who | HUM18441890442259339 | who | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , <m> who </m> had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , <m> who </m> had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_46 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | 20 | 20 | 111 | 118 | sources | HUM18441875401449335 | source | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'high-profile', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'his', 'cell', 'italian', 'police', 'source', 'say'] | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police <m> sources </m> have said . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police <m> sources </m> have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_47 | train | ent | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 16 | 16 | 100 | 107 | Tuesday | TIM18442492397502925 | Tuesday | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on <m> Tuesday </m> , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on <m> Tuesday </m> , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_34 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | 4 | 4 | 23 | 31 | arrested | ACT18441937963352466 | arrest | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'high-profile', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'his', 'cell', 'italian', 'police', 'source', 'say'] | A suspected Mafia boss <m> arrested </m> in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | A suspected Mafia boss <m> arrested </m> in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_35 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | 9 | 9 | 57 | 61 | raid | ACT27337443408187958 | raid | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'high-profile', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'his', 'cell', 'italian', 'police', 'source', 'say'] | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police <m> raid </m> has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police <m> raid </m> has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_36 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | 12 | 12 | 71 | 76 | found | ACT18441980729373787 | find | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'high-profile', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'his', 'cell', 'italian', 'police', 'source', 'say'] | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been <m> found </m> dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been <m> found </m> dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_37 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 8 | 8 | 44 | 53 | convicted | ACT18441992166643867 | convict | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously <m> convicted </m> of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously <m> convicted </m> of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_38 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 2 | Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | 5 | 5 | 26 | 32 | hanged | ACT18441863532401006 | hang | ['police', 'say', 'lo', 'presti', 'hang', 'late', 'tuesday', 'night'] | Police said Lo Presti had <m> hanged </m> himself late on Tuesday night . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had <m> hanged </m> himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_39 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 14 | 14 | 87 | 96 | re-arrest | ACT18441937963352466 | re-arrest | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his <m> re-arrest </m> on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his <m> re-arrest </m> on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_40 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 19 | 19 | 114 | 119 | found | ACT18441980729373787 | find | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was <m> found </m> dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was <m> found </m> dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_41 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | 22 | 22 | 124 | 128 | said | ACT27338400145348157 | say | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'high-profile', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'his', 'cell', 'italian', 'police', 'source', 'say'] | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have <m> said </m> . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have <m> said </m> .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_42 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 2 | Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | 1 | 1 | 7 | 11 | said | ACT27338400145348157 | say | ['police', 'say', 'lo', 'presti', 'hang', 'late', 'tuesday', 'night'] | Police <m> said </m> Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police <m> said </m> Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_43 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 20 | 20 | 120 | 124 | dead | ACT18441863532401006 | dead | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', 'previously', 'convict', 'mob-related', 'crime', 'his', 're-arrest', 'tuesday', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found <m> dead </m> in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found <m> dead </m> in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_13ecb.xml_44 | train | evt | 26_13ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found dead in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | 13 | 13 | 77 | 81 | dead | ACT18441863532401006 | dead | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'high-profile', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'his', 'cell', 'italian', 'police', 'source', 'say'] | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found <m> dead </m> in his cell , Italian police sources have said . | A suspected Mafia boss arrested in a high-profile police raid has been found <m> dead </m> in his cell , Italian police sources have said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , who had been previously convicted of mob-related crimes before his re-arrest on Tuesday , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo .
Police said Lo Presti had hanged himself late on Tuesday night . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_18 | train | ent | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 39 | 40 | 226 | 238 | police force | 10000000786 | police | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire <m> police force </m> of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire <m> police force </m> of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_3 | train | ent | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | Vincent Gigante | HUM18440698565277092 | Vincent | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | <m> Vincent Gigante </m> , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
<m> Vincent Gigante </m> , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_4 | train | ent | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 17 | 17 | 93 | 97 | boss | HUM18440698565277092 | boss | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family <m> boss </m> who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family <m> boss </m> who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_12 | train | ent | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 6 | 8 | 37 | 54 | in federal prison | LOC18440750306982431 | federal | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday <m> in federal prison </m> at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday <m> in federal prison </m> at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_19 | train | ent | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 42 | 47 | 242 | 260 | Old Tappan , N . J | 10000000787 | Tappan | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of <m> Old Tappan , N . J </m> . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of <m> Old Tappan , N . J </m> .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_11 | train | ent | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 5 | 5 | 27 | 36 | yesterday | TIM18440801253239963 | yesterday | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died <m> yesterday </m> in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died <m> yesterday </m> in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_13 | train | ent | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 20 | 21 | 106 | 119 | three decades | TIM18440826675897964 | decade | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for <m> three decades </m> feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for <m> three decades </m> feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_10 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 28 | 28 | 160 | 166 | crimes | 10000000788 | crime | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for <m> crimes </m> ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for <m> crimes </m> ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_15 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 31 | 32 | 180 | 193 | loan sharking | 10000000789 | sharking | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from <m> loan sharking </m> to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from <m> loan sharking </m> to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_16 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 34 | 34 | 197 | 203 | murder | 10000000790 | murder | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to <m> murder </m> to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to <m> murder </m> to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_17 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 36 | 36 | 207 | 214 | bribing | 10000000791 | bribe | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to <m> bribing </m> the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to <m> bribing </m> the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_6 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 4 | 4 | 22 | 26 | died | ACT18440577880137709 | die | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who <m> died </m> yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who <m> died </m> yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_7 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 22 | 22 | 120 | 127 | feigned | ACT18440603446786525 | feign | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades <m> feigned </m> lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades <m> feigned </m> lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_8 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 25 | 25 | 138 | 143 | evade | ACT18440590596898814 | evade | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to <m> evade </m> prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to <m> evade </m> prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_14 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 23 | 23 | 128 | 134 | lunacy | ACT18440672179378046 | lunacy | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned <m> lunacy </m> to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned <m> lunacy </m> to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
26_6ecbplus.xml_21 | train | evt | 26_6ecbplus.xml | 3 | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade prosecution for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | 26 | 26 | 144 | 155 | prosecution | NEG28451243429836369 | prosecution | ['vincent', 'gigante', 'die', 'yesterday', 'federal', 'prison', '77', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'boss', 'decade', 'feign', 'lunacy', 'evade', 'prosecution', 'crime', 'range', 'loan', 'sharking', 'murder', 'bribe', 'entire', 'police', 'force', 'old', 'tappan', 'n', 'j'] | Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade <m> prosecution </m> for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J . | http : / / www . nysun . com / obituaries / vincent - chin - gigante - 77 - crime - boss / 24729 /
Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , 77 , Crime Boss
December 20 , 2005
Vincent Gigante , who died yesterday in federal prison at 77 , was the Genovese crime family boss who for three decades feigned lunacy to evade <m> prosecution </m> for crimes ranging from loan sharking to murder to bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan , N . J .
He was known as "Chin , " and his moniker was often invoked by denizens of the Mafia underworld with a hand - to - chin gesture rather than a word , the better to foil police bugs .
To the writers of headlines he was sometimes "Daffy Don" or "the Oddfather" for his habit of walking the streets of the West Village clad in a bathrobe , striped pyjamas , and slippers , while muttering incoherently .
Federal prosecutors claimed it was an act , but it was not until 2003 , after more than three decades of faking mental illness , that Gigante admitted in court that he did it to avoid prosecution .
His admission came as part of a plea deal on behalf of his son , Andrew , also convicted of mob - related activities .
For two decades , Gigante was head of the Genovese crime family , which emerged as the largest of the five New York Mafia clans after decades of concerted federal prosecutions decimated its rivals .
It was estimated that there were some 300 members of the family under his control .
The Genovese rackets included guaranteeing labor peace to firms in construction , garbage removal , and trucking ; extorting payoffs from companies doing business at the Ports of Newark and Elizabeth ; various rackets at the Fulton Fish Market and the Jacob K . Javits Convention Center ; contracts for window - installation in city housing , and the old standbys of bookmaking , loan - sharking , and narcotics .
It was narcotics that first sent Gigante to prison , in 1959 , when he received a five - year sentence after being caught conspiring to smuggle heroin from abroad .
Also sentenced in the case was the man who gave his name to the crime family , Vito Genovese .
Genovese ran his organization from behind bars while serving a 15 - year sentence .
It was a similar ruse - maintaining control of the family while incarcerated by transmitting orders through his son , Andrew - that was Gigante's downfall .
Gigante was born in the Bronx to parents who were immigrants from Naples , Italy .
His father was a jewelry engraver , and his mother was a seamstress .
Born Vincenzo , he was called "Chin" for short , and his prominent chin probably helped the name stick .
He put it to good use as a teenage boxer , winning 21 of 25 club fights .
Gigante was arrested several times from when he was 17 to 25 , for possession of an unlicensed handgun , gambling , bookmaking , grand larceny , and arson .
Two of his brothers , Mario and Ralph , were also identified as Mafia soldiers , while another , Louis , was a prominent Catholic priest as well as a Democratic politician in the Bronx .
In 1957 Gigante was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of Frank Costello , then the head of what would be called the Genovese family .
He was acquitted despite the testimony of a doorman who claimed to have witnessed the crime ; Costello himself claimed not to have seen his assailant , despite being shot at close range from the front .
The shot had only "creased his head , " according to reports at the time .
The prosecutor in the Costello case claimed that Gigante was "a young punk on the way up in the underworld who was chosen to kill Costello to win his spurs . "
If so , it seemed to have worked , despite his having missed .
Costello retired soon after , and Genovese assumed control of the family , which had a history going back to Lucky Luciano .
After serving five years on the 1959 heroin conviction , Gigante resumed his life of crime .
He first sought psychiatric help in 1966 , while under investigation for bribing New York City police .
In 1970 , he was indicted for bribing the entire five - man police force of Old Tappan , N . J . , a small town in Bergen County where he had moved .
After he produced evidence that he was under psychiatric care at St . Vincent's hospital in Westchester , the court ruled that he was mentally incompetent to testify in the case .
It was a pattern Gigante would repeat in the coming decades , including committing himself several times when prosecutions threatened .
Gigante's immediate family supported him , especially Louis , the glad - handing , cigar - smoking priest and builder of low - income housing , who told reporters his brother had paranoid schizophrenia , dementia , and Alzheimer's disease .
Federal marshals serving him with a subpoena at his mother's Sullivan Street apartment house once found him standing under the shower , fully clothed , holding an umbrella .
"Vincenzo ?
He is the boss of the toilet ! "
his mother told New York Post columnist Cindy Adams .
Gigante , meantime , was consolidating his power within the Genovese family .
In the late 1970s , he ran a crew in Lower Manhattan , operating waterfront rackets , as well as loan - sharking and gambling in New Jersey .
He emerged as head of the Genovese family by the early 1980s .
Federal prosecutors kept him under observation for decades , and Gigante kept up the crazy act with amazing consistency .
He spent much of each day walking around the Village in his bed clothes and playing cards at his Triangle Civic Improvement Association on Mulberry Street .
A sign hung on the wall warning business associates against loose talk : "This place is bugged . "
By the late 1980s , he rarely went to Old Tappan , preferring to spend his nights on the Upper East Side with his mistress , with whom he had three children .
Oddly , both his wife and his mistress were named Olympia .
Gigante's mental illness act allowed him to escape trial despite being indicted numerous times on charges ranging from bid rigging and extortion to conspiracy to commit eight murders .
His luck held until 1997 , when a New York jury found him guilty of a range of charges and sentenced him to 12 years in the federal penitentiary .
It may have been a bad omen that the judge in the case , Jack B . Weinstein , insisted that Gigante wear a suit rather than a bathrobe to his trial .
At the Palma Boys Social Club in East Harlem in 1985 , the FBI taped the following exchange between two Genovese family members , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Giuseppe Sabato :
Salerno : He's got to worry if he gets pinched , all them years he spent in that [ expletive deleted ] asylum .
Sabato : That's what I'm saying .
Salerno : For nothing .
Vincent L . Gigante
Born March 29 , 1928 , in the Bronx ; died December 19 at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . ; the cause of death was not announced , but he had recently suffered heart problems . |
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Ex - Mafia boss <m> Vincent Gigante </m> dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss <m> Vincent "The Chin" Gigante </m> , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
<m> Gigante </m> , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman <m> Al Quintero </m> .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , <m> officials </m> said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful <m> Mafioso </m> who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies <m> in prison </m>
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday <m> in prison </m> , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at <m> the federal prison in Springfield , Mo </m> . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering <m> the streets </m> in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty <m> bathrobe </m> and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and <m> slippers </m> , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_6 | train | ent | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 4 | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | 31 | 31 | 179 | 185 | Monday | TIM18440801253239963 | Monday | ['mob', 'boss', 'vincent', '"the', 'chin"', 'gigante', 'powerful', 'mafioso', 'avoid', 'jail', 'decade', 'wander', 'street', 'ratty', 'bathrobe', 'slipper', 'feign', 'mental', 'illness', 'die', 'monday', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died <m> Monday </m> in prison , officials said . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died <m> Monday </m> in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for <m> decades </m> by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante <m> dies </m> in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_10 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 4 | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | 11 | 11 | 63 | 70 | avoided | ACT18440590596898814 | avoid | ['mob', 'boss', 'vincent', '"the', 'chin"', 'gigante', 'powerful', 'mafioso', 'avoid', 'jail', 'decade', 'wander', 'street', 'ratty', 'bathrobe', 'slipper', 'feign', 'mental', 'illness', 'die', 'monday', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who <m> avoided </m> jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who <m> avoided </m> jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_11 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 4 | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | 16 | 16 | 91 | 100 | wandering | ACT18440640282544111 | wander | ['mob', 'boss', 'vincent', '"the', 'chin"', 'gigante', 'powerful', 'mafioso', 'avoid', 'jail', 'decade', 'wander', 'street', 'ratty', 'bathrobe', 'slipper', 'feign', 'mental', 'illness', 'die', 'monday', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by <m> wandering </m> the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by <m> wandering </m> the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_12 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 4 | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | 26 | 26 | 148 | 156 | feigning | ACT18440603446786525 | feign | ['mob', 'boss', 'vincent', '"the', 'chin"', 'gigante', 'powerful', 'mafioso', 'avoid', 'jail', 'decade', 'wander', 'street', 'ratty', 'bathrobe', 'slipper', 'feign', 'mental', 'illness', 'die', 'monday', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , <m> feigning </m> mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , <m> feigning </m> mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_13 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 6 | Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 4 | 4 | 18 | 26 | suffered | ACT18440623861291848 | suffer | ['gigante', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | Gigante , who had <m> suffered </m> from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had <m> suffered </m> from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_14 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 6 | Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 9 | 9 | 48 | 52 | died | ACT18440577880137709 | die | ['gigante', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , <m> died </m> at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , <m> died </m> at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_24 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 4 | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | 30 | 30 | 174 | 178 | died | ACT18440577880137709 | die | ['mob', 'boss', 'vincent', '"the', 'chin"', 'gigante', 'powerful', 'mafioso', 'avoid', 'jail', 'decade', 'wander', 'street', 'ratty', 'bathrobe', 'slipper', 'feign', 'mental', 'illness', 'die', 'monday', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , <m> died </m> Monday in prison , officials said . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , <m> died </m> Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_22 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 6 | Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 20 | 20 | 99 | 103 | said | ACT28450088385472026 | say | ['gigante', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , <m> said </m> prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , <m> said </m> prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_25 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 4 | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | 36 | 36 | 208 | 212 | said | 10000000793 | say | ['mob', 'boss', 'vincent', '"the', 'chin"', 'gigante', 'powerful', 'mafioso', 'avoid', 'jail', 'decade', 'wander', 'street', 'ratty', 'bathrobe', 'slipper', 'feign', 'mental', 'illness', 'die', 'monday', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials <m> said </m> . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials <m> said </m> .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_20 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 6 | Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 6 | 7 | 32 | 45 | heart disease | ACT18440655322799332 | disease | ['gigante', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | Gigante , who had suffered from <m> heart disease </m> , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from <m> heart disease </m> , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning <m> mental illness </m> , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_3ecbplus.xml_31 | train | evt | 26_3ecbplus.xml | 4 | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | 12 | 12 | 71 | 75 | jail | NEG28451243429836369 | jail | ['mob', 'boss', 'vincent', '"the', 'chin"', 'gigante', 'powerful', 'mafioso', 'avoid', 'jail', 'decade', 'wander', 'street', 'ratty', 'bathrobe', 'slipper', 'feign', 'mental', 'illness', 'die', 'monday', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided <m> jail </m> for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said . | http : / / www . nbcnews . com / id / 10533911 / ns / us _ news - crime _ and _ courts / t / ex - mafia - boss - vincent - gigante - dies - prison /
Ex - Mafia boss Vincent Gigante dies in prison
He was known as the 'Oddfather' for faking mental illness to beat raps
updated 12 / 19 / 2005 2 : 48 : 40 PM ET
Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful Mafioso who avoided <m> jail </m> for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers , feigning mental illness , died Monday in prison , officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
Gigante , head of the Genovese crime family , had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which the man dubbed the "Oddfather" by tabloid newspapers calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in nightclothes , muttering incoherently .
Relatives , including a brother was who a Roman Catholic priest , insisted Gigante suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , dementia and Alzheimer's disease .
Authorities charged it was a brazen act to avoid the law - although it wasn't until 1997 that a jury agreed , and it took another six years for Gigante to concede his subterfuge .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante became a small - time boxer and drifted into the crime family founded in 1931 by legendary gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano .
In 1957 , Gigante was the hitman in a botched attempt to assassinate then - boss Frank Costello .
After refusing to name his attacker in court , the shaken Costello retired , making Gigante's patron , Vito Genovese , kingpin of the family that still bears his name .
Over time , Gigante proved better at beating the law than John Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Gotti died in 2002 at age 61 .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_2ecb.xml_29 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 25 | 25 | 143 | 149 | police | HUM18441875401449335 | police | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , <m> police </m> said . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , <m> police </m> said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_18 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 5 | 6 | 25 | 37 | Mafia bosses | HUM18441890442259339 | boss | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected <m> Mafia bosses </m> arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | One of the key suspected <m> Mafia bosses </m> arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_19 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 19 | 19 | 114 | 121 | himself | HUM18441890442259339 | himself | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged <m> himself </m> in his prison cell , police said . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged <m> himself </m> in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_20 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | Gaetano Lo Presti | HUM18441890442259339 | Gaetano | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '``', 'godfather', 'palermo', 'district', 'porta', 'nuova', 'find', 'dead', 'late', 'night', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | <m> Gaetano Lo Presti </m> , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
<m> Gaetano Lo Presti </m> , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_22 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 20 | 23 | 122 | 140 | in his prison cell | LOC18441904201489761 | prison | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself <m> in his prison cell </m> , police said . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself <m> in his prison cell </m> , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_23 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 22 | 30 | 112 | 168 | in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo | LOC18441904201489761 | Pagliarelli | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '``', 'godfather', 'palermo', 'district', 'porta', 'nuova', 'find', 'dead', 'late', 'night', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night <m> in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo </m> . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night <m> in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo </m> . |
26_2ecb.xml_21 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 9 | 14 | 43 | 78 | the Palermo district of Porta Nuova | LOC18441954119583356 | district | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '``', 'godfather', 'palermo', 'district', 'porta', 'nuova', 'find', 'dead', 'late', 'night', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of <m> the Palermo district of Porta Nuova </m> , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of <m> the Palermo district of Porta Nuova </m> , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_30 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 8 | 8 | 47 | 56 | yesterday | TIM18441916830092148 | yesterday | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested <m> yesterday </m> in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested <m> yesterday </m> in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_31 | train | ent | 26_2ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 19 | 21 | 96 | 111 | late last night | TIM18442492397502925 | night | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '``', 'godfather', 'palermo', 'district', 'porta', 'nuova', 'find', 'dead', 'late', 'night', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead <m> late last night </m> in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead <m> late last night </m> in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_26 | train | evt | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 16 | 16 | 92 | 102 | operations | ACT27337443408187958 | operation | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police <m> operations </m> has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police <m> operations </m> has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_27 | train | evt | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 18 | 18 | 107 | 113 | hanged | ACT18441863532401006 | hang | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has <m> hanged </m> himself in his prison cell , police said . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has <m> hanged </m> himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_24 | train | evt | 26_2ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 17 | 17 | 85 | 90 | found | ACT18441980729373787 | find | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '``', 'godfather', 'palermo', 'district', 'porta', 'nuova', 'find', 'dead', 'late', 'night', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was <m> found </m> dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was <m> found </m> dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_25 | train | evt | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 7 | 7 | 38 | 46 | arrested | ACT18441937963352466 | arrest | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses <m> arrested </m> yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses <m> arrested </m> yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_28 | train | evt | 26_2ecb.xml | 0 | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said . | 26 | 26 | 150 | 154 | said | ACT27338400145348157 | say | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'yesterday', 'sicily', 'big', 'police', 'operation', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'police', 'say'] | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police <m> said </m> . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police <m> said </m> .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_2ecb.xml_32 | train | evt | 26_2ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found dead late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | 18 | 18 | 91 | 95 | dead | ACT18441863532401006 | dead | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '``', 'godfather', 'palermo', 'district', 'porta', 'nuova', 'find', 'dead', 'late', 'night', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'sicilian', 'capital', 'palermo'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found <m> dead </m> late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . | One of the key suspected Mafia bosses arrested yesterday in one of Sicily 's biggest police operations has hanged himself in his prison cell , police said .
Gaetano Lo Presti , the `` godfather '' of the Palermo district of Porta Nuova , was found <m> dead </m> late last night in Pagliarelli prison in the Sicilian capital of Palermo . |
26_11ecb.xml_17 | train | ent | 26_11ecb.xml | 0 | Suspected Key Mafia Boss Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead In Palermo Jail Cell | 2 | 3 | 14 | 24 | Mafia Boss | HUM18441890442259339 | Mafia | ['suspect', 'key', 'mafia', 'boss', 'vie', 'costra', 'nostra', 'slot', 'find', 'hang', 'dead', 'palermo', 'jail', 'cell'] | Suspected Key <m> Mafia Boss </m> Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead In Palermo Jail Cell | Suspected Key <m> Mafia Boss </m> Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead In Palermo Jail Cell
A key suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . |
26_11ecb.xml_18 | train | ent | 26_11ecb.xml | 1 | A key suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . | 3 | 4 | 16 | 26 | Mafia boss | HUM18441890442259339 | Mafia | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'tuesday', 'sicilian', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'hang', 'his', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'cell', 'palermo'] | A key suspected <m> Mafia boss </m> arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . | Suspected Key Mafia Boss Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead In Palermo Jail Cell
A key suspected <m> Mafia boss </m> arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . |
26_11ecb.xml_26 | train | ent | 26_11ecb.xml | 1 | A key suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . | 18 | 25 | 100 | 144 | in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo | LOC18441904201489761 | Pagliarelli | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'tuesday', 'sicilian', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'hang', 'his', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'cell', 'palermo'] | A key suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging <m> in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo </m> . | Suspected Key Mafia Boss Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead In Palermo Jail Cell
A key suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging <m> in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo </m> . |
26_11ecb.xml_28 | train | ent | 26_11ecb.xml | 0 | Suspected Key Mafia Boss Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead In Palermo Jail Cell | 13 | 16 | 77 | 97 | In Palermo Jail Cell | LOC18441904201489761 | Palermo | ['suspect', 'key', 'mafia', 'boss', 'vie', 'costra', 'nostra', 'slot', 'find', 'hang', 'dead', 'palermo', 'jail', 'cell'] | Suspected Key Mafia Boss Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead <m> In Palermo Jail Cell </m> | Suspected Key Mafia Boss Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead <m> In Palermo Jail Cell </m>
A key suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . |
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A key suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . |
26_11ecb.xml_27 | train | ent | 26_11ecb.xml | 1 | A key suspected Mafia boss arrested Tuesday in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . | 6 | 6 | 36 | 43 | Tuesday | TIM18441916830092148 | Tuesday | ['key', 'suspect', 'mafia', 'boss', 'arrest', 'tuesday', 'sicilian', 'police', 'raid', 'find', 'dead', 'hang', 'his', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'cell', 'palermo'] | A key suspected Mafia boss arrested <m> Tuesday </m> in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . | Suspected Key Mafia Boss Vying For Top Costra Nostra Slot Found Hanging Dead In Palermo Jail Cell
A key suspected Mafia boss arrested <m> Tuesday </m> in a Sicilian police raid has been found dead , hanging in his Pagliarelli prison cell in in Palermo . |
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