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26_7ecb.xml_24 | train | ent | 26_7ecb.xml | 0 | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo . | 16 | 16 | 87 | 94 | himself | HUM18441890442259339 | himself | ['mafia', 'boss', 'clan', 'member', 'arrest', 'major', 'police', 'crackdown', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'palermo'] | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung <m> himself </m> in his prison cell in Palermo . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung <m> himself </m> in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_25 | train | ent | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | Gaetano Lo Presti | HUM18441890442259339 | Gaetano | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | <m> Gaetano Lo Presti </m> , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
<m> Gaetano Lo Presti </m> , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_27 | train | ent | 26_7ecb.xml | 0 | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo . | 17 | 22 | 95 | 124 | in his prison cell in Palermo | LOC18441904201489761 | Palermo | ['mafia', 'boss', 'clan', 'member', 'arrest', 'major', 'police', 'crackdown', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'palermo'] | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself <m> in his prison cell in Palermo </m> . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself <m> in his prison cell in Palermo </m> .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_29 | train | ent | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 29 | 31 | 148 | 169 | in Pagliarelli prison | LOC18441904201489761 | Pagliarelli | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead <m> in Pagliarelli prison </m> , police said today . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead <m> in Pagliarelli prison </m> , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_28 | train | ent | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 14 | 20 | 67 | 101 | in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo | LOC18441954119583356 | Palermo | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans <m> in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo </m> and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans <m> in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo </m> and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_30 | train | ent | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 35 | 35 | 184 | 189 | today | TIM18442419387533474 | today | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said <m> today </m> . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said <m> today </m> . |
26_7ecb.xml_39 | train | ent | 26_7ecb.xml | 1 | His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | His | HUM18441890442259339 | his | ['his', 'suicide', 'appear', 'relate', 'clan', 'feud'] | <m> His </m> suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
<m> His </m> suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_31 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 0 | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo . | 8 | 8 | 41 | 49 | arrested | ACT18441937963352466 | arrest | ['mafia', 'boss', 'clan', 'member', 'arrest', 'major', 'police', 'crackdown', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'palermo'] | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members <m> arrested </m> in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members <m> arrested </m> in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_32 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 0 | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo . | 13 | 13 | 68 | 77 | crackdown | ACT27337443408187958 | crackdown | ['mafia', 'boss', 'clan', 'member', 'arrest', 'major', 'police', 'crackdown', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'palermo'] | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police <m> crackdown </m> has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police <m> crackdown </m> has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_33 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 0 | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo . | 15 | 15 | 82 | 86 | hung | ACT18441863532401006 | hang | ['mafia', 'boss', 'clan', 'member', 'arrest', 'major', 'police', 'crackdown', 'hang', 'his', 'prison', 'cell', 'palermo'] | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has <m> hung </m> himself in his prison cell in Palermo . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has <m> hung </m> himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_34 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 8 | 9 | 33 | 43 | taken over | 10000000807 | take | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had <m> taken over </m> control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had <m> taken over </m> control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_35 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 24 | 24 | 119 | 130 | convictions | ACT18441992166643867 | conviction | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous <m> convictions </m> , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous <m> convictions </m> , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_36 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 27 | 27 | 137 | 142 | found | ACT18441980729373787 | find | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was <m> found </m> dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was <m> found </m> dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_37 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 34 | 34 | 179 | 183 | said | ACT27338400145348157 | say | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police <m> said </m> today . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police <m> said </m> today . |
26_7ecb.xml_40 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 1 | His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | suicide | ACT18441863532401006 | suicide | ['his', 'suicide', 'appear', 'relate', 'clan', 'feud'] | His <m> suicide </m> appeared to be related to clan feuds . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His <m> suicide </m> appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_7ecb.xml_41 | train | evt | 26_7ecb.xml | 2 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found dead in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | 28 | 28 | 143 | 147 | dead | ACT18441863532401006 | dead | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'take', 'control', 'mafia', 'clan', 'porta', 'nuova', 'area', 'palermo', 'previous', 'conviction', 'find', 'dead', 'pagliarelli', 'prison', 'police', 'say', 'today'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found <m> dead </m> in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . | One of the Mafia bosses and clan members arrested in a major police crackdown has hung himself in his prison cell in Palermo .
His suicide appeared to be related to clan feuds .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , who had taken over control of Mafia clans in the Porta Nuova area of Palermo and had previous convictions , was found <m> dead </m> in Pagliarelli prison , police said today . |
26_11ecbplus.xml_1 | train | ent | 26_11ecbplus.xml | 1 | Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies in prison at 77 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 20 | 'Oddfather' | HUM18440698565277092 | 'oddfather' | ['mob', 'boss', "'oddfather'", 'die', 'prison', '77'] | Mob boss <m> 'Oddfather' </m> dies in prison at 77 | http : / / www . deseretnews . com / article / 635170067 / Mob - boss - Oddfather - dies - in - prison - at - 77 . html ? pg=all
Mob boss <m> 'Oddfather' </m> dies in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
26_11ecbplus.xml_4 | train | ent | 26_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | head | HUM18440698565277092 | head | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The <m> head </m> of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . deseretnews . com / article / 635170067 / Mob - boss - Oddfather - dies - in - prison - at - 77 . html ? pg=all
Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The <m> head </m> of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
26_11ecbplus.xml_5 | train | ent | 26_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 29 | 30 | 151 | 162 | Al Quintero | HUM18440722716468597 | Quintero | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman <m> Al Quintero </m> . | http : / / www . deseretnews . com / article / 635170067 / Mob - boss - Oddfather - dies - in - prison - at - 77 . html ? pg=all
Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman <m> Al Quintero </m> .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
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Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies <m> in prison </m> at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
26_11ecbplus.xml_27 | train | ent | 26_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 17 | 24 | 86 | 126 | the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . | LOC18440750306982431 | Springfield | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at <m> the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . </m> , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . deseretnews . com / article / 635170067 / Mob - boss - Oddfather - dies - in - prison - at - 77 . html ? pg=all
Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at <m> the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . </m> , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
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Mob boss 'Oddfather' <m> dies </m> in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
26_11ecbplus.xml_15 | train | evt | 26_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 10 | 10 | 48 | 56 | suffered | ACT18440623861291848 | suffer | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had <m> suffered </m> from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . deseretnews . com / article / 635170067 / Mob - boss - Oddfather - dies - in - prison - at - 77 . html ? pg=all
Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had <m> suffered </m> from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
26_11ecbplus.xml_16 | train | evt | 26_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 15 | 15 | 78 | 82 | died | ACT18440577880137709 | die | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , <m> died </m> at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . deseretnews . com / article / 635170067 / Mob - boss - Oddfather - dies - in - prison - at - 77 . html ? pg=all
Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , <m> died </m> at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
26_11ecbplus.xml_32 | train | evt | 26_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 26 | 26 | 129 | 133 | said | ACT28450088385472026 | say | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , <m> said </m> prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . deseretnews . com / article / 635170067 / Mob - boss - Oddfather - dies - in - prison - at - 77 . html ? pg=all
Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , <m> said </m> prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
26_11ecbplus.xml_14 | train | evt | 26_11ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 12 | 13 | 62 | 75 | heart disease | ACT18440655322799332 | disease | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from <m> heart disease </m> , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / www . deseretnews . com / article / 635170067 / Mob - boss - Oddfather - dies - in - prison - at - 77 . html ? pg=all
Mob boss 'Oddfather' dies in prison at 77
Published : Tuesday , Dec . 20 2005 12 : 00 a . m . MST
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from <m> heart disease </m> , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison . |
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NY mob don <m> Vincent 'Chin' Gigante </m> dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_2 | train | ent | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 2 | 4 | 18 | 40 | Vincent "Chin" Gigante | HUM18440698565277092 | Vincent | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster <m> Vincent "Chin" Gigante </m> , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster <m> Vincent "Chin" Gigante </m> , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_3 | train | ent | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 31 | 31 | 169 | 178 | officials | 10000000808 | official | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , <m> officials </m> said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , <m> officials </m> said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
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NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies <m> in prison </m>
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_22 | train | ent | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 9 | 13 | 63 | 86 | the streets of New York | LOC18440762931534969 | street | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering <m> the streets of New York </m> in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering <m> the streets of New York </m> in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_23 | train | ent | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 27 | 29 | 149 | 166 | in federal prison | LOC18440750306982431 | federal | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday <m> in federal prison </m> , officials said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday <m> in federal prison </m> , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_24 | train | ent | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 17 | 17 | 101 | 109 | bathrobe | NON18440775683576631 | bathrobe | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered <m> bathrobe </m> in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered <m> bathrobe </m> in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_25 | train | ent | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 25 | 26 | 139 | 148 | on Monday | TIM18440801253239963 | Monday | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died <m> on Monday </m> in federal prison , officials said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died <m> on Monday </m> in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_9 | train | evt | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 8 | 8 | 53 | 62 | wandering | ACT18440640282544111 | wander | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for <m> wandering </m> the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for <m> wandering </m> the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_10 | train | evt | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 20 | 20 | 115 | 119 | show | ACT18440603446786525 | show | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a <m> show </m> of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a <m> show </m> of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
26_7ecbplus.xml_11 | train | evt | 26_7ecbplus.xml | 3 | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | 24 | 24 | 134 | 138 | died | ACT18440577880137709 | die | ['convict', 'mobster', 'vincent', '"chin"', 'gigante', 'fame', 'wander', 'street', 'new', 'york', 'tattered', 'bathrobe', 'insanity', 'die', 'monday', 'federal', 'prison', 'official', 'say'] | Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , <m> died </m> on Monday in federal prison , officials said . | http : / / www . redorbit . com / news / general / 334815 / ny _ mob _ don _ vincent _ chin _ gigante _ dies _ in _ prison /
NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , <m> died </m> on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
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NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante <m> dies </m> in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
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NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
<m> Convicted </m> mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
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NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials <m> said </m> .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
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NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , <m> famed </m> for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of insanity , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
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NY mob don Vincent 'Chin' Gigante dies in prison
December 19 , 2005
Convicted mobster Vincent "Chin" Gigante , famed for wandering the streets of New York in a tattered bathrobe in a show of <m> insanity </m> , died on Monday in federal prison , officials said .
Considered one of the last of New York's old - time Mafia dons , the reputed head of the Genovese family was serving a 12 - year sentence at the U . S . Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield , Missouri .
He was 77 .
Gigante was also nicknamed "The Oddfather" and "The Pajama King" - references to his habit of shuffling along the sidewalk in Manhattan's Greenwich Village muttering to himself , looking disheveled and unshaven in a robe and slippers .
His attorneys argued that Gigante was mentally ill and incapable of running a crime family ; prosecutors argued he was feigning illness to avoid prosecution .
Eventually , a jury found Gigante guilty in 1997 of conspiracy to murder other organized crime figures , racketeering , extortion and other charges .
The case relied heavily on the testimony of six former mobsters who became government informants , including Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , whose testimony was critical in the 1992 conviction of the late mobster John Gotti .
Following Gigante's conviction , prosecutors said he continued to run the crime family from prison .
In 2003 , he pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by misleading doctors about his mental state .
The cause of death was unknown , but Gigante had been suffering from heart disease , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , dies in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante died at the U . S . Medical Center for federal <m> prisoners </m> in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' <m> Vincent 'Chin' Gigante </m> , dies in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante died at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , dies in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
<m> Gigante </m> died at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , dies in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante died at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman <m> Al Quintero </m> .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , dies in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante died at <m> the U . S . Medical Center </m> for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , dies in <m> U . S . prison </m> at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante died at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , dies in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante died at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in <m> Springfield , Mo </m> . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , dies in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante <m> died </m> at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , <m> dies </m> in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante died at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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Mafia 'Oddfather , ' Vincent 'Chin' Gigante , dies in U . S . prison at 77
Tuesday , December 20 , 2005
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the powerful mob boss who avoided jail for decades by wandering the Greenwich Village streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers as part of an elaborate feigned mental illness , died Monday in prison , federal officials said .
He was 77 .
Gigante died at the U . S . Medical Center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo . , <m> said </m> prison spokesman Al Quintero .
The cause of death was not immediately known , but Quintero said Gigante had a history of heart disease .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , the former Genovese crime family head , an ex - boxer whose lengthy string of victories over prosecutors ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction , finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 court hearing .
After nearly a quarter - century of public craziness , Gigante calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his deception .
He then chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and even laughed at one point .
"God bless you , " he told the judge , offering a broad wave goodbye before leaving the Brooklyn courtroom .
Gigante was jailed in the medical ward at the federal prison in Springfield - the same facility where rival mob boss John Gotti died .
Denying he was a gangster , Gigante would wander the streets of his native Greenwich Village 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 .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from the booths at Little Italy's San Gennaro Festival to the docks of Miami .
"The looney tunes act served Gigante well - it kept him out of prison for 30 years - but in the end he was the victim of his own crazy act .
He never had a chance to enjoy the fruits of his plunder , and he told some people that if given the chance , he wouldn't do it that way again , " said Jerry Capeci , a Mafia expert and author of six books on organized crime .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career spanning the era of the old - time , publicity - shy "Mustache Petes" and the modern - day Mafia of the swaggering Gotti .
Gigante looked the part , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s Brylcreem pompadour .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss , trusted by others , who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
His fall from power was sealed in a Brooklyn courtroom where a parade of six turncoat mobsters , led by ex - Gotti underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano , described "Chin's" power in the Genovese clan and the "Commission , " organized crime's ruling directorate .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate in any "meaningful way" with a client who didn't know where he was , or why .
At one point the trial turned into a "battle of the wheelchairs , " with testimony from Peter Chiodo , a 300 - plus - pound mobster who had survived a ganglaand execution only because his fat stopped a dozen bullets .
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
"Defendant has been consistently feigning insanity for many years and is still doing so in a shrewd attempt to avoid punishment for his crimes , " U . S . District Judge Jack B . Weinstein said in sentencing Gigante to 12 years in prison .
"He is a shadow of his former self - an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny . "
The verdict was a major blow to a Mafia already reeling from defections and convictions under the federal racketeering statute .
Although Gigante allegedly ran the family from prison , the Genovese clan joined the city's four other mob families in disarray after he was jailed .
Lawyer Michael Marinaccio , who led Gigante's defense team , said Monday that "putting aside the mental stuff , " Gigante had suffered from "a multitude of medical issues relating to the heart , " and had undergone open heart surgery twice , in 1988 and 1996 .
Recently when he complained of breathing difficulties , his family obtained a court order to have him treated at a hospital outside the prison until about two weeks ago , Marinaccio said in a telephone interview .
"Vincent was very frail , and I have to say the prison medical care was substandard , no matter where he was , " Marinaccio said .
"The family is very close , they made regular visits , and I feel especially bad for them , " he added .
Born in the Bronx in 1928 , one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents , Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother .
He 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 Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Prior to 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 .
As boss , Gigante's watchword was secrecy .
A sign at his headquarters warned , "Don't talk .
This place is bugged . "
He held Commission meetings in his mother's apartment house .
Fellow mobsters , ordered never to say his name in public , referred to him by stroking their chins .
He also turned his claim of mental illness - first used to escape trial in a 1970 police - bribery case - into a full - time strategy , behaving weirdly in public , checking into psychiatric treatment clinics whenever the FBI turned up the heat .
There were comic - opera moments : Once , agents serving a subpoena found Gigante standing naked in the shower , holding an umbrella .
Another time , upon spotting agents watching him , he fell to the sidewalk and prayed .
Such maneuvers paid off .
In 1985 a federal crackdown on the Commission indicted 12 top hoodlums - but not Gigante , who some experts said was the actual leader .
Yet even "Chin's" ruses were not always airtight ; some mob cronies slipped up , and the FBI eventually obtained tapes of Gigante acting normally in private .
Later , prison psychologists also said he appeared rational at times .
Gigante had eight children by his wife and a mistress , both named Olympia .
Relatives , led by Rev . Louis Gigante , his priest - brother and most ardent defender , filled three rows at the 1997 trial .
Louis Gigante was in court when his brother finally admitted to faking his illness . |
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<m> Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante </m> dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
<m> Vincent "The Chin" Gigante </m> , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York <m> mob boss </m> whose crazy act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned <m> him </m> the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the nickname <m> "The Oddfather </m> , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies <m> in prison </m>
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died <m> in prison </m> Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the <m> nickname </m> "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison <m> Monday </m> .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante <m> dies </m> in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy <m> act </m> earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act <m> earned </m> him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose crazy act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " <m> died </m> in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante dies in prison
Published : Dec . 19 , 2005 at 9 : 44 PM
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante , the New York mob boss whose <m> crazy </m> act earned him the nickname "The Oddfather , " died in prison Monday .
He was 77 .
The former driver for late Mafia boss Vito Genovese , Gigante rose to the head of the crime family that bears Genovese's name , Newsday reported .
"He was the last of the old - school bosses , " said ex - NYPD organized crime detective Joe Coffey Monday .
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Al Quintero said Gigante died early Monday of apparent heart disease at the U . S . medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield , Mo .
It is the same prison where mobsters John Gotti , Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno and Anthony "Tony Ducks" Corallo also died , the newspaper said .
Gigante was serving a 12 - year sentence for a racketeering conspiracy conviction in Brooklyn in 1997 and was due to be released in June 2010 .
He became a legend for pretending he was mentally ill as a way of escaping prosecution .
Gigante would wander around Greenwich Village in his bathrobe , mumbling to himself .
In April 2003 , Gigante plead guilty to charges he feigned mental illness in the 1990s , adding three years to his sentence . |
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Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia <m> giants </m> , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
<m> Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante </m> , last of Mafia giants , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia giants , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The <m> head </m> of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_2ecbplus.xml_5 | train | ent | 26_2ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 29 | 30 | 151 | 162 | Al Quintero | HUM18440722716468597 | Quintero | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman <m> Al Quintero </m> . | http : / / usatoday30 . usatoday . com / news / nation / 2005 - 12 - 19 - giganteobit _ x . htm
Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia giants , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman <m> Al Quintero </m> .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_2ecbplus.xml_24 | train | ent | 26_2ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 17 | 24 | 86 | 126 | the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . | LOC18440750306982431 | Springfield | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at <m> the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . </m> , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / usatoday30 . usatoday . com / news / nation / 2005 - 12 - 19 - giganteobit _ x . htm
Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia giants , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at <m> the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . </m> , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
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Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia giants , <m> dies </m>
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_2ecbplus.xml_15 | train | evt | 26_2ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 10 | 10 | 48 | 56 | suffered | ACT18440623861291848 | suffer | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had <m> suffered </m> from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / usatoday30 . usatoday . com / news / nation / 2005 - 12 - 19 - giganteobit _ x . htm
Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia giants , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had <m> suffered </m> from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_2ecbplus.xml_16 | train | evt | 26_2ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 15 | 15 | 78 | 82 | died | ACT18440577880137709 | die | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , <m> died </m> at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / usatoday30 . usatoday . com / news / nation / 2005 - 12 - 19 - giganteobit _ x . htm
Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia giants , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , <m> died </m> at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_2ecbplus.xml_36 | train | evt | 26_2ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 26 | 26 | 129 | 133 | said | ACT28450088385472026 | say | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , <m> said </m> prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / usatoday30 . usatoday . com / news / nation / 2005 - 12 - 19 - giganteobit _ x . htm
Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia giants , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , <m> said </m> prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_2ecbplus.xml_33 | train | evt | 26_2ecbplus.xml | 5 | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from heart disease , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | 12 | 13 | 62 | 75 | heart disease | ACT18440655322799332 | disease | ['head', 'genovese', 'crime', 'family', 'suffer', 'heart', 'disease', 'die', 'federal', 'prison', 'springfield', 'mo', 'say', 'prison', 'spokesman', 'al', 'quintero'] | The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from <m> heart disease </m> , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero . | http : / / usatoday30 . usatoday . com / news / nation / 2005 - 12 - 19 - giganteobit _ x . htm
Posted 12 / 19 / 2005 3 : 36 PM
Vincent 'The Chin' Gigante , last of Mafia giants , dies
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 .
He was 77 .
The head of the Genovese crime family , who had suffered from <m> heart disease </m> , died at the federal prison in Springfield , Mo . , said prison spokesman Al Quintero .
It was the same place where rival mob boss John Gotti died of cancer in 2002 at age 61 .
Gigante's death also was confirmed by Christine Monaco , a spokeswoman for the FBI , the organization that worked for years to put him behind bars .
Dubbed the "Oddfather" for his bizarre behavior , Gigante had scored a lengthy string of victories over prosecutors , but it ended with a July 1997 racketeering conviction .
He was sentenced to 12 years in prison .
After a quarter - century of public craziness , he finally admitted his insanity ruse at an April 2003 federal hearing in which he calmly pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice .
That brought him another three - year sentence .
At that hearing , he chatted amiably with his son , shook hands with defense lawyers and said "God bless you" to U . S . District Judge I . Leo Glasser .
For the man described by The New York Times Magazine as "the last great Mafioso of the century , " his admission was the final act in a 50 - year career linking the era of old - time gangsters and the modern - day Mafia of Gotti .
At the height of his power , Gigante's empire stretched from Little Italy to the docks of Miami .
Mob experts called him a traditional boss who settled issues by whatever means - verbal or violent - were required .
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 .
The trial was a spectacle , with Gigante in a wheelchair , mumbling silently , seemingly oblivious to the proceedings .
His lawyers claimed they could not communicate with him in any "meaningful way . "
None of that swayed jurors , who convicted Gigante of racketeering , extortion and plotting the murder - never carried out - of ex - mob associate Peter Savino .
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 , a stocky figure with a pugilist's face and 1940s pompadour , proved better at beating the law than Gotti , the so - called "Teflon Don" who won two acquittals before tapes and turncoats sent him to prison for life .
Before 1997 , Gigante had served only a five - year heroin rap in 1959 . |
26_9ecb.xml_41 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 21 | 22 | 125 | 136 | Cosa Nostra | 10000000817 | Nostra | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish <m> Cosa Nostra </m> provincial 'commission ' . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish <m> Cosa Nostra </m> provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_33 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 25 | 25 | 142 | 145 | him | HUM18441890442259339 | he | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating <m> him </m> in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating <m> him </m> in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_39 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 15 | 15 | 82 | 88 | people | 10000000818 | people | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 <m> people </m> suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 <m> people </m> suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_25 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | mafioso | HUM18441890442259339 | mafioso | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A <m> mafioso </m> committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | A <m> mafioso </m> committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_26 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | Gaetano Lo Presti | HUM18441890442259339 | Gaetano | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | <m> Gaetano Lo Presti </m> , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
<m> Gaetano Lo Presti </m> , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_30 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 7 | 7 | 30 | 37 | himself | HUM18441890442259339 | himself | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung <m> himself </m> in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung <m> himself </m> in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_31 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 15 | 15 | 75 | 77 | he | HUM18441890442259339 | he | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after <m> he </m> is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after <m> he </m> is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_37 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 8 | 10 | 38 | 49 | in his cell | LOC18441904201489761 | cell | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself <m> in his cell </m> on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself <m> in his cell </m> on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_32 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 23 | 23 | 118 | 129 | transcripts | 10000000819 | transcript | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap <m> transcripts </m> implicating him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap <m> transcripts </m> implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_27 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 4 | 4 | 28 | 33 | hours | TIM18442142154629810 | hour | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A mafioso committed suicide <m> hours </m> after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | A mafioso committed suicide <m> hours </m> after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_38 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 11 | 13 | 50 | 68 | on Tuesday evening | TIM18442492397502925 | Tuesday | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell <m> on Tuesday evening </m> after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell <m> on Tuesday evening </m> after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_43 | train | ent | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 6 | 6 | 40 | 43 | his | HUM18441890442259339 | his | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A mafioso committed suicide hours after <m> his </m> arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after <m> his </m> arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_34 | train | evt | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 20 | 20 | 98 | 102 | read | 10000000820 | read | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have <m> read </m> police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have <m> read </m> police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_35 | train | evt | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 24 | 24 | 130 | 141 | implicating | 10000000821 | implicate | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts <m> implicating </m> him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts <m> implicating </m> him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_36 | train | evt | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 28 | 28 | 153 | 159 | affair | 9 | affair | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the <m> affair </m> . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the <m> affair </m> . |
26_9ecb.xml_40 | train | evt | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 20 | 20 | 112 | 124 | re-establish | 9 | re-establish | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to <m> re-establish </m> Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to <m> re-establish </m> Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_42 | train | evt | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 11 | 11 | 63 | 67 | bust | ACT27337443408187958 | bust | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police <m> bust </m> of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police <m> bust </m> of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_28 | train | evt | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 3 | 3 | 20 | 27 | suicide | ACT18441863532401006 | suicide | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A mafioso committed <m> suicide </m> hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | A mafioso committed <m> suicide </m> hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_29 | train | evt | 26_9ecb.xml | 1 | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | 6 | 6 | 25 | 29 | hung | ACT18441863532401006 | hang | ['gaetano', 'lo', 'presti', '52', 'hang', 'his', 'cell', 'tuesday', 'evening', 'he', 'believe', 'read', 'police', 'wiretap', 'transcript', 'implicate', 'he', 'affair'] | Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , <m> hung </m> himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , <m> hung </m> himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_9ecb.xml_44 | train | evt | 26_9ecb.xml | 0 | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his arrest in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | 7 | 7 | 44 | 50 | arrest | ACT18441937963352466 | arrest | ['mafioso', 'commit', 'suicide', 'hour', 'his', 'arrest', 'police', 'bust', '100', 'people', 'suspect', 'try', 're-establish', 'cosa', 'nostra', 'provincial', "'commission"] | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his <m> arrest </m> in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' . | A mafioso committed suicide hours after his <m> arrest </m> in a police bust of almost 100 people suspected of trying to re-establish Cosa Nostra provincial 'commission ' .
Gaetano Lo Presti , 52 , hung himself in his cell on Tuesday evening after he is believed to have read police wiretap transcripts implicating him in the affair . |
26_5ecb.xml_22 | train | ent | 26_5ecb.xml | 1 | Police said Lo Presti , alleged boss of a Sicilian Mafia clan in a district of Palermo , hanged himself in his cell . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Police | HUM18441875401449335 | Police | ['police', 'say', 'lo', 'presti', 'alleged', 'boss', 'sicilian', 'mafia', 'clan', 'district', 'palermo', 'hang', 'his', 'cell'] | <m> Police </m> said Lo Presti , alleged boss of a Sicilian Mafia clan in a district of Palermo , hanged himself in his cell . | A suspected Mafia leader has hanged himself in prison in Sicily hours after being arrested , Italian police say .
<m> Police </m> said Lo Presti , alleged boss of a Sicilian Mafia clan in a district of Palermo , hanged himself in his cell . |
26_5ecb.xml_23 | train | ent | 26_5ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia leader has hanged himself in prison in Sicily hours after being arrested , Italian police say . | 17 | 17 | 101 | 107 | police | HUM18441875401449335 | police | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'leader', 'hang', 'prison', 'sicily', 'hour', 'arrest', 'italian', 'police'] | A suspected Mafia leader has hanged himself in prison in Sicily hours after being arrested , Italian <m> police </m> say . | A suspected Mafia leader has hanged himself in prison in Sicily hours after being arrested , Italian <m> police </m> say .
Police said Lo Presti , alleged boss of a Sicilian Mafia clan in a district of Palermo , hanged himself in his cell . |
26_5ecb.xml_24 | train | ent | 26_5ecb.xml | 1 | Police said Lo Presti , alleged boss of a Sicilian Mafia clan in a district of Palermo , hanged himself in his cell . | 10 | 11 | 51 | 61 | Mafia clan | 10000000822 | Mafia | ['police', 'say', 'lo', 'presti', 'alleged', 'boss', 'sicilian', 'mafia', 'clan', 'district', 'palermo', 'hang', 'his', 'cell'] | Police said Lo Presti , alleged boss of a Sicilian <m> Mafia clan </m> in a district of Palermo , hanged himself in his cell . | A suspected Mafia leader has hanged himself in prison in Sicily hours after being arrested , Italian police say .
Police said Lo Presti , alleged boss of a Sicilian <m> Mafia clan </m> in a district of Palermo , hanged himself in his cell . |
26_5ecb.xml_18 | train | ent | 26_5ecb.xml | 0 | A suspected Mafia leader has hanged himself in prison in Sicily hours after being arrested , Italian police say . | 2 | 3 | 12 | 24 | Mafia leader | HUM18441890442259339 | leader | ['suspect', 'mafia', 'leader', 'hang', 'prison', 'sicily', 'hour', 'arrest', 'italian', 'police'] | A suspected <m> Mafia leader </m> has hanged himself in prison in Sicily hours after being arrested , Italian police say . | A suspected <m> Mafia leader </m> has hanged himself in prison in Sicily hours after being arrested , Italian police say .
Police said Lo Presti , alleged boss of a Sicilian Mafia clan in a district of Palermo , hanged himself in his cell . |
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