#OTD (Dec 02) in 1985, #Gambino Crime Family underboss Aniello #Dellacroce, 71, dies of natural causes at Mary Immaculate Hospital in #QueensNY.

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#OTD (Sep 21) in 1961, Aniello #Dellacroce of the #Gambino Crime Family is assaulted at a #Manhattan restaurant by #Gallo gangsters of the #Profaci Crime Family.

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#OTD (Dec. 2) in the #history of #OrganizedCrime: #Brooklyn barrel murder suspect, #Lupo bakery racket, trials of Gentile in #Palermo and #Nitti in #Chicago, #waterfront mobsters meet, Volpe and #Dellacroce pass away.

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#OTD in 1985: Aniello #Dellacroce, faction leader in the #Gambino Crime Family of #NewYork, succumbed to cancer at age 71. Following his death, the crime family splintered.

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https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2016/12/dellacroces-death.html

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Dellacroce's death fractures Gambino clan

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