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Boss of New York's most powerful crime family (1902–1976) and model for the title character in Mario Puzo's The Godfather. S.G.S. Associates business check, 8.25 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed by Gambino, "Carlo Gambino," payable to Mr. & Mrs. James Laurie for $150, May 31, 1962. In fine condition, with a PSA/DNA authentication label affixed to the reverse.
After the Apalachin Meeting in 1957, and the imprisonment of Vito Genovese in 1959, Gambino took over the Commission of the American Mafia until his death from a heart attack on October 15, 1976. During more than 50 years in organized crime, he served only 22 months in prison for a tax evasion charge in 1937.
From the New York Times: 'From 1955 to 1965, Gambino was a one‐third owner of a labor relations concern called SGS Associates, Inc., whose clients included Wellington Associates, the real estate company that owns the Chrysler Building and other major properties in the city; Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, and the Concord Hotel at Kiamesha Lake, N.Y. The company was dissolved after Gambino's connection with it was disclosed.'
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