Daniel Marino

Daniel "Danny" Joseph Marino (born October 7, 1940) is a longtime high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family, reputedly holds the rank of Caporegime or Captain with illegal activities in Queens, New York.

Made and Caporegime

Daniel Joseph Marino is the son of Colombo crime family street soldier Gaetano (Toddo) Marino who served under the rule of Joseph Magliocco. His father was indicted and convicted of drug trafficking and other crimes in 1959. During the early 1970s, before the death of Carlo Gambino and the evaluation of Paul Castellano as the new Boss, Marino is to have been inducted into the Queens faction of the Gambino crime family, with, according to Jerry Capeci, connections to the labor and construction racketeering operations as his illegal activities. Marino, one of the top earners in the Queens faction, was soon promoted to the rank of Caporegime after the death of Carlo Gambino in 1976, and the succession of Paul Castellano as the new head of the Gambinos. Liked by Castellano, he was soon to be despised by another up-and-coming mobster, John Gotti. He stands 5'10 and weighs 165 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Capo Cooperation

During the regime of Paul "Big Paul" Castellano in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Marino aligned himself with top Castellano supporters James "Jimmy Brown" Failla and Thomas "Tommy" Bilotti in labor racketeering in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, New York to make more profit. These three capos were known to be Castellano's closest during the early 1980s, as they soon became the top rivals of the old Dellacroce faction of the Gambino crime family, substently headed by John Gotti, who reportedly cursed Carlo Gambino for not making then current Underboss, Aniello "Mr. Neil" Dellacroce the new Boss instead of Gambino's brother-in-law Paul Castellano.

Death of Castellano

Toward the year of 1985, longtime Castellano trustees Frank DeCicco and Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano were approached by John Gotti who looked to assassinate Castellano. Due to the low income of the family at the time, mostly because the Castellano faction had been keeping payments from the Dellacroce faction and left them to themselves, DeCicco and Gravano agreed to join Gotti in the conspiracy to take over the Gambino crime family. On December 16, 1985, DeCicco lured Castellano to a meeting in Manhattan, New York, where he and his driver Thomas Bilotti were murdered by members of the Gotti faction. Marino and Failla, however, did not accept this.

Murder & Conspiracy

After the murder of Paul Castellano, a wave of indictments went against the Gambino crime family, as John Gotti himself was tried several times, only in the mid 1980s. But as it looked like Gotti could be sent to jail, he was acquitted, and let go, which agrovaited Marino even more. In 1986, it was clear that the relations between the two Gambino factions and the other families weren't good, as Gotti's Underboss Frank DeCicco was killed in a car-bomb which was reportedly meant for Gotti. According to Jerry Capeci, Gotti rivals Marino and Jimmy Failla had been approached by Genovese crime family Boss, Vincent "Chin" Gigante and Lucchese crime family leaders Vittorio "Vic" Amuso and Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, in an attempt to re-structure the entire Gambino crime family, by killing Gotti, DeCicco and Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, before replacing them with Marino and Failla. Apparently, both Marino and Failla were involved in the murder plot. [http://www.ganglandnews.com/column497.htm]

Gotti's Fall & Prison

In 1991, Gotti, Gravano, Frank "Frankie Loc" LoCascio and Thomas "Tommy" Gambino were arrested, and due to internal fighting with Gotti, Gravano turned state's evidence, testifying against both Gotti and LoCascio as they were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992, where Tommy Gambino was acquitted. Marino, a lucky man since conspirying with the other heads of the Five Families on assassinating his Boss, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit murder, handed by Gotti himself, and was sentenced to 8-10 years in prison. Marino, a longtime capo with illegal operations in the Queens and Brooklyn factions of the Gambino crime family, promoted longtime sidewalk soldier, John "Johnny G" Gammarano, to reportedly run his crew for him through the mid and late 1990s.

Current Gambino Captain

Released in 2000 after serving a total of six years, Marino reportedly went back to his crew in the Queens faction of the family, with labor racketeering, extortion, loansharking, illegal gambling and murder for hire as his illegal activities. Daniel Marino, who's at the age of 68, is still a reputed Caporegime of the Gambino crime family, who apparently has been forgiven by his current Boss Nick Corozzo.