Carmine Lombardozzi

Carmine "The Doctor" Lombardozzi (February 21913 - September 51992) was a member of the Gambino family in New York. He was also known as the King of Wall Street and The Italian Meyer Lansky.

Lombardozzi, though only a "caporegime" (lieutenant), allegedly ran the entire Gambino shylock and stock market rackets. He was involved in loansharking and racketeering, and was said to have earned the Gambino crime family a substantial sum of money during his criminal career. He brought his nephews Daniel Marino and George Lombardozzi into the crime family, with Daniel eventually becoming a caporegime and controlling his uncle's crew. [Carl Sifakis, "The Mafia Encyclopedia", (Facts on File, 2005), p.271]

Lombardozzi attended the infamous Apalachin Meeting in November 1957, where he was arrested along with many other high profile mobsters. For failing to cooperate in the investigation of the Apalachin Meeting, Lombardozzi spent 14 months in prison. In March 1969, Lombardozzi received one year in prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury about mob infiltration of legitimate businesses. In June 1970, Lombardozzi was sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to cash stolen brokerage checks. In November 1975, Lombardozzi was indicted on six counts of perjury. In 1981, Lombardozzi was indicted of on charges of failing to report his loansharking income in his federal tax reporting. In 1992, Carmine Lombardozzi died of natural causes at age 79.

References

Further reading

*Capeci, Jerry. "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia". Indianapolis: Alpha Books, 2002. ISBN 0-02-864225-2
*Davis, John H. "Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family". New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 0-06-016357-7
*Kwitny, Jonathan. "Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace". New York: W.W. Norton, 1979. ISBN 0-393-01188-7
*Summers, Anthony. Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. ISBN 0-399-13800-5
*Weiss, Gary R. "Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street". New York: Warner Books, 2003. ISBN 0-446-61398-3

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/mafia_genius2005/lombardozzi.html Mafia Genius Profile: Carmine "the Doctor" Lombardozzi]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4D91E39F935A25757C0A967948260&scp=1&sq=Carmine+Lombardozzi&st=nyt New York Times: Reputed Loan Shark Faces Tax Charges]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lombardozzi&GSfn=Carmine&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=6265507& Carmine "The Doctor" Lombardozzi] at Find A Grave