Daniel Marino released from prison today

What does the future hold for this senior Gambino member?

At 74 hopefully he is smart and retires

He should have been the boss after they killed Paulie not john

Retirement!And vitto i totaly agree with you he would have been a better boss than gotti,always thought that..him and jimmy brown..In the tread on this page they say he was one of the best earners,now it's time for him to take it easy.

Depends on his health a guess. Quite a few of his crew are in jail..Modica, Orefice about a douzen associates..who knows what he'll do.

He's 73. It's not that old these days. It's not like he's worked an honest day in his life. With a healthy lifestyle, modern healthcare and that mediterranean blood there is no reason why he can't become a power in The Gambino's again.

Look at Little Vic. He's 80 and still (supposedly) calling the shots.

True.73 years is not the same 73 years it was 1955 i guess.my great grandfather lived for 98 years,died in 1998..was lucid till the day he died.danny's got 10 good years at least,offcourse the condition is that he want's to be a part of it again.

What're we, in the Navy?!

He still is a power in the Gambino's, he will be til the day he dies.

If he is smart,and and if he's got some money left he should retire.

Do you remember the American television show "Jag," Sonny?

It was about the Judge Advocate General's office in the American Navy. It was far-fetched at times, but a fun show nonetheless. Anyway, for a season or two there was a character named Brumby. He was a Commander in the Australian Navy. He was the single most annoying character in the history of television. The actor who played him died of a heroin overdose. I forget his name. But as it turns out, he was actually an Englishman obsessed with Australian culture, so he adopted an Australian personality and accent.

I thought there was a point to this, but I guess not. Hey, you brought up the Navy, not me

LMAO.

Well played sir. Well played

I have a lucid moment or two every so often.

It did make me smile.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MwlBVJYM38o

When you're smiling . . . .

Holy shit. That episode is on Channel 11 in New York RIGHT NOW!!!!

I swear on my kids!

I only remember JAG for Catherine Bell

But she's the very best reason anyway .

capeci wrote preety good article on marino today and the whole nephews situation. so he still lives in dyker heights next down to his cousin johnny g also read persico's live in the area. that's one mobbed up neighborhood how far from cefulo do these guys have sitdowns at the corner store playing megabucks.

I remember JAG. I used to watch it as a kid.

Well, thats all I have to add. Seems to fit the topic

Off topic,there is a "cafe besa" at the corner of e189th street and beaumont ave in the bronx.anybody knows something about it?

Can you post it here? or PM me?

Voice From The Grave Paints Gambino Capo As Heartless Brother-In-Law

Gang Land Exclusive! When Gambino family capo Daniel Marino discovered that his gangster nephew had stolen $400,000 from him, he allegedly used a tried and true mob tactic: He threatened to kill someone. In this case, the death threats were close to home. According to his late sister-in-law, Marino allegedly told her and her husband that unless they signed their Brooklyn home over to him as payback, he'd kill them and their son.

This previously untold Gang Land tale from the early 1980s first emerged when Marino's sister-in-law, Betty Hydell, was preparing to testify at the 2006 murder trial of Mafia Cops Lou Eppolito and Steve Caracappa. Hydell's son Jimmy, who had stolen the $400,000 from his uncle, later became one of the mob cops' many victims after they kidnapped and delivered Hydell to his death at the hands of Luchese mobster Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso.

Betty Hydell related the family saga to a law enforcement official who befriended her, but the tale never surfaced at the trial, in court documents, or anywhere else. Until now.

According to Hydell, after her brother-in-law threatened her and her husband, they were forced to sign their Dyker Heights home over to Marino and move their six-member family to an apartment in Staten Island, Gang Land has learned.

Also delivered to Marino was a family plot of land in the Poconos they had planned to develop and enjoy later in their lives.

"She was fearful about testifying against the cops, but she was absolutely terrified that Marino would kill her and her husband if it ever got out that she had opened her mouth about it," the source recalled. "She said, 'When we're both six feet under, you can shout it from the rooftops, but not until then.'"

James P. Hydell died in 2007, at age 87. He quit working in 1995, after 29 years as a city bus driver, and 11 years driving a school bus. Betty Hydell, who worked as a secretary for a Staten Island auto-driving school for 25 years, died last September, at age 75.

Marino, 73, who is married to Betty's sister Linda, was officially released from federal custody yesterday after a five year sentence for taking part in the 1998 murder of Jimmy Hydell's younger brother Frank, an FBI informer who was killed by the Gambino family. Until yesterday, Marino, who lives two blocks from where his late in-laws used to reside, was serving the balance of his prison term under house arrest. His home confinement began in April, following a short stay at a halfway house in Brooklyn. He was released from federal prison in February.

What follows is the story of the long-running feud between the Marino and Hydell families; how it began and continued for 30 years. It is based on information Betty Hydell gave Gang Land's law enforcement source, court records, real estate, bank and property records, as well as sources who furnished details about related matters, including the deaths of Jimmy, 27, and Frank Hydell, 31.

In the early 1980s, most likely in 1982, Danny Marino and his wife asked Betty Hydell, who was more amenable to the request than her husband would have been, to open up a safe deposit box that Danny could use to hide cash and other valuables just in case the law came looking. She got one in a bank on Bay Parkway, in Bensonhurst.

"The box was in Betty's name," said the source. "She and Danny each had a key," the source continued, noting that banks were less strict about allowing access to safe deposit boxes. "If you had a key, they would take you down to the vault and give you the box," he said.

"One day, she said it was probably early 1984, Danny went to the box, and it was empty. When he confronted Betty, she was silent. She clammed up. Gave him no explanation at all. Told him she didn't know anything about it. But she knew, just like Danny knew, that Jimmy had done it," said the source.

By time Jimmy Hydell disappeared, and was murdered, he had become a murderer himself. By 1984, he had established himself as a larcenous thug. He'd had several scrapes with the law, including an arrest for a $125,000 armed robbery of a stamp and coin shop in December of 1982, when he was 24, and still living at his parents' home at 1326 83d Street.

"Betty knew Jimmy took the money, but she wouldn't give Jimmy up because she knew Danny would have killed him. 'He was furious,' she told me. So Danny approached Big Jim and told him, 'I want your house, and I want your property in the Poconos. They're mine now.'"

"Betty had no choice. She was angry with her son, but she wasn't going to give him up. You know what they say about a mother's love. She told me, 'I know he behaved like an animal. But he was the most caring protective son for me that a mother could want.' The way she acted, Betty almost made it look like she took the money, but she didn't. When Danny forced them to move, that's when Betty and her sister stopped talking."

Records show that on September 18, 1984, James P. Hydell signed over his home to Linda Marino. No money changed hands, according to a deed that was witnessed by Alexandria Gammarano, the wife of Gambino soldier John (Johnny G) Gammarano, who lives on 85th Street in Dyker Heights, right next door to the Marinos.

Two years later, on October 18, 1986, Betty Hydell saw her very troublesome son the last time, the same day she saw two men in a blue sedan casing her Staten Island home, she testified at the Mafia Cops trial. The "big one," Eppolito, the driver, was wearing a white shirt and a necklace; the "little one," Caracappa, was in the passenger seat. She drove up alongside and "asked who they were," she testified. "The driver pulled out a badge. I said you should let people know what you're doing," she said.

That day, the cops picked up Hydell in Brooklyn, put him in the trunk of their car, and gave him to Casso, who tortured him and got him to admit, with two Gambino mobsters as witnesses, that he was part of a hit team that tried to kill Gaspipe a year earlier on orders from Gambino capo Angelo Ruggiero. Sources say Marino, with Hydell's transgressions against him fresh in his mind, did nothing to dissuade Casso from carrying out threats to kill his nephew. His body was never found.

Two years later, the elder Hydell who had purchased his attached one family home in 1952, and had refinanced it in early 1984, continued paying off the $15,000 mortgage he owed Citibank until it was satisfied in January, 1988, according to bank records recorded at the Kings County Clerk's office on February 10, 1988.

Ten years later, when the Gambino family suspected — correctly — that Frank Hydell was an FBI informer and decided to kill him, then-family boss Peter Gotti sent word of the plan to Marino, who was then behind bars for taking part in a gangland-style slaying for John Gotti.

In December of 2010, Marino, who was charged with two mob hits as part of a racketeering indictment, was prepared to cop a plea calling for five years by admitting taking part in Hydell's murder. But when he told Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan he "took no steps" to prevent the killing, Kaplan refused to take the plea, saying that the stated non-action was not a crime.

Marino, after speaking to attorney Gerald Shargel, satisfied the judge. "When my co-conspirators came to me in prison," Marino said, "it was clear to me that they were seeking my permission or approval, and by not stopping it, I implicitly gave then a green light to go ahead."

Which is one more reason why Betty Hydell had no use for Daniel Marino. "I had two sons, and my brother-in-law, a powerful mob captain, did nothing to stop the mob from killing either one," she said, according to Gang Land's law enforcement source.

How are judges so lenient on these heartless bastards, just because they are relatively old?

This bastard has caused so much misery, even to his own family; and there is no contrition! At his sentencing, when he was proffering phantom heart problems as a means to avoid a lengthy prison term and/or as a way to avoid a stringent prison, he was so arrogant and smug.

How come Jimmy Hydell's final resting place has never been divulged? Surely Casso would have offered that up when he was cooperating?

Does anyone think he'll quarterback for the Dolphins again?

Only if Reggie Roby comes back to punt but, rumor has it he's got 2 years left on his scholarship.

The hydell kid sounded both remarkably stupid and treacherous. Oh well.

He may have thought he was untouchable bc of his uncle or he was very stupid . We may never know.

Thank you pal!

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. Anthony Casso was an ally of Danny Marino whose friendship formed during the time he was an adolescent. Danny was a leader of the prominent Italian-American gang, DaHill Road Gremlins. During the early 1970s, before the death of Carlo Gambino and the evaluation of Paul "Big 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. He is the brother of Gambino crime family capo Corrado (Dino) Marino and an uncle to Lucchese crime family mob associates James and Frank Hydell. He lists his occupation as working as a "salesman."

Thanks for background NJ.

Any info on this guy?

Active? Based? History? Crew? etc etc.

Thanks in advance.

I don't have any additional info on him...The only thing i found was an excerpt from the book:
The BrotherHoods by Guy Lawson http://books.google.com/books?id=2dS8_0Q...ia&f=false. There is another Corrado Marino who was a barber from Gravesend who flipped on the Lucchese's back in the 90's.

What the hell did he do with all that money? Did it go up his nose?

Dahill road gremlins.

Sounds like a Serbian venereal disease .

It's the worst kind,eats you up inside and leaves you empty ;)hey pizza i posted earlier about a cafe "besa" at the corner of e189th and beaumont ave.know anything about it?

If it's the one of thinking of it used to be a Montenegrin or Moroccan soccer club. But there's nothing going on in that neighborhood anymore if that's what you're looking for.

Really no?i thought it's like a social club little bit shady,because besa has a mafia conotation,close to cosa nosta simular to that..you probablly know it better than me,there is a big time serbian film called besa,about albanian gangsters..my friend told me that there are all albanians in the belmont area today,little italians..didn't know that.he is from montenegro and living there,somewhere around e189th.

Why does besa have a Mafia connotation? Because of a movie? Give me a break, son. No offense, but your friend is an idiot. Most of the Albanians in the Bronx are assimilated today.

And I know I've been rough on you in the past, and I'm sorry for that. I really am. But you're trying to tell me about a neighborhood that I lived in for 25 years, and that I've been associated with for more than 50 years. I own a building on Hoffman Street, and I'm there constantly. And believe me when I tell you, even the Albanians have started to move to the suburbs. The Belmont zip code is something like 80 percent mixed Latino today.

And the area you just mentioned? Beaumont, over by Crotona? That area is awful. And the closer you get to Southern Boulevard, the worse it gets. I had a car stolen on that block a couple of years ago. I was inside the motor vehicles on Crotona and Fordham at the time. How's that for irony?

No no not traing to tell about anything,i dont know about it,don,t get offended..here in the balkans it has kind a mafia conotation.when you say this guy is a member of besa,you know that he is in human and drug traffiking.as i say you know it better its your neighbourhood,you live there and if you say its 80 % latino i totally belive you.he said that the italians were kind of replaced by albanians,but i think he moved away to new jersey to,thats all nothing else.me personally,i was never near the bronx so i dont know any part of,all i know about it is what ive heard from you.so ill never have my car parked by beaumon ave.ever!!

That's a wise decision .

Is it your neighbourhood is where pacino grew up?it says on the net near the bronx zoo,maybe its not belmont,i dont know.

There is the Two Star Restaurant and the Gurra Cafe where the Albanian mobsters used to frequent a lot, if that's what your talking about.

Stern, where did you find this rubbish? Toddo Marino was a Genovese skipper who had no children. In around 1987, Danny Marino was taken out of Failla´s crew and given his own crew to run. And who´s this Gambino skipper Dino Marino? Lol!

That's from the full wiki,its all bullshit.everything on that website..biggest noncense there is.but i thought that marino was capo prior to 87,which crew was he given?

I think some Failla soldiers/associates and possibly one or two members of other crews were assaigned to him. Carmine Lombardozzi´s nephew George, Johnny Gammarano and Philly Dogs Mazzara were early members of his crew.

Oh ok thanks

Here we go again with this bullshit, Hairy's thinking i'm somebody else....Your head must be really fukin hard like a coconut, because nothing seems to absorb into that thick skull of yours....How many times do i have to tell you that i'm not Stern and whoever else you think i was or is... Kids play fukin dumb games like that, and i'm not a fukin kid....I don't know what makes you think or gives you the impression i'm Stern or somebody else other than myself...If you want to think that way that's fine, but just stay the fuck out of my lane!

Take this shit off the boards!

Here's where it has Gaetano "Toddo" Marino's name listed under the Colombo family:
http://books.google.com/books?id=reYCAAA...fia&f=false

It's also a nice chart of the Families territory from the 70's....

@Hairy...You explain who this Corrado Dino Marino is from this excerpt from the book then, since you are a 30 year researcher http://books.google.com/books?id=2dS8_0Q...ino&f=false

Stern, you have been banned from here twice before. And you keep coming back using different aliases. I thought that was against the rules on here. Apparently not. Now go on believing that Toddo Marino was a Profaci soldier and the father of Danny and that all Marions in NY are related to eachother. Also go on believing that Dino Marino is a Gambino skipper because it says so in a book. Here´s a tip for you, go buy the newest edition of Pippi Longstocking. There are some interesting claims in there.

Just when I thought I was out...... they pull me back in.

How do you get banned from the forum?i bet you get in the fight with somebody

Whatever you wanna think Pal...I don't give a shit, i'm done with you after this, i know who i am and what i'm about and that's all that matters to me....You've been proven wrong before, so don't get your panties in a bunch...I'm not believing anything because i don't know them personally, just backing up what i see in black/white...Not saying everything i read is true, but when you wanna start shit and try and call my bluff i'll put the links up, it's real simple.

Gonna be a drive by posting. I can feel it.

Strictly Head Shots!

So it was actually his wife's nephew that was killed, not his own?

Daniel Marino's wife is Jimmy Hydell's sister, right?

Marino's wife is the sister of jimmy hydell's mother

Boy, it sure sounds like you've got a thing against Serbians.

it does,dosent it

he'll be back in the game, I have no doubt...

It's an inside joke between me and Alex. That's all.

Yeah offcourse it's a inside joke,maybe the guy thought you actually don't like serbs pb

Now that's f'in funny right there

How can you hate serbian people,we are ale bloody killers,butchers and bandits and you gotta love that!!!

wow@Hydel what a fucking sucker, risking his life to become a rat, but not going on a suicide mission to avenge his brother?

His aunt. Marino is the Hydell brothers' uncle

Simone understands.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-SieCU11r4

Corrado Dino Marino was a Lucchese asociate turned rat. I doubt there were two Corrado Marinos who both went by Dino. Toddo Marino was a Genovese capo.

I was hoping that one wouldn't go unappreciated.

LOL Good One

I really expect Marino to continue being a high ranking member. He is one of the only original leaders left.

My wish for him that he does not die in prison.

He'll go back to being one of the top capo's, for sure.

that is correct. dannys wife sister .danny m. mother was carmine lomb.. sister

Is that correct?marino's mother was lombardozzi's sister?

Yep. Carmine schooled Danny in LCN.

He's 74, which is a good age to take a step back. Then again, he only did 4 years, which is nothing to some guys. It's not like 4 years would wear him out... Then again, he is 74.