Andimo (Tony Noto) Pappadio, a reputed leader of the Luchese crime family, was shot to death late Friday night outside his luxurious home in Lido Beach, L. I.

Head of Crime Family Slain L.I. By Gunmen Waiting Outside Home

The 62‐year‐old underworld figure was gunned down when he walked across the street to check on a parked automobile in which his suspected assailants were sitting.

His wife, Rose, had parked their late model Cadillac in their garage and had entered their house at 121 Eva Drive when she heard shots and saw a maroon automobile drive away. She found her husband sprawled dead in a roadway.

Nassau County detectives under Inspector George Chiminti began questioning reputed criminal associates of Mr. Pappadio yesterday in an effort to establish whether his death resulted from an internal struggle for power.
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Mr. Pappadio had long been listed by Federal authorities as a member of the crime family of the late Thomas (Three Finger Brown) Luchese, which was said to be active in bookmaking, loan sharking and labor racketeering.

In 1965, Mr. Pappadio was sentenced with another member of the Luchese family to two years in jail for refusing to answer questions before a Federal grand jury in Manhattan that was investigating organized crime.

Last summer Mr. Pappadio ‘had been one of the principals in an inquiry by Federal and Suffolk County officials into alleged efforts by criminals to control key contracts in the construction of the Suffolk Meadows quarter‐horse race track, now being completed. The investigation proved inconclusive.

The crime family led by Mr. Pappadio is said by local detectives to be small in number. Although it had previously operated mainly in the garment district of Manhattan, it is believed to have shifted much of its activity to Long Island.

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Mr. Pappadio had returned with his wife from an evening out when he was murdered Friday night. The family had two Cadillacs, and he had driven one off the driveway to permit her to put the one in which they had returned into the garage.
After parking the second car on a side driveway, he went to investigate the automobile in which his suspected assailants were sitting. His body was removed early yesterday to the Nassau County morgue in East meadow for autopsy.