Joey Gallo death according to wikipedia:
In 1972, one year after his release from prison, gunmen murdered Joey Gallo in a Manhattan restaurant. The murder was ordered by family leaders Joseph Yacovelli and Carmine Persico. The leaders suspected that Gallo had arranged the shooting of then boss Joseph Colombo, an attack that left Colombo comatose. John "Mooney" Cutrone a made man and close confidant of both Larry and Joey, was seen as Joey's logical successor. However, to maintain harmony in the crew, Cutrone supported Albert for capo. The untested and less experienced Albert now became boss of the Gallo crew.[2]
After nine years of peace, Albert and the Gallo crew were again fighting the Colombo family. The Gallos major effort at retaliation against the Colombos came when they found out that several members of the Colombo leadership, including Alphonse Persico and Gennaro Langella would be meeting at the Neapolitan Noodle restaurant on the Upper East Side. In preparation, a member of the Gallo group arranged for a hitman to be flown in from Las Vegas, who would be dispatched to ambush the Colombo leadership during the meeting. However, the hitman fired at the wrong table, in the process killing two innocent businessmen.[3] In the months following the botched assassination at the Neapolitan Noodle, an uneasy truce prevailed between the Colombos and the Gallos when both sides struggled to gain the upper hand.
In 1974, the truce was shattered when Cutrone and his followers defected from the Gallo faction back to the Colombo family. Cutrone, Gerry Basciano, Sammy "The Syrian" Zahralbam, and other Gallo members had been dissatisfied with Albert's leadership and decided to form a new faction. Almost immediately, violence broke out between the Gallo and Cutrone factions. Gallo loyalist James "Lefty Jimmy" Geritano wiretapped Basciano's phone and used the information to plan an ambush of Basciano and Zahralbam. On July 1, 1974, the two men were attacked and wounded but escaped serious injury.[4]
In response, on August 1974, the Cutrone faction killed Gallo loyalist Stevie Cirillo while he was playing craps at a charity benefit.[5] In September 1974, a sniper shot and wounded Albert's right hand man, Frank "Punchy" Illiano outside the Gallo headquarters on President street.
[edit]End of Gallo wars
At some point between 1974 and 1976, the Mafia Commission intervened in the Gallo/Cutrone conflict. The family bosses believed that the violence was interfering with business and bringing public attention to their activities. The Commission negotiated an agreement under which Albert and his followers would join the crew of Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, then a powerful capo in the Genovese Family. Cutrone and his rebels would remain with the Colombo Family.
The peace agreement was violated in February 1976, when a sniper fired two gunshots into the Gallo headquarters, slightly wounding crew member Steven Boriello. Now part of Genovese family, Albert immediately filed a formal protest to the Colombo leadership. The Colombo bosses responded by summoning Cutrone and Basciano to a "sitdown" to explain their actions. Neither man attended the meeting; they also ignored attempts by the Colombo leadership.
At this point, the mob families lost patience with Cutrone and Basciano. On June 16, 1976, a gunman shot and killed Basciano while he was eating at a luncheonette. Cutrone went into hiding, but the Colombos convinced him that Basciano's death ended the problem. On October 2, 1976, a gunman shot and killed Cutrone while he was eating breakfast at a diner. Revealingly, the Colombo family did not show any signs of displeasure at the killing of Cutrone, a made man.[6
