In 1966, thirteen members of organized crime were arrested at the Italian restaurant "La Stella".
The thirteen men arrested were, from New York; Carlo Gambino, head of the crime family that bears his name; Thomas Eboli and Mike Miranda, co-acting bosses (along with Jerry Catena) of the Genovese Family; Joseph Colombo, newly appointed boss of the crime family that carried his name; Aniello Delacroce, underboss of the Gambino Family; Joseph N. Gallo, the Gambino Family’s future consigliere; Dominick Alongi, Eboli’s driver; and Anthony Cirillo, a Genovese soldier. From Florida, Santo Trafficante, Jr. The other four men were from New Orleans. Family boss Carlos Marcello; his brother Joseph Marcello, Jr.; Anthony Carolla, the son of former New Orleans boss Sam “Silver Dollar” Carolla; and Frank Gagliano, the son of another deported mobster and the cousin of Eboli’s driver, Alongi. In addition, the owners of the restaurant, Joseph and Jack Taliercio, were arrested.
No weapons were found on the men and police transported them “without handcuffs” according to the article. It was noted that the check was left unpaid. Taken to the Maspeth station house, police claimed to have had a hard time questioning the men because the hoods were not sure of their names, ages, or address.
The arrested were read their constitutional rights at the station and ushered into a waiting room and called in one at a time for questioning, which went on until 3:00 a.m. the following morning. In addition, each of the men were later stripped searched down to their underwear and finger printed.
Hentel, the Queens district attorney, instead of booking them on the “consorting” charges, named each of them a material witnesses in a grand jury investigation and asked that individual $100,000 bails be set. Hentel explained that in previous cases the arrested party usually was freed after a relatively low bail was set, and later won dismissal of the “consorting” charge. The high bail was set by New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Conroy, who Hentel had gotten out of bed and driven to the police station to hold court before sunrise.
Inspector Garelik, who had quickly notified the FBI and the Treasury Department, of his catch, briefed reporters, “All of the men had large amounts of cash on them. The least amount anyone was carrying was $600…All (were wearing) $300 suits, and they are all well-fed.”
One detective told reporters, “These raids are good because we can see who is boss, not because they tell us, but because of the way they act toward one another. We can judge a Mafia boss’s importance by the respect or deference the other men show him.”
By Friday night, all of the mobsters had been freed on $1.3 million in bail.

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