I was listening to this podcast called the new york city crime report with pat dixon. its a really funny show.anyway they have this regular guest who is a retired nypd detective of 20 years. And he mentioned jose battle and also the fighting between cubans and italians over the numbers racket in certain parts of ny. He said that battle had put a bounty out on mob connected numbers buildings to be firebombed and to kill anybody inside. He said that a few of these happened and that a few people got killed.

Also said that the gambinos had a gay associate in manhattan who operated numbers spots for them.