New Gambino Consigliere-Michael Paradiso

According to this weeks gangland column Michael ‘Mickey Boy’ Paradiso is the new consigliere.

The article says Paradiso ‘will serve alongside’ Cefalu and Mannino as ‘technically’ the consiglieri.

I don’t know the rules here about copying the article. I read it on the other site. Just thought I’d pass the info along.

I wonder if this is indeed true or just disinformation. Cali hasn’t been dead two months and ‘sources’ already know who replaced him.

This guy punched Gotti out twice and got away with it. Apparently a hot head and very aggressive. Article also says Mannino is most likely boss.

Paradiso got caught on a wire in the early 2000's and it was posted in a Capeci article when he was writing for an actual paper, was some funny stuff, the man is a nut.

It is not Paradiso or Gene, it is someonelse serving as probationary Consigliere. The family surname begins with a letter C. **** *** and your ****** ***** **** and shove it up your ***.

In the same article is write that is strange that the sicilians choose for as consigliere a guy that punched Gotti,slapped a made man when he was an associate,was caught on wire saying that will kill a loansharking victim ecc but at least the consigliere title in this days is more an honorary title.
So we have:

Mannino as boss
Cefalù as underboss
Paradiso as consigliere

The question is why paradiso and not another capo But at least who cares?

I think Mannino is underboss Cefalu official boss.

The power of an underboss greatly varies; some are marginal figures, while others are the most powerful individuals in the family. Traditionally they run day-to-day affairs of the family.

Cefalu is boss , Mannino is underboss and Paradiso consigliere , Cali was consigliere before he was killed. As i wrote already.

Read something a while back that Paradiso tried to have Casso murdered; Once Casso found out; He pushed for Gotti to have Paradiso whacked. John put out the order but the plan never suceeded. Think Paradiso got caught up in a drug case and got sent away.

Theres a good ny times article on paradiso . Hes in lewisburg for hijacking in the 1980tys him and ernie boy a....... start making calls from prison setting up heroin deals with another prisoner working for the fbi. Theres abunch of guys indicted. That guy arnold squicky he was the acting boss like 10 yrs back. Abunch of guys. Paradiso bails out for 500k in 1985 and thats when the casso thing happend. Supposedly it was over money from a dope deal not the frank deccico bombing. If they thought casso had plotted to kill deccico i bet they would have kept trying to kill him. Theres a picture of gotti casso and vic amuso in 1988

Makes you think the dan marino and corozzos and demaria must be retired. Dont want any part pr maybe there health isnt good

weird choice...
i thought they will make some more of a business guy minded at that position

Time for you to take your meds and a nap.

At least he was also a heroin trafficker.

Also had a brother Phil who wore a wire against abunch of guys in 80tys worked for fbi. That private eye lady said his brother was the shooter of salvatore scarpa. Greg scarpas brother. It was to silence him of telling bosses gregs a snitch.

Guys a interesting character. He was nabbed in a weed trafficking case from cali to nyc. I think he just protected the thing an got a cutt. He got 2yrs probation.

Suspect In Gambino Boss Rubout Arraigned; Reply To Junior Gotti Over Uncle Gene Tiff
By Ed Scarpo Thursday, April 25, 2019 8 Comments
The man accused of gunning down Francesco (Frankie Boy) Cali — a powerful ranking member of one of the New York Mafia’s Five Families — was indicted for the murder and ordered held without bail at his 10-minute-long arraignment yesterday.




Anthony Comello, 24, faces second-degree murder charges and two counts of second-degree criminal weapon possession in the March 13 Hilltop Terrace rub out.

Comello, who is being housed in protective custody, pleaded not guilty in state Supreme Court, St. George, on Staten Island and the case is due back in court on May 9.







As per law enforcement sources: Comello blasted the alleged Gambino acting boss on Staten Island last month with a 9mm pistol after crashing into the gangster’s Cadillac Escalade SUV (and knocking off Cali’s license plate) to lure him outside. Once Cali was outside, video surveillance reportedly showed the two men talking and then shaking hands.

Comello handed Cali his license plate. Cali, apparently sensing no danger, then turned his back to put the license plate inside the rear of the SUV. That's when the gunman took out a 9-mm handgun, held it with two hands, and fired 10 shots.

Prosecutors say Comello admitted to the slaying when detectives interrogated him in the Ocean County prosecutor’s office on March 16.

“This defendant allegedly wantonly and willfully took another life in cold blood and has now been indicted for murder and weapons charges,” District Attorney Michael E. McMahon said in a statement.

“This type of senseless violence will not be tolerated in our Staten Island neighborhoods – my office will prosecute this case to the full extent of the law and hold this defendant accountable for the heinous crime he is accused of committing.”

As reported, investigators believe revenge was the motive. Cali, 53, had forbid his niece from dating Comello, as per sources. That said, police reportedly haven’t completely ruled out a mob angle to the shooting.

In the days after the shooting, Comello feared for his life, though it was not the mob that concerned him. Comello reportedly thought that Frank Cali himself was going to come and kill him. So he hid in his family’s second home in Ocean County, N.J., where police arrested him three days after the murder, at around 2 a.m. that Saturday. Comello was arrested by the US Marshals’ New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force. Comello was asleep when they nailed him. He was unarmed and did not resist arrest. His gray GMC Sierra – the car he used to lure Cali out of the house – was parked in the driveway, a small dent on the left side of the rear bumper.

“The people who know him best, his family and friends, cannot believe what they are hearing,” Comello’s Manhattan-based attorney, Robert Gottlieb, told the Staten Island Advance in a statement regarding Comello’s concerns.

“There is something very wrong here and we will get to the bottom of it.”

Gottlieb wouldn’t comment on whether his client was suffering from withdrawal and/or a mental illness, and the lawyer has not requested a psychological evaluation.

We’ve reported that, as per sources, Comello appeared to suffer from mental and drug addiction issues.

In the weeks prior to the shooting, Comello sought to arrest Mayor Bill de Blasio and other elected officials. His courtroom debut, Comello held up his palms on which he’d scribbled with a pen the words “MAGA” and “Q,” referring, respectively, to President Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” and to the QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits that Trump is attempting to save the planet from a global pedophile human trafficking ring comprised of high-ranking politicians and Hollywood icons. Then there’s ththat extremely bizarre interview with two Daily News reporters while Comello was in an Ocean County, N.J., jail awaiting extradition to New York: “You shouldn’t believe in stories. Don’t believe in fairy tales.”

In an interview with the Advance, Gottlieb, the attorney, noted that computer and cellphone data are ‘essential’ to his defense. (This may mean a change in trial strategy as Gottlieb had previously blamed right-wing hate speech and conspiracy theories (both of which are in abundance in this case) as playing roles in the motive.)

“We want the guts of the electronic devices so we can begin our own analysis,” Gottlieb said during the arraignment.

Prosecutors said they will hand over that data — as well as video surveillance and other documents.

Comello’s recent courtroom appearance was a stark contrast with previous court appearances.

At his Toms River, NJ, extradition hearing, Comello appeared in court in wearing a green and white jumpsuit waving ink-stained palms. Then, Gottlieb claimed his client was a right-wing conspiracy theorist influenced by online hate speech. Yesterday, Comello appeared smartly clad in a pressed gray suit and wearing a beard. He reportedly stood silently at the defense table, his hands cuffed behind him, and never addressed the court.

Gottlieb said of his client: “He knows what happened here, why it happened. We have discussed in the past the issues that could very well be ultimately heard in court, so right now, he is very optimistic.”

Cali and Comello lived about 20 minutes apart: Cali in Todt Hill and Comello in Eltingville, both affluent areas. Comello comes from a wealthy family.

Cali, who was part of the leadership of the Gambino family, was worth many millions. According to a 2013 DNA Info report by Murray Weiss, Cali, who practically ran New York City's food industry, was worth about $30 million (combined revenue from his food businesses, plus real estate holdings and cafés).

Why did Comello hand Cali the license plate? That’s one detail we’ve been fixated on. Was it simply a notion that popped into Comello’s head? We know he had the gun on him the whole time, and that he could’ve popped Cali the moment he walked outside. That’s what a seasoned killer likely would’ve done in that alternate world where wiseguys would kill one another in front of their families.

But Comello didn’t shoot Cali until his back was turned. Was it also a ruse, the license plate – something to cause Cali to turn? Probably not. Comello couldn’t possibly have known what Cali would do with that license plate. A license plate would make a decent weapon. Cali very well could have used it to split Comello’s head open.

That simple gesture by Comello – handing over the license plate – for whatever the reason -- may be the one thing that puts him away forever. As the New York Post noted, Comello “may have handed the murder’s most incriminating evidence to his own alleged victim, who tossed it into his car.”

Comello may have a lifetime (in prison) to ponder his simple, fleeting gesture.

It was the fingerprint on that license plate that instantly alerted police to the identity of the shooter.

The print belonged to Anthony Comello.


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Didn't an associate slap Venero Mangano and get away with it according to Al D'Arco?

Maybe it's more common than we think?

This shows the lack of talent in the Gambino family...

Back in normal times, guys like him wouldn't even be made..Now guys like him and Squitieri become bosses !!

I don't think Dom Cefalù has stepped down, Sicilians like him don't retire and 73 is still young, when you're in good shape lol.

https://aboutthemafia.com/is-domenico-cefalu-still-the-boss-of-the-gambino-crime-family

Apparently, he has passed away.

Dominick Cicale just mentioned it in his latest Youtube video.

was this info confirmed anywhere?
i cant find any obit or related articles about paradiso actually dying. odd that a top 3 guy in gambinos has passed and this isnt a more popular topic.

or maybe he didnt die. im not a dom cicale youtuber so was looking for confirmation.

I read somewhere that Cicale had walked back those comments.

that would make sense considering lack of info anywhere. good find. cheers.

He got away with it because they both were in their 20's when it happened. He pulls that shit when Gotti is boss and he would have been a dead man, no questions asked. No warning given. Gotti probably would have gone up to him himself and pulled the trigger and then chopped up his body and fed it to the fishes.

Who did Cicale say passed away, Cefalu?

And it was wrong info? Is that what I'm understanding here?

michael paradiso...then has since walked that back. was looking for an answer either way is all.

Oh, so he said Paradiso was dead, but it's not true? So he retracted his statement?

Thank you Vito