I have to agree with Tony. Costellos grave was bombed within a year of his death if im not wrong. If someone bombed the grave of Gambino(not sure about Gotti) during that time then there surely would be retaliations from the Gambinos. Those were different times and you had his relatives still holding key positions in the family, the boss was his cousin so yeah.

But if that would happen now then there wouldn't be retaliations. As most of us agree the mob is in a different era were they don't kill, or at least not so easily. Explaining Salerno's case. So I disagree that there would be retaliation for these kind of things after the decline of the Mob started.

And when you look at it this way the loyalists of Costello were better of not starting a war with the Bonannos for the bombing of his grave. I don't think anyone wanted to take on Galante for the bombing of Costello's grave, as there was no loss of face for the Genovese family. And bombing the grave of a Boss and a former Boss are two different things. But this is my opinion tough I might be wrong.

Just caught a Galante doc on American History Channel. Apparently when setting up the pizza connection he started razing Gambino pizzerias to the ground. Can anyone verify?

Jesus Christ the guy was bat shit crazy. Definitely one of more interesting mobsters.

Probably he wasn't punished because the old [censored] was dead, and the dead aren't worth to fight wars for. The king is dead, long live the new king! And the old one can f@ck himself in his blown-up mausoleum.
At least I think that was the reasoning of the alleged "Costello loyalists" when they heard of the bombing.

Yeah but Costello wasnt the Boss for the last 20years. If it was a recently deceased Boss i think it would be up to his succesor if there would be retaliations or not.

Carmine Galante took money out of the pockets of every boss, including Carlo Gambino when he took control of the heroine business in NY and nobody did anything about it. It took his own men, Bonanno's & Rusty Rastelli to finally say enough, for Galante to be killed for his transgressions. The guy was batshit crazy, everyone was afraid of him, except for maybe Albert Anastasia. So in all actuality, there's not much to support all these Carlo Gambino loyalists going after Galante for anything. They had the opportunity when he was alive and nothing was done. It took his own Mafia Family to take him out, and it was the guys he trusted the most. Goes to show just how feared Galante was.