Meet the Forrest Gump of Mob Hits
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Not that anyone has taken a poll, but the most storied mob hits of the past 30 years, hands down, were the rub outs of a Teamsters ex-president, Jimmy Hoffa; a Mafia boss, Big Paul Castellano; and a cigar-chomping Bonanno gangster, Carmine “Lilo” Galante. A photo of the murdered Galante – his stogie still clenched in his teeth – is so perfectly Mafia-esque that one New York newspaper ran it again this week.
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