Gambino associate indicted for taking part in the last murder ordered by John Gotti
A reputed Gambino crime-family associate was charged yesterday with
taking part in the last rubout believed ordered by the late mob boss
John Gotti.
Ex-con Daniel Fama, 48, was allegedly part of the hit team that gunned down demolition contractor Edward Garofalo in August 1990 outside his home in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
Fama’s murder indictment says Garofalo, known as “Eddie the Chink,” was killed to keep him from cooperating with authorities.
The Manhattan federal court filing also says that the slaying was orchestrated by Gotti henchman Salvatore “Sammy Bull” Gravano, who infamously turned rat and helped convict the “Dapper Don,” who later died in prison.
The feds wouldn’t reveal what new evidence prompted Fama’s indictment more than two decades after the fact.
BODY OF WORK: Cops (top) surround the corpse of Edward Garofalo, killed allegedly with the help of Daniel Fama on John Gotti’s orders.
But Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara noted, “Any attack against someone working with, or suspected of working with, law enforcement will be strongly answered, and no matter how long it takes we will bring alleged criminals to justice.”
Fama, who was busted Thursday evening, sported a clean-shaven head, a blue, V-neck Lacoste T-shirt and jeans during his arraignment yesterday.
He pleaded not guilty in a gravelly voice and agreed to remain in jail pending a bail application. He spent nearly 15 years in the slammer for racketeering before being sprung in 2009.
Defense lawyer Fred Sosinksy said Fama “turned his life around” after his prison stretch and is now part-owner of a quarry company.
“He’s been working hard,” Sosinksy said.
In 2011, Fama’s late mom, Barbara, appeared on the first season of the “I Married a Mobster” TV series, recounting how her husband, Gambino associate Joe Fama, started dealing heroin to pay off $1 million in gambling losses.
He then used drug money to treat his family to a lavish lifestyle “beyond anything I could have imagined,” she said.
But the couple was busted — along with four of their kids — when the feds raided their home in 1984, seizing 13 pounds of heroin, 2 1/2 pounds of cocaine, almost 100 pounds of pot and more than $3.4 million in cash.
Barbara was convicted of various crimes and imprisoned until 1992. She died last year.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/gotti_ast_hit_QJOGYa8fkexkvH7JrhqFxK
Ex-con Daniel Fama, 48, was allegedly part of the hit team that gunned down demolition contractor Edward Garofalo in August 1990 outside his home in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
Fama’s murder indictment says Garofalo, known as “Eddie the Chink,” was killed to keep him from cooperating with authorities.
The Manhattan federal court filing also says that the slaying was orchestrated by Gotti henchman Salvatore “Sammy Bull” Gravano, who infamously turned rat and helped convict the “Dapper Don,” who later died in prison.
The feds wouldn’t reveal what new evidence prompted Fama’s indictment more than two decades after the fact.
BODY OF WORK: Cops (top) surround the corpse of Edward Garofalo, killed allegedly with the help of Daniel Fama on John Gotti’s orders.
But Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara noted, “Any attack against someone working with, or suspected of working with, law enforcement will be strongly answered, and no matter how long it takes we will bring alleged criminals to justice.”
Fama, who was busted Thursday evening, sported a clean-shaven head, a blue, V-neck Lacoste T-shirt and jeans during his arraignment yesterday.
He pleaded not guilty in a gravelly voice and agreed to remain in jail pending a bail application. He spent nearly 15 years in the slammer for racketeering before being sprung in 2009.
Defense lawyer Fred Sosinksy said Fama “turned his life around” after his prison stretch and is now part-owner of a quarry company.
“He’s been working hard,” Sosinksy said.
In 2011, Fama’s late mom, Barbara, appeared on the first season of the “I Married a Mobster” TV series, recounting how her husband, Gambino associate Joe Fama, started dealing heroin to pay off $1 million in gambling losses.
He then used drug money to treat his family to a lavish lifestyle “beyond anything I could have imagined,” she said.
But the couple was busted — along with four of their kids — when the feds raided their home in 1984, seizing 13 pounds of heroin, 2 1/2 pounds of cocaine, almost 100 pounds of pot and more than $3.4 million in cash.
Barbara was convicted of various crimes and imprisoned until 1992. She died last year.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/gotti_ast_hit_QJOGYa8fkexkvH7JrhqFxK
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