Posted on 09/21/2022 4:42:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A trove of long-hidden FBI files shed light on how slain Gambino boss Frank “Franky Boy” Cali ascended from a family soldier in the 1990s to head of the powerful crime syndicate until his shocking killing in 2019.
The heavily redacted files, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information Act request, offer to date perhaps the most revealing look into Cali’s rise to power — as the mafia kingpin was known as a “ghost” who kept an extremely low profile to avoid federal prosecution.
Cali — who was gunned down outside his Staten Island mansion at 53 — was arrested just once in a 2008 extortion conspiracy, despite years of being eyed by the FBI and surveilled by agents in Brooklyn, a testament to his ability to stay off the radar.
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Life was so INNOCENT back then, in the days before Globalism and Social Credit Scores, police actually had to FOLLOW a person to know what he was doing.
Now they just make a phone call to Google, or Apple.
I was instantly hostile when I heard persons of color had APPROPRIATED the existing term ganster (illiterately misspelled gansta). They are nowhere near the true, original, genuine gangsters.
Sorry. typos. I should be a shining beacon light for the illiterates I talked about.
I meant to say Gangsters term taken by gangstas.
The neighborhoods where the Mafia did business were extremely safe. Once the FBI destroyed the Mafia, those neighborhoods became violent and unsafe for most residents. New York City is rotting.
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