11/6/2023 0 Comments Demeo crew![]() The trial, which dealt with only parts of the overall indictment, ended with mixed results, including acquittals and hung juries on the murder counts. In 1985, based in part on information provided by Montiglio, who had become a fringe member of the DeMeo crew and a drug dealer, the remaining crew was brought to trial along with Nino Gaggi and Paul Castellano as the alleged heads of the car-theft conspiracy. In 1983, under increasing pressure from grand jury investigations, Roy DeMeo himself was killed, presumably on orders of Castellano, now boss of the Gambino family, who feared DeMeo might become a cooperating witness. Unlike stereotypical mob hits, victims were made to disappear by chopping up the bodies. The DeMeo crew has become most notorious for a series of murders committed for revenge, greed, to eliminate seemingly unreliable accomplices in the drug and stolen car business, or on a contract basis. These included collecting money from the DeMeo crew and delivering shares of the proceeds to Paul Castellano, then, in the mid 1970s, a Gambino capo. The ex-Green Beret picked up vig payments from Gaggi's loan shark customers and accompanied Gaggi to meetings. Montiglio began working for his uncle after returning from Vietnam. In 1966, DeMeo met Gambino soldier Nino Gaggi who took him under his wings.ĭominick Montiglio grew up in a house his mother shared with her brother Nino Gaggi in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. He gathered around him a bunch of car thieves and drug dealers that came to be known as the DeMeo crew. Despite his middle class family background he had become a fullfledged criminal by the time he had reached his early twenties, deriving a considerable income from loan sharking and fencing stolen goods. Roy DeMeo grew up in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1940s and 1950s. This is the story of the rise and fall of the Roy DeMeo crew of the Gambino crime family, as told to crime reporters Mustain and Capeci by law enforcement officers and by Dominick Montiglio, nephew of the late Gambino capo Nino Gaggi. Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia ![]()
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