Inside The Revenge Killing Of Frank DeCicco, The Gambino Underboss Who Brazenly Took Out A Don

Inside The Revenge Killing Of Frank DeCicco, The Gambino Underboss Who Brazenly Took Out A Don

Frank DeCicco helped John Gotti take over the family by murdering their boss — only to be killed in a bombing months later.

In 1986, Frank DeCicco was blown up by a car bomb in Brooklyn after he conspired to whack the boss of the Gambino family. Sammy "The Bull" Gravano was the first to encounter the grisly aftermath: "I grabbed a leg, but he ain't coming with it. The leg is off. One of his arms is off. I got my hand under him and my hand went right through his body to his stomach. There's no ass. His ass, his balls, everything, is blown completely off."

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Frank DeCicco was one of the first mobsters in the Gambino crime family to mutiny against their boss in 30 some odd years. Together with John Gotti, DeCicco successfully launched a murder plot against the family’s then-boss, Paul Castellano.

While Gotti rose to power and DeCicco with him as a result of the hit, it would only take four months for fellow mobsters to get revenge on DeCicco for his misdeeds. What followed was one of the most gruesome — and explosive — hits in modern mob history.

Frank DeCicco’s Rise

Frank DeCicco, also known as Frankie Cheech, was born on Nov. 5, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York. His father and uncle were members of the Gambino crime family, one of the most powerful New York mobs of the time under godfather Carlo Gambino.

As he grew up, DeCicco became known for his brain. He too took to a life of crime, joining the Gambino crime family like his father and making a name for himself there. He was well respected by his fellow mobsters thanks to his level head.

Frankie Cheech always knew how to execute a plan.

This was how he caught the eye of Paul Castellano, the so-called “Boss of Bosses.”

Also known as Big Paul, Castellano was Carlo Gambino’s cousin, and in 1976 he became the new crime boss of the Gambino family when Gambino died.

Castellano liked DeCicco and as the young mobster moved up the ranks the feeling became mutual. DeCicco has been described as something of a messy and erratic man, whose car was usually in a state of disarray.

Nonetheless, Castellano brought DeCicco into his labor racketeering, giving him a spot in the Teamsters Union Local 282.

By 1985, Castellano was making big money. Not only had he infiltrated the labor unions, but he had also gotten involved with local gambling and loan-sharking rackets. However, most of this money went straight into his own pockets which didn’t sit well with other members of the family.

One of these members was hotheaded up-and-comer John Gotti.

Gotti, looking for a little extra cash, and a lot more power, started dealing heroin on the side, despite knowing that Castellano was strictly anti-drugs. When the federal government cracked down on Gotti’s dealings, the mobster knew his days were numbered in the crime world.

That is unless he took out Castellano before the mob boss took him out first.

The Aftermath of the Bombing

A nearby police officer pulled the two men away from the Buick and extinguished their burning clothes before rushing them to the hospital. Upon their arrival, Frank DeCicco was pronounced dead.

The man who had been with him survived. However, he was not John Gotti. His name was Frank Bellino and he was a 69-year-old friend of the family.

The Gambino crime family was devastated over the loss.

Despite their requests, DeCicco was not given a funeral mass before his burial. Castellano had also been denied this right. For both men, the reasoning was that the public nature of their deaths would attract crowds for all the wrong reasons.

Gotti replaced his right-hand man and went on to run the family as the “Dapper Don” until he was eventually convicted of murder and racketeering in 1992. It was Sammy Gravano who testified against the mob boss, resulting in Gotti’s life sentence without the possibility of parole. Gravano would also testify against Gigante in the ’90s, who got 12 years for racketeering. He would die in prison in 2005.

As for Pate, the man who killed DeCicco, he was sentenced to 12 years for unrelated charges.

In the end, all the men involved met fates familiar to any man in the mob.

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