The NYPD Pulled Over Gotti’s Capo — Then Executed Him on the Spot
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Before Sammy Gravano became the government witness who destroyed John Gotti, he was the Gambino family underboss responsible for deciding who could no longer be trusted.
Eddie Garofalo was connected to the Gambino family’s lucrative construction operations. He understood how money moved, which businesses were controlled and which powerful men benefited. But by 1990, Gravano reportedly suspected that Garofalo might be cooperating with law enforcement. Inside the Mafia, suspicion alone could become a death sentence.
On August 8, 1990, Garofalo was outside his Brooklyn home when Gambino gunmen arrived. The attack was swift, public and designed to ensure he would never reveal what he knew.
Why did Sammy Gravano believe Garofalo was talking? What secrets could the construction figure have exposed? And how did the man who ordered Eddie’s murder eventually become the government’s most important witness against John Gotti?
This is the forgotten story of Eddie Garofalo, the Gambino construction figure Sammy Gravano ordered silenced before breaking his own Mafia oath and turning against the Dapper Don.
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The NYPD Pulled Over Gotti’s Capo — Then Executed Him on the Spot
Street Files
25,595 views
Before Sammy Gravano became the government witness who destroyed John Gotti, he was the Gambino family underboss responsible for deciding who could no longer be trusted.
Eddie Garofalo was connected to the Gambino family’s lucrative construction operations. He understood how money moved, which businesses were controlled and which powerful men benefited. But by 1990, Gravano reportedly suspected that Garofalo might be cooperating with law enforcement. Inside the Mafia, suspicion alone could become a death sentence.
On August 8, 1990, Garofalo was outside his Brooklyn home when Gambino gunmen arrived. The attack was swift, public and designed to ensure he would never reveal what he knew.
Why did Sammy Gravano believe Garofalo was talking? What secrets could the construction figure have exposed? And how did the man who ordered Eddie’s murder eventually become the government’s most important witness against John Gotti?
This is the forgotten story of Eddie Garofalo, the Gambino construction figure Sammy Gravano ordered silenced before breaking his own Mafia oath and turning against the Dapper Don.
Where are you watching from? Subscribe for more forgotten Mafia stories, deadly betrayals and true accounts from America’s underworld.
#EddieGarofalo #SammyGravano #JohnGotti #GambinoFamily #MafiaHistory #OrganizedCrime #TrueCrime