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25: 307:. Castellano greatly misjudged Amato who did not share the same keen business sense as Castellano and the Italian ice distribution business failed. Castellano put Amato to work as a butcher at his successful Meat Palace, a butcher shop franchise owned by Castellano and his sons. As a butcher employed at Dial Meat Purveyors Inc. and the Meat Market, he was involved in the selling of rancid and expired meat products. Although Amato had little formal school education, he could quarter a lamb with great skill and was knowledgeable about 2544: 315:, Agent O'Brien suggests that at Dial Meat and the Meat Market he was taught by Castellano's men how to bleach tainted, outdated, uninspected meats or meats of a dubious provenance by using a white preservative powder known as "dynamite" that gave the faded, discolored meat a healthy fresh red appearance. Frank was also shown how to drain meat of any foul smelling juices it had accumulated by using 380:, making sexual advances and having had brief encounters with the female employees who worked with him at the Meat Palace. A few weeks after Gaggi witnessed this, Castellano had the female employee fired. Amato was later transferred to Castellano's other butcher store chain, Dial Meat Purveyors, Inc., formerly known as Blue Ribbon Meats, the business that helped poultry magnate 475:
were later charged with his disappearance and suspected murder, but no convictions were ever obtained. Constance later married a business associate and friend of the family, alleged mob associate Joseph Catalonotti. Connie bore a daughter, Andria, and the couple moved into a modest mansion on Todt
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stamps to assign meats a false grade or expiration date. O'Brien would also state that at Castellano's meat suppliers he would have Amato and fellow butchers carve meat and label it as "beef" that was not always carved from cows and "pork" that was not always carved from pigs.
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housekeeper and maid Gloria Olarte, Constance left her father. After moving with her mother into a nearby home, it was reported by FBI Special Agent Joseph O'Brien that she hardly ever left her mother's home and remained at her mother's side constantly.
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distribute his chickens in supermarket chains. Amato worked for brother-in-law, Paul Castellano Jr. After a few months of working at Dial Poultry, Amato was caught committing
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There is little information available on Frank Amato before his marriage into the Castellano-Gambino-Lucchese blood relative family. Amato was an
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to discuss a business deal. On the orders of Paul Castellano, DeMeo shot Amato to death with a machine gun, and DeMeo and members of his crew –
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that after Amato married Paul Castellano's daughter, Constance, Castellano set Amato up in the legitimate business world as a distributor of
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owned by Richard DiNome to dispose of Amato's remains several miles out to sea. Castellano, DeMeo, Testa, Borelli, Senter, Richard DiNome,
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and infidelity. Following the divorce, and after her mother Nina separated from her father for having an affair with their live-in
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mansion and had him fired from his job as a butcher at Dial Poultry. After being fired, Amato found work at a clothing store in
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After he caught Amato having an affair with a co-worker, Paul Castellano became enraged and ordered Amato to move out of the
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Hill, not far from her family homestead. Joseph Catalanotti died on November 8, 1999, at the age of 55.
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Because of his involvement in Castellano's stranglehold on the East Coast wholesale meat market and the
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traditional Sicilian style wedding that was attended by many powerful Gambino mobsters.
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and lived in her father's condominium to overcome her emotional distress.
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Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather, The FBI and Paul Castellano
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Constance was granted a divorce from Amato in 1973 on grounds of
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Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family
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New York City
Burglar
truck hijacker
butcher
Gambino crime family
/ˈɑːmət/
AH-mə-toh
[aˈmaːto]
Sicilian-American
mafioso
son-in-law
Gambino crime family
Paul Castellano
Italian-American
Sicilian
Brooklyn, New York
wedlock
blue collar
New York City
Gambino crime family
John F. Kennedy Airport
Old World
Italian ice
tallow
formaldehyde

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