Carmine "Cigar" Galante, a notorious figure in the New York Mafia, met a violent end on July 12, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York. Galante, who was the de facto boss of the Bonanno crime family, was gunned down in a brutal assassination at Joe & Mary’s Italian-American Restaurant. The 69-year-old mobster was dining on the patio of the restaurant when he and two of his associates were ambushed and killed in a hail of bullets. The image of Galante's lifeless body, with his trademark cigar still clenc
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