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“Chalutz,” a year older, was close to David Petillo, at times called Betillo, and variously referred to as Little Davey, Little Davie or just Little Davy, an associate of Charlie Luciano, often claimed to be the leader of what we know today as The Genovese Family, and one of the founders of the post 1931 New York Mafia, as a proper noun. “Gagliodotto, FBI No 59036, is a prominent member of the Genovese family.” He may in fact, have never been a soldier, but only an associate.Īn FBI report dated February 2nd, 1965, states:

There is no record as to when Gagliodotto joined the mob, or whose crew he served in. He joined them around 1930 and had been part of three different families by the time he found his niche in what we now call the Genovese towards the end of 1931. Valachi, who had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the New York Mafia, may well have gotten his lines crossed on this one. Joseph Valachi, the Genovese soldier who turned informant in 1963, identified him as a soldier in the Gambino crime family adding, even more, mystery to a man who at this distance, seems to be more a conundrum than reality. He looked like a pint-sized Boris Karlof but no one dared to kid him.He was a mad hatter. Not unlike Hamlet’s soliloquy to Horatio.Īl D’Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese Family, described him as “hooded eyes, hair gone grey, and often with a pale, ghostly pallor. There is a lot more we do not know about him than we do. One FBI report refers to him as ‘Charlie’ although this is the only instance I could find of a deviation from his given name. It’s as bewildering as why he is nicknamed in Hebrew for a “pioneer, or immigrant to Israel.” (Some sources spell this as Chalootz or Chaloots and even Schalutz).

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The illusory, almost surreal life of Charles “Chalutz” Gagliodotto, is a confusing series of images that come and go through the sixty years he spent on this earth. But it was exacerbated by the fact that he was maybe strangled to death by a plastic bag on Prince Street, in Manhattan, earlier in the evening. It was reported that our fag hit-man died of a heart attack on a street in Queens. As was Tommy Luchese who ran his own Mafia family which still carries his name. Salvatore D’Aquila who emerged in the early 1920s as the head of what we now call the Gambino Family, was himself, apparently, a mere five-two. Little guys in the mob, at times, became the big ones. He was a tiny-tot, barely five feet even. His peers referred to him as “the fag hit man.” It’s also claimed that he worked as a hit man for the Genovese crime family and that at times, he dressed as a woman, carrying a pistol in a purse when stalking his victims. He stood in the basement of a wine cellar on Rivington Street, near The Bowery, and shot the cop who was searching the premises after the killer and his friends had tried to rob the place. One of them was arrested when he was eighteen, for the murder of a police officer. Like so much of the weird and puzzling mythology that makes up the history of New York’s Cosa Nostra. Unless it was something as strange and mysterious as this: a story about two men, both members of the New York Mafia, who, according to mob folklore, at times wore drag while they killed their targets. Then again, as Shakespeare’s Horatio said to Hamlet, ‘There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ 'The only mystery in life is why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.'

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