Edward Lino
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Edward Lino (Bensonhurst, Brooklyn - November 6, 1990, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) was a Sicilian-American capo in the Gambino crime family and drug trafficker. He was also a cousin of Bonanno crime family capo Frank Lino, and brother-in-law of Salvatore Scala. Edward Lino was related by marriage to Genovese crime family mob associates Carmine Consalvo and Francis Consalvo who were brothers that worked with Vincent Gigante. Carmine and Francis were the uncles to Edward's unidentified wife.
Edward Lino was a close friend of John Gotti, who he helped to murder Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano. Edward was an influential in the Gambino family as a drug trafficker with ties to African American drug dealers in Harlem, New York.
[edit] Mafia cop execution
On November 6 1990 Edward Lino was shot nine times as he sat in his 1990 Mercedes-Benz on a service road leading onto the Belt Parkway near Brighton Beach by NYPD Detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa. The two corrupt detectives murdered Lino from orders handed down by Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the Underboss of the rival Lucchese crime family, in an attempt to squeeze John Gotti out of his family due to the murder of his former boss and Lucchese ally, Paul Castellano.
[edit] References
- GangLand News The Online Column "Motorist Links Mafia Cops To Mob Hit" May 5, 2006 by Jerry Capeci
- Volkman, Ernest and Cummings, John, Goombata: The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang Avon (January 1, 1992) ISBN 0380714876
