Born to the Mob: Part 2

 The Mafia doesn't deal with assassinations lightly. There is a process to it though. If your a made man and someone wants to assassinate you that person has to go to the Commission. If the person who wants you dead has a grudge with you and the Commission grants this person the right to assassinate you, protocol is for another person to do the assassination. The Commission is the Mafia's regulatory body, composed of the bosses or skippers of the Five Families. Even the major disputes get brought to the Commission. If you are not a "made man" then once again watch your back because no one has to ask the Commission anything, you can get killed at any time for any reason. Frankie recalls a day where an assassination took place on a made man. The Commission granted secret Mob members to assassinate Carmine Galante. It was July 12th, 1979. Frankies fathers birthday. They were in Dix Hills having a barbecue when Uncle Philly got a phone call. Uncle Philly listened for a minute then whispered several things and hung up. "Carmine is dead," said Uncle Philly after he hung up. Here's what Uncle Philly was told what happened (when a mob member tells you what happened, it happened). Galente walked into his favorite restaurant and sat at his usual table with his other two "zips" (crew). 2:45 p.m. three armed and masked men come in, the guy in the middle had a double barrel shotgun. As Galante rised, 30 razor-sharp pellets of buckshot tore into his chest, a second blast to the face. The other two gunmen shot down Galante's zips. Then they all turned they sights on Galante. The fact that he was dead had no meaning to them, they wanted to send a message. The shotgun was then fired again into the corpse's back.