Charles Carneglia

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Charles Carneglia (born 1946) is an American mobster in the Gambino crime family.

Carneglia was born in Queens in 1946. Charles Carneglia and his brother John owned a junkyard in the East New York section of Brooklyn that was reportedly used for narcotics trafficking, disassembling of stolen cars, and burying mob murder victims. John would allegedly remove jewelry from corpses prior to dissolving them in acid and then hang the baubles as trophies from the basement rafters. [1]

During the 1970s, John unofficially adopted Kevin McMahon, a 12-year-old boy he discovered sleeping in his pool house. John served as a surrogate father to McMahon until John's imprisonment in 1989. After that, Charles supervised McMahon's activities as a Gambino associate. In 2009, McMahon became a government witness and testified against Charles. [2] Carneglia was allegedly involved in the 1976 murder of Albert Gelb, a court officer, four days before he was scheduled to testify in a gun case against Carneglia. [3]

During the 1970s, Carneglia became a trusted confidante of John Gotti, who was a rising star in the Gambino crime family. Brooklyn federal court papers filed by federal prosecutors contain allegations that Carneglia killed John Favara in 1980 and disposed of his body in acid after he accidentally hit and killed Gotti's son, Frank, with his car. [4] On October 4, 1990, Carneglia and other Gambino crime family associates murdered Louis DiBono in his vehicle, at the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center. [5] In return for the murder, he received an initiation into John Gotti's inner circle. Five years later, Carneglia and John Alite were involved in a major conspiracy to murder John A. Gotti. [6]

Alite agreed to testify in the trial of Carneglia in 2008–09. [7] In 2009, Carneglia received a life sentence for four murders and Class-A drug dealing, amongst other crimes. [8] [9] [3] As of May 2021, Carneglia is being held at high security prison USP Canaan located in Pennsylvania and has no release date. He is inmate number 08773-016 and is 77 years old. [10]

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  1. ↑ Marzulli, John (February 9, 2009). "Bloody mob chop shop could become school bus depot". New York Daily News. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Rat son Kevin McMahon's tales of life with ol' 'dad' John Carneglia". The New York Daily News. 17 February 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  3. 1 2 Farmer, Ann (18 September 2009). "Mob Figure Is Sentenced to Life for Four Killings". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  4. ↑ "John Gotti Neighbor Was Dissolved in Acid, Court Papers Reveal". Fox News. Associated Press. January 9, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-01-11. Retrieved February 25, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Rat son Kevin McMahon's tales of life with ol' 'dad' John Carneglia". The New York Daily News. 17 February 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "Mafia 'rat' planned to kill John Gotti". Telegraph. 26 February 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Witness causes headaches for Gotti offspring". NBC News. March 3, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Gambino Family Soldier Charles Carneglia Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Racketeering Conspiracy and Murder". FBI. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  9. ↑ "Gambino soldier Charles Carneglia, former hitman for John, sentenced to life in prison". The New York Daily News. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
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