October 7, 1940 - Daniel Marino
A long-tenured figure in one of New York's most powerful organized crime families, Marino accumulated a record spanning decades — from an assault on a federal agent in 1963 to conspiracy charges tied to the murder of a potential grand jury witness in 1993. His alleged involvement in a plot against his own boss, John Gotti, points to the internal volatility that characterized the Gambino family during that era. He eventually rose to a seat on the family's leadership panel, a position reflecting decades of operational survival within a world of considerable institutional violence.
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Daniel Marino (born October 7, 1940) is an Italian American mobster and member of the Gambino crime family. He was identified as a member of the family's leadership panel, alongside John Gambino and Bartolomeo Vernace, in 2009.
On June 23, 1963, Marino pleaded not guilty to assault. He and several cousins were charged with assaulting an FBI agent outside a Catholic church in Brooklyn. A requiem mass was being conducted at that time for Carmine Lombardozzi, a crime family figure and Marino's uncle.
On April 20, 1993, Marino was indicted with others on conspiracy to murder charges. The victim was Thomas Spinelli, who had been planning to testify before a grand jury on Cosa Nostra control of the private trash hauling industry in New York City.
In 1995, Anthony Casso, a Lucchese underboss who turned state's evidence, identified Marino as a co-conspirator in a failed assassination attempt on Gambino boss John Gotti.
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