At the point when Prohibition was revoked in 1933

history channel documentary mystery At the point when Prohibition was revoked in 1933, Gambino was at that point set to take advantage of the now lawful alcohol business, yet he did as such in an illicit way. While Prohibition was blasting in unlawful deals for the Mafia, Gambino anticipated the days when he knew Prohibition would end. To accomplish his objectives, Gambino gathered up the greatest number of unlawful stills that he could; in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and even similarly as Maryland. At the point when Prohibition finished and the cost of liquor impacted through the rooftop, Gambino had the biggest unlawful alcohol conveyance framework on the East Coast of America. Furthermore, since he was delivering the alcohol himself and not paying any legislature charges, Gambino could undermine the legitimate wholesalers, in this way making himself, and the Mangano family, a little fortune all through the mid-to-late 1930's.

The begin of World War II gave Gambino another chance to make significantly more illicit money, through his wartime proportions stamps racket. With war up and coming against both Germany and Japan, on August 28, 1941, the United States government made the Office of Price Administration (OPA), whose occupation it was to print and disseminate apportions stamps to the American open. Without these stamps, individuals couldn't purchase gas, tires, shoes, nylon, sugar, fuel oil, espresso, meats, and prepared sustenances. Gambino figured the main way he could get his hands on apportion stamps to offer on the bootleg market was to take them altogether.