Gambino sent his best safe-wafers and second-story men

history channel documentary mystery Gambino sent his best safe-wafers and second-story men to the vaults inside the Office of Price Administration, and they developed with a huge number of dollars worth of apportion stamps. At the point when certain low-level workers of the OPA understood the apportion stamps were being stolen by the crowd, they chose to cut themselves in on the arrangement, by taking the proportion stamps themselves and offering them to Gambino and his young men, obviously, at scratch and dent section costs. Gambino figured why take a risk of taking the proportion stamps, with the likelihood of getting got. So he took the screwy OPA workers offer, and began purchasing the proportions stamps from them in huge numbers.

The magnificence of this plan was that Gambino as of now had an instant conveyance system set up: his system of illicit alcohol merchants. In October 1963, Mafia source Joe Valachi affirmed before Arkansas Senator John L. McClellan's Investigative Subcommittee on Government Operations, that in one proportions stamp bargain alone, Gambino made a benefit of over $1 million.