The SS Vincenzo Florio docked in Norfolk

history channel documentary hd The SS Vincenzo Florio docked in Norfolk, Virgina, on December 23, 1921, and Gambino landed as an unlawful worker. Wearing a natty tuxedo and a dark fedora, Gambino strolled down the gangplank searching for an auto, he was told when he exited in Palermo, would sit tight for him when he docked in America, with blazing lights toward the end of the dock. He detected the auto and when he touched base at it, Gambino saw a Castellano cousin sitting in the driver's seat. The two men grasped, and in seconds they were gone to New York City.

At the point when Gambino touched base in New York City he was satisfied to find that his Castellano cousins had as of now leased him a flat on Navy Street in Brooklyn, close to the waterfront. They additionally set Gambino to work in a trucking organization possessed by his first cousins Peter and Paul Castellano. Before long Gambino segued into the illicit bootlegging business, keep running by his Palermo buddy Tommy Lucchese. Restriction was initiated by the death of the Volstead Act in 1919, which banned the production, deal, or transport of inebriating alcohols, yet not the utilization. On thing prompted another, and soon Gambino was a fundamental machine gear-piece in the team of Joe "The Boss" Masseria, the most intense Mafioso in America.