In the upstate New York city, the mob was known for detonating homemade bombs by remote control under the cars of rivals, according to Baldwin s testimony and news reports.
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When she was 14 years old, Gina Gingello wrote to the managing editor of the
Democrat and Chronicle, answering the coverage that had painted her father solely as a mobster slain in a car bombing.
Weeks after the April 1978 murder of Salvatore Sammy G Gingello, Gina wrote in the letter, My Dad was a good loving father and a friend to me. We had the best father-daughter relationship anyone could have.
In the letter, which was published in the
Democrat and Chronicle, she told of birthdays and Christmases, of dance recitals and hours with the two of them chatting at a card table.