By Howard Koplowitz
Also indicted in the broad investigation, which included gambling, loan sharking and prostitution charges, was reputed Gambino captain Nicholas Corrozo for running a Queens-based gambling ring along with 25 Gambino members or associated, according to Queens DA Richard Brown.
Charles Carneglia, the alleged Gambino soldier, murdered at least five people and committed four of the killings in Queens going back more than 30 years, Kelly said.
Carneglia shot and killed Brooklyn court officer Albert Gelb as he parked his car near Atlantic and 95th avenues in Woodhaven in March 1976, the police commissioner said in a statement..
The murder, Kelly said, was in retaliation for Gelb confronting Carneglia in the Esquire Diner on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach in February 1975, when Carneglia was arrested for pulling a gun on Gelb.
Carneglia was also charged in the December 1990 murder of armed car driver Jose Delgado-Rivera, who was opening the back of an armed car with cash inside at John. F. Kennedy International Airport when Carneglia robbed and shot him, Kelly said.
In October 1977, Carneglia stabbed to death Gambino associate Michael Cotillo at the Blue Fountain, a diner on Cross Bay Bolevard in Howard Beach, the commissioner said.
The reputed Gambino soldier was also charged in the July 1983 killing of Salvatore Puma on the corner of 156th Avenue and 79th Street in Howard Beach, Kelly said.
For the full story, see the Feb. 14 editions of the TimesLedger Newspapers.
