Frank Costello Despised Vito Genovese — The REAL Reason Is SHOCKING

Frank Costello Despised Vito Genovese — The REAL Reason Is SHOCKING There is a video clip from the Kefauver hearings in 1951. Only Frank Costello’s hands are on screen, because he set the condition: no face shown, or no testimony. 30 million Americans watched live as those hands twisted, clenched, and tore a piece of paper to shreds. America saw a gangster in hiding. The owner of those hands had built an international gambling empire, cultivated relationships with presidents, and ran the most powerful crime family in New York for 20 years without carrying a gun. Six years after the hearings, Vincent Gigante shot him in the head in the lobby of 115 Central Park West on orders from Vito Genovese. The bullet grazed his scalp. Costello lived. The man who ordered the shooting was the one whose empire Costello had carried the entire time he was hiding in Italy. There was a failed assassination, a revenge that used no gun, and one man who died alone in federal prison. The story begins in the machine both of them built. But before that, remember 115 Central Park West, because it tells you what kind of relationship this was.