Philip Mangano


Philip Mangano was an Italian-born caporegime and second consigliere in the Gambino crime family in New York City and reigned consigliere for 20 years between 1931 and 1951 when his brother, Vincent, was boss.
Mangano was involved with the International Longshoremen's Association and in New York City politics.
In 1923, Mangano was indicted on murder charges, but was never convicted.

Death

On April 19, 1951, a woman in a fishing boat discovered Philip Mangano's body in a marshland area of Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn while she had been walking through the tall grass. Mangano had been shot three times; once in the neck and twice in the face. He was murdered along with his brother on the orders of family underboss Albert Anastasia in Brooklyn in 1951. No one was ever arrested in the Mangano murders, but it was widely assumed that Anastasia had them killed.