Albert Gallo

Albert "Kid Blast" Gallo, Jr. (born June 6, 1930) is an American mobster of the Genovese crime family.

Albert Gallo was born on June 6, 1930, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

His parents were Albert (Umberto) and Mary Gallo (née Nunziata).

His two older brothers were Lawrence "Larry" Gallo and Joe "Crazy Joey" Gallo.

A bootlegger during Prohibition, Albert Sr. did not discourage his three sons from becoming criminals.

Albert Gallo joined his brothers Larry and Joey in a gang that controlled President Street in South Brooklyn.

At one point, Albert Gallo lived in the Greenwood section of Brooklyn.

By the end of the 1950s, the Gallo brothers had become very dissatisfied with Profaci's leadership.

Profaci was maintaining a lavish lifestyle by severely taxing everyone else in his crime family.

In 1957, Profaci allegedly asked Joe Gallo and his crew to murder Albert Anastasia, the boss of the Gambino crime family.

On October 25, 1957, Anastasia was murdered by two disguised men in the barber shop of a Manhattan hotel.

It is unknown if Albert Gallo participated in the Anastasia killing.

Some say it was Colombo mobster Carmine Persico, who participated in the shooting of Anastasia.

Eventually, Larry and Joey both became inducted members of the Profaci family.

However, Albert never achieved this status in the family.

Although Joey was the most explosive and strong-willed of the brothers, Larry was the organized thoughtful one who actually ran the crew.

Younger brother Albert tended to stay in the background.

In 1959, Profaci ordered the Gallos to murder fellow crew member Frank Abbatemarco, who ran lucrative bookmaking and loan sharking operations.

Abbatemarco owed Profaci $50,000 in unpaid tribute and refused to pay it out of protest.

On November 4, 1959, Abbatemarco was shot inside a tavern in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn.

Some accounts state that Albert, his brothers and Joseph "Joe Jelly" Gioelli killed Abbatemarco.

Other reports say that Joey Gallo refused the assignment on behalf of the crew.

After Abbatemarco's murder, Profaci took his rackets, leaving nothing for the Gallo crew.

Albert and the Gallo crew now turned against Profaci.

In February 1961, the Gallos kidnapped underboss Joseph Magliocco and capos Frank Profaci, John Scimone and Joseph Colombo.

Profaci was a target also, but he managed to escape capture.

To obtain their release, Profaci negotiated an agreement with the Gallos.

However, after the hostage were released, Profaci reneged on the agreement and went after the Gallo crew.

On August 20, 1961, Scimone, now a Profaci loyalist, lured Larry Gallo into meeting him at a lounge, where several men, including Persico, tried to kill him.

This was the start of the First Colombo War.

On December 21, 1961, Joey Gallo was sentenced seven to fourteen years in prison, but the conflict continued.

In June 1962, Profaci died of cancer and the family leadership passed to Magliocco.

On January 29, 1962, Albert Gallo and six other crew members rescued six small children from an apartment filled with smoke by a mattress fire.

None of the children or mobsters were injured.

In 1963, with the conviction of two more Gallo crew members, both sides accepted a peace agreement brokered by Patriarca crime family boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca.

The first war was over, with the Profaci crime family becoming the Colombo crime family.

On January 8, 1965, Albert and Larry Gallo, along with 13 other crew members, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and were sentenced to six months in prison.

In the late 1970s, Gallo told the media that he owned a furniture company.

It is unknown if Gallo is married or has a family.

The three Gallo brothers became affiliated with capo Harry Fontana's crew in the Profaci crime family, then headed by boss Joseph Profaci.