Charles Carneglia

Charles Carneglia (born 1946) is an American mobster and Gambino crime family member, known for murdering five people in New York City.

Life

Carneglia was born in Queens in 1946. At the age of 23, he received his first arrest for his part in a conspiracy involving hijacking three trucks in New Jersey, alongside brother John Carneglia and Angelo Ruggiero. His second arrest evolved into murder. After attending Thomas DeSimone's wedding, Carneglia received his second arrest after a court officer named Albert Gelb arrested Carneglia for harassing a waitress. As revenge, On March 11, 1976, Carneglia shot Albert Gelb, who was listed as the highest ranking New York State court officer, three times, killing him.

During the 1970s, Carneglia became a trusted confidante of John Gotti, who was a rising star in the Gambino crime family. In 1980, Gotti allegedly required Carneglia to get rid of John Favara's corpse, a neighbor of Gotti's who had accidentally hit and killed Gotti's son, Frank, with his car. Carneglia allegedly dissolved Favara in acid and dumped his remains into the Atlantic Ocean. By the 1990s, Gotti was ready to initiate Carneglia into the Gambino crime family. Carneglia was requested to murder Louis DiBono. On October 4, 1990, Carneglia and other Gambino crime family associates murdered Louis DiBono in his vehicle, at the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center. In return for the murder, he received an initiation into John Gotti's inner circle. Five years later, Carneglia and John Alite were involved in a major conspiracy to murder John A. Gotti.

Alite agreed to testify in the trial of Carneglia in 2008/09. In 2009, Carneglia received a life sentence for four murders and Class-A drug dealing, amongst other crimes.