New York City gangster Anthony Carfano is killed on orders from organized crime figure Meyer Lanksky.
Known as “Little Augie Pisano,” Carfano was a stone-cold killer and an underboss in Don Vito Genovese’s organization who had carved out a multimillion-dollar gambling empire in South Florida.
In the late 1950s, Carfano began showing little respect for Genovese and had been intruding on Lansky’s gambling interests in Florida and Cuba.
While eating dinner in New York, Carfano received a phone call and told his friends that he had to leave on urgent business. Carfano offered a ride home to Janice Drake, a former Miss New Jersey and the wife of comedian Alan Drake, who happened to be performing that night in Washington, D.C.
Forty-five minutes later the bodies of Carfano and Janice Drake were found in his Cadillac near La Guardia Airport. Both had been shot in the back of the head.
