The Cherry Hill Gambinos was a Sicilian faction of the Gambino Crime Family operating out of South Jersey and Brooklyn that specialized in heroin trafficking.
This series gives you an in-depth look into this faction of the Gambino Family, whose major players included Giovanni (John) Gambino and his two brothers, Giuseppe (Joe) Gambino and Rosario (Sal) Gambino.
Button Guys created a six-part series in video format, which can be watched on our official YouTube Channel, Mob Fireside Chat. This written story is divided into three parts and contains information not included in the videos.
“Mr. Kelly, I’ve done a lot of things in my life, and you don’t need to know.”
John Gambino to his Boston-based lawyer Paul Kelly, who represented him during his extradition hearing in 2006.
Carlo Gambino’s Family was infused with blood relatives, but none were more mysterious and shadowy than the Cherry Hill Gambinos.
Headed by Carlo’s cousin John Gambino, the savvy and charismatic Sicilian had one foot in the U.S. and the other in Italy and became the monumental bridge for drug trafficking between the two countries.
Don Carlo and the rest of La Cosa Nostra might have put a “ban” on that type of “infamnia”, but it was a lucrative business that made billions. And John was at the top of that lucrative totem pole.
Giovanni (John) Gambino was born in Palermo, Sicily, on August 22, 1940. He was the first in his immediate family to arrive in the U.S. and came to the country illegally. In 1958, he was arrested as an illegal alien and deported.
