Known to the New York Police Department as just plain Leo Carlino, alias “Big Leo,” he was long considered a mob elder statesman by both federal and local authorities.

Leonardo (Big Leo) Carlino was born back on August 10, 1897, in the little town of Burgio, at Agrigento Province in Sicily, Italy.
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