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NEW YORK — Philanthropist gangster Thomas Gambino, son of the legendary boss Carlo Gambino and partner with his brother in a lucrative Garment District mob monopoly, has died at age 94, according to multiple reports. The courtly Mafia scion teamed with sibling Joseph to seize control of trucking business in the Manhattan neighborhood west of Seventh Avenue, imposing a 7% “mob tax” on goods manufactured and shipped from local businesses. The two cut a deal with prosecutors in 1992 to avoid jail by paying $12 million in fines, selling off their trucks and agreeing to stay out of the trucking bus......

MIAMI — Three men who stole thousands of N-95 masks and millions of medical gloves from a Broward County supply company — one of the largest known thefts of personal protective equipment in the U.S. — will be going to prison. A federal judge in Fort Lauderdale sentenced Alexander Jolly, Kenold Million and Pietro Sinclair to 28 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In a Wednesday hearing, U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith also ordered them to pay $470,000 in restitution for the PPE thefts, which occurred during the early months of the surging COVID-19 pandemic. They all pleaded......