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Francis Costello

“I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. Years ago, we had the church. That was only a way of saying "we had each other." The Knights of Columbus were real head-breakers, true guineas; they took over their piece of the city. Twenty years after an Irishman couldn't get a f-cking job, we had the presidency - may he rest in peace. That's what the African-Americans don't realize. If I got one thing against the black chappies, it's this: no one gives it to you. You have to take it.”

― Frank Costello's monologue

Francis "Frank" Costello was an Irish American mob boss and the main antagonist of the 2006 movie The Departed. Costello plays the role of father figure to Colin Sullivan and Billy Costigan.

He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson.

Biography[]

Early life and mafia[]

Frank Costello grew up from an Irish Catholic family, in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston, Boston, at a time when Irish immigrants were hated in America. Costello was a good student at an early age, but he turned to crime in the Irish mob. It is mentioned by him that during his youth he had a "tasty” relationship with a local girl named Mary Teresa before she took her vows. Costello supported the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. He hated African Americans and Italian Americans, especially the Italians of Providence, in Boston. At an unspecified point in his history Gwen Costello became his wife. Costello met Arnold French, who became his right-hand man and close friend. He became the boss of his own mafia organization, with predominantly Irish-American members, the South Boston Gang, in which French was also a leader, under Costello. He was also an FBI informant, who denounced mobsters including his men, those who "wasn't going down anyway."

First encounter with Colin Sullivan[]

At a young age

He survived an assassination attempt, valued brains over brawn, enjoyed a long marriage and adored gardening. As fanciful as these biographic details of the fictional Vito Corleone seem – this month marks half a century since the Mafia Don was first portrayed, unforgettably, by Marlon Brando in The Godfather – they are characteristics Mario Puzo’s character (Puzo wrote the book upon which Francis Ford Coppola’s film is based) shared with a real-life mobster, Frank Costello – aka the Prime Minister of the Underworld.

“I don’t think there will ever be another sitting boss who can meet with judges, political bosses and have that kind of unbridled influence… that’s something that happened under Frank Costello for just one era,” said John Miller Jnr, Costello’s godson, a former journalist who now, in a move unlikely to please his late godfather, is Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism at the New York Police Department.

The man who Mob historians and movie insiders believe was the basis for Don Corleone arrived in New York on a boat from Italy at the age of four. Born 26 January 1891 as Francesco Castiglia in Calabria, he quit school in the fifth grade and worked as a rent collector for a local mobster while his father ran an ailing grocery store. Determined to rise out of the poverty of East Harlem, Frankie, as he was now known, spent a year in prison in 1918 for weapons possession. Never again would he allow himself to be caught so easily by the authorities. Despite hailing from the south of mainland Italy at a time when leading Mob families, seeking loyalty and family connections, preferred to use only Sicilian immigrants, Costello worked his way through the ranks of American syndicated crime; preferring to use money, rather than threats, to ‘buy’ the people who mattered.

Costello even extended his formidable influence into New York politics. After amassing immense wealth and influence through bootlegging and bookmaking during Proh

The raspy voice that Marlon Brand employed in  his portrayal of  Don   Vito Corleone in  “The Godfather”   was said to have been the result of his study of the tapes of crime boss Frank Costello, who suffered from several different  throat ailments, testimony before a  congressional committee in 1951  that heard testimony  from him and several other organized crime figures in the U. S.  Costello’s   story is told in the recently published “Top Hoodlum,” which takes its title from J. Edgar Hoover’s one time designation of Costello. And the gangster was often  described in the post war era as “The prime minister  of the Underworld”  due to his ability to peacefully settle disputed between the five Mafia families of  New York City and their counterparts in other parts of the nation. Yet as  Destefano’s research makes clear, that title did not do him justice, since his   influence extended throughout New York and other parts of the nation, and   he attended the Democratic  National Convention that nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. Costello, who had interests in numerous popular nightclubs in New York City, was said to have helped some attorneys obtain coveted judgeships  and was often seen at those places dining with a variety of celebrities and politicians. The heroin dealer who was seeking to enlist the support of  Don Corleone in  “The Godfather” novel and movie  tells him in a meeting  that it is  said that Don Corleone has more judges in his pocket than a shoe shiner has coins in his purse, and that may have been inspired by the power that Costello was said to wield in the courtrooms of New York City.
Costello was brought to New York City by his immigrant parents from Sicily at the age of four  in 1895  and was initially known as Francisco  Castiglia but Anglicized his name to Frank Costello in his youth when he began his   career as a bootlegger during Prohibition and later branched out  into gambling. Destefano de

Italian-American mobster (1891-1973)

For other people named Frank Costello, see Frank Costello (disambiguation).

Frank Costello (Italian:[koˈstɛllo]; born Francesco Castiglia[franˈtʃeskokaˈstiʎʎa]; January 26, 1891 – February 18, 1973) was an Italian-Americancrime boss of the Luciano crime family.

Born in Italy, he moved with his family to the United States as a child. As a youth he joined New York City gangs. Working with Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, Costello was involved in bootlegging operations during Prohibition. In 1929 they joined the National Crime Syndicate. From 1937, Costello was acting boss of the Luciano crime family. In the 1950s, he spent several years in prison for tax evasion. Costello retired in 1957 after he had survived an assassination attempt ordered by Vito Genovese.

Early life

Costello was born Francesco Castiglia on January 26, 1891, in Lauropoli, a frazione of the town of Cassano allo Ionio in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region, Italy. In 1895, he boarded a ship to the United States with his mother and his brother Edward to join their father, who had moved to New York City's East Harlem several years earlier and opened a small neighborhood Italian grocery store.

While Costello was still a boy, his brother introduced him to gang activities. At 13, he had become a member of a local gang and started using the name Frankie. Costello committed petty crimes and went to jail for assault and robbery in 1908, 1912, and 1917. In 1918, he married Lauretta Geigerman, a Jewish woman who was the sister of a close friend. That same year, Costello served ten months in jail for carrying a concealed weapon.

Criminal career

Alliance with Luciano

While working for the Morello gang, Costello met Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, the Sicilian leader of Manhattan's Lower East Side gang. The two Italians immediately became friends and partners. Several older members of Luciano