Police said the slaying of Francesco 'Franky Boy' Cali was captured on surveillance video after he was lured outside when his parked car was hit. Experts say it's the first high-profile mob hit since 1985.
New York City police crime scene investigators examine the Cadillac SUV of New York mafia crime boss Francesco"Franky Boy" Cali on Thursday in Staten Island. Cali was killed outside his home when he walked outside after a pickup truck struck his parked SUV.
“They don’t have the power they had in the ’80s or the early ’90s,” said J. Bruce Mouw, a former FBI special agent who headed the investigations into former mob boss John Gotti and the Gambino family for two decades.
There was an unusual aspect to Cali’s death — it happened in front of his house in Staten Island, where many other mobsters live. “It’s pretty significant to kill the boss in front of his own house, in front of his family,” said former New York City police commissioner William Bratton. “That is usually not done, it’s a pretty interesting twist.”
FBI agents were working the shooting alongside New York homicide detectives, and Bratton said that was another reason the Mafia’s presence had decreased. “There’s a lot of collaboration,” the former New York and Boston chief said, “unlike the past, where there was competition. There’s never been a time where the NYPD and the FBI have had better relationships.”
Mouw said one theory police are considering in the Cali killing was a rift in the Gambino family between the Sicilians and the Italian Americans. Cali was born in Sicily, but Gotti’s followers are American, and police are examining whether “that Gotti-American faction is trying to take it over.”
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