The Nation : Mobster Gallo Sentenced to Prison Term

Joseph Gallo, the elder statesman of the nation’s largest crime family, was fined $380,000 and sentenced to prison for 10 years--a term U.S. District Court Judge Jack Weinstein called “essentially a life sentence.” Gallo, 76, the Gambino crime family consigliere, sat with eyes half-closed and lips pursed in federal court in New York as the sentence for racketeering was announced. Gallo was convicted Dec. 22, 1986, on two bribery counts and illegal interstate travel to commit bribery. He was acquitted of loan sharking. He was to remain under house arrest pending his appeal.