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| - Not much is known about Milito's early life. He was born sometime in the 1940s in New York City. He joined a local street gang called the Rampers which operated in Brooklyn when he was in his teens. Around this time he met future Gambino crime family underboss Salvatore Gravano who had also joined the Rampers. They became lifelong friends and committed crimes together. In the late 1960's. Milito married Linda Milito, who later wrote a book called "Mafia Wife". In the 1970s, Milito joined the Gambino crime family along with Salvatore Gravano and other members of the Rampers. He was an associate in the crew of capo Salvatore "Toddo" Aurello. When Aurello resigned as Capo, Paul Castellano promoted Gravano to capo in charge of Aurello's old crew. Milito became a member of the crew along with Louis Vallario, Joseph Paruta, Joseph D'Angelo, Sr., Nicholas Mormando and Michael DeBatt. They all committed murders together and were involved in the Nightclub and Construction business. On August 5th 1977, at 11:30pm Gravano and Milito murdered 16 year old Alan Kaiser who was walking down kings highway near west 8th street in Gravesend, Brooklyn. They pulled over at the side of the road Kaiser was shot in the chest and head by Milito with a shotgun and Salvatore Gravano with a handgun. Kaiser was murdered due to mistaken identity, Gravano had his ankle broken the week before in a robbery of one of his nightclubs by Aldo Candido. Milito and Gravano saw Alan Kaiser walking down the street and thought he was Aldo so they pulled over and shot him. In 1978, Milito and Joseph D'Angelo murdered Associate Nicholas Scibetta on the orders of Frank DeCicco. he was murdered and the only part of Scibetta's body ever recovered was one of his hands, he was declared legally dead in 1985. How Scibetta was killed, as well as the exact extent of Gravano's involvement, remains unknown. In 1978, Gravano opened an after hours club in Bensonhurst. The bar was the scene of a violent altercation one night involving a rowdy biker gang intent on ransacking the establishment, which may have served as inspiration for a similar scene in the 1993 film A Bronx Tale. A melee ensued in which Gravano broke his ankle and the bikers were chased off. Gravano then went to Castellano and received permission to murder the leader of the gang. Along with Milito, Gravano hunted down the leader, wounding him and killing another member of the gang. Castellano was flabbergasted when he learned the crutch-ridden Gravano personally took part in the hit. In 1980, Gravano, Milito and D'Angelo abducted Philadelphia crime family capo Johnny "Keys" Simone from Skyview - Miry Run Golf Club in Robbinsville, New Jersey (in suburban Trenton, New Jersey) and drove him to a wooded area in Staten Island. Gravano then granted Simone's requests to die with his shoes off, in fulfillment of a promise he had made to his wife and at the hands of a made man. After Gravano removed Simone's shoes, Milito shot Simone in the back of the head, killing him. Gravano would later express admiration for Simone as a "man's man," remarking favorably on the calmness with which he accepted his fate. Gravano earned praise from Castellano for the killing. In 1982, Milito participated in the murder of Drug Trafficker and Businessman Frank Fiala who was in the process of buying one of Gravano's clubs and had insulted him. Gravano set up an ambush outside the club. Gravano and Milito came up from behind Fiala and shot him in the head. Milito stood over the body and fired a shot into each of Fiala's eyes as Fiala's entourage and the crowd of people on the street dispersed, screaming. Gravano then walked up to Fiala's corpse and spit on it. In 1983, Milito was sentenced to 3 years in Lewisberg Federal Prison for Loansharking with capo Thomas Bilotti and was released shortly after the murder of Boss Paul Castellano.
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