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In 1957, Genovese finally made the move that Luciano had seen coming back in the early 1940s at Great Meadow prison. The first domino to fall was when Adonis managed to get himself deported to Italy. With one of Luciano’s key allies out of the picture, Genovese capitalized on the situation by ordering a hit on Frank Costello. A gunman named Vincent Gigante shot Costello in the head,
Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II
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