Ernesto Rodriguez and the Mob Hit on Gambino Capo John "Handsome Jack" Giordano April 10, 1995

The reasons for the shooting of Jack Giordano have never been fully explained. However, its thought that he withheld money owed for loan sharking or either pressed a usury associate too hard to pay money extorted from businessmen. Whatever the reason Giordano was grievously wounded. He ended up completely paralyzed from the neck down. My e-book looks at the Gambino extortion ring which flourished in the 1980s on Manhattan's Upper East Side.