Acidic Twist in Alleged Mob Killing

An informant says that Gambino family soldier Charles Carneglia killed John Gotti Sr.'s Howard Beach neighbor and got rid of the body by dumping him in a vat of acid. Carneglia, who has been behind bars since the feds' big sweep of the Gambinos last year, is accused of being part of a group of men who targeted Gotti neighbor John Favara, who fatally struck Gotti's bike-riding 12-year-old son Frankie in 1980. The Daily News explains that Favara "found the word Murderer scrawled on his auto and was attacked with a bat by Gotti's wife, Victoria, but failed to heed repeated warnings to move out of the area." The Post reports the feds originally thought Favara's body (in a barrel of concrete) was thrown off a Brooklyn pier, but "Carneglia's love of acid and his use of it in Favara's case came to light thanks to new information from the cooperating witness." Carneglia allegedly kept vats of acid in his basement and had asked the informant for help in moving them.

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By Jen Chung in News on January 8, 2009 12:05 PM

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NannyState

He should have moved out when Gotti moved in. All those Suburbans with heavy tinting might have been a good clue...

Ph

JCB phoning in with the typical paisano commentary. Although I agree that it would have been prudent to get the hell out of dodge after something like that, what you say is eerily like blaming the victim.

I know a lot of knuckleheads from Brooklyn that think like you and I just laugh when they wonder why the guido stereotype persists so strongly.

JenChungsBaby

You're misreading the situation here, Ph (hold the D). I don't mean it like it was some code of honor or omerta blood oath thing, or that it was somehow the right thing for him to die. I agree with you -- it would have been prudent to get the hell out of dodge after something like that. That's all. Chill.

Mr Mel

So much for Mafia glamour.

Wza

Sad story.

JenChungsBaby

Word in the hood was that Favara and Gotti shared a priest and Favara went to the priest to try to bring about a reconciliation. He was remorseful for killing the kid, but it was an accident and he really thought he could make peace with the Gottis. The priest told him to move, which is what he should have done.

jchez

It may be an urban legend, but I read that Favara was killed by being sawed in half.

ed_Extinct

snoooze.

Felix Hoenikker

As they say, friends help you move but real friends help you move bodies.

JenChungsBaby

Favara should have moved and changed his name and not left a forwarding address. Right or wrong, accident or not, he killed a mob boss's son and had adequate warning that he was to be accountable. In those few months he had left he should have hightailed it out of town.