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[td]The club was founded in 1919, first as the Raven Knights Social Club, and later became a hangout for [[John Gotti]] and others. In the 1950s, [[Carlo Gambino]] took over and renamed the club "The Ravenite." Although some sources say he named it in honor of his favorite poem by [[Edgar Allan Poe]], "[[The Raven]]," the club started as the Raven Knights before Gambino came to America in 1921.<ref name="auto"/> Gambino stopped habituating the club when he discovered police had a growing interest in surveillance of the club. It then became under the management of [[Aniello Dellacroce]].<ref name=critchley/>[/td]Revision as of 12:16, 30 August 2025
[/td][td]The club was founded in 1919, first as the Raven Knights Social Club, and later became a hangout for [[John Gotti]] and others. In the 1950s, [[Carlo Gambino]] took over and renamed the club "The Ravenite." Although some sources say he named it in honor of his favorite poem by [[Edgar Allan Poe]], "[[The Raven]]," the club started as the Raven Knights before Gambino came to America in 1921.<ref name="auto"/> Gambino stopped habituating the club when he discovered police had a growing interest in surveillance of the club. It then became under the management of [[Aniello Dellacroce]].<ref name=critchley/>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]It was frequented and used as the headquarters of the [[Gambino crime family]] in the late 1970s and 1980s.<ref name=critchley>{{cite book |last=Critchley |first=David |title=The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891β1931 |year=2008 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-99030-1 |pages=156 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_wq1QreSSoC&q="Salvatore+D'Aquila"&pg=PA156 |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2021012...=0_wq1QreSSoC&q="Salvatore+D'Aquila"&pg=PA156 |url-status=live |access-date=December 16, 2020}}</ref> Around 1990, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] was able to infiltrate the [[American Mafia|Mafia]] using secret electronic surveillance, because [[John Gotti]] used an apartment above the Ravenite; the FBI subsequently sent agents to install voice recorders and other wiretaps inside the apartment. The FBI then used recordings from secret Mafia meetings in that apartment against Gotti. Exterior surveillance also recorded numerous [[labor union|union]] officials outside the Ravenite, helping the FBI in connecting the [[crime boss|boss]] of the [[Gambino crime family]] to the city's labor unions.<ref name="gotti sentenced">{{cite news |last=Lubasch |first=Arnold H. |date=June 24, 1992 |title=Gotti Sentenced to Life in Prison Without the Possibility of Parole |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/24/...prison-without-the-possibility-of-parole.html |archive-date=October 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2013101...prison-without-the-possibility-of-parole.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 3, 2012}}</ref><ref name="top aid">{{cite news |last=Raab |first=Selwyn |date=November 12, 1991 |title=U.S. Says Top Gotti Aide Will Testify Against Boss |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/12/nyregion/us-says-top-gotti-aide-will-testify-against-boss.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2011012...top-gotti-aide-will-testify-against-boss.html |archive-date=January 23, 2011 |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=April 24, 2012}}</ref><ref name="quickfacts">{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/quickfacts.htm |title=Quick Facts |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017083929/http://www2.fbi.gov/quickfacts.htm |archive-date=October 17, 2011}}</ref>[/td]
[td]It was frequented and used as the headquarters of the [[Gambino crime family]] in the late 1970s and 1980s.<ref name=critchley>{{cite book |last=Critchley |first=David |title=The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891β1931 |year=2008 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-99030-1 |pages=156 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_wq1QreSSoC&q="Salvatore+D'Aquila"&pg=PA156 |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2021012...=0_wq1QreSSoC&q="Salvatore+D'Aquila"&pg=PA156 |url-status=live |access-date=December 16, 2020}}</ref> Around 1990, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] was able to infiltrate the [[American Mafia|Mafia]] using covert electronic surveillance, because [[John Gotti]] used an apartment above the Ravenite; the FBI subsequently sent agents to install voice recorders and other wiretaps inside the apartment. The FBI then used recordings from secret Mafia meetings in that apartment against Gotti. Exterior surveillance also recorded numerous [[labor union|union]] officials outside the Ravenite, helping the FBI in connecting the [[crime boss|boss]] of the [[Gambino crime family]] to the city's labor unions.<ref name="gotti sentenced">{{cite news |last=Lubasch |first=Arnold H. |date=June 24, 1992 |title=Gotti Sentenced to Life in Prison Without the Possibility of Parole |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/24/...prison-without-the-possibility-of-parole.html |archive-date=October 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2013101...prison-without-the-possibility-of-parole.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 3, 2012}}</ref><ref name="top aid">{{cite news |last=Raab |first=Selwyn |date=November 12, 1991 |title=U.S. Says Top Gotti Aide Will Testify Against Boss |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/12/nyregion/us-says-top-gotti-aide-will-testify-against-boss.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2011012...top-gotti-aide-will-testify-against-boss.html |archive-date=January 23, 2011 |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=April 24, 2012}}</ref><ref name="quickfacts">{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/quickfacts.htm |title=Quick Facts |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017083929/http://www2.fbi.gov/quickfacts.htm |archive-date=October 17, 2011}}</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
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