Vincent the Chin Gigante

Vincent the Chin Gigante was a heavyweight boxer in the mid 1940s, fighting in New York City venues. He began his career in organized crime as small time gambler who signed up students at Brooklyn College to bet on games, and serve as his agent. By 1957 he had made headlines as the suspected shooter of large time Mafia figure Frank Costello. Later Gigante would feign mental illness to get him out of a series of indictments because he was unfit to stand trial. In 1986 he inherited supremacy in the Genovese crime syndicate.