He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Born in the Bronx in 1928, one of five sons of Italian immigrant parents, Gigante was nicknamed "Chin" - short for "Vincenzo" - by his mother.

The fruit of late Genovese crime family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante’s twisted family tree is back for one last court date. The Chin’s turncoat grandson Vincent Fyfe, 47, will return to ...

They called Vincent “The Chin” Gigante “The Oddfather.” Gigante discovered fairly early in his criminal career that if he acted like a nut, mumbling to himself and wandering the streets of New York’s ...

Mob boss Vincent (the Chin) Gigante, the powerful Mafioso who avoided jail for decades by wandering the streets in a ratty bathrobe and slippers, feigning mental illness, died yesterday in prison ...

This legal war is all in the family: A dispute between the kin of late Genovese mob boss Vincent Gigante. The grandnephew of Gigante — aka “The Chin” — pilfered more than $500,000 from ...

Finally convicted in 1999 of racketeering, New York Mafia boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante stalled his trial for years with an implausible repertoire of antics designed to make him seem mentally ...

U.S. prosecutors in Brooklyn charged imprisoned crime boss Vincent “Chin” Gigante, 73, and four associates with infiltrating the International Longshoreman’s Assn. The Genovese crime family ...