Charles Carneglia and his brother John owned a junkyard in the East New York section of Brooklyn that was reportedly used for narcotics trafficking, disassembling of stolen cars, and burying mob murder victims.
John would allegedly remove jewelry from corpses prior to dissolving them in acid and then hang the baubles as trophies from the basement rafters.
[3] During the 1970s, Carneglia became a trusted confidante of John Gotti, who was a rising star in the Gambino crime family.
[4] On October 4, 1990, Carneglia and other Gambino crime family associates murdered Louis DiBono in his vehicle, at the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center.
[8][9][3] As of May 2021, Carneglia is being held at high security prison USP Canaan located in Pennsylvania and has no release date.