Bill agreed and suggested his grand-uncle's house on Troutman Street in Brooklyn as a meeting site.
On January 28, 1966, as Bill and his loyalists approached the house, they were met with gunfire; no one was wounded during this confrontation.
In 1968, after a heart attack, Joseph ended the family warfare by agreeing to retire as boss and move to Arizona.
[1] On June 15, 1970, Gaspar DiGregorio died of lung cancer at St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Smithtown, New York.
He is buried in Saint Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York Section 30, Row X, Grave #60.