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((Short description|Criminal organisation in Melbourne, Australia))
((more citations needed|date=April 2010))
((Use Australian English|date=July 2015))
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((Infobox Criminal organization
| name                = The Carlton Crew
| image               =
| founded             = 1970s
| years active        = 1970s−Present 
| founding location   = [[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]]
| territory           = Various neighbourhoods in [[Melbourne]]
| ethnic makeup       = Mainly people of [[Italians|Italian]] ancestry
| membership          = 50-100 associates (2000s)
| criminal activities = [[Racketeering]], [[murder]], [[illegal gambling]], [[extortion]], [[fraud]], [[pimping]], [[money laundering]], [[loan sharking]], [[drug trafficking]], [[bribery]]
| allies              = [[Moran family|Moran]] and [[Pettingill family|Pettingill]] families, [[Nik Radev|Radev Bratva]]
| rivals              = [[Carl Williams (criminal)|Williams Syndicate]], [[Honoured Society (Australia)|Honoured Society]]

)) 
The '''Carlton Crew''' is a [[organized crime|criminal organisation]] based in [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria, Australia]], was established and formed in 1970 and possibly earlier by the mid 1960s by the first Carlton crew boss Gino Rosace and he named it after the Melbourne suburb in which it is based, [[Lygon Street]], [[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]], commonly called "Little Italy". The organisation was a fierce rival to the [[Honoured Society (Australia)|Honoured Society]] and the [[Calabrese Family]], both of which were [[Calabria]]n [['Ndrangheta]] groups also based in Melbourne, and were additionally allies of the mostly [[Ireland|Irish]] [[Moran family]]. The Carlton Crew had a strong role in the infamous [[Melbourne gangland killings]].

==History==
The Carlton Crew included convicted criminals, [[Mick Gatto]], [[Alphonse Gangitano]], [[Mario Condello]], [[Ron Bongetti]], and [[Graham Kinniburgh]].<ref>[http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/alphonse.gangitano.htm ''Melbourne Crime'', 2008, "Alphonse John Gangitano"]. Accessed 13 March 2008 ((webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080115190339/http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/alphonse.gangitano.htm |date=January 15, 2008 ))</ref> Gangitano built a reputation as "The Black Prince of Lygon Street" in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He recruited mainly Italian thugs who installed jukeboxes and vending machines in local [[bar (establishment)|bars]] and [[nightclub]]s under the threat of violence, and then reinvested their profits in [[drug trafficking]].((Citation needed|date=June 2008))

In 1995, Melbourne police suspected Gangitano of two murders: small-time [[Crime|criminal]] Greg Workman and prostitute Deborah Boundy. Boundy was scheduled to testify in court, but died before the trial from a self-inflicted shot of undiluted heroin believed to have been supplied by Gangitano.((Citation needed|date=May 2023))

On 15 July 1995, Gangitano engaged in a melee with [[Jason Moran (criminal)|Jason Moran]] at a Melbourne nightclub. [[Prosecutor]]s were still debating charges against him when Gangitano's wife found him dead in the laundry room of their [[Templestowe]] home on 16 January 1998; he had been shot several times in the head.((Citation needed|date=May 2023))
																									   
[[Mick Gatto]] succeeded Gangitano as the new street boss of the Carlton Crew later in 1998.((Citation needed|date=May 2023)) In February 2002, a [[Royal Commission]] investigated Gatto on suspicion of accepting [[A$]]250,000 to mediate labour disputes with the [[Australian Workers' Union]].((Citation needed|date=May 2023)) In 2004, Gatto resigned as street boss.((Citation needed|date=May 2023)) Gino, the then Carlton Crew boss, passed away in 2017 and was replaced by his close Consigliere Tony Madafferi in 2019. Tony Madafferi appointed David "The Guts" Smith as the new street boss later in 2019.((Citation needed|date=May 2023))

On 13 December 2003, Kinniburgh was murdered outside his home in [[Kew, Victoria|Kew]].((Citation needed|date=May 2023))

Carlton Crew member [[Mario Condello]] had a record of convictions for [[arson]], [[fraud]], and drug trafficking. Police also suspected him of multiple murders. In 2005, he was charged with plotting to murder crime boss [[Carl Williams (criminal)|Carl Williams]], who also faced charges of scheming to ambush Condello. A trial for that case was pending when unknown gunmen murdered Condello outside his [[Brighton, Victoria|Brighton]] home on 6 February 2006.<ref>((cite news|last=John Silvester|first=Chris Evans|title=Condello gunned down in Brighton|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/condello-gunned-down/2006/02/06/1139074172355.html|accessdate=4 February 2014|newspaper=[[The Age]]|date=7 February 2006))</ref> About 700 people attended his funeral, with Mick Gatto serving as a pallbearer.<ref>((cite news|title=Hundreds say goodbye to 'a man among men'|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hundreds-say-goodbye-to-a-man-among-men/2006/02/10/1139542406249.html?page=2|accessdate=4 February 2014|newspaper=The Age|date=11 February 2006))</ref>

==Notable members==
* 1982-1998 – [[Alphonse Gangitano]] Former street boss in Gino's reign – murdered in 1998
* 1980-2004 – [[Mick Gatto]] – arrested in 2004, former street boss in Gino's reign 1998-2004 retired
* 1981-2006 – [[Mario Condello]] – arrested in 2005, murdered in 2006
* 1980s-2005 - Ron Bongetti - died of natural causes

== See also ==
* [[Crime in Melbourne]]
* [[Organised crime in Australia]]
* [[Honoured Society (Australia)|The Honoured Society]]
* [[Melbourne gangland killings]]
* [[Underbelly (TV series)]]

==References== 
((Reflist))
;Notes
*Newton, Michael (2007). ''Gangsters Encyclopedia. The World's Most Notorious Mobs, Gangs and Villains'', Collins & Brown (C&B)

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[[Category:Organised crime in Melbourne]]
[[Category:Organised crime groups in Australia]]
[[Category:Italian-Australian culture]]
[[Category:Italian-Australian culture in Melbourne]]

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