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- NATION, Page 27American NotesPHILANTHROPYA Gift from the GoodFellas
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- The Gambino crime family is not usually known for good works.
- Its deeds are more likely to be chronicled in FBI reports about
- the Mob. There is one place, however, where the surname Gambino
- gets respect: Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park,
- N.Y., which has received a $2 million gift from Thomas and
- Joseph Gambino in memory of their late father Carlo. The money
- is funding a pediatric bone-marrow-transplant unit, the only
- such facility in the state. When it opens, it will bear the
- Gambino name.
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- That could pose an image problem for the hospital. After
- all, Carlo Gambino was the last of the old-style Godfathers,
- and his two sons were indicted for racketeering last year. In
- accepting the donation, however, Schneider officials take a
- practical view. "Our mission," says a spokeswoman, "is to save
- lives." The father of a future patient puts the issue more
- starkly: "I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I have
- a daughter who will die if she doesn't get a transplant."
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