 As a Genovese family associate, Gangi began working at the Fulton Fish Market in Lower Manhattan.Genovese mobster Carmine Romano controlled the $1 billion per year seafood industry at the market.On August 13, 1981, Gangi was indicted on federal racketeering charges involving the Fish Market and Local 359 of the United Seafood Workers Union, which represented the market's unionized fish handlers.