Carmine Lombardozzi was once targeted to be killed by mafia assassins so flagrant were the liberties that he took with the money he collected for the mob. Case in point was the Apalachin meeting in upstate New York in 1957. His fate was decided while he waited in the garage of the Joseph Barbara home in Apalachin. Finally his bosses decided to fine him $10,000 rather than kill him. He was always reckless, from the time he went AWOL in the U.S. Army until he assaulted a policeman. For this offense he was ostracized for a time from mafia operations. That is until he did penance before a don that supervised his activities.