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The Chin's (2) dead. For over 27 years, Vincent Gigante was the boss of New York's biggest crime family, the Genoveses'. The successor to Fat Tony Salerno ruled New York's darkest and finest. When Sammy Gravano ratted out against the Gambinos, Gigante was implicated for the murder of Frank DeCicco who died because of a car bomb meant for Gotti. Gigante's method to ward off Federal RICO charges, was by pleading insanity and to prove it, he used to walk around Greenwich Village in a bath robe and flip flops.

Death (excerpt from Wikipedia)

Gigante died on December 19 2005 from complications of heart disease at the same federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri where John Gotti died three years earlier. On Friday, December 23, 2005, after a service at Saint Anthony of Padua Church in Greenwich Village, Mr. Gigante was cremated at the historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. He is survived by eight children.

Gigante's lawyer, Flora Edwards, has said that the family intends to sue the federal government over Mr. Gigante's health care treatment while in prison. In November 2005, Edwards filed a lawsuit in federal court to compel officials at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, MO to transfer Gigante to an acute care hospital. The federal government responded to that in sealed court papers. Gigante rallied physically from labored breathing, oxygen deprivation, swelling in the lower body and bouts of unconsciouness when he was transferred and placed under private care. After leaving the private health care facility, he died 10 days after returning to the federal Medical Center in Springfield, MO.

(source: Wikipedia.org. GanglandNews.com)