Mario Condello (12 April 1952 – 6 February 2006) was an Italian-Australian criminal. Condello, a lawyer, was a part of the Carlton Crew, and a key figure of the Melbourne gangland killings. In the drama series Underbelly Mario Condello is played by actor Martin Sacks
Condello was a former lawyer born in Melbourne, Australia. He had a criminal record consisting of arson, fraud and drug trafficking and was also suspected by police to have been involved in multiple murders. In 2005 he was charged with plotting to murder crime boss Carl Williams, who also faced charges of scheming to ambush Condello.
He was shot dead in his driveway on 6 February, 2006, a day before he was due to stand trial for conspiracy to murder Williams. Police feared that his murder would be the resumption of the gangland wars. Six hundred mourners attended his funeral, with Mick Gatto serving as a pallbearer, his murder remains unsolved.
Mark Anthony Moran (4 July 1964 – 15 June 2000) was a criminal of the infamous Moran family from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, notable for its involvement in the illegal drug trade and the Melbourne gangland killings. Moran was murdered outside his Aberfeldie home, allegedly by Carl Williams, just after 8 pm on 15 June 2000, aged 35.
Mark Moran was the son of Judy Moran and Leslie John "Johnny" Cole, who was shot dead in Sydney on 10 November 1982 during drug-related gangland wars while working for crime boss Frederick "Paddeles" Anderson. His stepfather was criminal Lewis Moran and his half-brother was drug trafficker Jason Moran, both also murdered. In the drama series Underbelly Mark Moran was played by actor Callan Mulvey.
Jason Matthew Patrick Moran (22 September 1967 – 21 June 2003) was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, and a member of the Moran crime family, notable for its involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. He sported a 12 cm scar on the side of his face. In the drama series Underbelly Jason Moran is played by actor Les Hill.
Moran was the son of Lewis Moran and Judy Moran. Mark Moran was his half-brother. Moran attended Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. He met his future wife, Trisha Kane, at 15 years of age. She is the daughter of Les Kane, a Melbourne Painter and Docker and reputed criminal who was murdered in his family home on 19 October 1978.
During the 1990s Moran emerged as one of Melbourne's main dealers in party drugs. During this time he had a team of up and coming western suburbs gangsters led by Bluey Watkins and Toofie Abudul running drugs for him.
Moran was reported to have shot Carl Williams in the stomach during an argument in Gladstone Park on 13 October 1999, giving rise to lengthy violent turf wars known as the Melbourne gangland killings. Jason Moran had attended the funeral of another slain mobster, Victor Peirce.
Alphonse Gangitano and Moran, along with associate Mark John McNamara, were charged over an attack in the Sports Bar nightclub in King Street, Melbourne, on 19 December 1995, for which Moran received a term of imprisonment.
Moran was considered by many to be a "dead man walking" and when paroled from prison in September 2001 was allowed to leave Australia due to fears for his life. He later returned to give evidence in the inquest into the death of Gangitano on 20 November which began on 14 January 2002. Moran was suspected in Gangitano's murder.Gangitano was found dead in the laundry of his Templestowe house by his wife in 1998. A coroner found that Jason Moran and Graham Kinniburgh were present during Gangitano's murder in January 1998.
re-enactment scene of Jasons murder on the series "Underbelly" (no audio)
Domenic "Mick" Gatto (born 6 August 1955) is an Italian-Australian former heavyweight boxer, who once was a serious contender for the Australian Heavyweight title. He is better known for his involvement in the Melbourne underworld.
Gatto is a professional mediator within the building industry in Melbourne. He runs a chain of companies, Arbitrations and Mediations Pty Ltd and has an interest in crane company, Elite Cranes.
Previously residing in East Doncaster, Gatto purchased a A$2 million home in Lower Plenty on October 2005. In June 2007 Gatto's nephew Daniel Gatto pleaded guilty to three assault charges in relation to a fight that occurred on 2006-12-24 in front of a Prahran nightclub. In the drama series Underbelly based on the Melbourne gangland killings Gatto is played by actor Simon Westaway, and in series 2, Luke McKenzie.
In 2004 Mick Gatto was charged with the murder of suspected underworld hitman Andrew Veniamin and remanded in custody for 18 months. He was found not guilty at trial, during which Gatto claimed he had acted in self defence after Veniamin pulled out a .38 and threatened to kill him. Gatto claims that during a struggle he was able to turn the gun around on Veniamin and fire one shot into his neck, and one shot in the eye. He also claimed that during the argument, Veniamin had implicated himself in the deaths of Dino Dibra, Paul Kallipolitis and Graham Kinniburgh.
Mario Condello (12 April 1952 – 6 February 2006) was an Italian-Australian criminal. Condello, a lawyer, was a part of the Carlton Crew, and a key figure of the Melbourne gangland killings. In the drama series Underbelly Mario Condello is played by actor Martin Sacks
He was shot dead in his driveway on 6 February, 2006, a day before he was due to stand trial for conspiracy to murder Williams. Police feared that his murder would be the resumption of the gangland wars. Six hundred mourners attended his funeral, with Mick Gatto serving as a pallbearer, his murder remains unsolved.
