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Carmine Rosato

Carmine Rosato
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Carmine Caridi portraying Carmine Rosato
First appearance The Godfather II
Last appearance The Godfather II
Created by Mario Puzo
Portrayed by Carmine Caridi
Information
Gender Male
Title Caporegime
Don
Family Corleone
Rosato Family
Carmine Rosato Family

Carmine Rosato is a fictional character in the film The Godfather Part II, as well as its video game adaptation. He is known as one of the Rosato Brothers, along with his brother Tony. Carmine works in Pete Clemenza's regime after Michael Corleone moves to Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He is also known to have ties with Hyman Roth in Miami, Florida. In the film, he is portrayed by Carmine Caridi.

Carmine joins Pete Clemenza's regime in 1934 along with his brother Tony. Carmine and Tony are loyal to Clemenza, and are promised three territories in the Bronx. In 1957, Clemenza dies of a heart attack. Clemenza's successor, Frank Pentangeli takes over as the Don of New York City for the Corleone Family. Pentangeli thinks that the Rosatos are running their businesses like "a disgrace", and so refuses to give them the promised territories. Pentangeli also blames Carmine and Tony for Clemenza's death due to their greed over the territories. The Rosatos then split from the Corleones and begin to form their own crime syndicate.

Carmine Rosato and Tony split the family into two families in 1958 when Tony joins the Miami Organization and Carmine stays back in New York to run the Rosato Family there. Carmine begins to stir up trouble in Pentangeli's neighborhood. Pentangeli goes to Michael to ask for permission to kill Carmine in New York, but Michael refuses, fearing that such an action would threaten his business partnership with Roth, and tells Pentangeli to make a truce with the Rosatos.

To that end, Pentangeli goes to Richie's Tavern to make a truce with Carmine. It is a trap, however; Tony appears from behind Pentangeli and garrotes him. During the attempt, a policeman enters the bar and sees Pentangeli's body lying on the floor. Carmine takes out his gun and shoves the policeman into the ground while Tony and the Rosato guards run after Carmine. The Rosatos escape the shootout and Carmine starts a war between himself and the Corleones.


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