High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert DiBernardo, also known as "DB", (May 31, 1937 Hewlett, New York - June 5, 1986 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, declared legally dead December 1992) was a caporegime in the Gambino crime family. He gained notoriety when he was involved in a real estate business deal with John Zaccaro, the husband of Geraldine Anne Ferraro, a Democratic politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives who at the time was 1984 Vice Presidential candidate for Walter Mondale.