Dominick Cirillo was a maverick Mafioso. He shunned meetings and the high profile lifestyle common to mobsters of his era., i.e. John Gotti and Paul Castellano. Dom drove around in inexpensive cars and lived in a house in the Bronx that needed numerous repairs. Second in command to Vincent "the Chin" Gigante in the Genovese family ranks, Cirillo ascended to the title of acting boss in 1997. Gigante was imprisoned on a variety of charges. The Chin defended himself by insisting that he was unfit mentally. Psychiatrists and other experts put forward the notion that Vincent suffered from schizophrenia and/or other mental disorders.