
Andreas "El Greco" Karafantis was a Greek-American doctor and mob associate in New York City. He specialized in treating mafiosi for the various injuries and wounds they sustained in their line of work.
Biography[]
Andreas Karafantis was born to a Greek family in Athens. He would go on to study medicine in London before serving as a doctor in the Greek Embassy. In 1927, he was transferred to the United States Ambassador's office In New York City, from which he was dismissed three years later for his affair with the Ambassador's wife. Karafantis then went into private practice, treating various mobsters from his home during the 1930s Vinci-Moretti war. He later administered treatment to Clemente family soldato Henry Tomasino for a bullet to the leg in 1945, and to Moretti family soldati Antonio Balsamo and Joe Barbaro in 1951, both of whom had sustained torture.