Dapper Don just pointed this out. This is the article Dap linked.

WTF? Who goddammit?

Its already Thursday here nad most of you guys are still waking up. It'll be great to see what trickles out over the next few days.

Thanks Dap.

Hmmm Interesting, yes who?? Can't wait to find out!

Wonder which capos? Interesting.

Sounds like we will know later today either before or after court, hopefully we get some good perp walk photos.

Jeeeez - i'm on the endge of my seat. Who do you guys think it is?

I bet most plea out. It hope there are some good perp walk pics like mooney said

Press release below. Conrad Ianniello is the captain in the case.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2012/2012apr18b.html

Conrad Ianniello is likely related to Matty Ianniello. It appears to be the same crew because Matty Ianniello's crew was involved in the San Gennaro Festival back in the 1990's as well.

It's also a good example of why the Genovese family is referred to as the "Ivy League," not only of organized crime in general, but of labor racketeering in particular. Three of those charged are current or former union officials.

Salvester Sarzana, Genovese soldier and former President of Carpenters Local 926, looking the part.

Guy looks like one of the Dick Tracy gangsters that got beat up by DiCaprio in The Departed.

Well those guys at least had necks.

Officials Say a Little Italy Tradition Is Back: The Mob at San Gennaro

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/nyregion/mob-is-back-at-san-gennaro-festival-officials-say.html

check out this neck...or lack thereof



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...ticle-1.1063601

Has Matty ianiello retired?

I think it's a safe bet that this is Matty's crew. Usually, if Matty was on the ruling panel, Conrad Ianniello would be acting captain. But in the indictment he is said to be an official captain. So that may suggest Matty is more or less retired. Or at least not actively running the crew anymore. He is 92 now.

Yeh....probably safe bet to do since was hot on FBIs radar especially in the 80's and around the mid naughties. I find it amazing that genovese members grow so old!

I second that.
I certainly don´t know for sure, but it is possible that Matty stepped down in 2009 already, right after being released from prison. Ciro Perrone was listed as the acting capo (for that crew) at that time but died last year. So I don´t think Conrad Ianello has been a captain that long.
I must admit, the name of Conrad Ianello is totally new to me. I have never heard of him before.

Maybe perrone was acting captain but wasn't that active and Conrad ianiello was kinda the street boss captain kinda thing? Perrone was ninety so was getting on aswell

Yeah. I don´t know the cause of Perrone´s death. If it was a sudden heartattack, for example, he could have been active right til the end.
If he suffered from, let´s say, a stroke or cancer prior to his death he as well might have been demoted from acting capo status much earlier than we (at this moment) know of.

interesting... do you know where the ianiello crew are based?

Originally, Matty "the Horse" Ianello was based out of the Little Italy section of Manhattan. As a capo, he had soldiers based in Brooklyn and Bronx.
I think the crew had/still have interests in Manhattan, Brooklyn, New jersey and Westchester County. Perhaps also in Connecticut.

Correct me if I´m wrong guys.

Plus, he owned the restaurant where Crazy Joey Gallo had his last meal right? Amazing that he's still alive.

Matty always had a thing for restaurants. It's true that he owned Umberto's, but it should be noted that the original location---where Gallo was shot---was at Hester and Mulberry Streets. The current location is at Mulberry and Broome Streets, and it's still run by Matty's nephew. Matty also owned the more upscale SPQR on Mulberry Street. And he was usually present at his Little Italy restaurants, even though the crowds were almost always touristy (read: legitimate).

Hairy,

Matty's home base was indeed Mulberry Street, but his power was such that it extended elsewhere, right up through the Bronx and into Westchester; especially Yonkers, where I remember he owned a couple restaurants and trucking companies. But that was many years ago.

Didn't he own Ludo Vico in Pelham also? We use to get dragged there all the time! It was great food though.

Conrad is Matty's nephew according to the NYPost

Yeah, the Ianniello crew's interests have been pretty spread out. Geographically speaking, as well as in terms of diversification.

Back in the 1980's, Matty and some of his crew were busted for skimming millions of dollars from approximately 80 businesses. In the case, authorities said that ever bar, restaurant, or adult business from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River, between 34th and 59th Streets, paid Ianniello in order to operate. That is, if the business wasn't already owned outright by the mob. Some of the places included Gypsy's, Les Champs, The Sound Machine, The Honey Bee, The TurnTable, The Hollywood (Peppermint) Lounge, the Alley Pub Bar or Broadway Pub, the Carnivale Bar, The Metropole,Mattie's Mardi Gras, Robbie's Mardi Gras, Stocks and Blondes, Hungry Hilda's, The Gilded Grape, The Hay Market, 49'er Bar and Grill, Towncrest Resaurant, and of course, Umberto's Clam House.

The Ianniello crew was also involved in the extortion of the trucking industry in the garment center, vending companies, talent agencies, advertising agencies, garbage pickup, linen delivery, as well as ran a large-scale dice game at the Sheldon Towers in Manhattan.

More recently, you had Ianniello's control of the carting business up in Connecticut through companies owned by James Galante. And you had the crew shaking down bus companies through control of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181. And cases involving extortion at the San Gennaro Festival back in the 1990's as well as yesterday. Along with the other bookmaking, loansharking, Carpenters Union, and Allied Trades Union charges yesterday.

Photo of Conrad Ianniello in this week's Gang Land News.

What happened with this case? Only 11 guys, 7 made guys, were charged. That's pretty weak. I'm guessing most these guys pleaded out and got light sentences. The Feds don't seem to have much on the Genovese family.

Edit: Conrad's case is still going. What about the other guys?

Actually, I think only two guys in the case were identified as being made - Conrad Ianniello and Salvester Zarzana.