For the murders in the 1990s at least it makes sense why he wasn't indicted. Mike Virgilio was identified as a shooter just as explicitly by Natale and wasn't indicted either.
The making ceremony is only evidence that the criminal enterprise exists. If they don't have any crimes to connect to Lancellotti (like the gambling, loan sharking, etc., acts against Grande or Mazzone) then there's no point in charging him. They need to prove that crimes being committed are linked to the organisation, not just that the organisation is there. If that was the case then it wouldn't just be Lancellotti but everyone else at that ceremony would've been indicted too (Ligambi, the Borgesis, Accardo, Johnny Chang...)
Unless Persiano caught Lancellotti at a later point on tape giving out loan shark money or accepting cash from extortions than I'm not expecting him to be charged in anything superseding. No-one in the indictment is just charged with being at the ceremony.
That’s not true..Just being a member of a criminal enterprise is enough to charge him w a Rico predicate..Inducting someone into the mafia is a crime and they have linked crimes to the organization over and over and over including in the current case to drugs,Loan sharking and extortion...and no one can explain how a known high ranking mobster assaulted a guy in front of a cop and got probation and anger management it’s like Greg Scarpa getting probation for selling stolen credit cards, it doesn’t make any sense. He’s literally the only one that hasn’t done time. Even Gaeton Lucibello beat Racketeering charges in the Stanfa case and did a couple years for the 2011 case for illegal Gambling. Even Angelo Lutz did time for Racketeering and he wasn’t even a gangster... not to mention they dropped the charges in the borgata case because AFTER he was indicted the state of New Jersey claimed he was misidentified on wiretaps even though nicodemo and grande were in his crew...ANYONE who has experience in the federal system would tell you how bullshit that is. That after he was indicted the charges were dropped because his voice was misidentified on wiretaps over and over...
Not to mention the Govt “knows†Grande was the other shooter in the Dipietro hit and that rumor came out at the Nicodemo trial which was a couple years before John Penisi flipped. How did the Govt “know†that. Who would be in the know like that to furnish that type of information. Where the Govt knew almost immediately that Grande was the other shooter?
