Thanks NYM here is an NYT article about the indicment of Lansky and Cellini in 1972.
At the time Cellini lived in Rome, Lansky in Israel.
LANSKY INDICTED IN. U.S. TAX PLOT
Alleged Aide Also Charged Special to The New York Times
June 7, 1972
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WASHINGTON, June 6 (AP) —Meyer Lansky and one of his reputed long?time associates were indicted today by a Federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to avoid paying taxes on money allegedly received from gamblers on junkets to George Raft's Colony Sporting Club in London, England.
Lansky, 69 years old, and his reputed associate, Dino Cellini, were also accused by the grand jury in United States District Court in Miami of conspiring to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service from assessing income taxes. Cellini was also charged with filing two false income tax returns.
The Justice Department announced the indictment action.
Lansky is living in Israel and fighting attempts by the Israeli Government to deport him. He was indicted in Miami last year for refusing to appear before a grand jury in Miami and in Las Vegas in connection with alleged gambling, activities.
Cellini, 57, a native of Steubenville, Ohio, lives in Rome where he represents an American slot machine manufacturer. He was a stockhc'der and employre of Mr. Raft's gambling casino, which operated from 1966 to 1969.
According to the indictment, Cellini set up a concern called Travel and Resorts Enterprises, Inc., in Miami to organize gambling junkets to the Colony Club and other foreign casinos.
Various junketeers were extended credit by the casino, and if the junketeer had not paid his debt before leaving the casino, the gambling debts were turned over to unindicted co?conspirators in the United States, the indictment charged.
Instead of handing the money to the ostensible creditor, the indictment said, the funds derived from the gambling debt were turned over to Lansky and Cellini in cash.
It was estimated that from November, 1967, to mid?May, 1968, the two men received about $198,000 from various persons while collecting the gambling LO.U.s.
Named as unindicted co?conspirators were:
Raymond Patriarca, 64, of Providence, R. I.; Henry Tameleo 70; Carmine Carlo Mastrotoaro, 51, of Worcester, Mass.; Vincent Teresa, 43, North Reading, Mass.; Daniel Mongovano, 44, Boston, and Joseph Lamattina, 42, Boston
Another excellent post up! Kudos to you Hollander.
This shows, once and for all, if there was any doubt to begin with, the far-flung nature of Lansky's operations, and by proxy, his intimate relationship with Mafia bosses and their borgatas, all across the U.S.A. In this particular case, the New England Family headed by Patriarca. And as I had mentioned in an earlier post, to Genovese soldier Carlo Mastrototaro, who, although operating out of NE and intimate with the Patriarca Family, was in actuality a Genovese Family soldier within the regime of Worcester, Massachusetts capo Frank Iaconi.
Good contribution pal!
