http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-release...d-loan-sharkingPreet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (NYPD), announced today the unsealing of charges in Manhattan federal court against seven additional alleged members and associates of
the Genovese and Bonanno organized crime families, including a Genovese capo, for offenses including narcotics trafficking conspiracy and loan sharking. Five other defendants, including a solider in the Genovese organized crime family, were charged in a prior Indictment with narcotics trafficking.
Narcotics TraffickingVincent Basciano, Jr., Stephen Basciano, George Kokenyei, Joey Basciano, and Valentine conspired to distribute hundreds,
and in some cases thousands, of pounds of marijuana. For example, Kokenyei arranged for large shipments of marijuana to be sent from California to New York, while Basciano, Jr. ran a marijuana route in the Bronx, New York, that distributed hundreds of pounds of marijuana.
Loan SharkingPasquale Falcetti, a capo in the Genovese crime family, and Thomas Joy conspired to make extortionate loans to victims in the Bronx, New York, and elsewhere.
