Here is an interesting article on Pagano back in 1989
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/13/nyregi...ng.htmlArchives5 Are Indicted As Participants In Rackets Ring
By JAMES FERON, Special to The New York Times
Published: June 13, 1989
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A Rockland County grand jury today indicted five people believed to be organized-crime figures on charges of participating in a ''criminal enterprise'' involving gambling, loan sharking and extortion, much of it in Westchester and Rockland Counties.
Ronald Goldstock, director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, said those accused included Daniel Pagano, a 37-year-old Rockland resident, who, with his father, ''ran the Pagano faction of the Canterino crew'' of the Genovese crime family.
The indictment identified Vincent (Chin) Gigante as the ''boss'' of the Genovese family and Dominick (Baldy Dom) Canterino as one of the ''capos,'' with Joseph Pagano, who died earlier this year of natural causes, and his son serving as ''soldiers.'' A Waterfront Project
One of the faction's jobs, Mr. Goldstock said, was to mediate disputes between trash haulers in the Westchester sanitation industry and ''to control a Westchester waterfront construction project'' in Yonkers, ''insuring continued domination of the on-site gambling and loan-sharking activities.''
The authorities said the gambling activities were operated for the most part from two offices, at 5421 Sylvan Avenue in the Bronx and at 188 East 80th Street in Manhattan, where bets were accepted and called to a telephone at Joseph Pagano's home in Monsey, a Rockland village, where they were recorded on an answering machine.
The Rockland County District Attorney, Kenneth Gribetz, said they were ''commuting criminals who did a little bit of work at home and the major work in their offices.'' Many Rockland residents ''were placing bets with these individuals,'' he said, ''but the majority were in the Bronx and Manhattan.'' A Pit Bull for Collections
Mr. Goldstock said the accused made usurious loans at prearranged rates of interest, generally amounting to 156 percent a year. He said the ''collection of unlawful debts was accomplished in part by the use of a pit bull terrier.''
He said the group demanded payment from Irwin Schiff, a mob-linked businessman shot to death in a Manhattan restaurant in 1987 ''who committed the sin of using the Pagano name without permission.'' Those indicted also ''sought to use the bank account of the National Youth Movement to avoid reporting cash transactions.''
The National Youth Movement, now defunct, was founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton when he was 16. Mr. Goldstock, when asked if Mr. Sharpton was aware of the group's suspected interest in using the organization to launder money, said Mr. Sharpton ''has not been indicted'' and the investigation ''at this point is concluded.''
Indicted on ''enterprise corruption,'' a New York State version of RICO, the Federal racketeering law, were Daniel Pagano, 37, of 18 Hastings Avenue, Wesley Hills, N.Y.; Lawrence Blumenfeld, 55, of 246 Shady Rock Lane, Pomona, N.Y.; Charles Hemstreet, 42, of 95 Waters Edge Road, Congers, N.Y.; Howard Spitz, 35, of 230 Kearsing Parkway, Pomona, and Carmine Tenga, 37, of 249 Revere Avenue, the Bronx.
