Son of Genovese mob boss busted for child porn

By Jamie Schram
December 12, 2013 | 3:00pm

The son of an imprisoned Genovese mob boss was busted Wednesday on kiddie porn charges in The Bronx, police sources told The Post.

Joseph Nigro, 35, was allegedly using a file sharing network to trade, store and download a mountain of sick images and videos showing children under 16 engaging in sex, sources said.

The Department of Homeland Security was alerted on Dec. 2 and quickly contacted the NYPD’s Computer Crimes Unit, sources said.

New York detectives and Homeland Security investigators paid Nigro a visit Wednesday at his Hollywood Avenue residence in the upscale Throgs Neck section of The Bronx, sources said.

After confiscating his computer, investigators analyzed the hard drive, which revealed the illegal images, sources said.

Nigro confessed to the crime and was slapped with promoting and possession of sexual performance of a child.

His mobbed up father, Arthur Nigro, 69, was sentenced to life in prison two years ago for ordering the rub out of Massachusetts crime boss Adolfo (Big Al) Bruno.

Two other goons from Springfield Massachusetts were also given life terms for the 2003 hit.

At the time, Arthur was the acting head of Genovese crime family.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/12/son-of-genovese-mob-boss-busted-for-child-porn/

Jesus Christ. I would rather be convicted of RICO, multiple murders, the whole gamet, than anything like rape or child porn.

Lowest of the low.

what a piece of shit. i wouldnt expect that from someone from throggs neck, usually known as the place where some of the most classiest guys in all the Bronx live

I'm sure the father is telling everyone in the can "the kid is framed"

Slap in the face to the old man.

Child porn. Doesn't get any worse.

Wouldn't surprise me if the old man puts out a hit on his kid himself.

If that was to happen to me i think i would be abandoned and get a hit put out on me seriously

"Two other goons from Springfield Massachusetts were also given life terms for the 2003 hit."

You gotta love the NY Post.

Seriously, stay classy reporters....

This guy pretty much picked a crime guaranteed to burn all of his bridges.None of his friends are going to stand by him,his business associates will turn their backs on him,and he will be a target in prison. Because of his charges,even his old man won't protect him inside,because he can't be perceived as condoning his son's behavior. His future will be segregation in the snitch and rapist unit,and a life as a pariah on the street if and when he is released. His best shot is to wait for the verdict,and if found guilty,to kill himself rather than go in.

Exactly. This maggot confessed too so there is no room for the sad excuses most pedophiles give when caught with child porn. I hope he gets raped in prison n catches AIDS and suffers 24 hours a day til the day he dies. Anybody in my family ever got busted for some shit like this they'd be disowned immediately no questions asked

What a piece of shit.
But I want to know why the hell homeland security is investigating child porn?

Sicko.

They may have been investigating something else on the same file sharing network and come across this.

Does any one know if this was a personal collection or was he running a child porn racket?

From reading the article,it seems like this was a personal collection,not a part of any Mob business. The investigators have already identified his list of contacts,I'm sure,so we'll see if any more arrests are made,and if they are just other pervs.

My gut instinct is that if there was the remotest possibility of it being a Mob racket,the headlines would have been much different.

By the way,why does it matter who is father is? I'm not defending this sick f**k by any means,but is it really fair that the first thing mentioned in the article is that he is the son of an imprisoned mobster? Unless something comes to light that proves differently,the old man had nothing to do with any of it.

Well, that's very true, Dellacroce .

But seriously, the guy is a weirdo. Always has been. He never came around with his father and it's my understanding that they weren't very close to begin with.


No racket. Like I posted, just a weirdo.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And it this case, a piece of shit pedophile is just a piece of shit pedophile. Sad thing is, this probably wouldn't have even made the papers if it wasn't for the sensationalistic connection to the father.

The feds busted this one guy from Ireland a few months ago who was dealing in that kiddie porn shit on the so called Dark Web. At the time they called him the biggest dealer of kiddie porn in the world. He ran a server on that dark web. Pretty sure the feds went to Ireland and had him extradited to the states and he's now sitting in jail awaiting trial.

Just some sick shit...i hope they fry that asshole.

Exactly, GC. And it hardly made a splash in the news. It's terrible that this stuff is only reported on a large scale when there's a connection to a famous (or in this case a semi-famous) person. These scumbags should be outed right away, every single time .

I think pedophiles and rapists should get at least the same penalty as first degree murder without extenuating circumstances. Yet judges of many countries are lenient to them as if they were pedophiles themselves. Last one I read was a case in Italy where a conviction of a 60-year-old pervert who slept with a 11-year-old girl was overturned by the supreme court "because it was consensual"!!!
http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/cronaca/c...e_2014025.shtml
And the conviction in appeal was only 5 years! Now I really agree with those Vic Amuso fans I argued with time ago who said the law enforcement is extremely hypocritical because to them, illegal gambling is a worse crime than rape or pedophilia.

Deserves chopping up , I'm sure fat Philly casele who was with Pete the crumb caprio had a rape against his name , and also former lucchese consigliere christy tick furnari had a rape charge aswel

Anyone know which porn/prostitution related rackets the mob is supposed to stay away from, based on their rules and traditions?

I believe I read in another thread that Roy DeMeo was involved with the distribution of child porn.

In Italy also among ruthless criminals that is said ''they eat cristians'' there are the rule that say ''non si toccano le donne e i bambini'' (don't touch the woman and the child) and the pedophiles are kept in separate pavilions, but nevertheless are still slaughtered (for me do well to kill them)

This article of Italian Penal Code punish pedophiles

414 bis c.p. In fact, the '"incitement to practices of pedophilia and child pornography" shall be punished by imprisonment of one year and six months to five years. At the same penalty shall be subjected even those who "publicly apology of these crimes does." Can not be invoked "in his apology, reasons or purposes of artistic, literary, historical or costume"!

I agree to the physical castration that is the cut of the penis and balls.

A recent indictment involving members of the gambino family were recently involved in under age porn , he highest profile mobster arrested was former ruling panel member Daniel Marino , weather he actually knew about this is up for debate

Just curious....is this the same Dan Marino, who was Jimmy Hydell's uncle?

Yeah that's him , he also was part of the plot to kill john gotti wit jimmy failla and the chin and Anthony casso

they were involved with sex trafficking of a minor. whether he knew or not is irrelevant, he was still profiting from it.

robert dibernardo was involved in producing child porn through his printing company.

I think this recent bust has something to do with the recent international pedophile ring they busted cause i think that involved homeland security too.

This is the guy from Ireland i mentioned in my previous post. Fucking scumbag...i hope they abuse him everyday he's locked up. But it seems that he's still in Ireland...must be fighting the extradition to the USA.

The NY Daily News has an article on him today.

Story @ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/fbi-ireland-extradite-eric-eoin-marques-article-1.1545766

This is sick stuff. I can't even see why anyone would want to see child porn. Major sentence I hope.

Robert DiBernardo, a Capo in the Gambino family ( killed on Gotti's orders for allegedly talking subversive,as accused by Sammy Gravano) was the Family's major generator of income from illegal porn such as bestiality and underage stuff. Although the other Families had some dealings in this disgusting racket,the Gambinos,under both Carlo,and later Paulie,elevated it to a significant income source.

This is why I asked my question earlier on the relationship between the mob and underage/bestiality/human trafficking stuff. I understand that members are angry and shocked over this story, but I thought the mob was into providing this kind of activity. The mob seeks out illegal items/activities that a portion of the public wants and they provide it for financial gain- such as drugs, prostitution, human trafficking/slavery, underage stuff, murder for hire, extortion, etc....

In addition to the Gambinos, I figured that Matty "the Horse" Ianello kept the Genovese family knee deep in the taboo sex activities. And I imagined he was involved with some really sick stuff in Times Square.