Wasnt this guy in some sort of kidnapping ring back in the 90's? They were kidnapping drug dealers and a few were murdered.
Also some guy robert Aucilino. Anyone know anything about it?

Yeh i posted about this crew a while back. It wasn't mob related.This crew committed a series of kidnappings of big drug dealers throughout new york, they were split up into two groups based on race the black group that picked the targets and surveilled and the white crew that dressed as police men and snatched the victims off the street for ransom.

They weren't that efficient at it though they botched it quite a few times.

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthr...6637#Post766637

Was the guy Ruggiero connected at all? I wonder how the black guys met the white guys?

Probably prison. Or through mutual contacts on the street.

The one guy "Clearly " who got life, was released after serving 18 years in Lewisburg. He had his conviction overturned on some sort of technicality. He appealed it for years.
Still, 18 years is a long time in a place like lewisburg and he served it in the penetentary, not the camp.
That said, what they did was fuckin wrong and a life sentence was more than warranted.