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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Miljanic was sentenced to six years in prison in Italy in 2010 for cocaine trafficking. He was given work release four years later, but he ditched the program and escaped to the U.S.
For years, OCCRP, KRIK, and Czech news outlet Investigace.cz have been following Group America — a decades-old criminal organization with roots in New York and the Balkans, believed to have been run by Miljanic.
Reporters discovered that it operates in dozens of countries and is suspected of supplying Europe with tonnes of cocaine from South America.
The group has a reputation for dismembering rivals with chainsaws, assassinating prominent government figures, and working with spy organizations.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Those government snakes really don't have a life. Well...not exactly. I mean obviously I'm here 'cause I'm fascinated by the Mafia genre like everyone else here, but let's not actually pretend like these guys aren't criminals. Brilliant criminals perhaps, with a storied history and a certain code of honour, perhaps, moreso than other criminals - but my God, it's the Government's *job* to catch and prosecute known offenders. Of course the government is trying to uphold the law - and thank God they are. And I think even the most hardened old time LCN guys would agree with that - if you could catch them, the right way, they'd take their sentence and do their time. That's the game. If someone else in the life kills them, that's the game too. Nobody in that life is under any illusions about that. Lorenzo Mannino is a leader in a major, ongoing criminal conspiracy against the public. Don't lose sight of that.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Those government snakes really don't have a life. Well...not exactly. I mean obviously I'm here 'cause I'm fascinated by the Mafia genre like everyone else here, but let's not actually pretend like these guys aren't criminals. Brilliant criminals perhaps, with a storied history and a certain code of honour, perhaps, moreso than other criminals - but my God, it's the Government's *job* to catch and prosecute known offenders. Of course the government is trying to uphold the law - and thank God they are. And I think even the most hardened old time LCN guys would agree with that - if you could catch them, the right way, they'd take their sentence and do their time. That's the game. If someone else in the life kills them, that's the game too. Nobody in that life is under any illusions about that. Lorenzo Mannino is a leader in a major, ongoing criminal conspiracy against the public. Don't lose sight of that. 100% Everyone is attracted to the "Good Life" most of these gangsters have these guys grow up poor, but the State has to enforce the law otherwise it will be like the Wild West.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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The FBI isn't focused on the Italians anymore, they investigate anyone who are breaking the Law even Donald Trump! What? Chinese, Russian, Greek, Middle Eastern immigrants do NOT gamble? No one from their own community services their vices? No Chinese Whores? That Chinese men pay for? No Greek Loan Sharks? No middle eastern gambling places getting raided? Where are the indictments? Let's look at all the cases brought against Italians vs all other nationalities combined. If you added up all other nationalities combined and looked at their indictments for gambling and loan sharking in the last 5 years, compare that to cases against Italians.... And then tell me the Gov't does not have a problem with Italians. So, it is either that no other nationality likes to gamble, and they have no one from within the community to service their own OR the Gov't is PREJUIDICE against ITALIANS. Which one is it?
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Busts against other ethnicities happen all the time. Why don't you show the evidence Italians are targeted more often by L.E than others.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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The FBI isn't focused on the Italians anymore, they investigate anyone who are breaking the Law even Donald Trump! What? Chinese, Russian, Greek, Middle Eastern immigrants do NOT gamble? No one from their own community services their vices? No Chinese Whores? That Chinese men pay for? No Greek Loan Sharks? No middle eastern gambling places getting raided? Where are the indictments? Let's look at all the cases brought against Italians vs all other nationalities combined. If you added up all other nationalities combined and looked at their indictments for gambling and loan sharking in the last 5 years, compare that to cases against Italians.... And then tell me the Gov't does not have a problem with Italians. So, it is either that no other nationality likes to gamble, and they have no one from within the community to service their own OR the Gov't is PREJUIDICE against ITALIANS. Which one is it? The bottom line is that investigations and arrests targeting Italians and the so-called "Mafia" sell. The prosecutors get their funding approved from Washington. LCN is "sexy" and sells newspapers and garners headlines. The mystique, the funny nicknames, the "code of honor." All these things conjure up images of The Godfather. To this very day, the public loves it! These other groups you speak of? Not so much! Nobody knows or cares about a Jose Rivera, Gui Chin, or a Sergi Nemerov
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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/quote] NYMAFIA The bottom line is that investigations and arrests targeting Italians and the so-called "Mafia" sell. The prosecutors get their funding approved from Washington. LCN is "sexy" and sells newspapers and garners headlines. The mystique, the funny nicknames, the "code of honor." All these things conjure up images of The Godfather. To this very day, the public loves it!
These other groups you speak of? Not so much! Nobody knows or cares about a Jose Rivera, Gui Chin, or a Sergi Nemerov [/quote]
Well said. No one cares about the bloods , crips, latin kings, mexican mafia, or other ethnic organized crime. They dont sell newspapers. There certainly isnt anything sophisticated about bloods and crips. I remember a few years back when a so called leader of the latin kings was arrested at a mcdonalds( im serious). He was wearing baggy pants and dressed llike a 12 year old. He was in his 40’s and looked ridiculous.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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No I do not believe that is the case.
Every boss is not being targeted by the feds everyday 24/7
You have the Squads that are always investigating the families however, that is different.
Case in point Matty Madonna and Steven Crea, they became targets after they ordered the hit on Meldish.
Being a target the feds are expending a TREMENDOUS amount of resources on that TARGET, which amounts to BIG,BIG MONEY…
I.E. let’s say they plant 10 bugs they need to have agents listening to those bugs 24/7.
The Feds LOVE going after murders because it’s easy to get guys to flip when they are facing possible life sentences.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Gambling is not a priority for FBI anymore yeah there are some cases but it's socially accepted, drug trafficking, weapons trade, violence, extortion that are the crimes. [quote=Hollander]@ BensonHURST Gambling is not a priority however, it is low hanging fruit. A lot of it going on And easy to prove. The feds need two predicate acts to bring a Rico Case and almost all today involve gambling. A gambling charge will bring someone probation if you turn that gambling into a RICO even on the smallest level you are looking at a few Years. Gambling and loan sharking which go hand and hand.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Busts against other ethnicities happen all the time. Why don't you show the evidence Italians are targeted more often by L.E than others. It is always difficult to prove a negative. The only to prove it is to look and see what if any indictments have been brought against these other ethnic groups, that have known O.C. groups I.E. Chinese, Greeks and Russian. So if you google the term Chinese gambling busts you will see you get some really big hits in China and in other countries. Then google Chinese gambling busts in America, and you get NOTHING REALLY. So as I said gambling exists across almost all nationalities however, in America it is really only illegal for Italians. Most people on here know this already.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Busts against other ethnicities happen all the time. Why don't you show the evidence Italians are targeted more often by L.E than others. It is always difficult to prove a negative. The only to prove it is to look and see what if any indictments have been brought against these other ethnic groups, that have known O.C. groups I.E. Chinese, Greeks and Russian. So if you google the term Chinese gambling busts you will see you get some really big hits in China and in other countries. Then google Chinese gambling busts in America, and you get NOTHING REALLY. So as I said gambling exists across almost all nationalities however, in America it is really only illegal for Italians. Most people on here know this already So you can't prove it and are just whining about Italians being arrested for committing crimes.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Busts against other ethnicities happen all the time. Why don't you show the evidence Italians are targeted more often by L.E than others. It is always difficult to prove a negative. The only to prove it is to look and see what if any indictments have been brought against these other ethnic groups, that have known O.C. groups I.E. Chinese, Greeks and Russian. So if you google the term Chinese gambling busts you will see you get some really big hits in China and in other countries. Then google Chinese gambling busts in America, and you get NOTHING REALLY. So as I said gambling exists across almost all nationalities however, in America it is really only illegal for Italians. Most people on here know this already. probably italian mafia in USA is more involved in gambling than other groups that's why there are more indictments against them
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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don't use logic against them it's because they're Italian and fbi bad
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Its because LCN is much more structured and they are the only group that can infiltrate unions and entire industries. Imagine a blood or crip trying to control a pension fund???? Lol I agree with your point Lenox, the point I am trying to make is a little different. You have posters on here that think it’s not happening. I am not talking about street gangs: Gambling in China, by Chinese OC brings hundreds of millions of dollars If you look at some of the crack downs in China by the Govt https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-1...-of-cross-border-gambling-101617760.html$150 Billion Chinese don’t gamble Not in America
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Its because LCN is much more structured and they are the only group that can infiltrate unions and entire industries. Imagine a blood or crip trying to control a pension fund???? Lol I agree with your point Lenox, the point I am trying to make is a little different. You have posters on here that think it’s not happening. I am not talking about street gangs: Gambling in China, by Chinese OC brings hundreds of millions of dollarsp If you look at some of the crack downs in China by the Govt https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-1...-of-cross-border-gambling-101617760.html$150 Billion Chinese don’t gamble Not in America I agree. There is an obvious bias against Italians. As far as I remember, the Italians never rioted and destroyed communities. Only one group does that.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Its because LCN is much more structured and they are the only group that can infiltrate unions and entire industries. Imagine a blood or crip trying to control a pension fund???? Lol I agree with your point Lenox, the point I am trying to make is a little different. You have posters on here that think it’s not happening. I am not talking about street gangs: Gambling in China, by Chinese OC brings hundreds of millions of dollarsp If you look at some of the crack downs in China by the Govt https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-1...-of-cross-border-gambling-101617760.html$150 Billion Chinese don’t gamble Not in America I agree. There is an obvious bias against Italians. As far as I remember, the Italians never rioted and destroyed communities. Only one group does that. It’s because the Italians were always smart enough to make a profit and not allow the government to steal it.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Busts against other ethnicities happen all the time. Why don't you show the evidence Italians are targeted more often by L.E than others. It is always difficult to prove a negative. The only to prove it is to look and see what if any indictments have been brought against these other ethnic groups, that have known O.C. groups I.E. Chinese, Greeks and Russian. So if you google the term Chinese gambling busts you will see you get some really big hits in China and in other countries. Then google Chinese gambling busts in America, and you get NOTHING REALLY. So as I said gambling exists across almost all nationalities however, in America it is really only illegal for Italians. Most people on here know this already. The only people who believe what you're saying are people who sympathize with the mafia. I don't think you sharing a couple links proves anything at all. Here's a 2022 Asian gambling bust in the US. I guess I just proved that other ethnicities are targeted by law enforcement. https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/p...dictments-alleging-gambling-dens-bribery
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Busts against other ethnicities happen all the time. Why don't you show the evidence Italians are targeted more often by L.E than others. Can you show us thee busts against other ethnicities, such as Egyptians or other Arabs who run gambling places in New York and elsewhere? Same for Asians, Greeks, or others. There are dice games called Barbiuit or a similar spelling, Arabs and Greeks are big into them. Counterfeit goods and smuggling are big, show us the busts of other groups in these. Do you live in the United States? If you are in a major city and unaware of this, that makes you clueless.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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One Asian bust for every 15 ones of Italians. Busts against other ethnicities happen all the time. Why don't you show the evidence Italians are targeted more often by L.E than others. It is always difficult to prove a negative. The only to prove it is to look and see what if any indictments have been brought against these other ethnic groups, that have known O.C. groups I.E. Chinese, Greeks and Russian. So if you google the term Chinese gambling busts you will see you get some really big hits in China and in other countries. Then google Chinese gambling busts in America, and you get NOTHING REALLY. So as I said gambling exists across almost all nationalities however, in America it is really only illegal for Italians. Most people on here know this already. The only people who believe what you're saying are people who sympathize with the mafia. I don't think you sharing a couple links proves anything at all. Here's a 2022 Asian gambling bust in the US. I guess I just proved that other ethnicities are targeted by law enforcement. https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/p...dictments-alleging-gambling-dens-briberyAbout one Asian bust for every 15 ones of Italians. Took you a while to find that one. Admit when you are wrong.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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How does my post prove your point? How do you know how long it took me to find it? How am I wrong?
You said other ethnicities don't get busted for gambling in the US and I go and search gambling busts and the first result that came up is a mid 2022 Asian bust. I'm not scouring the entire internet for these indictments. They do happen, you just want to bitch and moan about mobsters being arrested because you're fanboys.
You didn't see a RICO charge? When did that become a requirement? You said gambling busts. Its hilarious when people try moving the goal posts when they get proven wrong. Don't be one of those people.
I'll go a put together a list of non Italian gambling busts like you guys asked after you guys prove law enforcement specifically target Italians more than other ethnicities as you claim like I asked the other day.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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I'm here simply asking you to prove what you're so certain is happening. I can go and put together a list but why do I have to when you or the other guy won't even try to prove what you're claiming. I asked first and the reply I got was no you prove it and since I won't that makes me wrong and you right apparently. You guys are something else
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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The proof is all the indictments vs. Italians; I could not possibly post them all, there are just too many over the past 5 years. Furthermore there is no need to as almost all on here know this to be a FACT.
The proof is what I posted that there was an outdoor casino in China town and the operators received tickets.
The first thing that I said was that if you added up all indictments against Italians Vs. other nationalities named below combined, in the past 5 years what you will see is that the FBI is PREJUDICED against Italians.
Meaning they charge them more often and the charges are more serious.
1) Chinese 2) Russian 3) Greek
BREAKDOWN ----> (SO IF I AM ASKING YOU TO ADD UP INDICTMENTS AGAINST OTHER NATIONALITIES I AM SAYING THEY DO GET INDICTED)
I also, said that gambling is only illegal for Italians.
BREAKDOWN ------> (THAT IS AN EXAGGERATION; I AM FULLY AWARE THAT ON THE LAW BOOKS IT DOES NOT SPECIFICALLY STATE THAT GAMBLING IS ONLY ILLEGAL FOR ITALIANS).
BREAKDOWN ------> (PREJUDICED AGAINST ITALIANS= MEANING THE FBI/L.E. WILL INDICT ITALIANS MORE OFTEN THAN OTHER NATIONALITIES AND WHEN THEY ARE CHARGED THEY WILL BE CHARGED WITH MORE SERIOUS CHARGES).
I than posted two articles the first was to prove the point that when other nationalities are charged they are given a slap on the wrist. That article was about the outdoor casino'a and it stated that the operators received TICKETS.
The second article I posted was to show that gambling in China is HUGE, I posted about $150 Billion dollar gambling bust. You do not see rings that big in America.
I posted that to show everyone that the Chinese gamble as much as Italians.
YOU than posted an article about Chinese being indicted in C.A. the crimes they committed were VERY SERIOUS, however, according to that article no R.I.C.O. charges were brought.
The indictment describes violence tied to the gambling dens, including a November 2020 shooting at one of the casinos that left an employee with a bullet wound to the neck. “Illegal gambling locations create an increase in violent crime, adversely impact the quality of life of our communities, and cause disruption to our neighborhoods and our law-abiding business partners,” Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin said in a statement. A second indictment tied to the same multi-agency operation alleges that two men – Vincent Randal Pimental, 30, of Santa Ana and Steven Gallegos Saenz, 39, of Whittier – ran an extortion scheme targeting other small businesses that were also operating as illegal gambling operations. Claiming to be “mafia,” the two men demanded protection money from the business, prosecutors allege. When one business – a Santa Ana video rental shop – refused to pay, prosecutors allege that Pimental, Saenz and other men robbed it at gunpoint, stealing gambling machines, computer equipment and thousands of dollars in cash. “The defendants flouted the law and used enforcers with rival gangs to get victims to comply through the use of intimidation and violence in order to further their illicit network and generate profits,” Kristi Johnson, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, said in a statement. A third indictment alleges that two men and a woman – Ricardo Nunez, 44, of Anaheim, Marcus Loomis, 37, of Barstow and Vanessa Galloway, 37, of Barstow – took part in a drug deal involving methamphetamine at different illegal casino in Anaheim.
BREAKDOWN—-) CLEARLY THESE GUYS WERE INDICTED, AS I SAID THEY DO GET INDICTED, HOWEVER, IN THAT ARTICLE I DO NOT SEE ANY R.I.C.O. CHARGES BEING BROUGHT AGAINST THEM. R.I.C.O. CASES INVOLVE MORE JAIL-TIME AND ARE EASIER TO PROVE.
The article that you posted helps prove my point that even when they do get “KNOCKED” they do not get ‘KNOCKED AS HARD AS ITALIANS DO”
I believe and most on here agree if these crimes were committed in BENSONHURST BROOKLYN, by Italians that they would most likely almost definitely been hit with R.I.C.O. charges.
So your article helps prove the point that I have made that the FBI is PREJUDICED AGAINST ITALIANS.
BREAKDOWN ------> (FBI INDICTS ITALIANS MORE OFTEN AND WHEN THEY ARE INDICTED THE CHARGES ARE MORE SERIOUS THAN, CHINESE, RUSSIANS and GREEKS). ` The goal post seems pretty cemented.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Lol that "Colombus Day" episode is legendary.
Anyway, it's a given fact there's a ton of non-Italian gambling going on in NY/NJ but still the amount of LCN illegal gambling busts are disproportionate. You just have to look at the stats to see that. Chinese, Russians, Vietnamese, Albanians, Greeks, Koreans and Israelis - whether they're Jewish or Arab - all have plenty of illegal gambling going on in the area and they do get busted for this much less often.
There's lots of illegal gambling rings active in the Deep South, but the last Mississippi or Arkansas illegal gambling bust I can find is from 2021. Doesn't mean they're inactive, they're just not under a magnifying glass the way LCN is.
You think Armenians, Mexicans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Salvadorans, Koreans and Samoans don't have a truckload of illegal gambling going on in California? Or the Hmong in Minnesota? They all got lots going on. And they DO get busted - there were quite a lot of recent Asian and Hispanic illegal gambling busts in California - but the main difference here is that they all just take a quick plea deal, get a slap on the wrist and off they go.
A slap on the wrist is not what Mannino's going to get.
The only community that gets busted more frequently than Italian-Americans for operating an illegal gambling ring seem to be Native Hawaiians on the island - every year there are like more than 30 gambling raids over there. And that's largely because gambling as a whole is illegal in Hawaii.
And it's a guarantee that in the past few years in any of these communities there's someone who's gotten his kneecap smashed or someone that lost a finger because he couldn't get out of some debt. They all get into loansharking...not just the Italians.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that - at least in a first world country - no other criminal organization has ever been as infiltrative or as economically powerful as the American Mafia was in their prime. The feds are gonna do everything in their power to make sure it will never again be the way it was. So every time an Italian surname is brought into connection with something illegal going on, they're gonna have Nam flashbacks.
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Re: Lorenzo Mannino Targeted By FBI
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Serbian-American Gangster & Ex-Union Leader Tied Together Forever By A Wired-Up 'Plumbing Contractor' From Long Island Mileta (Michael Michael) Miljanic, the leader of a Serbian-American gang who allegedly partnered on construction schemes with the Gambino crime family has pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges that could cost him $800,000 and three years behind bars, Gang Land has learned. The guilty plea by Miljanic, the chieftain of an organized crime outfit known as Grupo Amerika, comes almost two and half years after federal prosecutors publicly named Michael Michael as a partner of the Gambino crime family in a New York construction industry racket. The plea deal does not prevent the feds from charging Miljanic with additional crimes linked to allegations that his business was a "shell company" used by the Gambinos to wash millions of dollars. But Michael Michael seems to be betting that those allegations — and words in a 2020 taped talk in which ex-union leader James Cahill called him a partner-in-crime of Gambino capo Louis (Bo) Filippelli — are just empty words without any hard evidence to back them up.
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