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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #469010
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Federal prosecutors on Wednesday claimed Vincent Artuso's participation in the 1985 assassination of Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano was one reason the alleged mobster should be kept off the street following his indictment last week on racketeering and money laundering charges.

At times Artuso, 63, who lives in an oceanfront condo on Palm Beach, smiled and laughed as prosecutors sought to keep him behind bars until his trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Brian McCormick argued that Artuso was dangerous, a flight risk and could seek to intimidate witnesses in the case.

McCormick also said Artuso was one of four gunmen selected in 1985 by John Gotti to hit then Gambino boss Paul Castellano outside a Manhattan steak house so the ambitious Gotti could take over the crime family.




"He was at the scene participating in the actual murder," said McCormick, but he said prosecutors never had enough evidence to charge Artuso.

Artuso and five other defendants face a 42-count indictment unsealed last week alleging he supervised a South Florida organization involved in various fraud and money-laundering schemes. His attorney, Michael Tein, has denied the allegations and said his client is innocent.

McCormick outlined some of the evidence in the prosecution case for U.S. Magistrate Linnea Johnson, saying Artuso has been an active member of the Gambino crime family for decades and that he directed the South Florida frauds.

Some of the charges involve a Deerfield Beach-based telemarketing firm - Atlantic Magazine Service - that allegedly sold fraudulent magazine subscriptions nationwide. At various times, the marketing firm also was based in Delray Beach and Pompano Beach.

The men allegedly set up another scheme involving the sale and lease of four buildings in Broward and Palm Beach counties, Illinois and Pennsylvania that defrauded ADT Security Services Inc. of Boca Raton of at least $7 million over five years, the indictment says.

Johnson said she was mindful of the allegations that Artuso is a member of organized crime and that he served federal time in the 1980s for drug distribution and parole violations, but she determined that Artuso is entitled to bail.

"I don't find the evidence overwhelming to this defendant," Johnson said, noting the defendants have been aware of the investigation for about two years and had not fled.

Johnson set Artuso's bail at $225,000 and ordered him to report to probation officials in person twice a week, wear an electronic monitoring device and surrender his passport.

She also set lesser bails for four other defendants - Artuso's son, John Vincent Artuso; Gregory Orr; Robert M. Gannon; and William L. Horton, a former ADT vice president. Attorneys for the men entered not guilty pleas Wednesday and said they would prove their clients' innocence at trial.

A sixth defendant, Philip E. Forgione, is in custody in Pennsylvania, where he also faces charges in two separate federal indictments.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-0130artuso,0,1356983.story


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #469061
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A Bonanno crime family soldier who allegedly ordered the grisly butchering and burning of another mobster at a "haunted" mansion on Staten Island is looking to cut a deal with the government, court filings show.

Gino Galestro, accused of ordering the 2005 hit on Robert McKelvey, 39, is in talks with the Brooklyn US Attorney's Office on a proposed plea; it wouldn't come before Feb. 11, the filings indicate.

The hit was ordered because McKelvey owed Galestro money and had a "big mouth," sources have said.

Galestro allegedly paid gangster Joseph "Joe Black" Young $8,000 to whack McKelvey inside the Kreischer Mansion.

According to papers, Young allegedly lured McKelvey there and tried to strangle him.

When McKelvey broke free, Young allegedly stabbed him, dragged him to a pond and drowned him.

On Galestro's orders, Young then allegedly hacked the body into pieces and burned them in the mansion's furnace. Young has also been charged in the case.


http://www.nypost.com/seven/01312008/news/regionalnews/deal_eyed_in_haunted_mob_slay_778576.htm


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #469082
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Five men were convicted on charges they stole 53 million pounds ($105 million) from a Securitas AB depot after kidnapping the manager and his family in the largest cash robbery in U.K. history.

The five men were convicted at London's Central Criminal Court today after a seven month trial, a court official said in a telephone interview. Two other men were acquitted of charges related to the crime.

Prosecutors claimed the group, who all denied wrongdoing, masterminded and carried out the February 2006 theft from the depot in Tonbridge, England, which stored money for the Bank of England and other businesses. Police recovered 21 million pounds and are searching for the remaining 32 million pounds.

Stuart Royle, Lea Rusha, Jetmir Bucpapa, Ermir Hysenaj and Roger Coutts will be sentenced tomorrow.

The defendants were charged with conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to possess a firearm.

Authorities said robbers disguised as police abducted the depot manager at gunpoint and forced him to open the building. Police recovered firearms, flak jackets and a 7.7-ton truck they said was linked to the robbery.

``This was a meticulously organized crime,'' Nigel Pilkington, a Crown Prosecution Service official in the county of Kent, said in a statement. Police will continue to work to recover the robbers' ``ill-gotten gains,'' he said.

A sixth man, John Fowler, was acquitted on all counts today, the court spokeswoman said. A final defendant in the case, Keith Borer, was acquitted of handling stolen goods.

``I am ecstatic. I am just glad to get on with my life,'' Borer said in an interview outside the court.

Michael Boardman, the lawyer for Hysenaj, wasn't in his office and couldn't be reached to comment. Craig Rush QC, Fowler's lawyer, also wasn't immediately available to comment.

Gisela Lindstrand, a spokeswoman for Securitas Group, said the company needed to examine the court documents and that it was too early to comment.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=agpsgIYJymRM&refer=uk


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #469716
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Andrea Bonaccorso, fingered by supergrass Gaspare Pulizzi as one of the assassins of Nicola Ingarao, the boss who was gunned down in the streets of Palermo the 13th of June 2007, is now working with justice authorities.
Arrested some two weeks ago, Bonaccorso had been charged for the murder because of revelations made by Pulizzi. He has now decided to tell all. According to his statement it was Sandro Lo Piccolo who pulled the trigger. This information apparently confirms statements made by Pulizzi. Relatives of Bonaccorso have already been placed under state protection. The news has been confirmed by both police and judiciary sources. Bonaccorso allegedly drove the motorcycle used by the task force that killed Ingarao in via Pietro Geremia. The man had just come out of the Zisa police station, where he had to show up because of special surveillance impositions. In addition to speaking about the Ingarao murder, Bonaccorso, who belongs to the Brancaccio mafia, admitted to playing an important role within Cosa nostra. Thanks to his part in the Ingarao murder he gained regency of a family located in central Palermo. The assassination of Ingarao represents a strategic murder thanks to which Salvatore Lo Piccolo, father of Sandro, gained leadership of Palermo's families and districts.

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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #469717
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reputed low-level gangster on trial for killing a high-level mobster in a Bronx street brawl is expected to take the witness stand Monday.

Frank Santoro, 59, is on trial for the July 11, 2002, murder of Thomas Pennini, who authorities said was acting as a good Samaritan trying to break up a street fight involving three women - including Santoro's girlfriend.

Bronx Assistant District Attorney Dan McCarthy said Santoro was a man who settled grudges with a bad temper and gun. Santoro's lawyer says his client shot in self-defense because he thought Pennini had a gun.

Santoro's jury trial is being presided over by state Supreme Court Justice David Stadtmauer.

Pennini was gunned down outside a doctor's office in Pelham Bay after he tried to stop a fight that a woman and her daughter were having with Santoro's girlfriend, authorities said.

In the midst of the battle, the girlfriend called Santoro, known as a neighborhood bookmaker, loanshark and leg breaker, on her cell phone.

"Santoro walked up to [Pennini] and pistol-whipped him across the face with that .45-caliber, semiautomatic pistol so hard that bystanders on the street could hear it," said McCarthy during opening statements.

However, according to McCarthy, Pennini "didn't go down, he tried to grab for the gun."

He said Santoro shot Pennini in the stomach and the bullet went through his abdomen and hit every major blood vessel. McCarthy said Santoro "left Pennini dying on a sidewalk."

Authorities said the 6-foot, 280-pound Santoro jumped back into his Chevy Blazer and fled. He was captured nearly two weeks later after a tip from a Daily News reader.

Santoro's lawyer Jack Litman said there is no debate that Santoro shot Pennini, but the shooting was self-defense. He said his client shot "Pennini once in the abdomen" because he thought the shiny blade Pennini had in his hand was a knife.

"But it turned out to be a pair of scissors," said Litman. "He acted instinctively to save his own life. Frank Santoro, before July 11, 2002, had never seen Thomas Pennini. "Never met him, never talked to him and didn't know what he looked like."

Authorities described Pennini, 54, a local businessman, as a high-level independent mobster who worked for the Luchese, Genovese, Bonanno and Gambino crime families. He was particularly close to the Gotti family after having served an eight-year prison term for heroin trafficking a decade ago.

Litman said Santoro called 911 when he found out that the women had gotten into an altercation. He said the shooting was a justifiable and noncriminal killing.

If convicted, Santoro faces 25 years to life in prison.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime..._slay_tale.html


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #469729
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Mr. DeNaples is entitled to the American Constitutional presumption of innocence pending resolution of the case. But assuming the evidence presented as part of the indictment is credible, one can only ask how Mr. DeNaples ever got his slots gambling license from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board with so little apparent scrutiny — or, at least, good judgement.

DeNaples says he barely knew, or didn't know at all, the four Philadelphia and Scranton people the grand jury says DeNaples was deeply involved with. Hence the four charges of perjury.

The grand jury presentment says that DeNaples' relationship to William D'Elia — reputed head of a Scranton area organized crime family — was so close that after DeNaple's father died, DeNaples gave his father's rosary beads to him. Prosecutors say DeNaples was actually a guest at the 1999 wedding of D'Elia's daughter, and that DeNaples' unlisted phone number was found in an address book in D'Elia's car.

Yet DeNaples told the state gaming board that he knew D'Elia only as a customer at his bank and auto parts store.

A deceased alleged former Scranton crime boss — Russell Bufalino —once gave DeNaples the ring he was wearing, according to the grand jury, in addition to three suits of clothes. DeNaples told the gaming board he only knew Bufalino by name.

DeNaples also got the slots license despite a 1978 no-contest plea in a scheme to defraud the federal government. He pleaded no contest following a trial that ended in a hung jury, and was given probation. The spouse of a holdout juror was bribed by a Bufalino crime family underboss, according to an FBI investigation, was convicted, and sentenced to an eight-year term. DeNaples said he knew nothing about it.

Dauphin County prosecutors brought the perjury case to the grand jury after reviewing information provided by the state police. Gov. Rendell brokered an agreement whereby the state police were supposed to provide the same information to the gaming board as part of the slots application review, but the politically connected gaming board awarded the license to DeNaples anyway.

DeNaples' political campaign contributions are in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to press reports, and senior political leaders appoint the gaming board members. Senate Democratic Leader Robert J. Mellow of Lackawanna County, who twice appointed people to the board, is one of the many DeNaples donation recipients.

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080203/NEWS04/802030356


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #470034
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Victoria Gotti says her ex-husband is a deadbeat dad.

The daughter of the late Gambino crime boss John Gotti says she hasn't gotten a penny in rental income from commercial properties owned by her former husband, Carmine Agnello.

That money is supposed to pay the $25,000-a-month in alimony and child support she was awarded in 2003.

"I didn't get anything from that man," Gotti said in an exclusive interview with the Daily News. "I got a house riddled with debt. His obligation to the kids? Nothing."

With income from media jobs and book deals, she's picked up the tab for the upkeep on her mansion in Old Westbury, L.I., health insurance and sizable tuition bills for the private schools their three sons attend.

"Everything I own, I earned, I bought," she said. "It makes me crazy when others are quick to label me a 'princess' or 'spoiled,' as I am neither."

Gotti said she's conflicted about outing Agnello, but the gloves are coming off as the feds intensify efforts to seize and sell commercial properties he owned to satisfy an $8.7 million debt to the government. She's back in federal court today for legal arguments. In the divorce judgment, Agnello authorized Gotti to collect rent on the properties.

Agnello's lawyer refused to comment.

Gotti insists the tenants have refused to pay her, but she wouldn't say who she thinks is getting the rent money.

Asked whether Agnello would get away with ignoring his family obligations if her father was alive, Gotti said, "I would bet the farm [he wouldn't]."

"He always tried to impress my father about a house he was buying, or a property or a brand new car," she said. "It was always to let my father think he was a sport."

Agnello, 47, who was released from prison last month after serving nine years for racketeering, once operated a car shredding business worth millions and will be successful again, Gotti predicted.

"My father used to say, 'Give him a 10-dollar bill, come back and he'll turn it into $100.'"


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/05/2008-02-05_victoria_gotti_says_ex_a_deadbeat_dad.html


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #470195
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An Italian court has seized the financial assets of six Sicilian Mafia clans. These assets include companies, real estate, bank accounts and expensive cars and are valued at 300 million euros.

In the past few yeas, the Italian authorities have scored a number of victories in their fight against the Cosa Nostra. The Cosa Nostra boss of bosses Bernardo Provenzano was arrested in 2006; his successor Salvatore lo Piccolo was arrested at the end of 2007

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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #470377
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Louis Eppolito, a former New York police detective dubbed “Mafia cop” in media reports, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court this morning to one count of filing a false tax return.

Eppolito, who is in federal custody awaiting trial on money laundering and drug distribution charges in New York, appeared with his Las Vegas lawyer, Thomas Naylor, before U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt.

In July 2006, a federal jury in New York convicted the 57-year-old Eppolito and his former partner, ex-New York detective Stephen Caracappa, of participating in eight mob-related killings, but a federal judge later dismissed the case. The government is appealing.

Both men, who retired from the New York City Police Department and moved to Las Vegas in the early 1990s, were accused of working for the Lucchese crime family while they were police detectives.

Eppolito, who wrote the 1992 autobiography, “Mafia Cop: the Story of an Honest Cop Whose Family Was the Mob,” appeared in several movies after his retirement and embarked on a career of writing movie scripts.

Eppolito’s son, Anthony Eppolito, is scheduled to stand trial in U.S. District Court here on March 4 on charges of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.

The elder Eppolito and his wife, Frances Eppolito, were scheduled to stand trial Feb. 25 on three charges of filing false tax returns.

Naylor said Frances Eppolito is expected to avoid trial by entering a federal pre-trial diversion program which, if completed, will result in the dismissal of the charges against her.

The government, Naylor said, has agreed not to oppose giving Louis Eppolito credit for time served behind bars. He has been in custody for 31 months.

He faces a sentence of maximum of 14 months in prison on the tax charge.

According to Louis Eppolito’s plea agreement, he acknowledged owing the Internal Revenue Service $102,108 for the tax years, 2000 through 2002.


Sentencing is set for May 9.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/cops/2008/feb/05/mafia-cop-pleads-guilty-filing-false-tax-return/


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The Target 12 Investigators take you inside the mafia, revealing a partnership you might not expect, the mob and outlaw motorcycle gangs.

The Target 12 Investigators uncover secrets from decades ago. Documents shedding light on an historic partnership between the mob and outlaw motorcycle gangs. But does that relationship still thrive?

At first glance, any relationship between the rough exterior of an outlaw motorcycle gang member and the image of a dapper Italian mobster may appear strange. But it's a loose partnership that has survived for decades.

Motorcycle gangs and La Cosa Nostra; strange bedfellows in the world of organized crime.

Supervisory Special Agent Sallet: "It's a cooperative relationship..."

Here in Rhode Island, the partnership was forged, decades ago.

Major Steven O'Donnell, Rhode Island State Police: "Raymond Patriarca Senior pushed them aside, but had his thugs around him kind of embrace them, where they would pay tribute."

Known simply as "The Man," Raymond Patriarca Senior ran the powerful New England crime family, and nothing happened without his 'OK'.

Major Steven O'Donnell of the Rhode Island State Police says Patriarca looked the other way when bikers committed crimes-of-profit, including moving and manufacturing drugs. The Target 12 Investigators obtained a classified DEA report from that era. In it the feds, in 1979, called it a "marriage of convenience... It allows the [motorcycle gang] To continue its activities without interference from organized crime and in return pays a percentage [to the mob.]"

Supervisory Special Agent Jeffrey Sallet of the FBI Providence, says wiseguys view outlaw biker gangs as valuable in a very specific area.

Supervisory Special Agent Sallet: "Create fear. And I think that's something outlaw motorcycle groups specialize in, is creating fear."

Outlaw bikers were an effective tool in making someone, pay-up. But does that relationship exist today?

Major O'Donnell: "Yes, without question."

Investigators say wiseguys still turn to outlaw bikers as a tool for intimidation. O'Donnell cites a recent case when an associate of the Patriarca crime family, David Achille, was caught on a police wiretap. He was discussing the use of a Hell's Angels member for a classic shakedown.

Major O'Donnell: "They'd have him take a ride and go see one of these people that were affecting the bottom line at their job."

Achille was scooped up by police before anything went down. Special Agent Sallet says for a victim of an extortion case, an outlaw biker is a scary presence.

Supervisory Special Agent Sallet: "They advertise who they are. That's how they generate their fear."

Advertising, like this: gang jackets, patches, tattoos. These pictures are part of a federal criminal case against Jeffrey Dillon. A man the government says is the head of the Fall River motorcycle gang The Sidewinders.

Dillon is facing charges for weapons possession and intent to deal drugs. Prosecutors are using the photographs of Dillon's "one percent" tattoo, as evidence. O'Donnell says the tattoo boasts they are the one percent of biker's that proudly, break the law.

Major O'Donnell: "That puts you in a higher regard in the biker world, which is a warped regard."

The U.S. Attorneys office hasn't linked Dillon to any faction of the Patriarca crime family. Dillon's defense attorney Jack Cicilline, says his client is an avid hunter, and that Dillon was unaware as a convicted felon, he was not allowed to possess firearms.

Dillon's trial is set to begin next month. O'Donnell is quick to point out there is a world of difference between the everyday motorcycle enthusiast and those considered an outlaw. He says the bad guys represent about one percent of the biker population.



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Big" Billy D'Elia is making a lot of people in the underworld very, very nervous these days. They're wondering whether the reputed boss of the Scranton crime family is thinking about talking to the feds about his close relationship with the Mafia in both Philadelphia and New York.

D'Elia's been a good friend to the Philly mob for several decades, including a close relationship with reputed crime boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi. But Big Billy's been sitting in jail for more than a year while awaiting trial on federal charges of soliciting murder, money laundering, witness tampering and 15 other counts.

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"Some guys get tired of waiting," a mob associate tells City Paper. "You got to wonder if he's flipped."

Despite the worries, a source close to D'Elia says the crime boss is Mr. Omerta all the way. "He isn't talking to anyone about anything," the source says. "Billy is old-school. They even dragged him before a grand jury in Harrisburg and he didn't say a damn word."

To be sure, lots of people are hoping that D'Elia keeps his mouth shut. Last year, he was called to testify before a Dauphin County grand jury about his relationship with multimillionaire businessman and Mount Airy Casino Resort owner Louis DeNaples. Since grand-jury testimony is secret, no one really knows if Billy blabbed, but last week DeNaples was indicted for allegedly lying about his relationship with D'Elia and Russell Bufalino, the upstate mob boss who died in 1994. (D'Elia is said to have taken over after Bufalino's successor, Edward Sciandra, grew too old to run the family.)

DeNaples is also charged with perjury for supposedly fibbing to casino license investigators about his relationships with the late Ron White and Shamsud-Din Ali, who was found guilty of public-corruption-related charges. The Dauphin County district attorney claims that Ali and DeNaples discussed using DeNaples' landfill to accept debris from demolished houses in Philly and that Ali arranged for DeNaples' daughter to get a prime parking space at Temple University. The DA also alleges that DeNaples met with White and former Mayor John Street in 1999 when Street was running for mayor. The men supposedly got together at the Radisson Hotel in Scranton where DeNaples allegedly gave White $50,000.

Law enforcement photographed D'Elia visiting DeNaples at his auto parts store in a Scranton suburb, and Pennsylvania Crime Commission reports allege that in the 1980s, D'Elia was a salesman for DeNaples' Keystone Sanitary Landfill. In 1977, DeNaples and three Lackawanna County employees went on trial for fraud; they were charged with falsifying records to obtain $525,000 in federal reimbursements for the 1972 Hurricane Agnes flood. Their trial ended in a mistrial when one of the jurors voted to acquit.

However, DeNaples decided to plead no contest to conspiracy, pay a $10,000 fine and spend three years on probation. Five years later, the feds convicted Scranton mob underboss James Osticco of bribing the lone holdout juror in the DeNaples case.

The 1978 felony conviction didn't disqualify DeNaples from getting a casino license because it happened more than 15 years ago. Now, DeNaples is banned from his own casino while gaming officials argue with Pennsylvania State Police about why they chose not to share information that DeNaples allegedly lied about mob contacts to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

"The staties [state police] have been following around D'Elia and his pals for decades," one law enforcement source tells City Paper. "They have photos of him with politicians and businessmen. They have photos of D'Elia meeting with Philly mobsters on Main Street in Manayunk, in South Philly and on Jeweler's Row. They just wouldn't share their info with the gaming commission. They think they should be doing the background checks, so it's a pissing contest between the state police and the commission."

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He was in Philly a year ago talking with Joe Ligambi. I doubt he flips, he has the John Stanfa demeanor.


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Don't have any of the details yet but one of the local tv news stations is reporting a VERY large roundup of Gambino Family members today. At least 50 of them are being arrested.

EDIT: From the WABC-TV website:



NEW YORK - WABC -- A large number of reputed members of the Gambino crime family -- as many as 50 -- are being busted by federal agents this morning.

Law enforcement officials are calling the biggest mafia roundup in more than 20 years.

Eyewitness News has learned they were nabbed in a multi-agency federal, state and local operation that includes the FBI, ICE, NY State Police, the office of the Attorney General and the NYPD.

Officials say they face charges that include murder, racketeering and extortion. Previously unsolved homicides are also expected to be cleared by the charges.

The arrests were reportedly made in New York City, New Jersey and Long Island.

Details will be released at an 11 a.m. news conference at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Downtown Brooklyn.
(Copyright ©2008 WABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)

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Huge Gambino Family bust here in New York this morning.

Gambino Family Bust


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They've been trying to bring D'Amico down for years.


Thanks for sharing SC & PB.



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 Originally Posted By: Don Cardi
They've been trying to bring D'Amico down for years.



Well, I'll say this--the Feds have longer memories than elephants!

D'Amico is the one guy from Gotti's inner circle that evaded long term prosecution, and they resented him for it. Looks like they got him now. We'll see.


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"...John Gotti Sr.'s brother, Vincent, and his nephew, Richard Gotti Jr."


Two more Gotti's huh?



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"...John Gotti Sr.'s brother, Vincent, and his nephew, Richard Gotti Jr."


Two more Gotti's huh?


Yeah, I guess so. Vicki's kids better be sure to stay in the tanning bed business.


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"...John Gotti Sr.'s brother, Vincent, and his nephew, Richard Gotti Jr."


Two more Gotti's huh?


Yeah, I guess so. Vicki's kids better be sure to stay in the tanning bed business.



Those kids are too stupid to even get themselves arrested!



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 Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
Huge Gambino Family bust here in New York this morning.
Gambino Family Bust

More:

Mass arrests in anti-Mafia sweep in U.S., Italy
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By Edith Honan
1 hour, 18 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police in the United States and Italy arrested 77 suspected members of the Mafia on Thursday, including some of its most wanted leaders, for an array of crimes going back more than 30 years.

The three-year joint investigation sought to prevent organized crime in New York and Sicily reuniting their drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations, officials in both countries said.

U.S. authorities rounded up 58 suspects with the help of an informant deep inside the Gambino crime family. Police said the source helped nail the three top Gambino members not already in jail.

A U.S. grand jury indicted 62 suspects with charges including murder, extortion, loan-sharking, gambling, cocaine and marijuana distribution, money laundering, bribing labor officials and embezzling union funds, U.S. and New York state officials said.

"Organized crime still exists," New York state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo told a news conference. "We like to think it's a vestige of the past. It's not. It is as unrelenting as weeds that continue to sprout in the cracks in society."

The U.S. investigation focused on the Gambino family once run by the late John Gotti. The indictment charges one Gambino family soldier, Charles Carneglia, with at least five murders dating to 1976.

Associates of the Genovese and Bonanno families were also arrested.

More than 300 Italian police were mobilized, mostly in Sicily, in an operation code-named "Old Bridge," arresting 19 suspects and filing new allegations against four others already detained for separate crimes.

Italian prosecutors said the operation sought to block the re-establishment of the New York-Palermo axis, which ran drug trafficking in the 1980s.

"There was an attempt to rekindle ties between Cosa Nostra in Palermo and New York because the Sicilian Mafia wanted to get back into drug trafficking in a big way," top anti-Mafia prosecutor Francesco Messineo told reporters in Rome.

The joint probe focused on the Inzerillo family, which was forced to leave Sicily in the 1980s after a Mafia turf war and rebased in the United States. They became known as "the runaways" and there was a split in the Sicilian Mafia over whether they should be allowed to return.

Among those arrested were suspects linked to Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who was arrested on November 5 in Sicily. He had become the new "boss of bosses" after the arrest in 2006 of Bernardo Provenzano, who had been on the run for 43 years.

Caretaker Prime Minister Romano Prodi praised what he called a "brilliant operation against organized crime."

In what appeared to be a separate operation in Naples, police arrested a suspected leading figure of that southern city's criminal underworld on Thursday.

Vincenzo Licciardi, 42, purportedly a boss of the Camorra crime group, was arrested in a Naples suburb. He had been on the run since 2004 and was one of Italy's 30 most wanted criminals, police said.

(Writing by Daniel Trotta; Additional reporting by Massimiliano Di Giorgio in Rome, Wladimir Pantaleone in Palermo and Laura Viggiani in Naples, editing by Vicki Allen)



I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! tongue lol

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http://www.wnbc.com/download/2008/0207/15242429.pdf

Here is the indictments

30 "made" Gambinos indicted
1 "made" Banannos indicted
31 various NY Mafia associates indicted


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When fans or players vent their frustrations at NBA referee Bob Delaney, the 21-year veteran usually has no problem shrugging them off.

That's because the calls he makes on the hardwood pale in comparison to the ones he had to make as a New Jersey state trooper who went undercover to expose the Mafia in the mid-1970s.

Those days are brought to life in a new book, "Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob," by Delaney and writer Dave Scheiber.

A contemporary (and later friend) of Joe Pistone, the undercover officer who was the inspiration for the 1997 film "Donnie Brasco," Delaney had told his story piecemeal over the years, giving savvy fans material for some creative barbs.

"I was doing a Washington Wizards game when Michael Jordan was making his comeback and it was late in the game and the home team was losing," Delaney said Friday. "I made a foul call and there was a lull and suddenly, a guy gets up and yells, 'Hey Delaney, after that call they should put YOU in the Witness Protection Program!'"

The nearly three years Delaney posed as a crooked operator of a trucking business in northern New Jersey were no laughing matter. He and another state trooper and three FBI agents set up the bogus company to gain insight into the mob's infiltration into legitimate businesses.

Nicknamed Project Alpha, it was the first joint operation of the FBI and the New Jersey State Police aimed at organized crime and it resulted in the arrests of numerous members of the Genovese and Bruno crime families.

Delaney recalled with no small degree of amazement how the mob moved in soon after the company was started and eventually started taking 25 percent of company profits in exchange for steering lucrative contracts and guaranteeing peace with the labor unions.

It didn't stop there, however.

"Pretty soon they'd start billing you for other things, like having you pay for rental cars for their girlfriends or vacations for their families," he said. "Eventually they'd just wipe you out."

Delaney and his fellow officers benefited from the help of Patrick Kelly, a consigliere of the DiNorscio faction of the Bruno crime family who turned informant. Giacomo "Jackie" DiNorscio, who was imprisoned at the time, later served as the inspiration for the 2006 Vin Diesel movie "Find Me Guilty."

The danger of exposure was constant for Delaney, who took the name Robert Covert for the operation and frequently wore a recording device while meeting with mob members.

More lasting was the psychological strain of inhabiting another persona, and Delaney recalled becoming physically ill on numerous occasions. It took him several years after he returned to regular police work before he felt comfortable in his own skin.

"I'd go on investigations and I'd be acting like I was still a mob guy," he said. "It took quite some time because when I look back, a lot of it I repressed. I wouldn't even share my own feelings with other people."

Delaney found solace in basketball, refereeing middle school games in southern New Jersey and eventually working the Jersey Shore summer pro league and earning an invitation to the Continental Basketball Association. He became an NBA referee in the late 1980s and has worked more than 1,200 games, including the 1999 NBA All-Star game.

He declined to discuss details of the recent gambling scandal involving former NBA referee Tim Donaghy other than to express his disappointment that elements of the world he'd once inhabited had resurfaced.

"I've lived through police corruption cases with the New Jersey State Police, and the idea of being painted with the same brush hurts," he said. "It happens in many walks of life, and unfortunately we experienced it. But we'll get through it."


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Indictment provides glimpse of colorful mob nicknames
2/7/2008, 1:59 p.m. EST
The Associated Press

(AP) — Colorful nicknames are sprinkled throughout Thursday's 170-page indictment of dozens of reputed members or associates of the Gambino crime family. Here is a sample.

• Vincent "Elmo" Amarante.

• Thomas "Tommy Sneakers" Cacciopoli.

• Domenico "The Greaseball" Cefalu.

• John "Jackie the Nose" D'Amico.

• Vincent "Vinnie Hot" Decongilio.

• Joseph "Joe Gag" Gaggi.

• Anthony "Buckwheat" Giammarino.

• John "Johnny Red Rose" Pisano.

• Richard "Fat Richie" Ranieri.

• Michael "Mike the Electrician" Urciuoli.





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GAMBINO KIN'S DIAL AND DASH
By MURRAY WEISS, STEFANIE COHEN and ERIC LENKOWITZ
February 9, 2008 -- Bada-brrrrring.

Reputed Gambino capo Nicholas "Little Nick" Corozzo was able to elude the feds' rubout of more than 100 of his associates Thursday - allegedly thanks to a timely, heads-up phone call from his daughter, who had just watched her mobster husband hauled away in cuffs, sources told The Post yesterday.

Vincent "Skinny" Dragonetti was busted as he walked out of his Bellmore, LI, home a few minutes ahead of the early-morning synchronized sweep. That gave his wife, Bernadette, enough time to warn her dad, who lives a few blocks down the same street.

Corozzo was so quick in fleeing that he left behind his wallet, sources said.

Bernadette refused to answer a Post reporter's questions yesterday, slamming the door in his face.

Corozzo remained on the lam as new details emerged about the historic mass arrest - which involved charges of murder, corruption, extortion, drug dealing and loan-sharking from the city to Sicily.

Its central figure, Staten Island truck-company owner Joseph Vollaro, wore a wire for more than two years.

The ex-con provided intricate details of the Gambino crime family's inner workings at meetings and meals with top bosses, sources said.

Vollaro, who had been staring at a life sentence after he was pinched with two kilos of cocaine in 2004, made the deal in exchange for his freedom and entry into the witness-protection program.

His wife has decided not to join him in the program, which he entered last week as the feds were putting the finishing details on Thursday's massive bust, sources said. The couple has no kids.

As valuable as Vollaro was in bringing down one of the city's biggest crime syndicates, the feds apparently didn't know what to expect when he first agreed to help with their large-scale investigation.

Vollaro, who shared a federal prison cell with Corozzo and began doing business with the Gambinos when he got out in 1999, was initially expected to help with a multifaceted national drug investigation. But he cozied up to the "family" so well over the next few years that he was even on the verge of becoming a made man when the hammer fell on the organization, the sources said.

Vollaro's sweetheart deal sickened the rogues gallery of thugs he ratted out.

"Everybody thought he was a nice guy," said Joel Winograd, the lawyer for Leonard "The Conductor" DiMaria, who, among other things, is charged with money laundering, stealing union benefits and gambling.

"He's probably in Hawaii on the beach spending his illegally obtained drug-dealing money right now."

The evidence obtained by Vollaro was a key building block for many of the extortion and racketeering cases.

The multiple murder charges - for crimes that date back as far as 30 years - were brought with extensive wiretap evidence gathered by longtime Gambino associate Peter Zuccaro, 52.

Zuccaro was a key member of one of Corozzo's biggest crews run by Ronnie "One Arm" Trucchio. He and several other associates cut a deal with the feds after his conviction in Tampa, Fla., in 2005 on extortion and other charges.

Zuccaro, a trusted member of the late John Gotti's inner circle, provided a treasure trove of damning evidence - including information on the murder of court officer Albert Gelb, which was allegedly committed by hit man Charles Carneglia.

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Dirty dealings alleged at NASCAR site
By JOHN ANNESE and PETER N. SPENCER
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE


STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Lots of Staten Islanders looked at the proposed NASCAR track and saw a traffic disaster barreling their way.

The Gambino crime family saw a gravy train. The mobsters found a couple of corrupt officials working for the track's developer, set it up so that one of their favored companies would be the only firm laying dirt on the property, then waited for what they expected would be millions of dollars' worth of kickbacks.

That scenario was spelled out in hundreds of pages of federal court documents released yesterday to support one of the largest organized crime roundups in decades and expose the purported grip the mob has had on one of the largest construction markets in the United States.

As a result of the three-year investigation, two former employees of the track developer have been indicted alongside the hierarchy of the Gambino crime family.

The heads of several Staten Island contractors, including a controlling partner in Andrews Trucking Co., the Travis-based carter hired to bring dirt fill to the property for five months in 2006, also were indicted. Agents swarmed the Andrews' lot in Travis Wednesday and took away trucks, computers and financial records.

Had International Speedway Corp. -- NASCAR's sister company and the developer of several of the circuit's racetracks -- succeeded with its controversial proposal to build a raceway on the West Shore, it would have needed roughly 3.8 million cubic yards of clean fill to raise the elevation of the property and cap off an environmental cleanup job.

The Gambinos got a piece of the project in January 2006, the feds allege, when Recine Trucking, a company controlled by Gambino family acting underboss Domenico Cefalu, became one of the first companies hired to bring fill to the site.

And once they had their foot in the door, they kept it there.

Ernest Grillo -- a Gambino soldier and the ex-husband of John Gotti's reputed goumada, Shannon (Sandy) Connelly -- acquired "exclusive dumping rights" for an unnamed businessman who had been paying the Gambinos extortion money for years, according to federal documents. That same businessman made kickbacks to the Gambinos in exchange for permission to run and later sell a cement company on the Island and operate a portable cement plant on the Liberty View Harbor construction site, the feds allege. He also allegedly helped Grillo compile a list of construction companies that would be required to pay tribute to the family.

Over the next five months, the feds allege, Cefalu and four other Gambinos -- three captains, Leonard DiMaria, Nicholas Corozzo and Frank Cali, and a soldier, Vincent Dragonetti -- worked out the details of how much the businessman would have to kick back to the family. They settled on 50 cents per yard of fill for Corozzo and DiMaria, and another 50 cents per yard for Cefalu and Cali. The deal fell through, and a new one was worked out, putting $1 per yard of fill into Corozzo and DiMaria's pockets.

ISC's financial officials had predicted the company would shell out close to $20 million to place the fill on the 675-acre site. The Gambinos would have gotten a $3.8 million slice of that, based on the allegations.

Although the documents don't reveal the name of the fill company being extorted by the Gambinos, ISC hired Andrews Trucking Co. in May 2006, the same month the court papers say the mobsters finalized their kickback arrangements.

CONTAMINATED DIRT

By September, ISC lost its permits to lay fill on the site, after the state Department of Environmental Conservation learned Andrews had been using contaminated dirt.

The developer was slapped with a $562,500 fine last May, and agreed to remove all 44,000 cubic yards that had been placed.

The unnamed businessman also was forced to pay $9,000 to Todd Polakoff, construction manager at the site for an ISC subsidiary, on behalf of his boss, William Kilgannon. Polakoff, 30, and Kilgannon, 49, were both indicted yesterday alongside the entire organizational structure of the Gambino crime family.

Scott Matter, a spokesman for ISC, said both men had worked for North American Testing Company, a design and construction subsidiary of the speedway giant, in 2005 and 2006. Both left the company in December 2006 "for other employment," Matter said.

Matter said ISC first learned of the allegations yesterday, adding that no one from the company or any of its subsidiaries had been questioned by any of the agencies in the probe.

"ISC has not been contacted by law enforcement agencies as part of the investigation leading to today's announcement but stands ready to cooperate in any way possible if asked," he said.

Michael Printup, ISC's project manager for the track proposal and the public face of the speedway developer on the Island, did not return a phone call seeking comment last night.

Although he's not listed as the owner of record for Andrews Trucking, the feds claim Huguenot resident Joseph Spinnato was actually pulling the strings for the trucking firms, along with Master Mix and Dump Masters of N.Y.

Spinnato and Sarah Dauria, the principal of S.R.D. Contracting in Graniteville, then set up "no show" jobs for Gambino associates and looted tens of thousands of dollars from the Teamsters Union's health and pension funds.

The federal documents detail at least a half-dozen alleged conversations between the unnamed businessman mentioned in the NASCAR plot, Ms. Dauria and Spinnato about falsifying company records ahead of audits by Teamsters Local 282 during the past three years.

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Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.




Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #471360
02/09/08 01:10 PM
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A paragraph from another one of the articles that I just read :

Meetings at a nursing home
Some of the defendants allegedly tried to avoid scrutiny by holding meetings at the bedside of the comatose son of a mobster at a nursing home in New Rochelle, N.Y.


This is classic!

Ala SOPRANOS?



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Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.




Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: Don Cardi] #471363
02/09/08 01:20 PM
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It wouldnt suprise me if they actually took that from the Sopranos,mobsters arent the most imaginative people


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Re: Real Life Organized Crime News [Re: chopper] #471376
02/09/08 01:49 PM
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All but 15 made bail, Corozzo being one of the 15.

If you read up on Vollaro, the guy seems like a real scumbag anf appears to be the type that would flip.


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