Gene Borrello interview

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Gang Land News Calls Him A One-Man Crime Wave But Gene Borrello Tells Cosa Nostra News He Worked For Bonanno Family

By Ed Scarpo

Residents of Howard Beach should take a chill pill -- and understand that they have nothing to fear because the wiseguys responsible for terrorizing that Queens neighborhood for years are both in jail.

Their names: alleged Bonanno capo Vinny Asaro, 84, who now spends his days at Springfield MCFP and isn't due out until May 21, 2022, and alleged acting Bonanno capo Ronnie Giallanzo, 49, who calls Butner Medium FCI home these days and is due out on May 21, 2029.

This, in effect, is what former Bonanno associate Gene Borrello wants to tell residents of Howard Beach, he recently told Cosa Nostra News.

"I took orders from Ronnie G and Vinny Asaro," Gene said, "I was a shooter for the Bonanno family."

On Thursday Gang Land News called Gene Borrello an "animal" who "forced himself into the homes of law-abiding citizens, tied them up, placed a gun to their head and stole their life savings and personal belongings." Borrello, as per Gang Land, is a lowlife thug, as well as a one-man crime wave who ran a crew that pulled off terrifying break-ins -- and who also pulled the wool over the eyes of the Feds while helping them put away 20-plus Bonanno badguys including Giallanzo and Asaro.

"I wasn't the boss, Ronnie was -- he was the one who lived in the $3 million house in the corner, not me."

Borrello shot people, but not because he wanted to, he was ordered to. Ronnie sent him with a gun after people: a rival drug dealer in 2005 and someone who owed Giallanzo money in 2011.

For talking to the government, Borrello supposedly got an "early Christmas present last week — a time-served prison term of five years," as Gang Land reported Thursday. Borrello's release supposedly outraged residents of Howard Beach even though, as Gang Land acknowledges, the neighborhood "boasts more than a few wiseguy residents and usually has a high tolerance for mob antics."

Borrello, who apparently isn't among the connected hoods tolerated by the locals, takes deep issue with how Gang Land has portrayed him, telling Cosa Nostra News that those home invasions he was behind were done expressly on the orders of the Bonanno family -- specifically, alleged acting capo Ronnie G and longtime capo Vinny Asaro (among other Bonanno wiseguys, including alleged soldier John (Bazoo) Ragano).

Borrello only robbed houses after he was given the key and intelligence about the homeowner's mob-linked financial situation. In one specific case, the Bonannos told him that the homeowner had been given a large cash payment from the Gambino family.

Gang Land "said I robbed civilians, but they were all loansharks and drug dealers," Borrello tells us.

"People are lying" to Gang Land, Borrello says. "It was all crime figures we targeted."

Borrello isn't claiming he's an angel. Nothing of the sort. In fact he readily discussed his life of crime with us in detail. He also tells us, very sincerely in our humble opinion, that he's no longer in the life and that he has retired from the street and is no longer a lawbreaker.

He wants to tell Jerry Capeci that all the crimes he's committed since 19 (his age at the time of his first arrest) were in service to Cosa Nostra.

"I was doing it for the mob," he says. "I wasn't out there terrorizing people. I only hurt the people Vinny and Ronny had me hurt. I made sure they both stayed multi-millionaires." Gang Land's sources, he says, "are exaggerating all this robbery stuff."

"I was on the street doing all their dirty work, and now they make me look like I was just a dirt bag. Jerry Capeci made me look like a home invasion guy."

(As per Gang Land, Borrello would point to a tattoo of a gun on his belly when he threatened his "victims." Pure nonsense, Gene told us. "I never did that.”)

Borrello has known Giallanzo and Asaro since he was young, noting, "I did a lot of violence for them."

The Feds haven't even released his proffers, and the media only knows "little bits and pieces" of what happened in the various cases he's tied to, he says.

Gene discussed one robbery in particular, noting how a Bonanno soldier had handed him the key to the house that was robbed. "We had to tie up the wife" because she was in the house when she wasn't supposed to be.

That robbery alone netted the Bonanno-linked crew almost a half-million in jewelry and loanshark money. The homeowner, in that case, was robbed because the Bonanno family told Borrello to rob him because they had known --and had transmitted the information to Borrello -- that the homeowner had gotten a large cash payment from alleged Gambino wiseguy Vincenzo (Vinny Carwash) Frogiero. (The homeowner in this case was himself a mobbed up loanshark, in other words.)

"We knew the cash would be in the house," Borrello said, noting that, around that time, there was a beef between the two crime families, the Bonannos and the Gambinos.

Discussing some other crimes he was involved in over the years, Borrello noted how, back in 2005, Ronnie G's brother Richie had handed over a score, a Queens-based storefront where people played cards.

"He never told us whose place it was. I rob the guy for $50,000 in cash and jewelry. It was Angelo Ruggiero's place," meaning the son of the Angelo (Quack Quack) Ruggiero, the former Gambino soldier and yearslong confidant of John Gotti -- who late in life disowned Ruggiero while he was dying of cancer.

After robbing Quack Quack's son inadvertently, they had to give all the money back.

"He ratted us out (to Ruggiero) in two minutes and almost got us killed."

Borrello also allegedly had a consequential connection to one of the many Johns in the Gotti family.

"They also said Gotti's grandson was under me. He was blabbing his mouth off. He went and told the whole neighborhood he blew up a car. That was when he gets locked up on the state case and tells the reporters it was over his name. They are like the Kardashians, the Gottis are like the Kardashians. They will do anything to be on television."

Speaking of one of the shootouts detailed by the Feds, Borrello said, "Ronnie G sent me to kill Chris. I was sent after him after Pudgy (Nicholas Festa) got robbed for the 20th time in a month."

As per the Feds

In 2005, Festa, then a Bonanno associate assigned to Giallanzo, was a large-scale drug dealer and loanshark who had been robbed multiple times.

Festa reported to Giallanzo that he believed that John Doe #5 (Chris) had been involved in the robberies.

John Doe #5 told Giallanzo that he was not involved but Giallanzo did not believe him. Thus, Giallanzo ordered a Bonanno associate (“Associate-1” who is Gene Borrello) to shoot (but not kill) John Doe #5 in retaliation for the robberies.

Associate-1 did as directed and, with other members of Giallanzo’s crew, searched for John Doe #5.

For instance, on one occasion, Giallanzo and defendant Michael Padavona dropped Associate-1 and defendant Michael Palmaccio outside a residence in which they believed John Doe #5 was living and waited for him to come outside. Giallanzo gave both Palmaccio and Associate-1 guns, which they stored in the wheel wells of cars parked along the curb.

After a few hours of waiting without John Doe #5 leaving the residence, Associate-1 and Palmaccio got back into the car with Giallanzo and Padavona and left the area.

On another occasion, Associate-1 was walking near his apartment in Howard Beach and saw John Doe #5 in a vehicle with John Doe #5’s girlfriend (“Girlfriend-1”). John Doe #5 saw Associate-1, exited the car and confronted Associate-1.

Associate-1 then pulled a gun, walked toward John Doe #5 and shot at him, grazing his arm. Girlfriend-1 then struck Associate-1 with her vehicle and sped off. After the incident, Associate-1 reported to Giallanzo, who found out that John Doe #5 had been injured but not killed. ...

[Bklyn21]

Nice post , Gene's right he did all that for Asaro and Giallanzo and it is funny how they call him a dirtbag and everything else ! Lmaoooo ..Palmaccio will be home soon and so will a few others . There was an ongoing feud for awhile between bonnanos and Gambinos it involved Alotta people including Pete Tuccio the dope who was filmed with Merlino at court , He was with Bonannos and then they were out to get him so he somehow jumped over to the side of the Gambinos and then you have him with Grande and Merlino and with Philly like they sent him out there . This shit is funny , Like a soap opera

[Bklyn21]

Cognata eventually went over to the Gambinos , Supposedly he was with them but they weren't protecting him , When he ended up being shot and killed by Joe Amattuccio he was supposedly with Gambinos . Anyways , This crap overlaps so much who knows what goes on

[Bklyn21]

Merry Christmas !

[newera_212]

Its crazy this kid gave an interview already. I wonder where he's living these days, most likely palm beach or broward. I doubt anyone gives him any trouble, especially because the guys he locked up didnt seem like the most well liked guys . Padavona and Palmaccio especially seemed like garbage pals

It doesnt take much to realize as well that this kid was robbing connected people. No shit. Very rare is a home invasion just done at random as a fishing expedition or for fun. All these guys are set up artists. Its hilarious they were going to rob Massino's house, its a shame it didn't happen.

This kid said he was "working for multimillionares"... what are the chances that Asaro was just crying broke all the time and was a big cheap greedy bastard, but was sitting on some cash?

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I wish i could find where i saw the document again but i remember reading a detention memo or a criminal complaint and there were a lot of phone call transcriptions. A lot from Padavona, but the best one was that it was Festa's birthday and he wanted to go out to dinner in Astoria and all the crew members were caught on wire groaning and complaining that they didn't want to go LOL

[TommyNoto]

Cognata eventually went over to the Gambinos , Supposedly he was with them but they weren't protecting him , When he ended up being shot and killed by Joe Amattuccio he was supposedly with Gambinos . Anyways , This crap overlaps so much who knows what goes on

That Cognata kid was clipped ? Interesting

Asaro I have read is a degenerate gambler so absent that it’s likely he would be a millionaire

Those Queens crews generate tons of $. Big younger crews, very active in gambling, drugs and robberies. Still old school mob activity there as they still have some control over the neighborhood. Lots of drugs dealing and robberies

[savior]

Is Ronald Giallanzo 's brother Richie a made man????

[johnny_scootch]

Former Enforcer Rails Against The Bonannos

By Ed Scarpo

Back in the early 1990s, one of longtime Bonanno wiseguy Vinny Asaro's daughters was assaulted.

Donna Cavalcante cracked her over the head with a rock glass in Butterfingers on Crossbay Boulevard after they got into an argument. Donna, at the time, was dating a member of Charles Carneglia's crew. Charlie is the heavy hitter with the Gambino family now serving life.

Vinny Asaro sent his son Jerry to kill Donna, and he almost did, shooting her four times after catching her across the street from Butterfingers at the Shell Bank.

Donna had fled into the ladies room and was shot through the door in the leg and in the ass.

She went to the hospital -- but refused to identify who put the bullets in her.

Then two weeks later, while she was at a payphone -- Vinny Asaro suddenly tapped her on the shoulder. She turned to look at him and he told here, "See how easy it's gonna be?"

Carneglia then stepped in and squashed the feud.... Donna was a female gangster, tougher than some men, vivacious and beautiful...(we wanna meet her.)

Initially, Asaro apparently sought to put Carneglia off, telling him: "I don't go to sitdowns."

"Vinny was a gangster's gangster," Gene Borrello tells us.

He had actually complimented Vinny, which baffled us. But then he got to the point...

"I abused women, they said," Gene tells us. "They tried to make me look like that."

"They abused women. Women know him as a rapist They accused Vinny of multiple sex crimes."

Nothing came of it, though, because they threatened the family of one woman, and probably others, because none of the women who came forward would ultimately testify against him. (Three guesses who "they" is...)

For being a Bonanno enforcer, Borrello faced damning testimony regarding extensive violence from more than two-dozen mob "rats" (most of whom, Gene assures us, are operating right now).

He's all of 35 years old and faced a life sentence. He's already served more than five years and is none too pleased that some of his old pals in the Bonanno family have apparently been doing their best to muddy his name.

As a result, we also offer the following:

When former boss Joe Massino flipped in 2005, Michael Padavona knew that gold bars were hidden in his house. (Mike's friend had installed the safe in Massino's house.) Padavona told Asaro and Asaro sent word to rob Massino (the Feds would say they found $3 million in gold bars in Massino's house).

"Vinny wanted me and Bobbie G and Mike Padavona to home invade Massino's house. We were about to go in, but then he told us he thought the Feds had" the gold. So Asaro called the robbery off.

"Vinny wanted us to tie up the whole family. He kept telling us, You gotta hit that house! We cased the place," but then they called it off....

[newera_212]

Who's the "Bobby G" he referred to when talking about robbing Massino's house? Asaro must have plucked this kid out of the choir, Massino flipped when he was like 19 or 20

[Bklyn21]

Its crazy this kid gave an interview already. I wonder where he's living these days, most likely palm beach or broward. I doubt anyone gives him any trouble, especially because the guys he locked up didnt seem like the most well liked guys . Padavona and Palmaccio especially seemed like garbage pals

It doesnt take much to realize as well that this kid was robbing connected people. No shit. Very rare is a home invasion just done at random as a fishing expedition or for fun. All these guys are set up artists. Its hilarious they were going to rob Massino's house, its a shame it didn't happen.

This kid said he was "working for multimillionares"... what are the chances that Asaro was just crying broke all the time and was a big cheap greedy bastard, but was sitting on some cash?

I'm not sure if he's talking about Bobby Love ? Or Bobby Giallanzo but Palmaccio was also a multimillionaire and was supposedly kicking up 75 grand a month until he was SHELVED for over a month by Jerry Asaro and Ronnie G for posting some type of pics to one of the Social media sites with him in Speedos doing something they didn't like or deemed unacceptable and an embarrassment to the family , He was ordered to pack up and leave the neighborhood in 3-4 weeks , After meeting at the Bethpage motel with higher ups he was taken off the shelf . At that time Padavona was the acting Capo of that crew for awhile until he was taken down in the whole bust . Cognate was shot and killed by Joe Amattuccio in Joe's apartment after Cognate stalked and threatened him and his GF all day until he saw Amatuccio and chased him inside and kicked in the door while threatening and pointing a gun at Amattuccio threatening to kill him , Cognate pistol whipped him and he ran into his back bedroom with cognate in pursuit , Amattuccio got his own gun and shot Cognate in the bedroom 3 times and killed him . He's been locked up on Rikers for over 2 years now awaiting his day in court on an A. Murder felony charge . I think Borrello was 23 or 24 at the time they wanted to take down Massino , I could see Asaro sitting on lots while crying poverty lol.. He would hold court at the Lindenwood shopping center where he had his club and could be seen outside in the lot holding court and having meetings with sometimes 20 plus guys at a time with guy's from all over , Guys with Florida plates , Connecticit , NY and was definitely a Capo at the time , This was like 2011-2012 at the time . I went out with a girl from HB at that time who was living in Brooklyn for the last 11 years before that and she was all into the BS neighborhood politics along with the rest of her family and would always point him out when we traveled back over there at times , Thank God I got the hell away from her ! I'd get to hear all the neighborhood BS all the time

[Bklyn21]

Didn't Borrello go back to HB ?

[Bklyn21]

Is Ronald Giallanzo 's brother Richie a made man????

No I don't think so

[falco]

@newera_212

this one? the incident with festa's birthday is on page 61

https://www.docketbird.com/court-docume ... -00005-001

[Bklyn21]

@newera_212

this one? the incident with festa's birthday is on page 61

https://www.docketbird.com/court-docume ... -00005-001

I'm interested in the part where Ronnie One arm is found with a proposal/Members list ! Never heard a peep about that before reading this indictment report . No repercussions for that that I've heard ? As Ronnie then went on to represent himself and threw Alite and Jr.Gotti under the bus blaming them and mainly Alite for everything lol....And he's not a Rat !? Unbelievable