Eld wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 9:20 pm
The Colombo family put in a claim against Vincent Basciano Sr for the reason that they (the Colombo family) had killed Vincent Basciano's father years earlier.
That was a reference to Colombo associate Gennaro Basciano, who it turned out was not Vincent Basciano's father.
MAFIA TAPS MAFIA; TWO ARE INDICTED
By Mary Breasted
Sept. 25, 1974
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Organized‐crime members in Brooklyn have been wiretapping the telephones of their enemies illegally in attempts to gain the advantage in the currept mpb wars, Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold said yesterday.
The statement came during a news conference at which Mr. Gold announced the indictment on eavesdropping charges of a telephone ‐company employe and a reputed member of the Gallo faction of the Joseph A. Colombo Sr. Mafia “family.”
Mr. Gold displayed a tape‐recorder casette and wires that he said had been’ attached to the home telephone of Gennaro Basciano, a member of a breakaway faction of the Gallo mob who has disappeared.
Mr. Gold also displayed photographs of the Brooklyn apartment where he said the phone tappers had set up recording equipment to monitor the Basciano telephone. The photographs showed wires going through a door to a transmitter and then to the tape recorder.
The equipment had been set up in Apartment 4R at 424 Clinton Street, which was rented by Victor lucci, 54, Mr. Gold said. Mr. Iucct's daughter, Jacqueline, 23, is the girlfriend of Steven Boriello, a reputed member of the loyal Gallo faction, according to Mr. Gold.
She was found monitoring the wiretapping equipment when detectives from the District Attorney's office conducted a court‐authorized search of the apartment on Sept. 9, Mr. Gold said. She was arrested for eavesdropping.
Two Are Indicted
Mr. Gold said that James Geritano, 38, a reputed Gallo member who lives at 564 East 83d Street, had been indicted on 11 counts of eavesdropping and on charges of unlawfully obtaining information from Paul Moss, a telephone‐cornpany employe, on where to install the tap on Mr. Basciano's phone.
Mr. Moss, who lives at 25 Plaza. Street in Brooklyn, was also indicted on eavesdropping charges,, and for alleged criminal facilitation.
Mr. Gold said that the entrance of the building where Mr. Basclano lived, 210 President Street, could be seen from the lucci apartment.
He said his office believed that the wiretap had been installed in an attempt by the loyal Gallos to discover the whereabouts of Mr. Basciano, who belongs to a breakaway faction of the Gallo mob that joined the Colombos in their current war with the Gallos.
2 Shot Last July
Mr. Basciano and Sam Zahralban were both shot in the feet outside the Henryville Social, Club, 3901 Fort Hamilton Parkway, last July 1. With them at the time was John Cutrone, the reputed leader of the breakaway Gallo faction. Mr. Gold said that all three men had gone into hiding.
The Gallos, once headed by Joseph Gallo, have been at war with the main branch of the Colombo Mafia family since Joseph was fatally shot in April of 1972. The war Intensified this summer after a faction of the Gallo mob broke to join the Colombos.
All factions were originally members of the Joseph A. Colombo Mafia fathily. An old rift, dating to the early nineteensixties, when the Gallo brothers were fighting the then family boss, Joseph Profaci, hag contributed to the current bitterness of the family split.
Mr. Gold's office said that eight men had been wounded or killed in the mob wars since the beginning of July. The last two to be wounded, members of the loyal Gallo faction, were shot with 22 caliber bullets. A 22‐caliber rifle with a highpowered sight, was found in the Iacci apartment, Mi. Gold said yesterday.
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