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Hailbritain wrote:
> By Jerry Capeci
> 
> Ex-Mob Busters Take On A Billionaire Bizman Sex Pervert Worse Than Jeffrey
> Epstein
> 
> Gang Land Exclusive!Peter NygardIt is a very different kind of case,
> against a very different kind of target, but two of Gang Land's most
> prolific mob busters have teamed up to investigate a billionaire fashion
> mogul who allegedly led a secret life for years as a sexual predator of
> young women.
> 
> Decades after they helped take down legendary Mafia boss Vincent (Chin)
> Gigante, former assistant U.S. attorney Dan Dorsky and ex-FBI agent Mike
> Campi have been digging into massive rape allegations against Peter Nygard,
> an internationally known fashion designer with an office and a home in
> Manhattan. And in a new book that tags Nygard as an even worse sexual
> predator of young women than Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Cosby, and Harvey
> Weinstein, the veteran investigators slam the billionaire businessman as a
> "sociopath" and a "wealthy freak."
> 
> In Predator King, investigative reporter Melissa Cronin used numerous
> details that Dorsky and Campi obtained on a trip to the Bahamas about the
> "pamper parties" that Nygard held at his Bahamas estate in
> portraying him as a sexual pervert who allegedly raped girls as young as
> 14. Like Epstein and Weinstein, Nygard allegedly covered up his actions for
> years through cash payoffs to his victims and corrupt officials in the
> Bahamas, the U.S. and Canada.
> 
> Dan DorskyThe duo say they spoke to a "staggering" number of
> Bahamans who told them about the "orgies." They also encountered
> many who knew or heard about numerous Nygard victims.
> 
> And in an investigative coincidence, the duo found themselves staying at
> the same Bahamas hotel where Campi had, two decades earlier, overseen a
> meeting between two suspects in an undercover probe who were hit with
> racketeering charges with Gigante and current boss Liborio (Barney) Bellomo
> in 2001.
> 
> Cronin's book was a tightly guarded secret until last Friday, when Skyhorse
> Publishing distributed it with no prior notice to help insure it was the
> first book about Nygard, a 78-year-old Finnish-born Canadian. In late
> February, FBI agents raided his New York and Los Angeles offices, two days
> after the New York Times ran a 4400 word story that accused Nygard of
> raping 14-year-old girls at his Nygard Cay Estate in the Bahamas.
> 
> Since then, news outlets around the globe have jumped on the burgeoning
> story, noticing, as Cronin wrote, that Prince Andrew and his children were
> photographed at Nygard Cay in 2000 and that "Nygard's property was
> featured on several episodes of Robin Leach's Lifestyles of the Rich and
> Famous, as well as an ABC special called Life of Luxury, hosted by George
> Hamilton."
> 
> Melissa CroninOther reported Nygard guests, she wrote, "have included
> Sean Connery, Robert DeNiro, Lenny Kravitz, Michael Jackson, George H. W.
> Bush, Barbara Bush, Lee Iacocca, Sylvester Stallone, Jessica Alba, and
> memÂbers of the Kennedy clan. (All seem to have had no idea what was
> really happening there.)"
> 
> In Predator King, Cronin writes that Nygard was first charged with rape at
> age 28. It happened on January 16, 1980, when the "dashing fashion
> designer" who had already fathered children with three different
> women, was arrested in his home-town of Winnipeg on rape allegations lodged
> by an 18-year-old woman, and released on a $7500 bond.
> 
> Several weeks later, Cronin writes, "that case vanished into the ether
> after the victim declined to testify in court" and "the case was
> stayed — an extremely rare occurrence in Canadian courts." Since then,
> she wrote: "More than 40 years later, Nygard has never been arrested
> for a similar offense."
> 
> But in a civil suit filed in February that gibes with accounts she got from
> numerous women when she traveled to the Bahamas to investigate rape and sex
> abuse allegations against Nygard, Cronin wrote, 10 women have charged that
> Nygard "regularly forced" so-called "paid-girlfriends"
> to accompany him to "swingers' clubs" in Manhattan and "find
> couples for him to have sex with."
> 
>  Predator KingCronin made good use of the findings by Campi and Dorsky, who
> told Gang Land they interviewed some 50 residents and workers during their
> work in the Bahamas. Many were residents whom they approached at random to
> ask about the "wild parties" that took place at Nygard's gaudy,
> Mayan-inspired estate that he named Nygard Cay. The author used quotes from
> at least five persons they interviewed. 
> 
> "[Girls] would come out of the hotel, catch a cab, and then they would
> get in," one taxi driver told the duo, Cronin wrote. "He had a
> secretary or something down there. They'd have the cab number, and they'd
> call when they needed the girls to come back uptown (to Nassau). I never
> had a conversation with them, only sometimes when they'd go down there,
> they'd be upset, talking amongst themselves."
> 
> "Another driver described rumors of 'wild parties,'" Cronin
> wrote.
> 
> "He had a reputation for giving wild parties," said this driver,
> who added, "Because of how I grew up, I didn't expect an adult to take
> advantage of kids. But there are people with money — as I'm sure you know —
> who think they can buy anything and get away with anything, and they take
> advantage. The women would have their names on a sheet that the security
> guard could check. If somebody wanted me to pick them up at a certain time,
> they'd leave my name and the taxi number at the gate, so I wouldn't have
> any problem getting in."
> 
> Vincent Gigante"Tragically, even those who had a front-row seat to the
> constant flow of girls to Nygard's home turned a blind eye thanks to
> cultural standards that devalued young women, an older female driver told
> our team," Cronin wrote, noting that the driver's opinion was shared
> by many adults.
> 
> "Many of the drivers used to drop girls down there," she said.
> "But then I say, you know, if you don't know what you're going for,
> why are you going to that house? Why are you catching taxis to go there?
> And then you decide, 'OK, he raped me.' I'm a little skeptical about that
> raping business, because what are you doing there in the first place?"
> 
> Another woman taxi driver, who had visions of becoming a model, said years
> ago she was tempted to attend a Nygard party when she was invited by a
> friend, but she decided against it. "I had three older brothers who
> would kill me," she told Campi and Dorsky over lunch at the Arawak Cay
> Fish Fry.
> 
> Liborio BellomoDorsky and Campi were recruited by book pblisher Tony Lyons
> who was seeking law enforcement expertise to help cement Cronin's findings.
> The two investigators worked together during their years with the federal
> government and have also teamed up on occasion since moving on. Lyons
> commissioned the men to write the foreword and afterword of the book
> because they had "notable reputations and backgrounds" in law
> enforcement, said Skyhorse spokesman Hector Carosso.
> 
> Campi, 64, spent a few years working official corruption cases, but spent
> most of his 20-plus years as an FBI agent focusing on the powerful Genovese
> crime family. In addition to being the "case agent" for
> convictions in the case of Gigante, Bellomo, and 54 others, he oversaw
> dozens of other cases, and supervised the 150 members of the New York FBI's
> organized crime squads when he retired.
> 
> Dorsky, 57, logged a conviction of Gigante in his first mob trial, in 1997,
> and won convictions in more mob trials in the next six years — seven — than
> any other mob prosecutor, and most likely in any six-year period. He
> convicted seven top gangsters, including acting Colombo boss Andrew (Mush)
> Russo, family underboss John (Jackie) DeRoss, and Luchese mobster Michael
> (Baldy Mike) Spinelli, for the attempted murder of a Brooklyn mom.
> 
> Peter TarangeloThe game plan when they got to the Bahamas, said Dorsky, was
> to hit the ground running as soon as they checked into their hotel.
> "As we're walking into the hotel," Dorsky said, "Mike stops
> me."
> 
> "As soon as I saw the pool and the staircase," said Campi,
> "I recognized it as the same hotel where I oversaw a money laundering
> deal with Tommy Cafaro and Peter Tarangelo, the tax doctor," he
> continued. The men were targets of what would be a 56-defendant
> racketeering case based on the undercover work of Genovese gangster-turned
> informer Michael (Cookie) D'Urso.
> 
> "I was by the pool taking pictures of Tommy and the tax doctor making
> this money laundering deal," said Campi. The deal, which was unfolding
> on June 14, 2000, according to an old FBI report that Gang Land found,
> involved a $130,000 check provided by Durso that Tarangelo, a Florida-based
> accountant, was going to launder for Cafaro and Barney Bellomo. The budding
> mob boss was then serving 10 years on a case that the former FBI agent put
> together in 1996.
> 
> "This was after Barney told Tommy he doesn't want anybody meeting the
> tax doctor, and we're meeting him. The tape is rolling, and I'm taking
> pictures of Tommy and the tax doctor, who Barney doesn't want anyone to
> know about," said Campi. "And we're in the same hotel."
> 
> "IThomas Cafarot was an amazing moment," laughed Dorsky, who was
> part of a three-way telephone talk with Gang Land. "We walk in, he
> goes, 'Wait a second, I was here. I recognize this place,' and he tells me
> what he just told you."
> 
> As it turned out, Cafaro, now 61, copped a plea deal, was sentenced to
> seven years, and released from prison in 2008. Tarangelo got a no jail
> term, and worked at a West Palm Beach eatery until 2015, when he passed
> away. Bellomo, 63, took four years in a plea deal, was also released from
> prison in 2008, and like Cafaro, has avoided any further hassles with the
> law.
> 
> In the coming weeks, Dylan Howard, who co-authored Epstein: Dead Men Tell
> No Tales with Cronin, plans to produce a podcast with Dorsky and Campi that
> will include tape recordings that the duo made while they were in the
> Bahamas as a "test run" for a possible "true crime"
> podcast series involving the ex-mob busters.
> 
> COVID-19 Bug Infects And Kills Two New York Wiseguys
> 
> Joseph ZitoJoseph Zito, a powerful Genovese soldier who dodged mob bullets
> back in the day and whose Little Italy restaurant was popular with
> gangsters as well as everyday New Yorkers, has fallen victim to this
> vicious, miserable virus.
> 
> Zito is one of two New York wiseguys to lose their lives to a COVID-19
> infection, according to Gang Land's sources.
> 
> Also claimed by the killer coronavirus was Gambino soldier Augustine
> (Augie) Guido, who was snared in a conspiracy to hijack a truckload of
> bootleg cigarettes back in 2010 by a turncoat mobster, Nicholas (Nicky
> Skins) Stefanelli. Guido was sentenced to probation for his role in the FBI
> sting operation. Stefanelli fared much worse: He killed himself rather than
> testify against his old pals. Guido, of Brooklyn, died on March 28. He was
> 79 and was buried April 2 at the Moravian Cemetery in Staten Island.
> 
> Zito died on April 7 at the age of 83. He had been ailing in recent years
> and was living in a nursing home at the time of his death.
> 
> Augustine GuidoIn his heyday, Zito presided over Ruggiero restaurant on
> Grand Street, where he often rubbed elbows with his close pal, Anthony (Fat
> Tony) Salerno, as well as John Gotti and other wiseguys who dropped in to
> pay their respects. "Ruggiero was his crown jewel," said one
> source who counted Zito as a good friend. "You always got a good meal
> there, no matter who you were."
> 
> "He was known as Joe The Butcher because his dad was a butcher and Joe
> was able to handle meat professionally," said the old pal, adding that
> in the late 1990s, Zito became involved in the produce business and spent a
> lot of time in the Bronx, at the Hunt's Point Market.
> 
> In 1990, when Joe The Butcher still owned Ruggiero, he was snared in the
> so-called Windows case in which the mob earned millions of dollar in a
> bid-rigging scheme by sharing replacement window contracts in city housing
> projects. The scheme unraveled thanks to Peter (Black Heart) Savino,an
> underling who had originally been under Zito and who later became a
> government cooperator.
> 
> Nicholas StefanelliAmong those charged in the case was family boss Vincent
> (Chin) Gigante. Gigante might well have decided to blame Zito for Savino's
> treachery. But lucky for Zito, a decision Gigante made likely spared him
> what might well have been a beating COVID-19 Bug Infects And Kills Two New
> York Wiseguys Joseph Zito, a powerful Genovese soldier who dodged mob
> bullets back in the day and whose Little Italy restaurant was popular with
> gangsters as well as everyday New Yorkers, has fallen victim to this
> vicious, miserable virus. or worse.
> 
> Shortly before Savino flipped, said one source, "Chin took Savino away
> from Joe and made him his guy." As a result, Savino didn't have many
> dealings with Zito during the windows scheme. But he did have pleanty to
> say about Chin's role in the scheme when he testified at Gigante's
> racketeering trial in 1997.
> 
> Savino's testimony sunk the Oddfather. He was convicted and sentenced to 12
> years in prison. But six years earlier, in the first trial in the case, a
> brief tape recording that Black Heart had with a Ruggiero worker helped
> Zito win an acquittal. In that recording, when the employee told the
> wired-up snitch that Joe The Butcher wasn't around, Savino said,
> "That's okay, he has nothing to do with this anyway."
> 
> Savino died three months after Gigante's trial, so we'll never know whether
> Savino unwittingly — or perhaps very wittingly — helped spare his old mob
> superior a prison term with those words. But Chin's decision to bring the
> moneymaking Savino under his flag, eliminated any chance that Zito would
> get blamed — and possibly killed — for Savino's decision to flip.
> 
> Anthony CassoAt the time, according to sources and FBI documents, Luchese
> underboss Anthony (Gaspipe) Casso had learned from his NYPD moles, Mafia
> cops Louie Eppolito and Steve Caracappa, that Savino was an informer, and
> had alerted the Genoveses about it. But Gigante refused to believe it and
> demanded proof before he would order his execution. By time Chin had his
> proof, he was indicted.
> 
> "If Chin hadn't glommed Savino for himself, he would have blamed Zito
> for the Windows mess," said one source. "He liked Zito, so he may
> not have whacked him, but he would have paid a stiff price. There's no
> doubt about that."
> 
> In 2001, Zito, of New City, was snagged on loansharking and racketeering
> charges in the same racketeering case that Agent Campi put together against
> Gigante, Barney Bellomo, Tommy Cafaro and Peter Tarangelo.
> 
> He did three years and, following his release from prison in 2005, he had
> no further problems with the law. "He was a respected, and respectful
> guy," said an underworld source who shared many stories about
> "the old country" with Zito since their families both emigrated
> from Calabria, the so-called "toe of the Italian boot" that was
> always kicking Sicily around.  
> 
> Jailed Luchese Family Leader Hospitalized With Coronavirus
> 
> Matthew MadonnaMobsters behind bars are also being hit by the rising rate
> of infections among incarcerated defendants, and Gang Land has learned that
> among those struck by the deadly virus is Matthew (Matty) Madonna, the
> aging former acting boss of the Luchese crime family.
> 
> Madonna, 84,  has been hospitalized suffering from a severe case of the
> coronavirus virus after testing positive for the killer disease at the
> Westchester County Jail (WCJ) in Valhalla, where he was being held, Gang
> Land has learned.
> 
> Madonna has been awaiting sentencing for his federal murder conviction for
> the 2013 gangland-style slaying of former Purple Gang leader Michael
> Meldish.
> 
> The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, officials of the jail, as well as
> officials of Westchester County, and officials at the county's Correction
> Department, have been mum all week regarding Madonna's condition. Sources
> say he tested positive sometime last week, and was transferred to the
> Westchester Medical Center earlier this week when his condition worsened
> after he was quarantined.
> 
> Michael MeldishIn addition to declining to discuss Madonna's status, the
> law enforcement officials, as well as the county's public information
> officer, also refused to tell Gang Land how many inmates and staffers at
> the WCJ have tested positive since the outbreak began.
> 
> Sources, however, say the veteran gangster "was in very bad
> shape"  even before he was hospitalized last week.
> 
> The aging mobster's positive testing is symptomatic of a continuing trend
> at the state facility that houses numerous federal detainees, particularly
> those prosecuted in White Plains Federal Court, as well as the two federal
> lockups in the city, the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan and
> the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
> 
> At all three facilities, the number of inmates and staffers testing
> positive for the COVID-19 pandemic has risen even as the numbers of overall
> coronavirus cases in the New York metropolitan area seem to have plateaued
> or begun to decline.
> 
> Mimi RocahIt's unclear whether the most recent numbers that Gang Land has
> obtained from federal court records and other sources, indicate that more
> inmates and staffers are contracting the coronavirus or whether the numbers
> are growing because more testing is being done.
> 
> On April 7, for example, 24 Valhalla inmates and 75 staffers tested
> positive for the virus, according to a court filing with Federal Judge
> Nelson Roman. Two days later, on April 9, there were 33 Valhalla inmates
> and 94 staffers who tested positive, according to Mimi Rocah, a former
> federal prosecutor. Rocah, who is running for Westchester District
> Attorney, says DA Anthony Scarpino has not used his power as DA to increase
> and better testing procedures in the WCJ.
> 
> While the number of inmates and staffers who've tested positive has
> increased in both federal lockups in the city in the last week, the overall
> numbers are much lower that the WCJ positives.
> 
> Judge Nelson RamonLast week, at the MCC, on April 8, four inmates and six
> staffers had tested positive for the virus. At the MDC, two inmates and
> five staffers had tested positive for COVID-19, according to the federal
> Bureau of Prisons. This week, on Tuesday April 14, the last day for which
> the BOP had stats, a total of five inmates and 18 staffers had tested
> positive at the MCC. The numbers at the MDC were four inmates and 16
> staffers.
> 
> Again, at press time no officials were available to explain why the
> positive tests for the COVID-19 virus at the two federal lockups in the
> city are so much lower than the positive tests at the WCJ, which is about
> 30 miles north of the two city facilities.
> 
> Meanwhile, the future seems pretty bleak for Matty Madonna. If he wins his
> bout with the virus, he still faces a mandatory life sentence for his
> murder conviction.

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