by Wiseguy » Fri Mar 03, 2017 4:34 pm
Pete wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:22 pm
Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:07 pm
Joey Lombardo from the Grand Avenue Crew was indicted in 2005. Regardless you have to look at indictments for the family as a whole and not specific crews.
Pogo
He was indicted based on things 30 years old but ok I'll give you that one. Not much besides that though
When you say "30 years," I assume you're talking from the 1980's until the indictments in the past few years. Jimmy Cozzo and two others were banned from thw Teamsters Union in 1990. Cozzo was later investigated in the late 1990s for his part in that casino in Curacao. Around that time Chris Spina was investigated for his involvement in the transportation department, including billing the city for driving Joey Lombardo around. Spina also had an interest in one of the trucking companies caught up in the Hired Truck Scandal in 2004. In 2002, Cozzo's son Philip and several others were busted for that bingo skimming operation. Rocco Lombardo had been working at the Crazy Horse Too strip club in Vegas that was raided in 2003. Then of course, as already mentioned, Joey Lombardo was charged in the Family Secrets case in 2005. A year prior, in 2004, three people in the crew had been indicted on charges of running a burglary ring that stole jewelry, furs, money, etc. from upscale homes. Then you had the more recent busts in 2012 and 2014.
So it's not like there's been an absence of activity over three decades. As I've said over and over, indictments and things of that nature - especially over the long term - are generally the best sign of activity. Or lack thereof. And the Grand Ave crew isn't exactly the best example to disprove this.
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Joey Lombardo from the Grand Avenue Crew was indicted in 2005. Regardless you have to look at indictments for the family as a whole and not specific crews.
Pogo
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He was indicted based on things 30 years old but ok I'll give you that one. Not much besides that though
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When you say "30 years," I assume you're talking from the 1980's until the indictments in the past few years. Jimmy Cozzo and two others were banned from thw Teamsters Union in 1990. Cozzo was later investigated in the late 1990s for his part in that casino in Curacao. Around that time Chris Spina was investigated for his involvement in the transportation department, including billing the city for driving Joey Lombardo around. Spina also had an interest in one of the trucking companies caught up in the Hired Truck Scandal in 2004. In 2002, Cozzo's son Philip and several others were busted for that bingo skimming operation. Rocco Lombardo had been working at the Crazy Horse Too strip club in Vegas that was raided in 2003. Then of course, as already mentioned, Joey Lombardo was charged in the Family Secrets case in 2005. A year prior, in 2004, three people in the crew had been indicted on charges of running a burglary ring that stole jewelry, furs, money, etc. from upscale homes. Then you had the more recent busts in 2012 and 2014.
So it's not like there's been an absence of activity over three decades. As I've said over and over, indictments and things of that nature - especially over the long term - are generally the best sign of activity. Or lack thereof. And the Grand Ave crew isn't exactly the best example to disprove this.