Angelo Prisco Crew Origins

[JIGGS]

Angelo horn.

Was he on louie gacciones crew or did he come out of the people who inherited the rocco pellegrino crew? I used to think he was 116 and then maybe under paddy macchorole. But i never seen him in any of the charts on the www.just that he took over part a digilios crew.

JIGGS

[Philly d]

good question.

[HairyKnuckles]

Angelo horn.

Was he on louie gacciones crew or did he come out of the people who inherited the rocco pellegrino crew? I used to think he was 116 and then maybe under paddy macchorole. But i never seen him in any of the charts on the www.just that he took over part a digilios crew.

JIGGS

Prisco was in Chin Gigante´s crew and was made a skipper probably in the early 1990s. He absorbed some NJ based made guys and a couple of associates that had previously been under soldier DiGiglio. He was one of them East Harlem/Bronx based guys who like Joe Valachi in the past, ended up in the Greenwich Village based crew. I tend to believe he was sponsored by one of the Pagano brothers.

[JIGGS]

Angelo horn.

Was he on louie gacciones crew or did he come out of the people who inherited the rocco pellegrino crew? I used to think he was 116 and then maybe under paddy macchorole. But i never seen him in any of the charts on the www.just that he took over part a digilios crew.

JIGGS

Prisco was in Chin Gigante´s crew and was made a skipper probably in the early 1990s. He absorbed some NJ based made guys and a couple of associates that had previously been under soldier DiGiglio. He was one of them East Harlem/Bronx based guys who like Joe Valachi in the past, ended up in the Greenwich Village based crew. I tend to believe he was sponsored by one of the Pagano brothers.

No shit? I would a never guessed. Thanks pal.

JIGGS

[Vknicks]

Angelo Prisco had a club in pelham bay in the bronx for a while too

[JIGGS]

Angelo Prisco had a club in pelham bay in the bronx for a while too

Aint the question.

JIGGS

[outfit guy]

It's the other way around, LC in his crew. He's not a Jersey guy but I presume sent there.

[outfit guy]

Oh, yeah, I left you a post in the Corporation thread asking you to opine more on Robert Hopkins, Alexander Rizzo and that crew of Lucchese guys in Central Harlem.

[JIGGS]

It's the other way around, LC in his crew. He's not a Jersey guy but I presume sent there.

LC?

Lucky cienfuego?

JIGGS

[JIGGS]

Oh, yeah, I left you a post in the Corporation thread asking you to opine more on Robert Hopkins, Alexander Rizzo and that crew of Lucchese guys in Central Harlem.

I dont know who that is.

JIGGS

[SonnyBlackstein]

Oh, yeah, I left you a post in the Corporation thread asking you to opine more on Robert Hopkins, Alexander Rizzo and that crew of Lucchese guys in Central Harlem.

I dont know who that is.

JIGGS

They could fill a book on what you don’t know.

Junior Soprano

[outfit guy]

See below.

An increasingly violent conflict has broken out between the Luchese organized-crime family and New Jersey-based Cuban-emigre organizations over New York City's illegal numbers rackets, police and prosecutors said yesterday.

Prosecutors said it was tensions over storefront gambling operations that led to the murder last month of Pedro Acosta, 37 years old, who officials said was linked to a Union City-based Cuban crime organization called La Compania.

On Thursday, prosecutors charged that the killing was ordered by Robert J. Hopkins, 38, of Manhattan. They said he controlled as many as 100 illegal gambling establishments in New York City and law-enforcement officials have said he was tied to the Luchese crime family. Mr. Hopkins was released on bail yesterday after posting a $1 million surety bond.

Dispute Over Rackets

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan District Attorney, who announced Mr. Hopkins's arrest, said the killing - witnessed by hundreds of people waiting in a movie line near 72d Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan - was the aftermath of ''failed negotiations'' between Mr. Hopkins's group and members of La Compania.

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Police and prosecutors say that although violence between Cuban-led factions has been raging since a split between them last year, a more recent move by the larger of the two groups to obtain a bigger portion of the lucrative New York numbers rackets, or illegal lotteries, represents a new turn in organized crime.

At the time of the killing, Mr. Hopkins was under surveillance by detectives in connection with an eight-month investigation into illegal gambling in New York City. They had followed him to a restaurant near the movie line. What Detectives Heard

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At a bail hearing on Thursday night, Assistant District Attorney John Mulcahy told Judge Ira Globerman of State Supreme Court that detectives at the scene had overheard Mr. Hopkins say to an associate: ''Hurry up, let's get out of here before it happens.'' Seconds later, Mr. Mulcahy said, Mr. Acosta was shot dead. No one has been charged with the shooting.

Mr. Hopkins referred questions about the case to Mr. Rosen, who declined to comment.

Prosecutors say that Mr. Hopkins's gambling operations, which were earning as much as $500,000 a week, are mostly comprised of small storefronts that pay protection money to Mr. Hopkins's group. According to one law-enforcement source, Mr. Hopkins's group was negotiating with La Compania over the number of Cuban-controlled storefronts that would be allowed to operate without being molested by the Luchese interests.

A Federal commission on organized crime said last year that La Compania had extensive operations in Florida and West New York, N.J., and was led by Jose Miguel Battle Sr., a former Havana police officer.

Murder charges against a man said to be a major organized-crime figure were dismissed yesterday by a State Supreme Court justice who ruled that evidence suggesting that the defendant had prior knowledge of the crime and had been at the scene was insufficient to try him.

The justice, Jerome W. Marks, dismissed the murder charges against Robert J. Hopkins, a former Trump Tower resident who has been linked by law-enforcement officials to the Lucchese crime family, and against Mr. Hopkins's associate, Alexander Rizzo.

Both men are still charged, however -along with 11 co-defendants - with operating a $500,000-a-week illegal betting ring through 100 storefronts in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Key Evidence Lacking

The decision, released yesterday by Justice Marks at a pretrial hearing in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, threw out the most serious charges in a two-year-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. They accused Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Rizzo of ordering the murder of Pedro Acosta, a 37-year-old member of a rival gambling organization led by Cuban emigres.

[JIGGS]

Oh, yeah, I left you a post in the Corporation thread asking you to opine more on Robert Hopkins, Alexander Rizzo and that crew of Lucchese guys in Central Harlem.

I dont know who that is.

JIGGS

They could fill a book on what you don’t know.

Junior Soprano

Do you feel strong now? They let you out to play finally?

JIGGS

[JIGGS]

See below.

An increasingly violent conflict has broken out between the Luchese organized-crime family and New Jersey-based Cuban-emigre organizations over New York City's illegal numbers rackets, police and prosecutors said yesterday.

Prosecutors said it was tensions over storefront gambling operations that led to the murder last month of Pedro Acosta, 37 years old, who officials said was linked to a Union City-based Cuban crime organization called La Compania.

On Thursday, prosecutors charged that the killing was ordered by Robert J. Hopkins, 38, of Manhattan. They said he controlled as many as 100 illegal gambling establishments in New York City and law-enforcement officials have said he was tied to the Luchese crime family. Mr. Hopkins was released on bail yesterday after posting a $1 million surety bond.

Dispute Over Rackets

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan District Attorney, who announced Mr. Hopkins's arrest, said the killing - witnessed by hundreds of people waiting in a movie line near 72d Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan - was the aftermath of ''failed negotiations'' between Mr. Hopkins's group and members of La Compania.

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Continue reading the main story

Police and prosecutors say that although violence between Cuban-led factions has been raging since a split between them last year, a more recent move by the larger of the two groups to obtain a bigger portion of the lucrative New York numbers rackets, or illegal lotteries, represents a new turn in organized crime.

At the time of the killing, Mr. Hopkins was under surveillance by detectives in connection with an eight-month investigation into illegal gambling in New York City. They had followed him to a restaurant near the movie line. What Detectives Heard

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At a bail hearing on Thursday night, Assistant District Attorney John Mulcahy told Judge Ira Globerman of State Supreme Court that detectives at the scene had overheard Mr. Hopkins say to an associate: ''Hurry up, let's get out of here before it happens.'' Seconds later, Mr. Mulcahy said, Mr. Acosta was shot dead. No one has been charged with the shooting.

Mr. Hopkins referred questions about the case to Mr. Rosen, who declined to comment.

Prosecutors say that Mr. Hopkins's gambling operations, which were earning as much as $500,000 a week, are mostly comprised of small storefronts that pay protection money to Mr. Hopkins's group. According to one law-enforcement source, Mr. Hopkins's group was negotiating with La Compania over the number of Cuban-controlled storefronts that would be allowed to operate without being molested by the Luchese interests.

A Federal commission on organized crime said last year that La Compania had extensive operations in Florida and West New York, N.J., and was led by Jose Miguel Battle Sr., a former Havana police officer.

Murder charges against a man said to be a major organized-crime figure were dismissed yesterday by a State Supreme Court justice who ruled that evidence suggesting that the defendant had prior knowledge of the crime and had been at the scene was insufficient to try him.

The justice, Jerome W. Marks, dismissed the murder charges against Robert J. Hopkins, a former Trump Tower resident who has been linked by law-enforcement officials to the Lucchese crime family, and against Mr. Hopkins's associate, Alexander Rizzo.

Both men are still charged, however -along with 11 co-defendants - with operating a $500,000-a-week illegal betting ring through 100 storefronts in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Key Evidence Lacking

The decision, released yesterday by Justice Marks at a pretrial hearing in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, threw out the most serious charges in a two-year-long investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. They accused Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Rizzo of ordering the murder of Pedro Acosta, a 37-year-old member of a rival gambling organization led by Cuban emigres.

I remember hopkins arrest. But them other guys you mention? Rizzo/dipalermo? Quinn? I know what john q. citizen knows about hopkins. A luchesse crew in harlem? In the 1980s? They did'nt send me the memo.

JIGGS