Father Louis Gigante accused in sex abuse lawsuit

[The Greek]

Really are Catholic Priests the only clergy that are guilty of this ? Seems like Rabbis and others are exempt to this scrunity. Plenty of inbreeding in other religions also - just that no one dare expose it. All of the TV commercial’s point the finger at priests - plenty of others just as guilty!

Rabbis and other Christian priests are allowed to marry. Catholic priests are not. duh...

[Manhattan_]

Maybe so but they are still just as guilty - they just know cover it up - plenty of freaks beside Catholic Priests - do you really believe it is only going on with Catholic’s ?

[eboli]

Kind of knocks a dent in the whole honorable mafia myth - the most powerful mob boss from the most powerful family had a brother who was diddling kids and if anything, I have to assume Chin protected him. These guys are all deep sociopaths.

Louis Gigante didn't really need protection. At his peak, he was more powerful than any of the other Gigantes. His downfall, if you can even call it that, happened because he supported his criminal brothers by any means necessary, and over time he was politically squeezed out.

[NYNighthawk]

what ever happened to his right hand man Mario Tolisano? He was very tight with Phil Foglia who was apartners with Chaz Palmientierion charity projects.

Tolisano owns a construction company that operates in Westchester County. His name is tied to a few organizations including a non-profit one that helps prisoners apply for parole.

Is the same guy?

Bronx man sentenced for pretending to be a lawyer, swindling Nassau residents, prosecutors say

A Bronx man who pretended to be an attorney and swindled Nassau residents out of thousands of dollars has been sentenced 1 to 3 years in prison, the Nassau County District Attorney's office said Thursday.

Mario Tolisano, 65, pleaded guilty on June 25 to third-degree grand larceny and was sentenced Thursday by District Court Judge Susan Kluewer, according to acting District Attorney Madeline Singas.

Prosecutors said that in January 2012 and in September 2013, Tolisano pretended to be a licensed attorney and contracted with two Nassau County residents to help them get loan modifications. One of the victims, a woman from New Hyde Park, signed a contract with Tolisano in January 2012 and paid him $3,000. Then in June 2013, Tolisano told her to pay him $20,000 so he could pay her real estate taxes, assuring her that the money would be placed in his escrow account and used to pay her taxes within six weeks.

In January 2014, she learned the taxes were never paid by Tolisano, prosecutors said.

In September 2013, Singas' office said a Valley Stream woman retained Tolisano and paid him $2,500 for his supposed legal services. In March 2014, she got a letter from her bank saying that Tolisano had never contacted her bank to negotiate a loan modification.

Tolisano was arrested June 23 by Nassau County police.

[eboli]

what ever happened to his right hand man Mario Tolisano? He was very tight with Phil Foglia who was apartners with Chaz Palmientierion charity projects.

Tolisano owns a construction company that operates in Westchester County. His name is tied to a few organizations including a non-profit one that helps prisoners apply for parole.

Is the same guy?

Bronx man sentenced for pretending to be a lawyer, swindling Nassau residents, prosecutors say

A Bronx man who pretended to be an attorney and swindled Nassau residents out of thousands of dollars has been sentenced 1 to 3 years in prison, the Nassau County District Attorney's office said Thursday.

Mario Tolisano, 65, pleaded guilty on June 25 to third-degree grand larceny and was sentenced Thursday by District Court Judge Susan Kluewer, according to acting District Attorney Madeline Singas.

Prosecutors said that in January 2012 and in September 2013, Tolisano pretended to be a licensed attorney and contracted with two Nassau County residents to help them get loan modifications. One of the victims, a woman from New Hyde Park, signed a contract with Tolisano in January 2012 and paid him $3,000. Then in June 2013, Tolisano told her to pay him $20,000 so he could pay her real estate taxes, assuring her that the money would be placed in his escrow account and used to pay her taxes within six weeks.

In January 2014, she learned the taxes were never paid by Tolisano, prosecutors said.

In September 2013, Singas' office said a Valley Stream woman retained Tolisano and paid him $2,500 for his supposed legal services. In March 2014, she got a letter from her bank saying that Tolisano had never contacted her bank to negotiate a loan modification.

Tolisano was arrested June 23 by Nassau County police.

Yeah, same guy.

[desertdog]

Bring back hanging...

[NYNighthawk]

what ever happened to his right hand man Mario Tolisano? He was very tight with Phil Foglia who was apartners with Chaz Palmientierion charity projects.

Tolisano owns a construction company that operates in Westchester County. His name is tied to a few organizations including a non-profit one that helps prisoners apply for parole.

Is the same guy?

Bronx man sentenced for pretending to be a lawyer, swindling Nassau residents, prosecutors say

A Bronx man who pretended to be an attorney and swindled Nassau residents out of thousands of dollars has been sentenced 1 to 3 years in prison, the Nassau County District Attorney's office said Thursday.

Mario Tolisano, 65, pleaded guilty on June 25 to third-degree grand larceny and was sentenced Thursday by District Court Judge Susan Kluewer, according to acting District Attorney Madeline Singas.

Prosecutors said that in January 2012 and in September 2013, Tolisano pretended to be a licensed attorney and contracted with two Nassau County residents to help them get loan modifications. One of the victims, a woman from New Hyde Park, signed a contract with Tolisano in January 2012 and paid him $3,000. Then in June 2013, Tolisano told her to pay him $20,000 so he could pay her real estate taxes, assuring her that the money would be placed in his escrow account and used to pay her taxes within six weeks.

In January 2014, she learned the taxes were never paid by Tolisano, prosecutors said.

In September 2013, Singas' office said a Valley Stream woman retained Tolisano and paid him $2,500 for his supposed legal services. In March 2014, she got a letter from her bank saying that Tolisano had never contacted her bank to negotiate a loan modification.

Tolisano was arrested June 23 by Nassau County police.

Yeah, same guy.

This guy was Gigante's right hand man?

Bronx Men charged with Sale of properties not owned by them
Posted by US Loan Auditors in Mortgage Crisis on 09 4th, 2009 | no responses
The Attorney General of the Bronx District, Robert T. Johnson announced in a press release on September 1st that Mario Tolisano, 59 and Celestino Orta, 40 have been indicted for swindling victims of over one million three hundred thousand dollars in a real estate property scam. The properties involved in the scam were not owned by the defendants nor did the defendants have the right to sell the properties.

The scam came to light when complaints were filed by the victims because they were not able to schedule closings with Tolisano or Orta for properties they had already paid for.

Jacob Selechnik and Robin Shimoff both real estate investors were approached by Tolisano and Orta in May of 2008 to sell them various properties that were owned by the City of New York. Tolisano and Orta didn’t own and were not in the process of owning any of the properties involved. Selechnik and Shimoff after examining the properties agreed to purchase them from Tolisano and Orta. An offer of seven hundred ten thousand dollars was presented to the fraudster and they accepted. Selechnik and Shimoff paid the fraudsters upfront.

Tolisano and Orta in July of 2008 again approached Selechnik and Shimoff in regard to additional properties in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. The victims again agreed and paid the fraudsters five hundred and two thousand dollars for the properties.

Tolisano and Orta were not limited to Selechnik and Shimoff in May of 2008 they approached Nir Cohen for the vacant lot on Union Avenue near Southern Boulevard. Cohen gave the fraudsters seventy thousand dollars as a down payment on the vacant lot.

All the victims confirm that Tolisano and Orta conducted themselves as authorized to sell the properties involved and did not give the victims any reason to believe otherwise.

State Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy set bail for the Tolisano at two hundred fifty thousand dollars. Orta would is currently in another jurisdiction for an unrelated matter is expected to be arraigned September 3rd.

Tolisano of 1669 Astor Avenue has been charged with one count of Grand Larceny in the first degree, three counts of Grand Larceny in the second degree, one count of Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the first degree, three counts of Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the second degree, and seven counts of Practicing or Appearing as Attorney-At-Law without being admitted or registered.

Orta of 588 Timpson Street has been charged with one count of Grand Larceny in the first degree, three counts of Grand Larceny in the second degree, one count of Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the first degree and three counts of Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the second degree.

The maximum sentence that both defendants could receive is twenty five years in prison.

District Attorney Johnson reaffirms that the charges against the defendants are merely accusations and that they are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The case will be prosecuted by Senior Investigative Assistant District Attorney Richard Baker.

[eboli]

This guy was Gigante's right hand man?

Like I said above: it's the same guy. I don't know if he was Louis Gigante's right-hand man like some publications claimed, but he was SEBCO's executive director in the 1980s and early 1990s when he was in his 30s. He's listed as the principal of various Bronx and Westchester County companies, including a construction company and translation services company. These businesses were set up after he left SEBCO and before his known legal troubles began.

Here are a few more details on him:

Full Name: Mario Antonio Tolisano
DOB: 09/12/1949
Place of residence: 1669 Astor Ave Bronx, NY
His NPO: https://myfreedomservices.com/

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Tolisano, circa 1985

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Tolisano, circa 2009

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Tolisano, circa 2017

[OcSleeper]

Gigante passed away
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/obit ... -dead.html

[SonnyBlackstein]

Last of the brothers.
Thanks for the post.

Fuck the Yankees. Go Houston.
Philly through. Imagine the odds you'd have gotten on them pre postseason. Braves now Padres.