Gangland 9/30/2021

[Hired_Goonz]

Any chance that Gioeli is active if he survives his prison sentence? It's unbelievable how much work he and his crew put in to LCN, for him to just throw it all away by bitching about his conviction online. Writing a blog seems like something that'd get you shelved, but he didn't rat, is a serious guy, and close to all the important people in the family with virtually no enemies/rivals. Pure speculation... but anyone see him getting involved when he gets out? Or is his run officially over. He had a pretty good run all things considered

He said on the wiretap in the church that if he could fend off all the accusations, he would calmly retire, leaving everything behind.

Pretty sure that was just Calabro's testimony, not a wiretap in the church. I don't think they have anything incriminating on Gioeli on tape at all actually.

[Tonyd621]

Any chance that Gioeli is active if he survives his prison sentence? It's unbelievable how much work he and his crew put in to LCN, for him to just throw it all away by bitching about his conviction online. Writing a blog seems like something that'd get you shelved, but he didn't rat, is a serious guy, and close to all the important people in the family with virtually no enemies/rivals. Pure speculation... but anyone see him getting involved when he gets out? Or is his run officially over. He had a pretty good run all things considered

He said on the wiretap in the church that if he could fend off all the accusations, he would calmly retire, leaving everything behind.

Pretty sure that was just Calabro's testimony, not a wiretap in the church. I don't think they have anything incriminating on Gioeli on tape at all actually.

Gioeli was smart and your right he wasn't caught on any tape(s) as far as I can remember. The murder charges vs Gioeli which he claimed he was innocent of went to trial and was not guilty of those charges but still got double digit time. Another powerful colombo who I am reminded of who plead not guilty of murder and more serious charges was Francis BF Guerra and he as well went to trial and was not guilty of said charges, but the judge gave him 13-14 yrs for selling oxys, anyways.

[Tonyd621]

Any chance that Gioeli is active if he survives his prison sentence? It's unbelievable how much work he and his crew put in to LCN, for him to just throw it all away by bitching about his conviction online. Writing a blog seems like something that'd get you shelved, but he didn't rat, is a serious guy, and close to all the important people in the family with virtually no enemies/rivals. Pure speculation... but anyone see him getting involved when he gets out? Or is his run officially over. He had a pretty good run all things considered

I believe it wasn't so much the blog it was he also tried to sue the BOP for falling while playing ping pong and blamed some of his health problems on that incident. When you do something like your not doing you or any of your friends any favors held in lock up. So maybe if you put the blog plus the lawsuit which he lost by the way, I'm pretty sure it's not a good look for a guy who at one time was...well read the colombomafia blog by gohnjotti and that describes to a T what Gioeli was once all about. But now he's blogging about political correctness and sued bc he ate like...

Per nypost/daily News
"On a Nov. 13 commissary trip, Gioeli scooped up Cajun hot snacks, doughnut sticks, six Hershey's bars with almonds, Honey Nut Scooters, Pringles sour cream and onion chips, Ritz crackers, a Snickers bar, three pouches of Spam lunch meat, six packets of tuna in sauce, five turkey and Swiss sticks, and six packages of Velveeta macaroni and cheese."

[Tonyd621]

I mean cmon bro 1! Snickers bar.. what's he holding back for? And tuna? I guess he is a big Mac and diet coke guy..

[JeremyTheJew]

Good job DeLucia....
Nice to see the old guys coming forward and doing the right thing.
They realize they've wasted their lives and hurt a lot of people. If this continues we might eventually be rid of these parasites...

Hate to break it to ya but these guys ain’t goin no where and I highly doubt that Delucia flipped because he wanted to do the right thing. Prob had more to do with doing saving his own ass

Lol for real…. Lol it finally clicked after 70 years and he wanted to rid his demons!!! More like rid his felonies

[Tonyd621]

Good job DeLucia....
Nice to see the old guys coming forward and doing the right thing.
They realize they've wasted their lives and hurt a lot of people. If this continues we might eventually be rid of these parasites...

Hate to break it to ya but these guys ain’t goin no where and I highly doubt that Delucia flipped because he wanted to do the right thing. Prob had more to do with doing saving his own ass

Lol for real…. Lol it finally clicked after 70 years and he wanted to rid his demons!!! More like rid his felonies

It's not DeLucia. Ganglandnews changed their heading and the story. Sry desertdog, he's still a man of honor! Lol suck on that

[Shellackhead]

Good job DeLucia....
Nice to see the old guys coming forward and doing the right thing.
They realize they've wasted their lives and hurt a lot of people. If this continues we might eventually be rid of these parasites...

Hate to break it to ya but these guys ain’t goin no where and I highly doubt that Delucia flipped because he wanted to do the right thing. Prob had more to do with doing saving his own ass

Lol for real…. Lol it finally clicked after 70 years and he wanted to rid his demons!!! More like rid his felonies

It's not DeLucia. Ganglandnews changed their heading and the story. Sry desertdog, he's still a man of honor! Lol suck on that

Wow that’s embarrassing.

[Ivan]

Any chance that Gioeli is active if he survives his prison sentence? It's unbelievable how much work he and his crew put in to LCN, for him to just throw it all away by bitching about his conviction online. Writing a blog seems like something that'd get you shelved, but he didn't rat, is a serious guy, and close to all the important people in the family with virtually no enemies/rivals. Pure speculation... but anyone see him getting involved when he gets out? Or is his run officially over. He had a pretty good run all things considered

He said on the wiretap in the church that if he could fend off all the accusations, he would calmly retire, leaving everything behind.

Pretty sure that was just Calabro's testimony, not a wiretap in the church. I don't think they have anything incriminating on Gioeli on tape at all actually.

Gioeli was smart and your right he wasn't caught on any tape(s) as far as I can remember. The murder charges vs Gioeli which he claimed he was innocent of went to trial and was not guilty of those charges but still got double digit time. Another powerful colombo who I am reminded of who plead not guilty of murder and more serious charges was Francis BF Guerra and he as well went to trial and was not guilty of said charges, but the judge gave him 13-14 yrs for selling oxys, anyways.

Gioeli and Guerra practically won the lottery compared to what happened to Dino Saracino.

[Pmac2]

Capeci pretty good at writting retractions im sure he will give the guy denis a paragrah to clear his name thats a shitbag move. Someone fed him bad info. Look at that guy mcshane who wrote carmine persico was a rat when in reality it was just greg scarpa identifying persico as a capo in the colombo family

[CornerBoy]

These fat fucks we’re definitely sitting in the back room of Brennan and Carr eating Gargiulo Burgers.

i had to google what that was.. definitely getting one next time i'm in brooklyn.

Get it with cheese and onions double dipped

It’s a mess but worth it.

JUST HAVE THE MEAT DIPPED- THE KFJ IS TOO MUCH BROTH FOR ME-SOGGY

tHEY ACTUALLY GOOD MUTZ STICKS AND HOT DOGS TOO

[chin_gigante]

Capeci updated the article again:

A Secret 'Confidential Witness,' NOT Fat Dennis Delucia, Helped Feds Snare Colombo Family Leaders

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn sure seem to have gotten some very important help from a Colombo wiseguy in order to take down the crime family's Administration, along with three powerful capos and four other mobsters and associates in the biggest Mafia roundup in several years. But two weeks later, his identity remains a mystery.

That is despite persistent rumors and reports from several usually reliable sources who tabbed Colombo capo Dennis (Fat Dennis) Delucia, an 80-year-old wiseguy as the defector. In fact, though, the identity of the "confidential witness" who made tape recordings for prosecutors James McDonald and Devon Lash in which many defendants "discuss a variety of criminal activities" remains a well-guarded secret.

Sources say that on several occasions since the racketeering conspiracy indictment was filed two weeks ago, the Bronx-based geezer gangster told friends and associates he ran into at restaurants and other locations not to believe everything they read if he was identified as a turncoat.

"His words should be heeded," one very reliable source told Gang Land yesterday.

"It's not him," a very reliable law enforcement source confirmed.

Whoever the turncoat is, he had to be plugged in pretty well since he helped the feds charge Colombo family boss Andrew (Mush) Russo, underboss Benjamin (The Claw) Castellazzo and consigliere Ralph DeMatteo with shaking down a Queens-based construction workers union official for 20 years.

The blockbuster indictment, which the feds announced on September 14, also charges capos Theodore (Skinny Teddy) Persico, Richard Ferrara, and Vincent (Vinny Unions) Ricciardo with shaking down Andrew Talamo, the president of Local 621 of the United Construction Trades and Industrial Employees Union (UCTIE,) since 2001.

According to court records, Delucia's sons, David, 56, and Dean, 52, have each been affiliated for nearly two decades with Local 621 of UCTIE — David as an administrator of the union's benefit funds, and Dean as secretary treasurer of the 1179 member union that represents workers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Neither brother responded to telephone or email requests for comment.

Within days, Delucia, whose last prison stint ended in 2013, and who has not had any problems with the law since then, was suspected of being the latest in a long line of Colombo family turncoats when prosecutors disclosed many details about two restaurant meetings that Fat Dennis attended along with mobsters who were charged with taking part in the extortion scheme.

Both took place at Brennan And Carr, a legendary 83-year-old Sheepshead Bay restaurant that specializes in juicy roast beef sandwiches. The eatery, ironically, has long been a favorite meeting spot of law enforcement officials.

In their detention memo, prosecutors wrote that Persico, Castellazzo, and DeMatteo were at a November 19 restaurant meeting with capos Ferrara and Ricciardo.

Russo, the family's new "official boss," oversaw a second meeting at the same restaurant, they wrote. At the second confab, the family leaders "decided that Russo would continue to serve as family Boss" until Persico, a nephew of late boss Carmine (Junior) Persico, completed his supervised release term in 2023 and was capable of taking over the reins — a plan that was scotched by the indictment.

At that session, the prosecutors wrote, the "Colombo administration" also discussed the long-running Vinny Unions extortion plot against the Local 621 union leader that Colombo family consigliere DeMatteo allegedly took over in 2019.

During the same session, wrote prosecutors McDonald and Lash, the Colombo family leaders placed capo Ferrara "in charge of supervising the scheme" to also extort "at least $10,000 per month" from Local 621's benefit funds and funnel that cash "up to (the) senior leadership" of the bourghata.

In addition to tape-recordings by the "confidential witness," the prosecutors also used information they gleaned from "thousands of hours" of tape recordings they obtained from wiretaps of the phones of five Colombo family mobsters, consigliere DeMatteo, the three capos and soldier Michael Uvino between August of last year and March of 2021.

Tomorrow, lawyers for Vinny Unions Ricciardo are planning to seek a release on bail for the 75-year-old mobster, who has had numerous heart attacks since his first one at the age of 38, on the grounds that he is likely to die if he is not released from the Metropolitan Detention Center sooner rather than later.

Prosecutors McDonald and Lash, who wrote two weeks ago that Ricciardo exploded in anger and threatened to kill Talamo "right in front of his fucking house" and vowed he wasn't "afraid to go to jail" and "would fucking shoot him right in front of his wife and kids" say conditions at the MDC may not be perfect, but that's where Vinny Unions deserves to be.

[Pogo The Clown]

So if not DeLucia it has to be another made member considering who was present at that meeting and what was discussed.


Pogo

[jimmy_beans8]

I always that it was the union president from the jump

[Pogo The Clown]

I always that it was the union president from the jump

He could be cooperating but would this guy who they are extorting be allowed to sit in on a meeting with the administration and capos where they discuss who the new boss will be?


Pogo

[Uforeality]

So if not DeLucia it has to be another made member considering who was present at that meeting and what was discussed.


Pogo

Was anyone released early? Unless they had the restaurant bugged the colombos could narrow down who was at the meeting.