Upcoming indictment against the current Lucchese Family Acting Boss

[Little_Al1991]

Go Figure: This Turncoat Mobster Has A Blog — And The Mob & The Feds Are Both Furious.This Gangland article was posted during October,2020, I have included the main parts relating to the upcoming indictment against Michael DeSantis and Patty Dellorusso
For more than two years, Gang Land has learned, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office has been putting together a racketeering case against acting Luchese boss Michael (Big Mike) DeSantis and underboss Patrick (Patty Red) Dellorusso who were publicly identified last year as the crime family's current leaders.

Details are scanty. The case, long in the making, has been slowed by delays in the trial of the former family leaders, and by the COVID-19 pandemic. And as DeSantis and Dellorusso wait for the hammer to drop on them, they're being forced to suffer and endure the views and thoughts of the turncoat wiseguy who's expected to finger them from the witness stand when prosecutors finally use his information to file their long-awaited indictment against them.

Pennisi had little to say from the witness stand about Madonna and Crea at their trial for the 2013 murder of former Purple Gang leader Michael Meldish. But there's no question he'll have plenty to say about DeSantis and Dellorusso if they decide to contest whatever charges the feds get around to filing against the duo.

Law enforcement sources declined to give up any specifics, but they — as well as defense lawyers in the Madonna-Crea case — say that Pennisi has given the feds evidence of criminal activity by Big Mike, Patty Red and other Lucheses whom he had dealings with over the years, and that an indictment is "just a matter of time."
Pennisi testified, he was "very friendly and close" to Big Mike and Patty Red. Dellorusso initially told him, he said, about their plot to seize control of the crime family from Crea and Madonna.

At the Madonna-Crea trial, Pennisi testified that in 2017, DeSantis and Dellorusso threatened to kill Crea, his capo son Stevie Junior, and other members of two Bronx crews that were headed by Crea if he and Madonna didn't cede control of the crime family to Big Mike and Patty Red. The takeover plot was sanctioned by Vittorio (Vic) Amuso, the family's jailed for life official boss.

Pennisi testified that he had learned of the plan early on from Dellorusso, a Long Island based capo with whom Pennisi became closely associated following his 2013 induction. Patty Red told him to contact Amuso's son-in-law, Joseph (Little Joe) DiBenedetto, and have him send a "message" to his father-in-law about the takeover plan, Pennisi said.

He never gave the message to Little Joe. But Dellorusso later told him that "Vic approved" the takeover plan and had anointed DeSantis as acting family boss and ordered Crea and Madonna to step aside and return the day to day control of the family to the old Brooklyn crew that Amuso had headed until he was convicted and sentenced to life in 1992, Pennisi testified.
"In the event that they balked or they wanted to hold their positions," Pennisi testified, "we would deal with the guys from the Bronx." Asked how they would deal with the "guys from the Bronx" if they didn't go along with the takeover, Pennisi said: "We would have killed members of the Bronx crews."

On another Gangland article posted on the same day with the title **Informant: Big John Labelled Me A 'Rat' To Protect His Sleep-Around Brother.**Pennisi testified, in February of 2018, at the wake of Bella Truscello, the wife of capo Dominic Truscello.
When he walked into the funeral parlor, he said, "it was almost like I had the plague. Everybody was hello and good-bying me. Nobody wanted to talk with me and people were even avoiding saying hello to me. I knew something was seriously wrong at that wake."

What was most distressing, and caused him to leave the wake, and start carrying his gun everywhere, was the way acting boss Big Mike DeSantis, with whom he was "very, very friendly and close," reacted when he saw Pennisi.
"He said hello, good-bye, and walked right past me. Didn't even blink. Just walked right past me," he testified.
"And we were very, very close at that time," Pennisi testified. "Very friendly. Whenever I was in his company, he wanted me to stay with him, have a drink with him or talk with him."

[Uforeality]

"I want you to know this is the last time we'll meet like this...its undignified"

[Wiseguy]

Still waiting for that case against Gambino captain Frank Camuso as well. Been over two years.

[Tonyd621]

Still waiting for that case against Gambino captain Frank Camuso as well. Been over two years.

I know right, what are they waiting for? Is there state-of limitations on any RICO predicates?

[Dr031718]

IMO after getting beat by Cammarano, and the weaker than expected case/sentences against the so called East Coast LCN, Vincent Esposito etc the feds are waiting until the case is as air tight as possible.

[Etna]

Still waiting for that case against Gambino captain Frank Camuso as well. Been over two years.

Courts are probably still backed up from covid I presume.

[TommyNoto]

Unless their is violence I think LE might be re considering whether it’s worth it to bring big costly Rico cases

I just don’t see jury’s putting these guys away anymore except for violent cases.

Is a 3 year $10m+ case worth it for 3-5 year sentences ?

I think things are changing

[Amershire_Ed]

Unless their is violence I think LE might be re considering whether it’s worth it to bring big costly Rico cases

I just don’t see jury’s putting these guys away anymore except for violent cases.

Is a 3 year $10m+ case worth it for 3-5 year sentences ?

I think things are changing

Also—prosecuting big mob cases doesn’t necessarily put you on the fast track to higher office the way it once did. If you were the cream of the crop in the FBI in 1980, you were working mob stuff. But now, it’s likely narco trafficking or counter terrorism.

[slimshady_007]

IMO after getting beat by Cammarano, and the weaker than expected case/sentences against the so called East Coast LCN, Vincent Esposito etc the feds are waiting until the case is as air tight as possible.

You’re right. The Cammarano case was an embarrassment.

[Extortion]

Unless their is violence I think LE might be re considering whether it’s worth it to bring big costly Rico cases

I just don’t see jury’s putting these guys away anymore except for violent cases.

Is a 3 year $10m+ case worth it for 3-5 year sentences ?

I think things are changing

Also—prosecuting big mob cases doesn’t necessarily put you on the fast track to higher office the way it once did. If you were the cream of the crop in the FBI in 1980, you were working mob stuff. But now, it’s likely narco trafficking or counter terrorism.

Not true. Helping take down any serious OC is a win for them and the individual.

[bronx]

maybe camuso "talked " his way out of it

[JohnnyS]

maybe camuso "talked " his way out of it

Are you trying to tell us something here bronx?

[JohnnyS]

There are state and federal investigations going on with Camuso. Pretty sure the feds are looking to indict Camuso and Filippell together and make it a big case.

[bronx]

no..lol..just saying strange how he keeps ducking pinches ,maybe we call frankie ducks

[JohnnyS]

no..lol..just saying strange how he keeps ducking pinches ,maybe we call frankie ducks

do you know much about him?