https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 533714.php
I remember he was co defendants on a case with Vito Badamo, NAnthony Santoro, Dom Siano etc back in 2017
Very little reporting on this recent arrest
Bonanno associate Richard Sinde takes another drug pinch
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Nice post. Sinde will undoubtedly get a stiff sentence due to having priors.
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What a complete Moron having rolled up $20 bills in your jacket pocket while transporting a substantial amount of weight, he deserves whatever he gets - fucking Moron!
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2017 Sentencing (With Badamo, Aiello, Santoro)
https://www.manhattanda.org/da-vance-an ... ly-member/
RICHARD SINDE, D.O.B. 11/28/64
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Convicted:
• Enterprise Corruption, a class B felony, 1 count
Sentenced:
• 2-to-6 years in state prison
• Forfeiture of approximately $30,000
https://www.manhattanda.org/da-vance-an ... ly-member/
RICHARD SINDE, D.O.B. 11/28/64
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Convicted:
• Enterprise Corruption, a class B felony, 1 count
Sentenced:
• 2-to-6 years in state prison
• Forfeiture of approximately $30,000
Don't give me your f***ing Manson lamps.
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Schenectady father, son eyed in Mafia-linked cocaine investigation
Robert Gavin
February 1, 2022
ALBANY — A penthouse apartment. A job at a family-run construction company. A baby on the way.
At 22, Jeffrey Civitello Jr. appeared to be riding high, but his story took a downward turn on Oct. 21 when federal drug investigators raided his home on the top floor of a Schenectady building on Albany Street and seized 75 pounds of marijuana, loaded weapons and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Now, the Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School graduate is facing federal drug and weapon charges in Albany – and is being investigated in a separate cocaine-trafficking case involving a reputed Bonanno crime family associate from New Jersey, according to court papers filed in U.S. District Court.
Attorneys for Civitello, who is being held in the Albany County jail, are hoping to convince U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Stewart to reconsider an earlier order to detain him without bail. They noted in a motion that Civitello has no criminal history and strong family ties in Schenectady, lessening his risk of flight. He has pleaded not guilty.
In court papers opposing Civitello’s release, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett suggested the defendant's family ties did not entirely help his case. The prosecutor described Civitello and his 50-year-old father, Jeffrey Civitello Sr., who owns a construction company located in the same building where the raid took place, as sophisticated drug dealers with numerous criminal associates.
On Oct. 21, when officers with a federal Drug Enforcement Administration task force raided what they called a penthouse, they found a gun in the first-floor office of Focus Construction, a company owned by the senior Civitello, who as a convicted felon is prohibited from possessing firearms. Civitello Sr. has prior federal convictions for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, the prosecutor stated.
Barnett said investigators also found two boxes for Glock handguns, including one purchased in Kentucky by a known gun trafficker.
And the prosecutor said the younger Civitello and his father are being investigated in connection with the DEA’s seizure on April 2 of 9 kilograms of cocaine found in a hidden compartment of Civitello’s blue 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Civitello was not in the Jeep at the time, but had been spotted by investigators two days earlier meeting with the three men charged in that case, including Richard Sinde, 56, a reputed Bonanno crime family associate from Fort Lee, N.J, the prosecutor said.
On March 31, Sinde, Robert Ingrao, 74, of Lodi, N.J., and a third man, Christopher Kelly, 54, of Brooklyn, met in Schenectady with both Civitello and his father to borrow the Jeep. On April 2, when the vehicle was stopped in Greene County, police found the 9 kilos of cocaine in a trap compartment in the trunk, Barnett told the judge at Civitello’s detention hearing in October.
At the hearing, Barnett said Civitello had been using the Jeep every day and was well aware that it had been seized.
"This would have been a good time for the defendant to say, 'You know what? That was a close call. I'm a smart guy. Maybe I should go to college. Maybe I should try something other than drug dealing.' And that was more than six months ago," Barnett told the judge. "And we know now that the defendant did not choose that path."
In court papers, Barnett told the judge that Civitello had also exchanged messages over Snapchat that appeared to be related to the distribution of opioid pills.
Barnett said investigators seized more than $856,000, including $407,545 found in Civitello's apartment, another $319,387 found in the home of a relative alleged to be a co-conspirator and an additional $128,860 in Coinbase cryptocurrency. The prosecutor said the Coinbase figure was nearly all traced to a transfer of $101,440 from Civitello's father to him.
"This transfer reinforces the government’s argument that the defendant is involved in drug trafficking activities with his father," Barnett said. He said it took place at a time when both the father and son were receiving unemployment insurance benefits when each was "dubiously claiming" that they had lost their jobs at the father's construction company.
Barnett said the younger Civitello's 2020 tax return listed his business as "sales" and placed his total income at $66,273. He alleged that Civitello and his family are falsely claiming to work at the family business.
"Of the several dozen character reference letters submitted by the defendant, not a single one is from a co-worker, and no letter appears to reference his supposed construction job," the prosecutor stated.
Civitello is now on his third and fourth attorneys, Syracuse-based attorneys Robert G. Wells and Derek S. Andrews. They sent the judge 25 letters from Civitello's mother, sister, other family members, a former teacher, assistant principal and ex-tenants all attesting to Civitello's good character. That was in addition to a photo of the defendant with his girlfriend announcing that a baby is on the way.
Photos show Civitello working on construction sites and posing with family members. In one photo, a tattoo is visible on Civitello's arm which states: "La Famiglia e tutto." In Italian, it translates to "The Family is Everything."
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 820105.php
Robert Gavin
February 1, 2022
ALBANY — A penthouse apartment. A job at a family-run construction company. A baby on the way.
At 22, Jeffrey Civitello Jr. appeared to be riding high, but his story took a downward turn on Oct. 21 when federal drug investigators raided his home on the top floor of a Schenectady building on Albany Street and seized 75 pounds of marijuana, loaded weapons and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Now, the Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School graduate is facing federal drug and weapon charges in Albany – and is being investigated in a separate cocaine-trafficking case involving a reputed Bonanno crime family associate from New Jersey, according to court papers filed in U.S. District Court.
Attorneys for Civitello, who is being held in the Albany County jail, are hoping to convince U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Stewart to reconsider an earlier order to detain him without bail. They noted in a motion that Civitello has no criminal history and strong family ties in Schenectady, lessening his risk of flight. He has pleaded not guilty.
In court papers opposing Civitello’s release, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett suggested the defendant's family ties did not entirely help his case. The prosecutor described Civitello and his 50-year-old father, Jeffrey Civitello Sr., who owns a construction company located in the same building where the raid took place, as sophisticated drug dealers with numerous criminal associates.
On Oct. 21, when officers with a federal Drug Enforcement Administration task force raided what they called a penthouse, they found a gun in the first-floor office of Focus Construction, a company owned by the senior Civitello, who as a convicted felon is prohibited from possessing firearms. Civitello Sr. has prior federal convictions for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, the prosecutor stated.
Barnett said investigators also found two boxes for Glock handguns, including one purchased in Kentucky by a known gun trafficker.
And the prosecutor said the younger Civitello and his father are being investigated in connection with the DEA’s seizure on April 2 of 9 kilograms of cocaine found in a hidden compartment of Civitello’s blue 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Civitello was not in the Jeep at the time, but had been spotted by investigators two days earlier meeting with the three men charged in that case, including Richard Sinde, 56, a reputed Bonanno crime family associate from Fort Lee, N.J, the prosecutor said.
On March 31, Sinde, Robert Ingrao, 74, of Lodi, N.J., and a third man, Christopher Kelly, 54, of Brooklyn, met in Schenectady with both Civitello and his father to borrow the Jeep. On April 2, when the vehicle was stopped in Greene County, police found the 9 kilos of cocaine in a trap compartment in the trunk, Barnett told the judge at Civitello’s detention hearing in October.
At the hearing, Barnett said Civitello had been using the Jeep every day and was well aware that it had been seized.
"This would have been a good time for the defendant to say, 'You know what? That was a close call. I'm a smart guy. Maybe I should go to college. Maybe I should try something other than drug dealing.' And that was more than six months ago," Barnett told the judge. "And we know now that the defendant did not choose that path."
In court papers, Barnett told the judge that Civitello had also exchanged messages over Snapchat that appeared to be related to the distribution of opioid pills.
Barnett said investigators seized more than $856,000, including $407,545 found in Civitello's apartment, another $319,387 found in the home of a relative alleged to be a co-conspirator and an additional $128,860 in Coinbase cryptocurrency. The prosecutor said the Coinbase figure was nearly all traced to a transfer of $101,440 from Civitello's father to him.
"This transfer reinforces the government’s argument that the defendant is involved in drug trafficking activities with his father," Barnett said. He said it took place at a time when both the father and son were receiving unemployment insurance benefits when each was "dubiously claiming" that they had lost their jobs at the father's construction company.
Barnett said the younger Civitello's 2020 tax return listed his business as "sales" and placed his total income at $66,273. He alleged that Civitello and his family are falsely claiming to work at the family business.
"Of the several dozen character reference letters submitted by the defendant, not a single one is from a co-worker, and no letter appears to reference his supposed construction job," the prosecutor stated.
Civitello is now on his third and fourth attorneys, Syracuse-based attorneys Robert G. Wells and Derek S. Andrews. They sent the judge 25 letters from Civitello's mother, sister, other family members, a former teacher, assistant principal and ex-tenants all attesting to Civitello's good character. That was in addition to a photo of the defendant with his girlfriend announcing that a baby is on the way.
Photos show Civitello working on construction sites and posing with family members. In one photo, a tattoo is visible on Civitello's arm which states: "La Famiglia e tutto." In Italian, it translates to "The Family is Everything."
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 820105.php
All roads lead to New York.
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Schenectady Father and Son Indicted for Cocaine Conspiracy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 26, 2022
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Jeffrey C. Civitello Sr., age 50, and Jeffrey C. Civitello Jr., age 22, both of Schenectady, New York, have been indicted for trafficking kilograms of cocaine.
The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division.
The Civitellos are charged with conspiring with other men, including two New Jersey men indicted last year, to traffic more than 5 kilograms of cocaine to Schenectady in March and April 2021. The Civitellos are also each charged with possessing and intending to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine on March 31, 2021, and with attempting to possess with intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine on April 2, 2021. The charges in the indictment are merely accusations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
If convicted on all charges, each man faces at least 10 years and up to life in prison, as well as at least 5 years of post-imprisonment supervised release. The indictment also seeks a money judgment against the Civitellos in the amount of $600,000. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a judge based on the particular statute the defendant is charged with violating, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors.
Jeffrey Civitello Sr. was arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart; a detention hearing is scheduled for June 3, 2022.
Jeffrey Civitello Jr. will be arraigned at a later date. He has been in custody since October 21, 2021, when he was arrested by the DEA in Schenectady on unrelated charges of possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing and intending to distribute marijuana. Those charges are also merely accusations. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
This case is being investigated by the DEA’s Capital District Drug Enforcement Task Force, which includes DEA Special Agents and investigators from state and local police agencies, including the Saratoga Springs Police Department, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, and the New York State Police. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/sc ... conspiracy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 26, 2022
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Jeffrey C. Civitello Sr., age 50, and Jeffrey C. Civitello Jr., age 22, both of Schenectady, New York, have been indicted for trafficking kilograms of cocaine.
The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division.
The Civitellos are charged with conspiring with other men, including two New Jersey men indicted last year, to traffic more than 5 kilograms of cocaine to Schenectady in March and April 2021. The Civitellos are also each charged with possessing and intending to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine on March 31, 2021, and with attempting to possess with intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine on April 2, 2021. The charges in the indictment are merely accusations. The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
If convicted on all charges, each man faces at least 10 years and up to life in prison, as well as at least 5 years of post-imprisonment supervised release. The indictment also seeks a money judgment against the Civitellos in the amount of $600,000. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a judge based on the particular statute the defendant is charged with violating, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors.
Jeffrey Civitello Sr. was arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart; a detention hearing is scheduled for June 3, 2022.
Jeffrey Civitello Jr. will be arraigned at a later date. He has been in custody since October 21, 2021, when he was arrested by the DEA in Schenectady on unrelated charges of possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing and intending to distribute marijuana. Those charges are also merely accusations. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
This case is being investigated by the DEA’s Capital District Drug Enforcement Task Force, which includes DEA Special Agents and investigators from state and local police agencies, including the Saratoga Springs Police Department, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, and the New York State Police. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/sc ... conspiracy
All roads lead to New York.
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Re: Bonanno associate Richard Sinde takes another drug pinch
Why so much cash in the house? And why no digital ledger, a Nano S at least? Coinbase is a scam, lolWiseguy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 9:34 am Schenectady father, son eyed in Mafia-linked cocaine investigation
Robert Gavin
February 1, 2022
ALBANY — A penthouse apartment. A job at a family-run construction company. A baby on the way.
At 22, Jeffrey Civitello Jr. appeared to be riding high, but his story took a downward turn on Oct. 21 when federal drug investigators raided his home on the top floor of a Schenectady building on Albany Street and seized 75 pounds of marijuana, loaded weapons and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Now, the Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School graduate is facing federal drug and weapon charges in Albany – and is being investigated in a separate cocaine-trafficking case involving a reputed Bonanno crime family associate from New Jersey, according to court papers filed in U.S. District Court.
Attorneys for Civitello, who is being held in the Albany County jail, are hoping to convince U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Stewart to reconsider an earlier order to detain him without bail. They noted in a motion that Civitello has no criminal history and strong family ties in Schenectady, lessening his risk of flight. He has pleaded not guilty.
In court papers opposing Civitello’s release, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Barnett suggested the defendant's family ties did not entirely help his case. The prosecutor described Civitello and his 50-year-old father, Jeffrey Civitello Sr., who owns a construction company located in the same building where the raid took place, as sophisticated drug dealers with numerous criminal associates.
On Oct. 21, when officers with a federal Drug Enforcement Administration task force raided what they called a penthouse, they found a gun in the first-floor office of Focus Construction, a company owned by the senior Civitello, who as a convicted felon is prohibited from possessing firearms. Civitello Sr. has prior federal convictions for cocaine trafficking and money laundering, the prosecutor stated.
Barnett said investigators also found two boxes for Glock handguns, including one purchased in Kentucky by a known gun trafficker.
And the prosecutor said the younger Civitello and his father are being investigated in connection with the DEA’s seizure on April 2 of 9 kilograms of cocaine found in a hidden compartment of Civitello’s blue 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Civitello was not in the Jeep at the time, but had been spotted by investigators two days earlier meeting with the three men charged in that case, including Richard Sinde, 56, a reputed Bonanno crime family associate from Fort Lee, N.J, the prosecutor said.
On March 31, Sinde, Robert Ingrao, 74, of Lodi, N.J., and a third man, Christopher Kelly, 54, of Brooklyn, met in Schenectady with both Civitello and his father to borrow the Jeep. On April 2, when the vehicle was stopped in Greene County, police found the 9 kilos of cocaine in a trap compartment in the trunk, Barnett told the judge at Civitello’s detention hearing in October.
At the hearing, Barnett said Civitello had been using the Jeep every day and was well aware that it had been seized.
"This would have been a good time for the defendant to say, 'You know what? That was a close call. I'm a smart guy. Maybe I should go to college. Maybe I should try something other than drug dealing.' And that was more than six months ago," Barnett told the judge. "And we know now that the defendant did not choose that path."
In court papers, Barnett told the judge that Civitello had also exchanged messages over Snapchat that appeared to be related to the distribution of opioid pills.
Barnett said investigators seized more than $856,000, including $407,545 found in Civitello's apartment, another $319,387 found in the home of a relative alleged to be a co-conspirator and an additional $128,860 in Coinbase cryptocurrency. The prosecutor said the Coinbase figure was nearly all traced to a transfer of $101,440 from Civitello's father to him.
"This transfer reinforces the government’s argument that the defendant is involved in drug trafficking activities with his father," Barnett said. He said it took place at a time when both the father and son were receiving unemployment insurance benefits when each was "dubiously claiming" that they had lost their jobs at the father's construction company.
Barnett said the younger Civitello's 2020 tax return listed his business as "sales" and placed his total income at $66,273. He alleged that Civitello and his family are falsely claiming to work at the family business.
"Of the several dozen character reference letters submitted by the defendant, not a single one is from a co-worker, and no letter appears to reference his supposed construction job," the prosecutor stated.
Civitello is now on his third and fourth attorneys, Syracuse-based attorneys Robert G. Wells and Derek S. Andrews. They sent the judge 25 letters from Civitello's mother, sister, other family members, a former teacher, assistant principal and ex-tenants all attesting to Civitello's good character. That was in addition to a photo of the defendant with his girlfriend announcing that a baby is on the way.
Photos show Civitello working on construction sites and posing with family members. In one photo, a tattoo is visible on Civitello's arm which states: "La Famiglia e tutto." In Italian, it translates to "The Family is Everything."
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 820105.php
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Jury delivers guilty verdicts in NYC-to-Schenectady cocaine pipeline trial
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 919414.php
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Civitello family member charged with beating son of witness in Mafia-linked drug case
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 514457.php
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 514457.php
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These Civitellos think they are their own mafia family until they go to prison.
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Why?
"Dont leave me alone with your wife."
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What the sibling did at that bar. Talking to his brother over a jail-monitored phone call about assaulting a witness and then thinking somehow you were not going to get caught being that brazen and obvious. You have to think it's the 60s to think you can get away with it.
Again, you are at a restaurant with cameras (obviously) talking to your brother from a prison pay phone about beating up someone at this restaurant who is or was going to testify against you.
So, yeah, you know...