Gangland August 8th 2024

[Dr031718]

Turncoat Wiseguy Accuses A Mob Wife Snitch Of Scamming Him; She Says He's The Bad Guy

Yvonne Rossetti, the wife of a Queens gangster who has her own apparent bent for crime, got lucky 18 years ago when she ripped off several friends, relatives and Howard Beach neighbors of $803,000 in a real estate scam. She was less lucky in 2011 when she pulled off a similar swindle in Florida. But she hit the jackpot this year, Gang Land has learned, with her latest mark, a reformed Bonanno family mobster.

Rossetti got a pass in 2006 when a wiseguy was tape recorded telling her husband, "Listen, either they're getting paid or she is going in the trunk of a car." The feds decided she was the victim, and the mobster, and two pals went to prison. Five years later, she ended up getting two years in the slammer when she swindled a few Floridians out of a lot less money.

And the now 59-year-old scammer hasn't lost her edge. Using the name Yvonne Marques, she allegedly made a fool out of turncoat Bonanno mobster Dominick Cicale by taking $102,000 from him in a real estate scam, the ex-gangster says. But since the convicted killer has foresworn mob-style vengeance, Cicale isn't talking about any car trunks: He wants her prosecuted for fraud, according to a letter he sent to his sentencing judge.

In a July 15 letter, Cicale, 57, who like Rosetti and many other cooperating witnesses, resides in the Sunshine State today, asked Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis for his "assistance in having someone in law enforcement investigate" his allegations against the "two time convicted felon and cooperating witness."

"It's still mind-boggling to me that the U.S. Government made her a victim," recalled attorney James DiPietro, whose client got 21 months in the 2006 case. "She was a con-artist who told people, 'You'll double your money.' She ripped off honest, hard-working people," the lawyer continued. "We told them they gave her a license to steal, and a few years later, it turned out we were right."

Cicale told Garaufis that he "advanced" Rossetti the cash in April as part of a "formalized partnership agreement." The deal called for her to invest $4.65 million in "trust funds" she said she would soon receive in a real estate deal that involved "two multi-million-dollar” properties that Cicale owned. Then he learned that Rossetti’s so-called "trust funds" were backed up by fraudulent bank statements.

Noting that he had "maintained a clean record" and "strived to live an honest life" since he pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the feds, Cicale stated he was seeking the judge's help "because I find myself in a troubling situation that threatens everything that I have worked so hard to achieve" since "my release from prison in 2013."

A year earlier, as a reward for his cooperation, Garaufis meted out a 10-year sentence to Cicale, who took part in two mob rubouts. He testified that his former right-hand-man-in-crime, acting Bonanno boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano and the family's current leader, Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso, had each ordered him to kill mob associate Randolph Pizzolo in 2004.

Since his release from prison, Cicale has co-authored two very short books about the mob — the longer one has 52 pages. In 2015, he was accused by a private investigator of trying to extort $200,000 from Basciano's family to recant his trial testimony. Those allegations, which Cicale emphatically denied to Gang Land this week, were submitted to the feds but went nowhere.

Cicale recently stated in a podcast he began last year that he was the victim of a scam by an unnamed cooperating witness and had notified Judge Garaufis about it, according to what a podcast viewer tells Gang Land. In a recent episode, Cicale reported FBI sources told him the Bonanno and Genovese clans are looking to kill him over nasty things he has said about Mancuso. (Mikey Nose was released from prison last week. See below.)

Cicale, who wrote in his letter that he met Rossetti "a few years ago," told Gang Land that turncoat Gambino soldier Frankie (Frankie Fapp) Fappiano, introduced him to Rossetti during the Covid pandemic without informing him of her criminal background. At that time, Cicale said, he tried "to assist Rossetti in generating income by selling PPE medical supplies."

Early this year, he reached out to her when he was looking for an "investor to partner up with two multimillion-dollar parcels of land" he owned in Winter Park, Florida, Cicale said. He noted that "Frankie introduced me to her as just Yvonne, and on her phone my caller ID reads: Yvonne Lisa Marie."

Cicale said Rossetti located a woman who agreed to pay $2.7 million for one of the properties, on Lake Howell Lane, the same street she lived on, but "the buyer defaulted." He indicated that's when Rossetti, who had impressed Cicale with "her drive and determination," really sucked him in, by "claiming she would receive her trust fund money (of $5.4 million) 30 days after her birthday on April 13, 2024."

Rossetti persuaded him to get a new real estate broker and proposed what turned out to be a too good to be true partnership agreement for his two properties. In return for $55,000 — she got $47,000 more later — Rossetti would "facilitate the purchase of both parcels for $4,650,000" when she got the money and would allow Cicale "to retain 50% of the construction" work for a development plan "with an expected profit of $9 million," he said.

The money didn't show up 60 days later, however. And when "it became clear" to Cicale and his lawyer that the paperwork was fraudulent, he "conducted a Google search" and realized she had pulled off "a meticulously orchestrated scam." He then confronted Rossetti about news accounts about her scam against Bonanno family mobsters, Cicale said.

Rossetti fessed up and pulled him in further. She recounted "her past convictions with a sympathetic tone," Cicale stated, noting that she "was one of the most convincing fraudsters" he had ever encountered.

"What a relief," she told him. "I've been wanting to tell you about my past for some time now but didn't know how to bring it up. I did everything for my sick daughter, and I would do it all over again."

In letters to two federal judges, Rossetti has cited her adult daughter, who was born with a congenital brain defect, in failed efforts to get her Florida sentence reduced.

It wasn't until May 22 that Cicale learned Rossetti's real identity. A few weeks later, on June 26, he gave his allegations about her to the FBI. He decided to send his letter to Garaufis when "weeks passed without any updates," he told Gand Land, despite assurances that the agency would pursue his allegations even though Rossetti had been a "cooperating witness."

When former Bonanno family associates Gene Borrello and Rossetti's hubby Vincent — both are former members of Ronald (Ronnie G) Giallanzo's Howard Beach crew who also live in Florida — confirmed that her $5.4 million trust fund claim was a scam, Cicale complained about her to Fappiano.

"Frankie was extremely upset," Cicale said. "The next day Yvonne gave me back $3,000 in cash," he said. Since then, she has given him a total of $67,000. But in addition to asking Judge Garaufis to pass his allegations on to prosecutors, Cicale says he plans to file a civil suit seeking treble damages for her fraudulent scam, so Rosetti "owes me a balance of $230,000."

"He's full of shit," said Rossetti. She insisted that she has paid Cicale most of the money he advanced her "in a business deal that did not materialize." The rest of the ”money will be paid back next week," she pledged.

Rossetti declined to discuss the $5.4 million in "trust funds" she never received that are cited in the April 16, 2024 partnership agreement that she (as Yvonne Marques) and Cicale signed. But she told Gang Land that the woman who agreed to buy the parcel of land on Lake Howell Lane in Winter Park from Cicale for $2.7 million is the real victim in the case.

"The lady who bought his land gave him $100,000, and he kept the money and she didn't get the land," she said. "She gave him $100,000 and she couldn't get the loan. He took the hundred thousand and went to Europe with his wife. He took advantage of the poor lady. The money was supposed to go into an escrow account but he made her send it to his account. And you know, and I know that when you buy property that deposit is supposed to go into an escrow account."

"He didn't tell you that, did he," Rossetti continued. "Ot that he was supposed to pay the realtor a $2500 fee and he didn't pay her."

The realtor and the buyer did not respond to calls from Gang Land. But a check with Property Shark, the online real estate database states that the market value of the property that the buyer agreed to buy for $2.7 million was only $882,000. It also wasn't owned by Cicale but by his wife, a former executive of a television station.

The market value of the second property, also owned by his wife, is $395,000, according to Property Shark. That puts the total market value for both properties at $1.27 million, nearly $1.5 million less than what the woman who lived on the same street was willing to pay for one property owned by Cicale's wife.

It adds more confusion to the disagreement the cooperating witnesses have about their signed agreement. But it answers a burning question that popped up in Gang Land's first read of Cicale's letter to Garaufis: How did Cicale get to own what he said were "two multi million dollar properties" that Property Shark says have a market value of $1.27 million? He married well.

Cicale did not disagree. He earned money working on "a construction project in Miami (that) consisted of building 702 homes," and "invested (it) wisely," he said. "My wife's stability helped ease my transition back into society. That's my story and I'm sticking to it."

Mikey Nose Is Back Home On Long Island – With An Optical Plan that Includes Really 'Iconic' Glasses

Mafia Boss Michael (Mikey Nose) Mancuso may still "own The Bronx," as a Colombo family capo told a mob snitch four years ago, but he now lives in Valley Stream, and that's where he will be hanging his hat having been released from prison last week.

By all accounts, the 11-month stretch Mancuso served at the federal prison in Allenwood Pennsylvania for meeting with mobsters and other ex-cons while he was on supervised release from prison in 2020 and 2021 was quiet and without incident. That's something that could also be said about the state of his Bonanno crime family, according to law enforcement sources.

"We heard that no one was straightened out and that all discussions about proposed inductions were put off until Mancuso came home," said one law enforcement source who has had an ear to the ground.

While the 69-year-old mob boss was residing in the Keystone State, sources say his Bronx-based borgata was being administered by two of his longtime wiseguy pals, underboss John (Johnny Joe) Spirito and acting consigliere Ernest (Ernie) Aiello, both of whom he was spotted meeting when he shouldn't have been.

Mancuso is on post-prison supervised release for the next 25 or so months and is prohibited from meeting them, or any other reputed mobsters or ex-cons. But law enforcement and other sources say that "somehow or other," Mikey Nose's wishes will be learned and carried out during the next two years.

During that same time frame, Mancuso cannot go to RealEyes Optical, his girlfriend Laura Keller's business in Great Neck where he met several men on his do-not-associate-with list, including Vincent (Vinny Unions) Ricciardo, the Colombo wiseguy who was tape recorded telling a cooperating witness that Mancuso "owns The Bronx."

He is allowed to drive Keller to work and drop her off, which he likely will do on occasion, but according to the sentencing meted out by Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis, he cannot enter the building.

Gang Land is sure that Keller, who attended many court sessions with her significant other, is happy that Mancuso is back home, but she declined to discuss that with Gang Land yesterday.

"You're calling an optical store," she said, "so the only quote we can give you is about Mr. Mancuso's eye wear, which by the way is spectacular. He wears iconic glasses, with the most prestigious glass." Gang Land assumes those are prestigious RealEyes sunglasses he's wearing in the exclusive Gang Land photo above.

Lawyers Say Wiseguy's A Patriotic American Who Deserves Compassion

Thrice convicted mobster Ronald (Ronnie G) Giallanzo is a patriotic American whose "heroic service to his country and city" during the Ground Zero cleanup from the 9/11 bombings resulted in a serious case of lung cancer. That's one reason why he deserves a compassionate release from an over the top 14 year prison term he received for crimes calling for up to nine years behind bars, his attorneys say.

Lawyers for the Bonanno wiseguy last week filed an "urgent" motion about Giallanzo's health, revealing that a recent medical test at his federal prison found a five millimeter "mass of nodules in his lung." The attorneys wrote that Giallanzo, 54, needs to receive an immediate PET CT scan — a sophisticated test that apparently cannot be performed at the federal prison where Ronnie G is housed.

The lawyers did not provide detail on Ronnie G's role in the cleanup or state how long he worked there, but they note that like thousands of New Yorkers who helped in the clean up effort, Giallanzo has come down with often fatal ailments as a result of toxic conditions there that he has managed to survive.

"This is a cause of significant concern under any circumstances, but is particularly so here," the attorneys wrote, due to Ronnie G's long history of "significant health concerns," that include his "surgery in 2007 for the removal of a rare cancerous tumor that was caused by his extensive participation in the clean-up efforts at the World Trade Center."

Lawyers Brendan White and Anthony DiPietro wrote that Dr. Shahriyour Andaz, of Long Island Thoracic Surgery, P.C. had stated in a July 24 letter, "that he had reviewed the most recent CAT scan" results and found that Giallanzo could have the PET CT scan and other "necessary medical tests" performed "with greater speed and efficiency" by outside "physicians and specialists."

In their letter to Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Dora Irizarry, the lawyers wrote that "it would be inequitably harsh for Mr. Giallanzo's health to be permanently affected, and his life potentially put in jeopardy, after he served his country heroically and could not then imagine the lifelong ramifications that could result by doing so."

They also argued it was in their client's "best interest to receive medical care from his personal physician" and not "have to rely on the Bureau of Prisons, which failed to perform annual lung scans as necessitated by Mr. Giallanzo's prior bout with lung cancer, and which failed to detect the mass in his lung until very recently."

To "highlight" the better medical care and treatment that Ronnie G would get if released, they wrote that Ronnie G, who has an "extensive cardiovascular history that includes having survived a heart attack" as well as a prior bout with a rare cancerous tumor, would "immediately receive a PET CT scan, which would be necessary to detect cancer" if he were released.

By contrast, they wrote that the recent BOP medical report simply notes that "Giallanzo should receive another CT scan, although it could be scheduled as far out as six months," a test which would only detail the size of the mass, not whether it was cancerous.

The lawyers wrote that the still pending motion they filed in 2021 supports their position that Giallanzo's 14 year sentence, which is five years longer than the high end of his plea agreement, should be vacated, on numerous grounds. They argue that "this additional information even further supports a sentence reduction to time-served so he may get the needed medical attention from his own doctor."

Lawyers White and DiPietro didn't use the word compassion, in their filing. But that's what they want Judge Irizarry to give Ronnie G: compassion.

If she doesn't, Giallanzo's scheduled release date is in March of 2029.

Irizarry ordered the government to address in its reply later this month, "what efforts, if any, are being taken by (the BOP) to address defendant's medical concerns and include that information in its response to defendant's request."

[TommyGambino]

Aiello acting consigliere, any idea who holds the official position? Thanks for posting

[Bing Bang 74]

Aiello acting consigliere, any idea who holds the official position? Thanks for posting

We don't know. I think Burnstein has Bruno Indelicato as Consigliere. But then again he also had Aiello as Acting Underboss, so… I don't know who it could be, but if I just had to guess on a whim I would say it's Vincent Badalamenti; he already held the title before, he's a Mancuso loyalist and he was Consigliere of the Mancuso Faction during the split with Cammarano.

[JohnnyS]

Very good chance it's Badalamenti in my opinion. I would be surprised if he didn't end up with a position after staying loyal to Mancuso during the split and being the de facto leader and consigliere of that faction while Mancuso was in prison.

Anthony Rabito was spotted meeting with Mancuso when he was on supervised release but an FBI agent who had been on the Bonanno squad for over six years didn't even recognize Rabito's name at Mancuso's detention hearing which is a good indication that Rabito has been inactive in recent years and is unlikely to be holding an admin position.

[OcSleeper]

Thanks for posting. Could we see this exclusive Mancuso photo too?

[AntComello]

All these rats scamming each other in Florida classic

[JohnnyS]

Thanks for posting. Could we see this exclusive Mancuso photo too?

[Brovelli]

Out of interest, why would he be an acting consigliere unless the actual consigliere was either on parole or in jail? Various sources cite there’s an acting for everything and all these different layers but I’m not sure why aiello would be acting if the actual consigliere is on the street. Is indelicato on parole as that would make sense?

[TommyGambino]

Out of interest, why would he be an acting consigliere unless the actual consigliere was either on parole or in jail? Various sources cite there’s an acting for everything and all these different layers but I’m not sure why aiello would be acting if the actual consigliere is on the street. Is indelicato on parole as that would make sense?

Think he has one more year supervised release

[OcSleeper]

Thanks for posting. Could we see this exclusive Mancuso photo too?

Oh lol the photo that's been out everywhere for two years thanks for sharing it Johnny.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Thanks for the post.

[chin_gigante]

Out of interest, why would he be an acting consigliere unless the actual consigliere was either on parole or in jail? Various sources cite there’s an acting for everything and all these different layers but I’m not sure why aiello would be acting if the actual consigliere is on the street. Is indelicato on parole as that would make sense?

There's also the possibility that there isn't even an official consigliere. We can see precedent for that in the Colombo family in the 1960s when Charles LoCicero served as acting consigliere for several years despite the official position being vacant.

Peter Lovaglio's information indicates the Bonanno family is still in the habit of 'electing' its official consigliere, so there could be something going on with that regard. It stands to reason if Mancuso didn't want anyone inducted while he was away he probably wouldn't want the family to elect a consigliere in his (brief compared to his last stint) absence.

[Tonyd621]

Handsome, like George Raft...

[Brovelli]

Out of interest, why would he be an acting consigliere unless the actual consigliere was either on parole or in jail? Various sources cite there’s an acting for everything and all these different layers but I’m not sure why aiello would be acting if the actual consigliere is on the street. Is indelicato on parole as that would make sense?

Think he has one more year supervised release

That would make sense, thanks

[Brovelli]

Out of interest, why would he be an acting consigliere unless the actual consigliere was either on parole or in jail? Various sources cite there’s an acting for everything and all these different layers but I’m not sure why aiello would be acting if the actual consigliere is on the street. Is indelicato on parole as that would make sense?

There's also the possibility that there isn't even an official consigliere. We can see precedent for that in the Colombo family in the 1960s when Charles LoCicero served as acting consigliere for several years despite the official position being vacant.

Peter Lovaglio's information indicates the Bonanno family is still in the habit of 'electing' its official consigliere, so there could be something going on with that regard. It stands to reason if Mancuso didn't want anyone inducted while he was away he probably wouldn't want the family to elect a consigliere in his (brief compared to his last stint) absence.

Good point, also very plausible