Alex Rudaj and the albanians

[Wiseguy]

let's get this straight..... u do tons of speculations as well as well as cite bs sources
....but established credible researcher such as Felice u don't like and call bs?
your unbelievable sometimes

It's actually a good question considering the last info we heard from Capeci, who has a better track record than anyone on this board, was that John Gambino was simply on a three man street panel. Nothing about him being the real boss, power behind the scenes, etc.

[JeremyTheJew]

In my opinion, from Felice’s information JG was likely top dog with Cef acting or street. Cali somewhere in the mix like UB.

Felice said that JG was the most influential. not that he had a official admin spot.

for admin, as stated before he said:
Dom - Acting boss
Mannino- Underboss
Cali - consig

Slim- Felice is from Italy and his info comes from LE officials and are sometimes classified info.

this is the first time he has ever made a blunt statement (like who the admin is) so i was surprised he went out on a limb with that one.... but all info before was solid

[slimshady_007]

In my opinion, from Felice’s information JG was likely top dog with Cef acting or street. Cali somewhere in the mix like UB.

Felice said that JG was the most influential. not that he had a official admin spot.

for admin, as stated before he said:
Dom - Acting boss
Mannino- Underboss
Cali - consig

Slim- Felice is from Italy and his info comes from LE officials and are sometimes classified info.

this is the first time he has ever made a blunt statement (like who the admin is) so i was surprised he went out on a limb with that one.... but all info before was solid

Then i guess felice seems like a reliable source.

[Cheech]

Always thought it was the Gambino in the Bronx that got stripped

[Cheech]

Or allegedly

[SonnyBlackstein]

In my opinion, from Felice’s information JG was likely top dog with Cef acting or street. Cali somewhere in the mix like UB.

Felice said that JG was the most influential. not that he had a official admin spot.

I did not and I am not saying he held one.

From memory I recall Felice’s quote akin to JG ‘having the final word’ or who’s word carried the most, something like that. That means, top, dog. Not dog two or three. Dog one.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Akin to an Accardo.

[Fughedaboutit]

Rudaj got a rlly heavy sentence in that case. 27 years is a crazy sentence for gambling and loansharking offences. Unless he got additional violent charges.

Not when the gambling and loansharking are predicates in a RICO case. And, yes, there were violent acts in the charges.

With no murders? 27 years is a heavy sentence for gambling and loansharking...RICO or not. The RICO sentences are exaggerated to begin with imo

There were attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges as well. And one of the points of RICO is heavier penalties against organized crime groups.

Attempted murder makes sense then. If it was simple assault I would say way too heavy

[slimshady_007]

Rudaj got a rlly heavy sentence in that case. 27 years is a crazy sentence for gambling and loansharking offences. Unless he got additional violent charges.

Not when the gambling and loansharking are predicates in a RICO case. And, yes, there were violent acts in the charges.

With no murders? 27 years is a heavy sentence for gambling and loansharking...RICO or not. The RICO sentences are exaggerated to begin with imo

There were attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges as well. And one of the points of RICO is heavier penalties against organized crime groups.

Attempted murder makes sense then. If it was simple assault I would say way too heavy

I read that they got acquitted of attempted murder.

[Cheech]

let's get this straight..... u do tons of speculations as well as well as cite bs sources
....but established credible researcher such as Felice u don't like and call bs?
your unbelievable sometimes

It's actually a good question considering the last info we heard from Capeci, who has a better track record than anyone on this board, was that John Gambino was simply on a three man street panel. Nothing about him being the real boss, power behind the scenes, etc.

here is what he said

Gambinos Take A Page From Chin Gigante's Bag Of Tricks

A Gang Land Exclusive

Domenico Cefalu

The Gambino crime family has a new wrinkle on the ploy that legendary Godfather Vincent (Chin) Gigante used for years to insulate himself from the long arm of the law. No, not a crazy act, but Gigante's use of an up-front boss – ably served in the Commission trial by Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno – to take the heat if the FBI gets too close.

In fact, sources say the family's Sicilian-born boss, Domenico (Italian Dom) Cefalu, and underboss, Frank Cali, have done one better than Gigante. They have a revolving panel of three septuagenarian capos who serve as the family's "street boss" in dealings with other capos and important soldiers.

"The family is very serious about stopping the flow of informants that have been their undoing," said one law enforcement source, adding that its new leaders have moved away from the in-your-face, bravado leadership style of the late John Gotti. "They're hell bent on operating like a secret society, or at least try to," the source added.

Several sources say Anthony J. Gurino, a longtime John Gotti pal who was inducted into the crime family after the Dapper Don was sentenced to die behind bars, is a member of the up-front panel – not because of his connections to the late Mafia boss, but despite them.

Sources say that over the years, the 70-year-old Gurino has established himself with the Sicilian faction in two very important areas: His willingness to fight hard when challenged by the government, and his ability to earn money for the crime family.

Gurino was indicted twice on federal charges, the first time for obstructing justice in a 1981 FBI drug probe that earned Gotti's brother Gene a 50-year prison term, and was convicted both times. Each time, he did his time "like a man," said one source. All told, he served more than 10 years behind bars for the two federal raps.

The second conviction, for money laundering in Florida, was in 1993. He got 97 months for using a horse farm near Orlando to wash millions of dollars in profits from several companies he operated during the 1980s and 1990s. Among the companies was Arc Plumbing and Heating, the firm that famously carried the Dapper Don as a $25,000 a year plumbing supply salesman. (Editor's Note: The distinguished gentleman whose picture initially adorned this paragraph was published by mistake. He is NOT the Anthony Gurino whose deeds are described in this column.)

Sources say Gurino, a Jamaica Estates denizen who has maintained a low profile while rising in stature in the crime family following his release from prison 13 years ago, is still a "big earner" in the construction industry. He "knows the ins and outs" of getting lucrative government contracts for Gambino family linked construction companies, said one source.

Cali's uncle, capo John Gambino, who served on a three-capo ruling panel that ran the crime family before Cefalu became the official Gambino boss in 2011, remains another key player on the "up front" panel, sources say. Gambino, 75, a cousin of the late patriarch Carlo Gambino, is a longtime power in the family's Sicilian wing. He headed a delegation of family wiseguys who attended a 2010 mob summit meeting in New Jersey with Philadelphia mob boss Joseph (Uncle Joe) Ligambi and a contingent of his mobsters, according to court records.

Joseph (Sonny) Juliano, a Brooklyn-based wiseguy who once turned down a promotion to capo, according to court records, is the third member of the "up-front" panel, sources say. Like the others, Juliano, 75, whose only federal rap was a five-month prison stretch for illegal gambling in 2000, tries not to draw attention to his mob clout. "He's an old-school wiseguy who believes strongly in conducting his business below the radar," said one law enforcement source.

John GambinoCefalu, as Gang Land first reported, took over as Gambino boss in 2011. At the time, Cefalu was still on strict post-prison restrictions after his November 2009 release from prison where he had done time for an extortion charge.

But the Gambinos didn’t have a choice, say those who know. "That was an emergency situation," said one reliable Gang Land source. The family was facing a crisis after the FBI's Mafia Takedown Day arrests on January 20, 2011 including that of family consigliere Bartolomeo (Bobby Glasses) Vernace who was detained without bail on racketeering and murder charges.

Cefalu, who was family underboss when the feds rocked the Gambinos in 2008 with a 62-defendant indictment that snared the entire leadership on racketeering charges, was "pushed into service early," said one source, because Italian Dom Cefalu was the only administration member whose prison term had ended.

His selection was an important "political move" by the family, the source said. It put an end to the John Gotti era and it firmly established the Sicilian wing as the driving force in the borgata's efforts to revive its rackets following decades of upheaval and long prison terms during the reign of Gotti, his brother Peter, and the erstwhile Junior Don, John (Junior) Gotti.

Ironically, 66-year-old Italian Dom was inducted into the Gambino crime family by the late Dapper Don in November, 1990, during the last induction ceremony that Gotti conducted. He was arrested the following month, and died behind bars in June 2002.

Cefalu, whose lawyer told Gang Land two years ago that he had resumed his $42,000 a year job in a bakery supply company in Bensonhurst, surely hopes that his reign atop the Gambino family doesn't end the way it did for the swashbuckling Dapper Don.

For that matter, Italian Dom, as well as the three septuagenarian capos who are currently serving as his front men, surely hope that they don't end up like the late Genovese boss, Chin Gigante, or his longtime front man, Fat Tony Salerno. They both died in federal prison.

[JeremyTheJew]

I'm assuming this was before he came back and said Pete Gotti is actually still boss

[slimshady_007]

I'm assuming this was before he came back and said Pete Gotti is actually still boss

What was the whole point of Capeci sayin in 2011 that pete stepped down?

[JeremyTheJew]

I'm assuming this was before he came back and said Pete Gotti is actually still boss

What was the whole point of Capeci sayin in 2011 that pete stepped down?

ft was mis information. he wrote the article saying who's who, ppl in the know read it, and then reported back to him he got it wrong. just like the Amuso situation. yet, different bc i think he reported Crea made Amuso step down. and as we found out thats not true and Amuso is still even giving orders.

if i was boss and IP I'd wanna stay boss. I mean what's the point in stepping down? not like he's got anything better going on

[Frank]

let's get this straight..... u do tons of speculations as well as well as cite bs sources
....but established credible researcher such as Felice u don't like and call bs?
your unbelievable sometimes

It's actually a good question considering the last info we heard from Capeci, who has a better track record than anyone on this board, was that John Gambino was simply on a three man street panel. Nothing about him being the real boss, power behind the scenes, etc.

here is what he said

Gambinos Take A Page From Chin Gigante's Bag Of Tricks

A Gang Land Exclusive

Domenico Cefalu

The Gambino crime family has a new wrinkle on the ploy that legendary Godfather Vincent (Chin) Gigante used for years to insulate himself from the long arm of the law. No, not a crazy act, but Gigante's use of an up-front boss – ably served in the Commission trial by Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno – to take the heat if the FBI gets too close.

In fact, sources say the family's Sicilian-born boss, Domenico (Italian Dom) Cefalu, and underboss, Frank Cali, have done one better than Gigante. They have a revolving panel of three septuagenarian capos who serve as the family's "street boss" in dealings with other capos and important soldiers.

"The family is very serious about stopping the flow of informants that have been their undoing," said one law enforcement source, adding that its new leaders have moved away from the in-your-face, bravado leadership style of the late John Gotti. "They're hell bent on operating like a secret society, or at least try to," the source added.

Several sources say Anthony J. Gurino, a longtime John Gotti pal who was inducted into the crime family after the Dapper Don was sentenced to die behind bars, is a member of the up-front panel – not because of his connections to the late Mafia boss, but despite them.

Sources say that over the years, the 70-year-old Gurino has established himself with the Sicilian faction in two very important areas: His willingness to fight hard when challenged by the government, and his ability to earn money for the crime family.

Gurino was indicted twice on federal charges, the first time for obstructing justice in a 1981 FBI drug probe that earned Gotti's brother Gene a 50-year prison term, and was convicted both times. Each time, he did his time "like a man," said one source. All told, he served more than 10 years behind bars for the two federal raps.

The second conviction, for money laundering in Florida, was in 1993. He got 97 months for using a horse farm near Orlando to wash millions of dollars in profits from several companies he operated during the 1980s and 1990s. Among the companies was Arc Plumbing and Heating, the firm that famously carried the Dapper Don as a $25,000 a year plumbing supply salesman. (Editor's Note: The distinguished gentleman whose picture initially adorned this paragraph was published by mistake. He is NOT the Anthony Gurino whose deeds are described in this column.)

Sources say Gurino, a Jamaica Estates denizen who has maintained a low profile while rising in stature in the crime family following his release from prison 13 years ago, is still a "big earner" in the construction industry. He "knows the ins and outs" of getting lucrative government contracts for Gambino family linked construction companies, said one source.

Cali's uncle, capo John Gambino, who served on a three-capo ruling panel that ran the crime family before Cefalu became the official Gambino boss in 2011, remains another key player on the "up front" panel, sources say. Gambino, 75, a cousin of the late patriarch Carlo Gambino, is a longtime power in the family's Sicilian wing. He headed a delegation of family wiseguys who attended a 2010 mob summit meeting in New Jersey with Philadelphia mob boss Joseph (Uncle Joe) Ligambi and a contingent of his mobsters, according to court records.

Joseph (Sonny) Juliano, a Brooklyn-based wiseguy who once turned down a promotion to capo, according to court records, is the third member of the "up-front" panel, sources say. Like the others, Juliano, 75, whose only federal rap was a five-month prison stretch for illegal gambling in 2000, tries not to draw attention to his mob clout. "He's an old-school wiseguy who believes strongly in conducting his business below the radar," said one law enforcement source.

John GambinoCefalu, as Gang Land first reported, took over as Gambino boss in 2011. At the time, Cefalu was still on strict post-prison restrictions after his November 2009 release from prison where he had done time for an extortion charge.

But the Gambinos didn’t have a choice, say those who know. "That was an emergency situation," said one reliable Gang Land source. The family was facing a crisis after the FBI's Mafia Takedown Day arrests on January 20, 2011 including that of family consigliere Bartolomeo (Bobby Glasses) Vernace who was detained without bail on racketeering and murder charges.

Cefalu, who was family underboss when the feds rocked the Gambinos in 2008 with a 62-defendant indictment that snared the entire leadership on racketeering charges, was "pushed into service early," said one source, because Italian Dom Cefalu was the only administration member whose prison term had ended.

His selection was an important "political move" by the family, the source said. It put an end to the John Gotti era and it firmly established the Sicilian wing as the driving force in the borgata's efforts to revive its rackets following decades of upheaval and long prison terms during the reign of Gotti, his brother Peter, and the erstwhile Junior Don, John (Junior) Gotti.

Ironically, 66-year-old Italian Dom was inducted into the Gambino crime family by the late Dapper Don in November, 1990, during the last induction ceremony that Gotti conducted. He was arrested the following month, and died behind bars in June 2002.

Cefalu, whose lawyer told Gang Land two years ago that he had resumed his $42,000 a year job in a bakery supply company in Bensonhurst, surely hopes that his reign atop the Gambino family doesn't end the way it did for the swashbuckling Dapper Don.

For that matter, Italian Dom, as well as the three septuagenarian capos who are currently serving as his front men, surely hope that they don't end up like the late Genovese boss, Chin Gigante, or his longtime front man, Fat Tony Salerno. They both died in federal prison.

Nice article, I think I read it awhile back, but I think it's important for us to read this article. What was the date of the article? Another point it mentions, but I must of overlooked it was that the 3 men on the panel took turns acting as street boss. I never looked at it that way, lol, I guess it makes sense instead of these three traveling around to get her.

[Frank]

Sorry don't know where the to get her part came from. Fucking phone lol