Pogo The Clown wrote:Wiseguy if it is not too much trouble can you re-post the lists of mob cases in Philly and NE over the last 15 years that you have posted in the past? Thanks.
Pogo
Since Wiseguy is busy ill help him out, just keep in mind that this is a couple years old so obviously its missing the most recent stuff.
NEW ENGLAND
In March 2000, 17 people, including New England LCN member Anthony Ascenzia Jr., were indicted in Connecticut on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation that handled $2.3 million in wagers in one 4-month period, as well as numbers, and distributing video poker machines from 1997 to 2000.
In October 2001, 7 people tied to the New England LCN, known as the "DeCologero Crew," including John DeCologero and Paul DeCologero, were indicted in Boston on charges of racketeering, cocaine trafficking, loansharking, robbery of rival drug dealers, weapons possession, and murder.
In September 2002, 6 people tied to the New England LCN, known as the "Mello Organization," including Timothy Mello, were indicted in Boston on charges of racketeering, cocaine and marijuana trafficking, robbery of rival drug dealers, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, extortion, running a bookmaking operation, and firearms offenses.
In December 2002, 18 people, including New England LCN member Anthony Rizzo, were indicted in Boston on charges of trafficking in cocaine and oxycodone.
In December 2002, 6 people, including New England LCN associate Joseph Settipane, were indicted in Boston on charges of keeping a place for illegal gambling, using the telephone for illegal gambling, and conspiracy to violate gaming laws involving a sports bookmaking operation that netted up to $500,000 a week, as well as a numbers operation.
In articles in November 2003, December 2006, and August 2008, it was reported that, despite being a "shell" or a "shadow" of the organization it once was, with dwindling membership - 20 to 25 active members in Boston, with 10 inactive or in prison, as well as a dozen or so members in Providence - (as well as a "substantial" number of associates) and it becoming harder to attract quality recruits, the New England LCN, under the leadership of boss, Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, continued to be active in the traditional rackets of sports bookmaking, video poker, loansharking, extortion, and drug trafficking.
In December 2003, 2 New England LCN members, Frederick "The Neighbor" Simone and Vincent "Dee Dee" Gioacchini, were indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy, loansharking, money laundering, and extorting $500 to $1,000 monthly payments from a sports bookmaking operation.
In June 2004, 7 people, including New England LCN associate Scott Martinelli, were indicted in Stoneham, MA on charges of organizing and promoting gambling and possession of gambling aparatus involving a sports bookmaking operation that took in as much as $60,000 a week in profits; as well as conspiracy and possession involving cocaine and oxycodone trafficking.
In January 2005, as a result of an investigation into organized crime involvement in the Laborers International Union of North America and the local construction industry, 3 New England LCN members and associates, including captain Matthew "Matty" Guglielmetti, who was also a member of LIUNA Local 271, were indicted in Providence on charges of conspiracy to distribute 67 kilos of cocaine brought through Rhode Island en route to Canada.
In February 2005, 15 people, including New England LCN captain Joseph Achille, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation that took in over $500,000 in bets in the months leading up to the Superbowl, weapons possession, trafficking in prescription drugs, and assault conspiracy involving Laborers Union jobs.
In March 2005, New England LCN member, Alfred "Chippy" Scivola, was indicted in Connecticut on charges of extorting $4,000 a month from a strip club operator; in partnership with the Gambinos.
In April 2005, 13 people, including New England LCN associate Arthur Gianelli, were indicted in Boston on charges of racketeering, running a sports bookmaking operation using a Costa Rica wireroom, distributing video poker machines, money laundering through investments in legitimate businesses, extorting a bar and a restaurant, and arson.
In January 2006, 24 people, including New England LCN associates Raymond "Scarface" Jenkins and Richard Angell, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, organized criminal gambling and conspiracy involving a sports bookmaking operation in Rhode Island and Massachusetts , which took in $3 million a month in bets and layoffs, as well as possession of marijuana and vicodin with intent to deliver.
In April 2006, New England LCN member, Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent , was indicted in Providence on charges of collecting two seperate vig payments of $2,000 a week from loans to 2 men of $100,000 each.
In May 2006, New England LCN member William "Billy" Angelesco, who had been charged with the murder of a strip club owner in 2001, was indicted in Boston on charges of extortion and running a sports bookmaking operation. He had reportedly been moving in on the Medford rackets, involved in sports bookmaking and shaking down drug dealers.
In December 2006, New England LCN underboss, Carmen "The Cheese Man" DiNunzio, was indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy to maintain a gambling operation and extortion of other sports bookmaking operations.
In December 2006, 12 people, including New England LCN captain Edward "Carmine" Lato, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running of a sports bookmaking operation that took in over $675,000, as well as trafficking in marijuana, steroids, and vicodin.
In December 2006, 2 New England LCN associates, Edward and Elias Samia, were indicted in Worcester on charges of running a numbers and card game operation.
In March 2007, 3 people, including Domenic DiCenso, the son of a late New England LCN member Franceso DiCenzo, were indicted in Boston on charges of selling cocaine out a pizza shop and weapons possession.
In August 2007, 7 people, including Joseph Russo and Steven Contrada, were indicted in Medford on charges of conspiracy, organizing and promoting gambling, keeping a place to register bets, using a telephone for gambling purposes involving a sports bookmaking operation, as well as heroin possession.
In August 2007, New England LCN associate, Gene Giangrande, was indicted in Cambridge on charges of extortion, conspiracy, assault and battery, loansharking, and running a sports bookmaking operation.
In April 2008, 13 people, including former New England LCN soldier Vincent "The Animal" Ferrara, were indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy, using a telephone to register bets, and keeping a place to register bets involving running a sports bookmaking operation.
In May 2008, 3 people, including underboss Anthony "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio, were indicted in Boston on charges of attempted bribery to secure a $6 million construction contract in the "Big Dig" Project for $15,000 and 5% of the contract revenue.
In October 2008, 2 people, Nicholas Manocchio (the nephew of New England LCN Luigi "Baby Shanks" Manocchio and director of the Laborers New England Region Organizing Fund) and Gerald Diodati (a contractor) were indicted in Providence on charges of labor racketeering, bribery, and receiving kickbacks for contracts.
In November 2008, 25 people, including New England LCN associates Nicholas "Nicky" Pari and Gerlad "Gerry" Tillinghast, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a bookmaking operation, trafficking in cocaine, marijuana, and vicodin, selling weapons, counterfeiting, and fencing stolen goods. In a follow-up case in February 2009, 30 additional people, including George Eunis and Donald St. Germain, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, extortion, selling firearms, insurance fraud, and marijuana trafficking.
In December 2008, 10 people, including Jason McMahon and Michael Sepe, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation - which paid tribute to the New England LCN - that took in more than $400,000 in wagers in 2 months, as well as marijuana trafficking and weapons possession.
In December 2008, 11 people, including New England LCN captain Peter Limone, were indicted in Boston on charges of organizing a gambling syndicate involving a sports bookmaking operation, conspiracy, loansharking, and extorting payments from 4 unaffiliated sports bookmaking operations.
In December 2008, 9 people, some of whom had ties to the New England LCN, including Steven Contrada, were indicted in Boston on charges of organizing a gambling syndicate and conspiracy involving runnging a sports bookmaking operation.
In February 2009, New England member Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent was indicted in Providence on charges of murder conspiracy.
In April 2009, New England LCN member, Joseph "Junior" Pingaro, was indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy and tax evasion on income of $3 million.
In April 2009, 2 people, including New England LCN member, Darin Bufalino, were indicted in Salem on charges of robbing a landscaper of $11,000.
In June 2009, New England LCN associate, Edward Gravalese, was indicted in Woburn on charges of organizing and promoting a gambling syndicate, keeping a gaming house, and conspiracy to keep a gaming house involving illegal high-stakes poker games.
In July 2009, Robert Jeffe, a Wall Street broker with past ties LCN member Gennaro "Gerry" Anguilo, was charged by the SEC in New York with securities fraud involving funneling $1 billion in funds through his company, Cohmad Securities Crop., to ponzi scheme conman Bernard Madoff.
In February 2010, the wife and son of member Anthony "The Saint" St. Laurent were indicted in Providence on charges of extorting tribute payments from local bookmakers for reportedly between $800,000 and $1.5 million from 1988 to 2009.
In May 2010, as well as a superseding indictment in October 2010, 31 people, including New England LCN captain Mark Rossetti and soldiers Darin Bufalino and Michael Prechillo, were indicted in Boston on charges conspiracy, heroin and marijuana trafficking, running a sports bookmaking operation, loansharking, extortion, illegal weapons possession, armed robbery, money laundering, perjury, and witness intimidation. In March 2011, 4 people, Joseph Giallanella, Michael Petrillo, Charles Davis, and Charles Toomajian, some of who had been previously charged, were indicted in Boston on charges of conspiracy, larceny, and receiving stolen property involving $1.9 million that had been embezzled from a temp agency by Davis, and laundered by Toomajian, in order to pay gambling and loansharking debts to Giallanella and Petrillo.
In November 2010, 27 people, including New England LCN associates Joseph and Richard Tiberi, were indicted in Providence on charges of running a prescription drug trafficking ring that distributed oxycontin, oxycodone, percocet, and vicodin, conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver, soliciting another to commit a crime, an attempting to make an illegal bet.
In January 2011, and in superseding indictments in March 2011 and September 2011, and April 2012, 9 New England LCN members and associates, including former boss Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, acting boss Anthony DiNunzio, captain Edward "Carmine" Lato, and soldier Alfred "Chippy" Scivola, were indicted in Rhode Island on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, and travel-in-aid of racketeering, involving monthly protection payments of $2,000 to $6,000 a month from local adult businesses from 1993 to 2011, including strip clubs such as the Cadillac Lounge, Satin Doll, Foxy Lady, Desire, and Cheaters, the Northeast Sales adult bookstore, as well as the extortion of $25,000 from an auto dealer.
In May 2011 and November 2011, 25 people, including New England LCN captain Edward "Carmine" Lato, and soldiers Frank "Bobo" Marrapese Jr. and Alfred "Chippy" Scivola, were indicted in Providence on charges of racketeering, conspiracy to commit extortion, loansharking, organized criminal gambling, sports bookmaking, illegal trafficking in prescription drugs, criminal solicitation, felony shoplifting, and marijuana possession.
In December 2011, it was reported in an affidavit by the Rhode Island PD that Patriarca associate Frederick "Freddy" Carrozza had netted over $2 million from the sale of a house, even though it was only valued at $900,000, by the buyer lying on a mortgage application and getting a $2.2 million mortgage; with the sale proceeds going to Carrozza.
PHILADELPHIA/SOUTH JERSEY
In January 2000, 11 people, including Philadelphia LCN acting boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, underboss Steven "Handsome Steve" Mazzone, consigliere George Borgesi, and soldiers Frank Gambino and John Ciancaglini, were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, running a sports bookmaking operation, cocaine trafficking, and forcing a partnership with a local ring that burglarized tractor trailers and sold stolen goods (toy train sets, bicycles, sweatsuits, computers, TV's, ceiling fans, watches, baby formula, etc.)
In March 2000 and in superseding case in October 2001, Camden Mayor Milton Milan, an assistant James Mathis, and Philadelphia LCN associate Daniel Daidone, were indicted in New Jersey on charges of conspiracy, fraud, and bribery related to bribery by former Philadelphia LCN boss Ralph Natale to receive city contracts.
In October 2000, 6 people, including Thomas Floriani, Richard Crossan and Frank Grabon, were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation that stretched from Philadelphia to New Jersey, utilized phones, fax machines, and tally bets and sheets that showed 200,000 wagers in excess of $15 million.
In February 2001, 21 people, including Philadelphia acting underboss Joseph "Mousie" Massimino, were indicted in New Jersey on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, loansharking, trafficking in cocaine and diazepam, and running a $30 million dollar sports bookmaking operation that took in $50,000 to $100,000 a week in profits.
In March 2001 and in a superseding indictment in August 2001, 9 people, including Philadelphia LCN acting boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, captain Vincent "Beeps" Centorino, associates Daniel D'Ambrosia, Joseph Servidio, Dominick "Tommy" DiNorscio, Raymond "Frenchie" Lepore, and Eugene "Little Gene" Wilson, as well as Gambino soldier Anthony Proto, Genovese associate Thomas DeMichael, and Lucchese associate Wayne Cross, were indicted in New Jersey on charges of racketeering, running a sports bookmaking operation that utilized a wireroom in Costa Rica, loansharking, extortion, ecstasy trafficking, and murder.
In September 2001, 34 video poker machines belonging to Philadelphia LCN acting boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi, acting underboss Joseph "Mousie" Massamino, and captain Anthony "Ant" Staino were seized in Philadelphia. It was reported later that an estimated 50-60 bars in South Philadelphia had the machines, each of which took in about $1,000 a week, totaling $2 -$3 million a year.
In February 2003, Philadelphia LCN acting boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi was banned from Atlantic City casinos by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.
In May 2003, Philadelphia LCN associate Anthony "Tony Gags" Gagliardi was indicted in New Jersey on charges of trafficking in 5 kilos of cocaine.
In May 2003, 21 people including Steven Vento Jr., the son of the late Philadelphia LCN associate Steven "Steaky" Vento, were indicted in Florida on charges of racketeering and dealing in stolen property involving a stolen luxury car ring that used fake vin numbers, titles, etc. In March 2010, Vento and 3 other people were named in a federal complaint in Florida charging them with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud involving a multimillion dollar mortgage fraud scam.
In May 2004, the New Jersey Commission of Investigation released a report on organized crime in the state, which included a summary of the Philadelphia LCN family; traditionally operative in South Jersey, and said to have roughly 50 members (half of which were in prison) and 100 associates. Due to infighting, turncoats, and prosecutions over the past 25 years, the family was down to only a few street level crews involved in sports bookmaking, numbers, video poker machines, loansharking, extortion, drug trafficking (particularly meth), and general thievery; and appeared to lack the "wherewithal to mount any foray into the legitimate business world."
In August 2004, 7 people, including John Garbarino Jr. and Felix Ezzio (a bookie and drug dealer who had longstanding ties to the Philadelphia LCN), were indicted in New Jersey on charges of conspiracy and promoting gambling involving a sports bookmaking operation that stretched from a wireroom in South Philadelphia to South Jersey and took in as much as $60,000 in bets a day between July and December 2003.
In November 2005, Philadelphia LCN associate Eugene "Louie Turco" Bulgarino was banned from Atlantic City casinos by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.
In February 2006, 3 people, Richard Tocchet, police officer James Harney, and James Ulmer, were indicted in New Jersey on charges conspiracy, money laundering, and official misconduct involving a sports bookmaking operation, which had ties to the Philadelphia LCN, that handled $1.7 million in bets over a 40 day period.
Following a criminal complaint filed in October 2006, in November 2007, Philadephia LCN member Vincent "Big Vince" Filipelli was indicted in New Jersey on charges of conspiracy, promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, possession of steroids, money laundering, and weapons possession.
In May 2006, 18 people, including Joseph and John Mastronardo, were indicted in Montgomery, PA on charges of conspiracy and running a multimillion sports bookmaking operation. In April 2010, the Mastronardos were indicted again in Montgomery, PA on charges of illegal gambling, money laundering (which authorities believed was tied to organized crime), and parole violation.
In November 2006, 2 people, including Philadelphia LCN associate, Damion Canalichio, were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of trafficking in over 300 grams of cocaine.
In July 2007, Philadelphia LCN associates, Danilo Starita and Edward Wagner, were indicted in New Jersey on charges of conspiracy, theft by deception, promoting gambling, falsifying records, and possessing gambling records involving a gambling operations that took in thousands of dollars a week and netted at least $1,000 a day. In January 2008, they were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of mortgage fraud.
In February 2008, Philadelphia LCN associates John Catalano, Thomas Demilio, and Harry Elwell, were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of conspiracy, tax fraud, loansharking and organizing a kickback scheme to obtain a roofing project contract.
In April 2008, 24 people, including Philadelphia LCN members Michael Lancellotti and Anthony Nicodemo, were indicted in New Jersey on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation out of an Atlantic City casino that handled $60 million in bets over a 20 month period, loansharking, and money laundering.
In May 2008, 9 people, including Michael O'Brien and Brad Pesin, were indicted in Philadephia on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation, which police believed was connected to the LCN, and that had handled $2.5 million in wagers.
In July 2008, 17 people, including Philadelphia LCN associates Louis "Bent Finger Louie" Monacello and Nicholas "Nicky the Hat" Cimino, were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of running a sports bookmaking operation that took in $1 million a month, loansharking, solicitation to commit aggravated assualt, conspiracy to commit perjury, fencing stolen goods, and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. In November 2010, police raided a South Philadelphia beer distributor, Chappy's Beer, Butts, and Bets, owned by local attorney, Gregory Quigley, who was involved in the 2008 case. In February 2011, it was reported that a grand jury was conducting an investigation into strip clubs, towing companies, the Licenses & Inspections Department of Philadelphia, and Chappy's Beer, Butts, and Bets.
In September 2008, 13 people, including the son of former Philadelphia LCN captain, Charles "Charlie White" Iannece, were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of trafficking in $6.6 million of crystal methemphatamine.
In September 2008, a construction company owned by the cousin of former Philadelphia LCN acting boss, Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, applied to do work on Atlantic City casinos.
In October 2008, 14 people, including several contractors and Philadelphia LCN associate Anthony "Tony Nose" Iannuzzio, were indicted in Trenton, NJ on charges of fraud involving accepting money for home improvement jobs that were never completed. In December 2003, Iannuzzio had been indicted in Trenton on charges of operating an illegal waste disposal company.
In January 2009, 5 people, including Philadelphia LCN associate Michael Pacitti, were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of running a theft ring at various country clubs that had stolen $100,000 in goods (laptops, IPods, TV's, jewelry, etc.) and attempting to make $25,000 in purchases from stolen credit cards.
In March 2009, former Hoboken parking utility director, John Corea and Philadelphia LCN associate, Brian Pettacio, were indicted in New Jersey on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, official misconduct, theft, and misapplication of government property involving a scheme to steal $1.7 million from the city's parking meters.
In July 2009, it was reported that, even with only about 20 active members on the street at the time, the Philadelphia LCN's total manpower of members and associates came to approixamately 150 men; and that the family continued to be involved in gambling, loansharking, and extortion.
In August 2009, it was reported that the Philadelphia LCN, under the leadership of acting boss, Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi, was more "quieter, more discipined, and smaller" than in the past, with about 20 active members on the street compared to 60 total members in the late 1960's. The family focused mainly on illegal gambling, loansharking, and extortion and kept it's narcotics involvment to mostly financing a drug dealer's entry into the business for a one-time kickback. It had also simply stopped taking the bets of gamblers who didn't pay rather than resorting to assault. Despite it's lower profile, even to the point where some had written it off, a May 2011 article reported that the recent LCN bust had showed the Philadelphia LCN was "alive and well."
In September 2009, 50 video poker machines tied to the Philadelphia LCN were seized in raids on 13 establishments in Philadelphia.
In October 2010, it was reported that a news stand that sells state lottery tickets outside of one of South Philadelphia 's sports bars was owned by the wife of Philadelphia LCN member John "Johnny Chang" Ciancaglini.
In November 2010, 13 people, including local body shop owner Phillip Sessa, were indicted in Philadelphia on charges of insurance fraud, theft by deception, receiving stolen property, false reports to law enforcement, criminal use of a communications facility, false reports, deceptive business practices, criminal mischief, corrupt organization, criminal conspiracy, and operating a chop chop involving an insurance fraud and theft ring that damaged vehicles and then submitted over $300,000 in 22 fraudulent claims to insurance companies in order to receive payments for repairs. Some of those involved used the money to pay off loanshark debts or did free car repairs to pay off gambling debts to LCN figures such as Anthony "Ant" Staino.
In January 2011, and superseding indictments in May 2011 and April 2012, 14 people, including Philadelphia LCN acting boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi, underboss Joseph "Mousie" Massamino, consigliere George "Georgie" Borgesi, captains Anthony "Ant" Staino and Joseph "Scoops" Licata, and soldiers Martin "Marty" Angelina, Gaeton "Gate" Lucibello, Eric Esposito, and Louis "Big Lou" Fazzini, were charged in Philadelphia with racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, distributing video poker machines through JMA Industries in bars, restaurants, convenience stores, coffee shops, etc. - 86 of which were seized, loansharking, extortion of a rival video poker business by forcing it to sell it's machines at over 20 locations in May 2001, extortion of unaffiliated bookmakers, witness tampering, aiding and abetting, obstruction of justice, as well as theft from the IBT employee benefit plan through a $50,000 a year "no show" job Ligambi had with Top Job Disposal; which was cited in the December 2011 New Jersey Commission of Investigation report on ongoing organized crime involvement in the solid waste and unregulated recycling industry in New Jersey. In addition to his the trash hauling business, it was also reported that Ligambi had hidden interests in real estate and a towing company. It was also reported that Licata had conspired to get Fazzini a "no show" job through the Gambino's union connections.
In April 2011, it was reported that as part of an ongoing investigation into a drug dealing operation involving the illegal sale of prescription medications such as oxycodone, percocet, etc. and loansharking connected to Philadelphia LCN underboss Joseph "Mousie" Massimino, search warrants were executed at the homes of several members of the Pagan Motorcyle Gang, such as Joseph "The Goat" Ferrari, and LCN ssociates such as Nicky Volpe; as well as a bar where video poker machines had been seized.
In June 2011, it was reported that a South Philadelphia auto-body-shop owner and bookie and loanshark, Rocco Maniscalco, was killed in 2010 for not paying the street tax to representatives of George Borgesi.
In February 2012, it was reported through leaked law enforcement records that former Philadelphia LCN acting boss, Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, may be in the process of setting up operations in the Miami, FL area and forming a crew that included Phillip "Disney" McFillin and John "Jack" Manfredi, who was operating a gambling website called Getitnow.com, as well as looking for investors in ATM's he wanted to install in strip clubs and massage parlors. Although having a job at a flooring company, the report stated Merlino had become involved in gambling activities again and was maintaining contact with former acting underboss, Steven "Handsome Steve" Mazzone in Philadelphia. Also, the report stated an unnamed associate of Merlino was in the process of purchasing a $1 million home and a Rolls Royce for Merlino. In May 2012, it was alleged in a detention memo that Merlino was the official boss of the Philadelphia LCN, as he had been while incarcerated.
In February 2012, 2 people, Philadelphia LCN soldier Robert Gentile, and associate Andrew Parente, were indicted in Connecticut on charges of felony possession of guns, explosives, silencers, other weapons, cash, drugs, and phony ID documents.
In May 2012, it was reported that authorities had filed a forfeiture seizure for nearly $180,000 that had been discovored in the backpack of William "Billy" Coyman, a former Teamster in Philadelphia, after he had collapsed at Manhattan train station the previous summer. It was alleged the money was part of a drug operation and that Coyman had been employed by 180 Entertainment Inc., which was owned by Anthony Fedele Jr., a known associate of Philadelphia LCN boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, and Joseph Burke, a convicted a convicted bank robber and drug trafficker from Boston