5 Family Indictments 2000-Present

[Pogo The Clown]

James Malpeso and Carmine Variale are also Associates. John Balsamo probably is as well. We can also add July 2000: Soldier Anthony Stropoli to the Colombos.


Pogo

[Pogo The Clown]

We can add June 2001: Soldier Anthony “Tony Pro” Proto for the Gambinos.


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[Pogo The Clown]

We can also add January 2000: Former Acting Capo Vincent “Vinny Butch” Corrao for the Gambinos.


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[Pogo The Clown]

We can add the following for the Colombos.


February 2000:
Soldier Aurellio "Ray" Cagno


March 2003:
Soldier Vincent “Chickie” DeMartino


August 2003:
Soldiers Frank “Chickie” Leto and Angelo Leto

[Pogo The Clown]

For the Bonannos.


October 2002:
Capo William "Willie Glasses" Riviello


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[Wiseguy]

Yeah in early 2011 the number of agents assigned to LCN was reduced. The number of squads was reduced from 5 to 3 (Genovese, Gambino/Lucchese and Bonanno/Colombo).


Pogo

Now its down to only rwo squads that handle the LCN in New York: C-5 for the Genovese, Colombos, and Bonannos and C-16 for the Gambinos and Luccheses.

[Ivan]

Now its down to only rwo squads that handle the LCN in New York: C-5 for the Genovese, Colombos, and Bonannos and C-16 for the Gambinos and Luccheses.

Any rhyme or reason to those two groupings, or are they arbitrary? Other than both groupings getting one big family each I mean.

[Pogo The Clown]

That is a big break for the 5 families.


For the Lucchese we can add


January 2012:
Capos Joseph “Big Joe” DiNapoli (Ruling Panel Member) and Matthew Madonna (Ruling Panel Member)
Acting Capo Anthony Croce
Soldier Michael Guerriero


We can also add Soldier Michael Guerriero to the October 2009 indictment with DiNapoli and Madonna.


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[Wiseguy]

Now its down to only rwo squads that handle the LCN in New York: C-5 for the Genovese, Colombos, and Bonannos and C-16 for the Gambinos and Luccheses.

Any rhyme or reason to those two groupings, or are they arbitrary? Other than both groupings getting one big family each I mean.

It seems it's just where things have ended up after a series of cutbacks and reorganization over the past 15 years.

Where there had once been 350 FBI agents, as well as about 100 NYPD detectives, investigating the NY Mafia in the 1980's and 1990's, by 2005 the number was down to approximately 150 agents.

In 2009, it was reported the FBI had downsized the manpower in the local squads investigating the LCN in New York with the Lucchese, Colombo, and Bonanno squads each having under 10 agents, the Gambino squad having 12 agents, and the Genovese squad having 12 agents and some NYPD detectives.

In 2011, with 45 agents investigating the LCN in New York, the FBI had streamlined it's 5 LCN squads in New York to 3: combining the Colombo and Bonanno squads together, the Gambino and Lucchese squads together, and leaving a third squad for the Genovese.

In 2013, it was reported the FBI had further reduced it's manpower investigating the LCN in New York, now only having 2 squads: the C-5 squad investigating the Genovese, Colombo, and Bonannos and the C-16 squad investigating the Gambinos and Luccheses; with a combined total of 25-35 agents.

So you're basically looking at the feds devoting about 10% of the manpower to the mob that they did in the 1980's and 1990's. I'll be the first to say they don't need those past levels to keep the mob in check today but even former FBI and other law enforcement guys have voiced their concerns about the numbers becoming too small. One also thought that, even if you reduce the number, you should still keep the squads separate - one for each family.

Even after 9/11 there continued to be a steady stream of cases right up until the present. Some here on the forum recently said it seems things have slowed down as of late. What's interesting is in that 2014 WSJ article, the head of the FBI'S criminal division in NY said the LCN had quietly made a comeback to become more powerful than it had been in years. Whether that will lead to a reallocation of resources against the mob remains to be seen. In the big scheme of things, organized crime is only 6th on the FBI priority list behind terrorism, counterintelligence, cyber crime, public corruption, and civil rights.

[Ivan]

In the big scheme of things, organized crime is only 6th on the FBI priority list behind terrorism, counterintelligence, cyber crime, public corruption, and civil rights.

I get the first four, but why is "civil rights" given more priority than organized crime? You'd think that would be a matter of civil litigation rather than criminal investigation, unless my understanding of things is off.

[Wiseguy]

In the big scheme of things, organized crime is only 6th on the FBI priority list behind terrorism, counterintelligence, cyber crime, public corruption, and civil rights.

I get the first four, but why is "civil rights" given more priority than organized crime? You'd think that would be a matter of civil litigation rather than criminal investigation, unless my understanding of things is off.

No idea but I think it's ridiculous.

[B.]

Because we need someone to investigate all of the "hate crime" hoaxes going on at colleges around the country.

[Pogo The Clown]

We can add Patriarca Soldier Alfred "Chippy" Scivola to the September 2004 Gambino indictment with Megale.


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[Pogo The Clown]

We can add Genovese Soldier Michael “Zippy” Zanfardino being indicted in 2003.


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[Pogo The Clown]

We can add the following for the Genovese family.


April 2016:
Capo Charles "Chuckie" Tuzzo
Soldier Vito Alberti


May 2016:
Soldiers Robert "Old Man/Grandpa" DeBello and Salvatore Pastore