Gangland news 22nd June 2017

[moneyman]

From Gangland on June 8

Federal prosecutors used a longtime but little-known mob associate named Joseph Foti to help them obtain a murder and racketeering conspiracy indictment against the leadership of the Luchese crime family and 14 other defendants, Gang Land has learned.

Sources say Foti, 65, who has ties to two crime families, began wearing a wire for the FBI's squad that investigates the Gambino and Luchese families before the November 2013 murder of Michael Meldish. He continued tape-recording conversations after the gangland-style slaying. But the sources declined to provide any other details about his work as an undercover operative in the case.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Good point mm. There has to be more to it than that though. He wasn't part of the Meldish murder and an associate wouldn't have been privy to the chain of command so it's likely that he gave the Feds cause for tapping or a bug from which they got the evidence to charge the Creas and Madonna.