Bonanno trial / Joe C and Porky acquitted

[gohnjotti]

Cammarano was caught on tape discussing his role as the Bonanno family acting boss, a dispute between the Bonannos and the Gambinos, the Bonanno family's rising status under Cammarano, and the structure of the family under Cammarano. It's highly unlikely that a jury is going to be able to look past that.

source if you will kind sir.

The Bonanno file that was posted here recently. Was combing through it today. Cammarano met withm Lovaglio in Jul. 2016 and spilled the beans on all that, on tape.

Must have missed. Could you post or pm me the link please mate.
Cheers

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[UTC]

AC, Meadowlands, or Monmouth Park?

Bobby Valentine’s Sports Bar in Stamford up your way is gearing up to have a Sportsbook there by summertime. I was just there the new location is AMAZING! Place is the nicest and biggest Sports Bar I’ve ever been to.

It's great. The one in Milford was good too, but he sold the location years ago.

[SonnyBlackstein]

Cammarano was caught on tape discussing his role as the Bonanno family acting boss, a dispute between the Bonannos and the Gambinos, the Bonanno family's rising status under Cammarano, and the structure of the family under Cammarano. It's highly unlikely that a jury is going to be able to look past that.

source if you will kind sir.

The Bonanno file that was posted here recently. Was combing through it today. Cammarano met withm Lovaglio in Jul. 2016 and spilled the beans on all that, on tape.

Must have missed. Could you post or pm me the link please mate.
Cheers

viewtopic.php?f=44&t=4131

[Cheech]

AC, Meadowlands, or Monmouth Park?

Bobby Valentine’s Sports Bar in Stamford up your way is gearing up to have a Sportsbook there by summertime. I was just there the new location is AMAZING! Place is the nicest and biggest Sports Bar I’ve ever been to.

My buddies and I hung with hin one night there about a decade ago. Ill try and find a picture

[Cheech]

AC, Meadowlands, or Monmouth Park?

Bobby Valentine’s Sports Bar in Stamford up your way is gearing up to have a Sportsbook there by summertime. I was just there the new location is AMAZING! Place is the nicest and biggest Sports Bar I’ve ever been to.

It's great. The one in Milford was good too, but he sold the location years ago.

Ya its Gippers now or was. Acroos from jai lai

[NJShore4Life]

AC, Meadowlands, or Monmouth Park?

Bobby Valentine’s Sports Bar in Stamford up your way is gearing up to have a Sportsbook there by summertime. I was just there the new location is AMAZING! Place is the nicest and biggest Sports Bar I’ve ever been to.

My buddies and I hung with hin one night there about a decade ago. Ill try and find a picture

U take Kamikaze shots with Bobby V???!!!! He’s the best my all time favorite Mets Manager.

[JeremyTheJew]

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Loansharking & Assault, Hello! Trial of Two Alleged Top Street Bonannos Begins In Southern District
By Ed Scarpo Tuesday, February 26, 2019
UPDATE ADDED
The Bonanno racketeering trial kicked off this week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York before Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein (who is asking some great questions).


Joseph “Joe C” Cammarano Jr. allegedly has good hair.....



On trial are accused acting Bonanno boss Joseph (Joe C) Cammarano Jr., 59, and alleged consiglieri John (Porky) Zancocchio, 61. To win an acquittal, the two must get past the testimony of not only two mob turncoats who defense attorneys are reportedly planning to discredit for being "too cozy" with the NYPD and FBI, but legitimate business owners and others.

The two top bananas of the Bonanno crime family face charges related to extortion and racketeering conspiracy.

Former Bonanno capo Peter (Pug) Lovaglio and associate Steven Sabella are slated to testify against the two alleged gangsters.

Also slated to testify are owners and employees of a demolition company, a construction company, and a Staten Island dumpsite. They will detail for the jury alleged shakedowns by Cammarano and Zancocchio.

Lovaglio follows a well-tread path; about 20 former Bonanno family members have testified against the crime family and are "living openly." (One, Richard (Shellackhead) Cantarella, even had his own reality show.)








Cammarano and Zancocchio were busted in January 2018 with a slew of wiseguys including Eugene (Boobsie) Castelle, Albert (Al Muscles) Armetta, Joseph (Joe Valet) Sabella, George (Grumpy) Tropiano and Joseph (Joey Blue Eyes) Santapaolo.

Castelle and Armetta will be tried separately, while all the others took plea deals. (PDF download of original indictment also available below.)

Before the jury, Assistant US Attorney Gina Castellano (interesting surname) described Cammarano and Zancocchio as violent mobsters who loan-shark and extort people and are guilty of committing “crime after crime.”

“These two men led a sophisticated criminal organization that took whatever they wanted from whoever they wanted through intimidation, through threats and violence,” Castellano told jurors in her opening statement.

Lovaglio has already taken the stand and has so far discussed a range of topics, including a 2015 meeting at which he described how Cammarano was elected acting boss.

"That was the day we had the meeting to vote Joe in,” he said as the jury saw photos of alleged members of the Bonanno crime family entering a garage.

Lovaglio testified on cross about how the NYPD had "deactivated" him as a confidential informant.

And why was that?, he was asked.

He replied that it was for withholding information.

On assaults he had committed?

"Loan sharking and assault, hello," quipped the former capo

Lovaglio, who is now serving an eight-year sentence, also discussed how he was once insulted by the stepson of the owner of a sushi restaurant on Staten Island. Lovaglio retaliated and supposedly earned a new nickname in certain select circles: "Petey The Eyeball."

"I assaulted him with a glass," Lovaglio explained.

Indeed he did.

Lovaglio struck the owner of Takayama Sushi Lounge in the face with a glass around 2:30 a.m. on November 1, 2015, cutting his cheek and left eye, ultimately blinding him in that eye. The Takayama Sushi Lounge is in Richmond Valley, Staten Island. The victim, 52 at the time of the incident. was taken to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, where he underwent several surgeries on his face and eye.

Murray Weiss, reporting for DNA Info, sadly now defunct, once noted that the restaurant owner had been standing near the bar when someone called his name. When he turned to reply, he was blindsided with an exploding cocktail glass. The attacker "repeatedly hit his face."

911 was called and the police arrived, but Lovaglio had already made his exit, and was later picked up one morning after the NYPD’s Organized Crime Investigation Division eventually identified him via a photograph of the suspect.

Lovaglio, who is from Tottenville, already has several federal prison stints under his belt in addition to his current sentence

Lovaglio is suing his NYPD handler for telling him not to take a lesser plea in the assault case for assuring him he wouldn't do a day in jail. He has said he is in a "private detention facility."

Judge Hellerstein asked what that meant.

A private prison.


Pug Lovaglio



After several audiotapes Lovaglio recorded while wearing a wire for the government were played, he was asked to confirm that the Bonanno crime family used hand signals to refer to some people: an ear tug, the chin, and for the named defendant Joe Cammarano, a hand sweeping over the top of the head.

Why?, Judge Hellerstein asked.

"Because he has nice hair," Lovaglio shrugged.

Laughter reportedly erupted in the courtroom from Cammarano and some supporters sitting behind him. (Apparently he does have nice hair....)

Lovaglio discussed making a $200,000 loan at 4% a week interest and mentioned a "Johnny Sideburns."

When a photo of John Sideburns was put onscreen for the jury to see, apparently he lacked his supposed signature trait (sideburns), prompting the judge to ask: "Where are the sideburns?"

"We just give nicknames," Lovaglio said.

Hellerstein then noted that a weekly interest rate of four points was 100% a year.

"I think it's more," Lovaglio replied.


On Monday, the first day of trial, "the hulking Cammarano, one of two alleged wise guys on trial on racketeering and extortion charges, came to court... sporting gray slicked-back hair a la Frank Vincent — the late “Goodfellas” and “Sopranos” actor — along with a spotte

[slimshady_007]

Thanks for postin Jeremy.

[Cheech]

AC, Meadowlands, or Monmouth Park?

Bobby Valentine’s Sports Bar in Stamford up your way is gearing up to have a Sportsbook there by summertime. I was just there the new location is AMAZING! Place is the nicest and biggest Sports Bar I’ve ever been to.

me and friends with bobby v

[Cheech]

anyone know whats up with the trial. news covered opening day then nothing

[BobbyPazzo]

AC, Meadowlands, or Monmouth Park?

Bobby Valentine’s Sports Bar in Stamford up your way is gearing up to have a Sportsbook there by summertime. I was just there the new location is AMAZING! Place is the nicest and biggest Sports Bar I’ve ever been to.

My buddies and I hung with hin one night there about a decade ago. Ill try and find a picture

U take Kamikaze shots with Bobby V???!!!! He’s the best my all time favorite Mets Manager.

Mine too cuz

[BobbyPazzo]

AC, Meadowlands, or Monmouth Park?

Bobby Valentine’s Sports Bar in Stamford up your way is gearing up to have a Sportsbook there by summertime. I was just there the new location is AMAZING! Place is the nicest and biggest Sports Bar I’ve ever been to.

me and friends with bobby v

Cheeeeeeech

[Cheech]

AC, Meadowlands, or Monmouth Park?

Bobby Valentine’s Sports Bar in Stamford up your way is gearing up to have a Sportsbook there by summertime. I was just there the new location is AMAZING! Place is the nicest and biggest Sports Bar I’ve ever been to.

me and friends with bobby v

Cheeeeeeech

hhahahahaha...my man!

[gohnjotti]

As published by the Inner City Press: http://www.innercitypress.com/sdny4rack ... 22719.html

In SDNY Racketeering Trial Witness Describes Ceremony in A Bronx Garage Back to Geo Prison
By Matthew Russell Lee

SDNY COURTHOUSE, February 27 – In the rackeeting trial of Joe Cammarano and John Zancocchio in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on February 27, government witness Peter Lovaglio his three days on the stand being asked if he used the U.S. Navy uniform to distribute cocaine, and about presiding over the induction ceremony of one Tommy Valente in a garage in The Bronx. Judge Alvin Hellerstein disallowed several of the questions of Zancocchio's lawyer John Meringolo. Lovaglio who developed something of a rapport with Judge Hellerstein, answering his questions about how La Cosa Nostra works, was led away, back to the private Geo prison he lives in while appealing his 8-year sentence and suing the NYPD. He ended the previous afternoon being accused of playing the NYPD. He was asked under cross examination to tell the jury why he was "de-activated" by NYPD as a confidential informant. He shrugged and said it was for not telling them everything he knew. Like the assaults you committed?

Lovaglio replied, "Loan sharking and assault, hello." As to whether he might say goodbye - to this earth - for testifying against the Bonanno crime family, he was reminded that some 20 family members have testified and are "living openly, some even have reality shows." Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein told the jury they could go for the day, and to be sure not to read anything written about the case or broadcast, presumably including Periscope live-streams. Two audio captures of Lovaglio were disallowed, one with U.F. a/k/a Unidentified Female a/k/a "my ex-fiance" as the prosecution said Lovaglia called her. There will be ten to twenty more minutes of cross, ten minutes of re-direct. Judge Hellerstein has requested a glossary of names, or a chart with photographs like "before the age of automation." But the prosecution and defense couldn't agree to what should go in the chart. The chart or easel or something like it will be part of summations. For now the trial continues: watch this site. When Lovaglio described his current eight year New York State jail sentence he recounted being insulted by the step son of the owner of a sushi restaurant owner on Staten Island. "I assaulted him with a glass," Lovaglio deadpanned. The man's eye no longer works, and he would not accept money to make the criminal complaint go away. Now Lovaglio is suing his NYPD handler for telling him not to take a lesser plea, for assuring him he wouldn't do a day in jail. He is in a "private detention facility." Judge Hellerstein wanted to know what they meant. It's a private prison.

Later in the morning, after several audio tapes Lovaglio recorded while wearing a wire for the government were played, he was asked to confirm that the Bonanno crime family used hand signals to refers to some people: an ear tug, the chin, and for the named defendant Joe Cammarano, a hand sweeping over the top of the head. Why, Judge Hellerstein asked.

"Because he has nice hair," Lovaglio shrugged. Cammarano and some sitting behind him laughed, seemingly with pride. Listening to Lovaglio try to get associates to talk for his audio recorder, one wondered if the jury will wonder if he isn't playing them, too. But if he lies he loses the prospect of the Fed's helping him on the racketeering he's pled to, with the 5K letter. Watch this site. On February 26 when Lovaglio described a loan of $200,000 at four percent a week and mentioned a "Johnny Sideburns" whose photograph was put on-screen for the jury, Judge Hellerstein had two questions. "Where are the sideburns?" he asked. There were none in the photo.

"We just give nicknames," Lovaglio said. When Hellerstein said that a weekly interest rate of four points was 100% a year, Lovaglio deadpanned, I think it's more, Judge. And so it is: not unlike the payday loans that the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is settling on without restitution...

[Jbravo]

Been looking for an update on trial