GL 01/17/2019

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

Feds Pull Out 45 Years Of Racketeering Crimes Against The Meldish Murder Five
Gang Land Exclusive!Matthew MadonnaThe gangland-style slaying of former Purple Gang leader Michael Meldish took place in 2013 when his blood-splashed body was found behind the wheel of his girlfriend's car in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx. But to convict five Luchese gangsters of that murder, the feds want to go back almost half a century in a bid to show the ties between Meldish and acting Luchese boss Matthew (Matty) Madonna, 83, who stands accused of ordering the killing.

In a 65-page filing, prosecutors asked White Plains Federal Court Judge Cathy Seibel to permit the dozen witnesses they have assembled — they include mobsters, a major builder, and several mob associates — to testify about crimes going back to when telephones still had rotary dials.

For starters, the feds want to detail Madonna's sordid back pages when he was a major heroin dealer, leading to a narcotics trafficking conviction in 1976. Prosecutors also want to tell jurors that Steven (Stevie Wonder) Crea, the 71-year-old underboss who is also accused in the murder, earned $200,000 in "labor peace" payments from one general contractor in the 1980s, and that he took part in lucrative shakedowns involving multi-million dollar government renovation projects in the 1980s — the Holland Tunnel and the Lenox Avenue subway station.

Then there's Crea's capo son, Steven (Stevie Junior) Crea, 46, also a defendant. The feds told Judge Seibel last week that, as a youngster, Crea Junior, "committed acts of violence" with a murderous Yonkers-based mob "farm team" known as the Tanglewood Boys. The younger Crea was allegedly so proud of his role with the gang, prosecutors claim, he boasted "that he had earned his father's ire by leaving blood and other indicia of violence in a restaurant that Crea Sr. operated."

Steven CreaIn addition to going back in time against the three mob supervisors, prosecutors also want to introduce evidence that Terrence Caldwell, the accused triggerman in the hit, was involved in criminal activity long before 2000. They assert that Caldwell, 60, was part of "a group of African American drug-traffickers" who were "affiliated with the Purple Gang," — a free-lance gang of mob-tied drug dealers and hitmen — and that he used his ties to Meldish, a fellow gang member, to become a Luchese family associate.

Prosecutors Hagan Scotten, Celia Cohen and Scott Hartman assert that Madonna and the Creas were the Luchese superiors who ordered Caldwell, a longtime associate of Meldish, and mobster Christopher Londonio, 45, to kill the 62-year-old gangster.

The prosecutors assert that Londonio, who was technically in a crew headed by the younger Crea but who also answered to Madonna, had teamed up with Caldwell in armed robberies in prior years and was the getaway driver in the November 15, 2013 Meldish murder. Londonio is the only defendant who is not cited in any criminal activity before 2000. The quintet is charged with being part of a racketeering conspiracy from 2000 until 2017.

Steven Crea Jr The government's theory is that Madonna ordered the rubout of Meldish over a $100,000 debt that stemmed from a loanshark book that Meldish was running. Caldwell and Londonio allegedly carried it out, after both Creas passed along the directive of the acting boss.

The prosecutors' filing has some small slip-ups: the papers misstate the date of Madonna's release from the 30-year sentence he received in 1976 (The government wrote that he was released in 2003; as Gang Land reported back then, Madonna was let out on parole in 1995, and hit with a parole violation in 2003.)

But their central argument is that both Madonna's long "relationship with Meldish" and Madonna's sudden rise to the head of the Luchese family after his release from prison, are explained by his Purple Gang-connected activities in the 1970s. Both events, say the feds, culminated in Meldish's slaying.

"Madonna's activity with the Purple Gang," whose mostly Italian-American members hailed from the Bronx and East Harlem, and the creds he earned behind bars as a standup guy with the Lucheses, "is admissible as direct evidence" because it is "inextricably intertwined" with the murder charge and "necessary to complete the story of the crime on trial," the prosecutors wrote.

Terrence CaldwellLaw enforcement sources say that Randolph (Randy) Silverstein, the president of Sparrow Construction Company, is the witness who links Crea to the $200,000 labor peace payoffs in the early 1980s. Silverstein will also allegedly tie Crea to a lucrative "mail and wire fraud scheme" in a $30 million expansion project at Bronx Lebanon Hospital between 2009 and 2014.

The prosecutors say Silverstein, who is identified as CW-10, "will testify about the Luchese Family's — and particularly Crea Sr.'s — longstanding relationship with (his) construction company, including providing "labor peace" for which Crea Sr. was paid approximately $200,000."

As Gang Land disclosed in June of 2017, during a 1997 investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, a detective wrote that Sidney Silverstein "stated in 1989 that Sparrow employed Steven Crea as a 'labor consultant,' at a salary in excess of six figures."

Prosecutors state they have another cooperating witness, an official of another construction company, who will testify that from "1983 to 1989," Stevie Wonder used several labor racketeering schemes in the "renovation of the Holland Tunnel and Lenox Avenue Subway line."

Christopher LondonioIn any event, prosecutors wrote that the witness, identified as CW-7 in the papers, "interacted with Crea Sr. in his position as a leader in the Luchese Family particularly concerned with construction-related rackets." They stated that "among other things, Crea Sr. provided 'labor peace' — meaning that labor unions and their members would not interfere with construction firms' failure to comply with rules, regulations and laws intended to benefit union members."

Prosecutors wrote that CW-7 will testify that Crea used "bribes to union officials, the threat of force, and the threat of economic loss to competing firms" to guarantee labor peace. In return, he "secretly received a significant share of the profit from the benefitted construction projects."

Crea "also directed CW-7 and others to engage in deliberately wasteful practices, in order to inflate the total amount that was billed for these projects, thereby increasing his own profit," the prosecutors wrote. They stated that Stevie Wonder worked closely with "the Genovese Family, to achieve these ends" because each family "exercised control over certain unions, and therefore needed to work together in order to comprehensively provide labor peace."

Randolph SilversteinThey argue that these "methods are materially identical" to those Crea used in the Bronx Lebanon scheme as well as the construction rackets he pleaded guilty to in 2003 involving turncoat Sean Richard, who is also slated to testify against Stevie Wonder in the current case.

Richard, whose undercover work led to labor racketeering convictions for Crea and many others, was also involved with Stevie Junior in the 1990s, and is one of two witnesses who will link him to violent activities with the Tanglewood Boys in the early and mid-1990s, prosecutors say.

Richard is the witness who told the feds that the younger Crea boasted that his Tanglewood Boys activities had earned the wrath of his wiseguy father, according to the government filing.

The second turncoat who links Stevie Junior to the Tanglewood Boys is Anthony Zoccolillo, the son of a murdered mob associate who failed miserably as an actor in the short-lived reality TV show, Mama's Boys of the Bronx in 2012, but was quite successful as a snitch when the feds nabbed him on drug charges the following year.

Anthony ZoccolilloZoccolillo, who snared dozens of mobsters and associates in taped talks in 2013 — which resulted in 27 convictions — ran a Bronx social club card game for about six months in 2001 and 2002 with Stevie Junior and another Tanglewood Boy who later became a "made man" in the Luchese family, Joseph Lubrano, according to court records.

The prosecutors don't spell out what the Mama's Boy grad will say about his dealings with Crea. But in brief testimony about Crea in 2016, at a state court trial of four Bonanno family gangsters, Zoccolillo estimated that he spent four-to-six hours a day with him while he was an "equal partner" with Lubrano and Crea in the club, which also had Joker Poker machines in the club.

Zoccolillo, whose undercover work was praised by Manhattan Federal Court Judge Richard Sullivan and who was Gang Land's Most Productive Cooperating Witness of 2014, indicated in his in one appearance on the witness stand that he does have a tendency to exaggerate.

Back in March of 2016, when he was asked, "What's an associate of organized crime?" and he replied: "Everybody in the Bronx probably," trial judge Mark Dwyer felt the need to interrupt, and mention someone who obviously wasn't. He came up with a New York Yankee centerfielder who was a pretty well-known figure in his day, but the Mama's Boy was unconvinced.

"Mickey Mantle wasn't a member of organized crime," said Dwyer.
"I'm sure he was," disagreed Zoccolillo. "I'm sure he was associated."
"Ladies and gentlemen," Dwyer told the jury, "obviously the witness is somewhat exaggerating. There has to be a few people who are not members of organized crime."

Barry LevinLawyers for Stevie Junior and Madonna declined to comment or did not respond to Gang Land's requests to discuss the government's intentions to bring up at trial any alleged criminal activity by their clients that precedes the charges in the indictment.

Barry Levin, the attorney for the elder Crea, told Gang Land that the government opted to "go back in time" because its "evidence against Mr. Crea of crimes in the indictment just isn't there."

The lawyer added: "They're bringing in all this ancient history, this so called enterprise evidence, because they're trying to convict him of acts that he has already served time for. This is a case of the government throwing old news against Mr. Crea, hoping it will stick in the conspiracy count. There is absolutely no evidence that he is involved in any substantive counts in this case."

Judge Rips Prosecutors And FBI In Meldish Murder Five Case Again, But Rules For Them, Again
Judge Cathy SeibelJudge Cathy Seibel has again blasted prosecutors and the FBI for their misrepresentations to her and their mishandling of evidence in the case of the Meldish Murder Five. But once again, the judge stopped short of dismissing any criminal counts from the racketeering indictment.

Faced with government misstatements and other miscues for more than a year, Siebel threatened to inspect grand jury minutes with a view to dismissing a charge in the case at a pre-trial hearing two weeks ago. At the two-day session, she also called an FBI agent's decision to mistakenly give a "box of evidence" to a cooperating witness during its three-year-long investigation a "Keystone cops blunder."

But so far, it's been much smoke but little fire.

On Monday, Seibel cited the government's intention to seek a "trial indictment" of the defendants from "a new grand jury" as a key reason to "not inspect the grand jury minutes at this time." The judge noted that she "expects" that prosecutors will "not make the same inaccurate representations" to the new panel that they gave her about an attempted murder charge against Stevie Wonder Crea.

Joseph DatelloThe current indictment alleges that mobster Joseph (Joey Glasses) Datello tried to kill snitch Sean Richard "with Crea's blessings" in 2016. But during oral arguments about the issue, Seibel noted that government tapes included "abundant evidence" that Crea had never okayed the attempted hit. That substantive error, the judge stated, gave her "doubt as to whether the grand jury would have indicted Crea Senior for this offense, unless they were misled about the contents of these recordings."

Seibel stated, however, that the issue of grand jury misconduct is not final.

"The Government seems to be adhering to the position that the Datello recordings support the proposition that Datello's travel to New Hampshire was done with the blessing of Crea Sr." even though the recordings "seem to support the opposite proposition," she wrote. If the government decided not to obtain a new "trial indictment," or "re-indicts and the new indictment reflects the same theory,' she stated, "I will inspect the grand jury minutes."

Frank Pasqua IIIThe judge strongly suggested that if the government seeks a new indictment, it should inform the grand jury that its key witness linking Crea, his son Stevie Junior, and Matty Madonna to the Meldish murder, Frank Pasqua III, had "attributed the murder to another individual," namely his father, in his "initial account" of the slaying to the FBI.

"While the government is not required to provide exculpatory evidence to the grand jury," Seibel wrote, "it is still best practice to present or otherwise disclose 'evidence that directly negates the guilt of a subject of the investigation' to the grand jury" and "it is also Department of Justice policy to do so."

Lawyers for Crea were somewhat, but not overly pleased by Seibel's decision.

"My view," said attorney Levin, "is that Judge Seibel's comments were wonderful, and very professorial if this was a law school exercise. However, she had all the evidence she needed to dismiss the attempted murder of Sean Richard charges because as she stated in court, all the government's tapes, all its evidence says that Datello acted on his own."

FBI Agent Ted OttoIn a ruling on Friday, Seibel denied a motion by defense lawyers to revisit the "Keystone cops blunder" by the FBI that would merely "be a comical interlude when they make a movie" about the case. The judge had made her crack when a prosecutor stated that nothing of any import was in a box that ended up in a suspect's hands in 2017 — and that the box and its contents had all been recovered by the FBI.

As Gang Land reported last week, attorneys Anthony DiPietro and Levin had asked for a hearing after learning from government tapes that the box — which the FBI believed contained cigarettes they were using as part of a sting operation — had contained "records from current FBI investigations," CD-ROMs, and a phone.

Stating that even the latest details about the "blunder" did not disclose that the "box contained anything of evidentiary value to this case, or that anything was lost, let alone in bad faith," the judge stated there was no reason to hold a hearing on the matter.

But without naming assistant U.S. attorney Celia Cohen or FBI agent Theodore Otto by name, Seibel rebuked the prosecutor for giving the judge misinformation about the box at the pretrial hearing that she received from the veteran G-man who had caused the blunder – and the agent for providing the incorrect info.

Celia CohenNoting that the prosecutor "left me with the impression that any documents in the box related only to ancient cases" and had "represented that the box and its contents had been recovered," the judge complained that she learned from defense lawyers that the box had been lost and that "only the contents were recovered."

"While I of course would prefer it if the Government came to court prepared with all relevant information, I would rather that the AUSAs tell me they don't know something, when they don't know it, rather than make representations based on hurried consultations with their agents," she wrote.

"To provide the necessary level of accuracy and candor, and avoid sideshows like the current one," the judge continued, "an AUSA must personally familiarize himself or herself with the facts, rather than relying on others whose jobs do not necessarily involve the level of meticulousness required of an AUSA. As we know, a game of telephone is not the best way to convey information."

Ask Andy: Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
Andy PetepieceTo this day, the late Francesco (Frank) Cotroni is known as a major Canada-based mobster who helped run the rackets in Montreal. In reality, though, he was a drug dealer who rode his brother's coattails into the Bonanno crime family and spent much of his life behind bars while logging arrests in all three North American countries.

Cotroni, who was also known as "The Big Guy" and "Le Gros," wouldn't have been a blip on the mob radar screen if he weren't the brother of Vincenzo (Vic) Cotroni, the long-time Bonanno family capo who was essentially the mob boss of Montreal from the early 1950s through the 1970s.

Vic got his Bonanno family stripes from family patriarch Joseph Bonanno, and with his backing, became the most dominant gangster in wide open Montreal. Frank, under his brother's protection, had a tendency to act wildly and spontaneously. He had arrests for a mini-riot at his home in 1956 and for illegal gun possession in 1960.

Frank made headlines again in 1960 when he was detained for busting up Montreal's popular Chez Paree nightclub as part of an extortion racket. He got off with a $200 fine.

Frank CotroniIn June of 1966, Cotroni got caught up in the worldwide search for the supposedly-kidnaped Joe Bonanno when cops raided the home of Vic's mistress. Bonanno wasn't there, but cops found a fugitive mobster along with the Cotroni brothers, and they were big news once more.

The following year, Frank was in the headlines again, this time for a bank robbery plot, when cops found a tunnel that had been dug from a nearby residence to the bank. The case against Frank fell apart, and he dodged another bullet.

In 1970, cops observed Frank and his brother meeting with Meyer Lansky in Mexico, ostensibly to learn from the legendary financial genius how to capitalize if the province of Quebec went ahead with its plan to legalize gambling.

A year later, Frank was spied again in Mexico, but this time for a jewelry theft. Cotroni was eventually released, but when he returned to Montreal, he catered a press conference, complete with food and drinks, claiming that the whole affair was a question of mistaken identity. The media loved it, the Big Guy's mob cronies were not happy about his need to bring attention to himself.

Joseph BonannoHis November 8, 1973 arrest for a cocaine conspiracy in New York, and his 1975 conviction in the Big Apple and his two concurrent 15-year terms were also big news.

A scam he pulled to curry favor with US authorities by turning over counterfeit money and plates he had bought to print the bogus bucks may have helped get him a parole and return to Montreal in 1979. But it almost got him whacked by the Bonannos, who had heard about his scheme, and put out a hit on him, thinking he had flipped. The contract was later rescinded.

By time the Big Guy got home, the Cotroni Calabrian faction had been ousted by Sicilians under Nicolo Rizzuto. But during the 1980s, Frank controlled boxing in Montreal, was charged by Connecticut authorities with coke trafficking, and took part in several murders, including the 1981 slaying of mobster Joseph Montagna, for which Cotroni pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

In 1987, he got eight years for that, but he won a huge legal battle to merge a 1983 U.S. cocaine trafficking arrest into his manslaughter sentence and serve his term in Canada. Not only was it concurrent with the manslaughter sentence, he did not have to go back to the U.S. and do the 11 years that his parole had cut from his 1975 New York drug conviction.

Meyer LanskyBack on the streets again in April of 1993, Frank Cotroni was broke and in need of fast money. He returned to drug dealing, was arrested again, this time with his son, Frank Jr., and in 1997, they each took plea deals, with the Big Guy getting a seven year sentence.

While behind bars a year later, Cotroni learned that another son, Paul was killed. In 1999, his daughter Rosina was arrested on drug charges.

The Big Guy was released from prison for good in August of 2002. But his life of crime was over. Two years later, on August 17, 2004, Cotroni died of brain cancer.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, the title of the 1975 number one bluesy-country music hit that Freddy Fender recorded the same year the Big Guy was convicted of drug trafficking in New York, perfectly captures the life and times of Frank Cotroni, one of Canada best-known criminals.

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

Levin & DiPietro should be able to create doubt within the jurors minds.
Unless tapes were made of the Crea's and Madonna that cannot be refuted.

[DonnieB]

1981 slaying of mobster Joseph Montagna...relation to sal???

[Chaps]

In case anyone is interested, I posted the referenced Memorandum in Limine in the FBI Files section for all to peruse.

[Nicholas]

Mama’s Boys of The Bronx?

[newera_212]

Mama’s Boys of The Bronx?

it was a short lived reality show, forget the channel, about 6-7 years ago that built off the stereotypes of how hard it is for Italian boys/men to leave home.

a lot of italian guys historically just stay home, even into adulthood, and only leave when they get married. and from there, they may simply move to a house on the same street or an apartment in the same building. thats the stereotype anyway.

the show had a handful of guys in their 30s from the Bronx who all lived at home...it just trailed their lives. they werent deadbeat guys who had no choice but to live in their parents basement, they all worked or hustled and had active social lives...they just were Mama's boys and couldnt give up the home cooked meals, laundry and attention. AFAIK, Zocollilo was the only "connected" guy on the show. he knew a ton of people but "officially" i think he was a Genovese associate reporting to sal larca or pat falcetti

Zocollilo was a pretty interesting snitch. he wasnt a big shot or anything, but he was plugged into a lot.and knew a lot of guys. he had pot dealings with Sal Larca and the Baciano kids, he knew Londonio from the neighborhood, he was friends with that younger Bronx Bonanno capo who was in the Santora crew bust, had a failed loanshark hustle with Pat Falcetti, and supposedly had direct contact with Ernie Muscarella and Ernie's son who are both alleged to be "important" in the Genovese family.

I'd love to get any info on Zoccolilo, court transcripts or those 5k1 summaries. that'd be amazing. there would be info on just about everything going on in the Bronx. his info kinda proves how much the families work together, especially the young guys and drugs. Sal Larca was the point man for pot for associates from 3 diff families.

[Stroccos]

In case anyone is interested, I posted the referenced Memorandum in Limine in the FBI Files section for all to peruse.

Thanks chaps greatly appreciated

[TommyGambino]

Feds wasting millions on this, surely they walk on the murder charge.

[slimshady_007]

Any chance Caldwell and Londonio beat the murder charges?

[SILENT PARTNERZ]

Any chance Caldwell and Londonio beat the murder charges?

Not so sure about those two, but unless those two roll on
the Crea's & Madonna, or the feds have tapes of the three
bosses talking about the murder, don't see a conviction on
that charge.
But with the construction charges, Crea, Sr. may have a
problem with the two contracting co. owners testimony.
Crea, Sr. best hope that Levin is as good at discrediting
witnesses as Eddie Jacobs is.

[newera_212]

Any chance Caldwell and Londonio beat the murder charges?

probably not, but the Creas could possibly beat it. and Madonna too if hes being charged. they apparently seem to be sure that Caldwell pulled the trigger and Londonio drove and supplied the gun, I think. but they are having a hard time proving that the Admin and Crea Junior (as londonio's capo) passed the order or even knew about it in advance

id like to know how they seem to know londonio and caldwell did the hit, because they were the only ones there. so all the info would have to be second hand through CWs, and its been proven that 2 of the 3 CWs were lying. one of those 2 made up a different story putting himself and his dad at the scene.

so is all their info on the muder coming from Spinelli? they havent talked about Londonio on wiretaps or tapes. i know Londonio got caught with a gun back in 2015 in the Bronx before he got indicted for this murder. the gun had to have been the Meldish murder weapon...because there is nothing else that puts him close to the murder at all other than snitches who have been unreliable and unstable

if I were Londonio id be sick right now. because its looking like the Creas will skate on the murder and its all going to fall on him...

what if Londonio legitimately didnt do it?

[slimshady_007]

Any chance Caldwell and Londonio beat the murder charges?

probably not, but the Creas could possibly beat it. and Madonna too if hes being charged. they apparently seem to be sure that Caldwell pulled the trigger and Londonio drove and supplied the gun, I think. but they are having a hard time proving that the Admin and Crea Junior (as londonio's capo) passed the order or even knew about it in advance

id like to know how they seem to know londonio and caldwell did the hit, because they were the only ones there. so all the info would have to be second hand through CWs, and its been proven that 2 of the 3 CWs were lying. one of those 2 made up a different story putting himself and his dad at the scene.

so is all their info on the muder coming from Spinelli? they havent talked about Londonio on wiretaps or tapes. i know Londonio got caught with a gun back in 2015 in the Bronx before he got indicted for this murder. the gun had to have been the Meldish murder weapon...because there is nothing else that puts him close to the murder at all other than snitches who have been unreliable and unstable

if I were Londonio id be sick right now. because its looking like the Creas will skate on the murder and its all going to fall on him...

what if Londonio legitimately didnt do it?

I read somewhere that the feds had physical evidence against Londonio and Caldwell.

[newera_212]

Any chance Caldwell and Londonio beat the murder charges?

probably not, but the Creas could possibly beat it. and Madonna too if hes being charged. they apparently seem to be sure that Caldwell pulled the trigger and Londonio drove and supplied the gun, I think. but they are having a hard time proving that the Admin and Crea Junior (as londonio's capo) passed the order or even knew about it in advance

id like to know how they seem to know londonio and caldwell did the hit, because they were the only ones there. so all the info would have to be second hand through CWs, and its been proven that 2 of the 3 CWs were lying. one of those 2 made up a different story putting himself and his dad at the scene.

so is all their info on the muder coming from Spinelli? they havent talked about Londonio on wiretaps or tapes. i know Londonio got caught with a gun back in 2015 in the Bronx before he got indicted for this murder. the gun had to have been the Meldish murder weapon...because there is nothing else that puts him close to the murder at all other than snitches who have been unreliable and unstable

if I were Londonio id be sick right now. because its looking like the Creas will skate on the murder and its all going to fall on him...

what if Londonio legitimately didnt do it?

I read somewhere that the feds had physical evidence against Londonio and Caldwell.

I have a hunch that its the gun. although they havent came out and said it. but maybe the gun Londonio was caught with matched ballistics from the bullet in Meldish's head? because what else do they have?

i might be wrong on some of the finer points but AFAIK the timeline went something like this:

in 2015, Londonio was busted in the Bronx with a gun in his car, along with Patty Maiorino . This was well before the murder indictment. Capeci at the time mistakenly ID'd Londonio as being a Bonanno solider. then Londonio and Caldwell, jointly, get indicted for the murder by the Bronx DA (i believe?). THEN almost a year later, the Feds tie the murder into a huge multi-count indictment against the Luccheses

There are some weird things involving the Bonnanos...basically connected guys from all over the Bronx...when it comes to the Meldish murdrer:

First, Londonio being spotted frequently and later busted wih Maiorino, and then being falsly ID's as a Bonnano solider from Capeci. The Feds or cops or whoever Capeci's sources are thought Londonio was a Bonnano member working for Maiorino. which means they must have seen him around Bronx Bonnanos a lot

Rumors that Meldish got into a beef with Enzo Stagno. Something involving a tiff at Rao's restarurant, Stagno's girlfriend, and Meldish getting punished / beat up by the Bonnanos. Then the rumor that Meldish abandoned Caldwell in East Harlem when they allegedly tried to kill Stagno together.

Rumors that Meldish had been "walking onto Genovese construction sites." rumors that Meldish "wasnt paying the proper respect" to Matty Madonna. various little tiffs between the Bonannos and Luccheses in the Bronx between 2011-2013, the social club incident, the Rao's thing

I think its weird that during the time of these beefs between the families crews, Londonio was around Maiorino and the Bonnanos enough to be falsly ID'ed as a member. makes me think the beef wasnt that serious and they were trying to resolve it...but then they try to kill Enzo Stagno?? if Meldish leaved Caldwell on the street during a failed hit, and that was one of the reasons for his own murder, it shows Caldwell was definitely a valued associate with a little bit of juice with the higher ups

The Pasqua kid...placing him and his dad at the hit?

The whole thing is really weird. no ones talking about the Bonnano "motive" her either. but i wouldnt be surprised if Meldish was hit to help appease the Bonnanos and other LCN guys in the Bronx who had problems with him. a way to bury the hatchet . the Luccheses were responsible for cleaning up their own mess.

people wondering if Caldwell and Londonio will rat? never. they have obviously kept quiet thus far. they've been locked up for over 3 years waiting to see what will happen and havent said a peep, while everyone else's lawyers have kind of hung them out to dry. i just dont know where the evidence is coming from unless they have the gun? the Lucchese CWs have been bullshit, but maybe there is a Bronx Bonnano CW that gave info too? the feds seem to be sure 100% that londonio and caldwell committed the murder together... they were indicted separately on their own before the big lucchese indictment

[cdc]

You would think if Londonio used a gun for a hit he would get rid of it and not continue to have it on his person for some time after. If it is the case then we can add him to the list of idiots with Nicodemo.

[DPG]

^^^^this