Crews doing it big the past 10 yrs

Post by **Dave65827** » Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:18 pm

Since he decline of the mob I’m interested in crews that have been doing it big the past 10 yrs
By big I mean like through Power family wise, rackets, scores, violence whatever

Like the Ronnie G crew and how he was doing it big and if I remember Borrello claimed they where the only crew doing it big in Howard Beach. Not to mention they where doing it in a relatively blue collar fashion in a age of Informants and CCTV footage

The other crew I find the most fascinating is the Crea Jr crew. Considering how willing they where to use violence in the modern age. The Meldish hit, the Ulzheimer attempt and if you count the Enzo Stango shooting. Would be interesting to know if any more info on this crew comes up in the Desantis indictment

Then you had patsy parrellos crew masterminding the east coast LCN fraud case according to the feds totaled around 157 million but got split among different crews/families. Would be interested about hearing about different crews doing it big in this day in age

Post by **newera_212** » Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:06 pm

Good question. I'm interested in that too. Seems like those are the ones we generally hear about more often than not only because they ultimately crash and burn. Ronnie G and Trucchio crews seem like the best examples in recent times. I mean I'm sure there's a lot more older, more seasoned crews doing more sophisticated stuff, quasi legit rackets, etc. but in terms of running and gunning there's probably not a better answer than the Ronnie G crew in recent times. Even outside of the loan stuff, the gambling, the scores, you had John Gotti III's pill operation which was no joke.. and he was loosely, loosely, on the fringes of that crew (an associate of Gene basically). In total they had a LOT going on

Not sure what his rank is now or even what crew he was a Capo for (Acting?) but the guy Joe Lubrano in the Luccheses was said to have some sort of home invasion / score crew of associates under him. I think one of Cutaia grandsons was a part of it

Also, they weren't all in the same 'crew' but the multi-family Bronx pot operation with the Basciano kids, Londonio, Vinny Bruno, Crea Jr., Larca, some Bonnanos... those guys were doing it pretty damn big. They must have had the Bronx and Westchester sewed up with bud for a while

Post by **TommyGambino** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:25 am

Dave65827 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:18 pm Since he decline of the mob I’m interested in crews that have been doing it big the past 10 yrs
By big I mean like through Power family wise, rackets, scores, violence whatever

Like the Ronnie G crew and how he was doing it big and if I remember Borrello claimed they where the only crew doing it big in Howard Beach. Not to mention they where doing it in a relatively blue collar fashion in a age of Informants and CCTV footage

The other crew I find the most fascinating is the Crea Jr crew. Considering how willing they where to use violence in the modern age. The Meldish hit, the Ulzheimer attempt and if you count the Enzo Stango shooting. Would be interesting to know if any more info on this crew comes up in the Desantis indictment

Then you had patsy parrellos crew masterminding the east coast LCN fraud case according to the feds totaled around 157 million but got split among different crews/families. Would be interested about hearing about different crews doing it big in this day in age

Borello is an idiot, gambinos have a big crew in Howard beach

Post by **Dave65827** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 9:36 am

If I remember Ronnie G had like three million on the street before he got arrested which is huge in this day and age.

Not to mention the Farese case recently which was huge but I don’t know if the jury is about him Having his own crew or not. Looks like it took the feds awhile to find out about it too I remember in the complaint it said the scam started around 2017 and went on till 2020.

Wonder what high end scams the five families got going on today.

Post by **Wiseguy** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:13 am

The bigger cases over the past decade...

In April 2012, 11 people including Genovese captain Conrad Ianniello, soldier James Bernardone (Secretary Treasurer of International Union of Journeymen & Allied Trades Local 124 - Connecticut) soldier Salvester Zarzana (former President of Carpenters Union Local 926 - Brooklyn), and associates Robert Scalza (Secretary Treasurer of International Union of Journeymen & Allied Trades Local 713 - Long Island- $260,000 a year) and Ryan Ellis, were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, loan sharking, extortion of vendors at the San Gennaro Street Festival, extortion of a subcontractor at building sites in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn; embezzlement of the employee pension and annuity funds of the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Union Local 7 (Long Island) through a sweetheart deal which provided non-union labor at the Paramount Hotel project in Manhattan, thereby avoiding payment into the local's pension and benefit plans, conspiracy to extort a labor union by intimidating it into ceasing efforts to unionize at a chocolate company on Long Island so that the LCN-connected Local 713 could expand there, and obstruction of justice. In September 2014, it was reported that from 1997 to 2005, an LCN contractor handled the San Gennaro lights; and the festival had only donated $210,000 to charity of the $4.4 million it took in from 2007 and 2012.

In May 2012, 14 people including Genovese captain Joseph "Pepe" LaScala and Franklin "Frankie the Flea" Militello (president of the Professional Industrial Trade Workers Union), were charged in a criminal complaint in New Jersey (Essex) with racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation that used offshore websites in Costa Rica, operating illegal card games at local clubs, loan sharking, and the receipt, interstate transportation, and sale of 4 stolen LG plasma TV's, 293 cases of wine shipped from Italy, and bedsheets.

In September 2012, Gambino captain Joseph Giordano was indicted in Manhattan on a charge of grand larceny involving using force and threats to extort $50,000 from a construction company official. In July 2014, in an extension of the original case, 8 people including Gambino soldier Joseph Isgro, Gambino associate Leonard Rapisardi, and Giordano (then deceased), were indicted in Manhattan on charges of conspiracy, gambling, and money laundering involving a multi-million dollar sports bookmaking operation that utilized offshore wirerooms in Costa Rica and a software betting program (Action Sports International) and took in $2.3 million from bettors in 13 states including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, and California. Previously, in April 2010, Rapisardi had been charged with loan sharking and extortion.

In October 2012, 25 people including Bonanno soldier Vincent Basciano Jr. (Runs Titan Concrete?) Pinnacle Sports owners Stanley Tomchin, Brandt England, and George Molsbarger, and Cantor Gaming vice president Michael Colbert (who operated sports books in 7 Las Vegas casinos), were indicted in Queens on charges of enterprise corruption, conspiracy, promoting gambling, money laundering, involving a sports bookmaking operation, which used 4 internet websites based in Panama and Costa Rica, took in over $50 million in bets over 18 months, and stretched from New York to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and California.

In January 2013, 32 people including Genovese associate Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco, Genovese soldiers Anthony "Muzzy" Pucciarello, Joseph "Joe Sass" Sarcinella, Dominick "Pepe" Pietranico, and Peter Leconte (Fiumara/Coppola crew), Genovese associates Frank Oliver (husband of New Jersey judge Joanne Cocchiola Olivery) and Anthony "Tony Lodi" Cardinale (owner of Satin Dolls and AJ's strip clubs, formerly owned Harem strip club), Gambino soldier Anthony Bazzini, Gambino associate Scott Fappiano, and Lucchese associate Charles Giustra, were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, mail fraud, wire fraud, transporting stolen property, trafficking in contraband cigarettes, cocaine trafficking, loan sharking, and felon possession of a firearm, involving control of the garbage industry in Long Island, Westchester and Rockland counties, and New Jersey (through front companies) whereby they enforced "property rights" in which they dictated which pick up stops a trash company could service, demanded extortion payments for protection of the company from other organized crime figures, stole garbage containers and cardboard from competing waste disposal businesses, and defrauded customers of the businesses. Subsequently, it was reported that the Westchester Solid Waste Commission would place an independent auditor over AAA Carting (owned by Pasquale Cartalemi Sr. and Pasquale Cartalemi Jr.) who were involved in the indictment. In March 2013, it was recommended by the IBT that internal charges be filed against another defendant in the case (Michael Russo, member of IBT Local 282 - trucking, Long Island).

In April 2013 criminal complaint (following a bust of Bronx-based Albanian gang called the "Wolf Pack'' for narcotics and firearms offenses, which included Genovese associate Anthony Zoccolillo and 13 others), and in a superseding indictment in September 2013, 12 people including Genovese captain Pasquale "Patty Boy'' Falcetti, Genovese soldier Salvatore "Sally KO'' Larca, Bonanno soldier Vincent Basciano Jr., and Bonanno associates Stephen Basciano (who had been charged with assaulting his Bronx neighbor in 2005) and Joseph Basciano (sons of former Bonanno acting boss Vincent ``Vinny Gorgeous'' Basciano) were indicted in the Southern District on charges of loan sharking (including a $34,000 loan at 5% interest every 2 weeks which earned $64,600 in interest) and narcotics conspiracy involving a $2 million operation that smuggled 3,000 lbs of marijuana from California to New York. 40,000 lbs of marijuana were discovered in a warehouse owned by Larca. In May 2013, Joseph Basciano, Leonard Filippone, and Andrew Reid were indicted in Queens on charges of conspiracy, attempted possession of marijuana, and criminal possession of marijuana involving a scheme to smuggle $65,000 worth of marijuana from California through the Postal Service.

In November 2013, former Purple Gang (which had ties to the Genovese, Lucchese, and Bonannos) member Michael Meldish (later described as a Lucchese associate) was shot and killed in the Bronx. In May 2015, Bonanno soldier Pasquale "Patty Boy" Moirano, and Terrence Caldwell (from a group of black drug traffickers who became a Lucchese associate) were arrested on federal gun charges after 2 stolen guns were found in their car and were subsequently indicted in the Bronx on charges of murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon in June 2015. In February and May 2017, 19 Lucchese members and associates, including street boss Matthew Madonna (later reported in April 2019 to have job at Big Geyser), underboss Steven “Wonderboy” Crea ($100k a year labor consultant for Sparrow), consigliere Joseph DiNapoli, captains or acting captains John “Big John” Castellucci, Dominic Truscello, Steven Crea Jr (former Tanglewood member), and Tindaro “Tino” Curso, and soldiers Joseph Venice, James "Jimmy the Jew" Maffucci, Joseph "Big Joe" Datello, Paul "Paulie Roast Beef" Cassano, and Christopher Londonio, were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, sports bookmaking, video poker machines, loansharking, contraband cigarettes, trafficking in cocaine (5+ kilos), heroin (1+ kilos), marijuana (1,000+ kilos), and oxycodone, robbery, mail fraud and wire fraud in connection with various public building projects (including Bronx-Lebanon hospital where Crea-connected, non-union Sparrow Construction was overseeing $42 million expansion; Sparrow billed the hospital through falsified invoices and change orders for $26 million for only $21 million worth of work, with the $5 million going to the Luccheses and hospital execs; payoffs were also for keeping unions they controlled from picketing or disrupting the project; also extortion of coffee boys on Lucchese-controlled construction sites; also $200,000 in shakedowns involving multi-million dollar Holland Tunnel and the Lenox Avenue subway station projects in 1980s using threats, bribes to union officials, and bid-rigging; worked closely with Genovese family), money laundering, firearms offenses, witness intimidation and retaliation, assault, attempted murder in aid of racketeering and firearms offenses involving the 2000 attempted murder of Lucchese associate Sean Richard, the May 2013 wounding of Bonanno soldier Enzo “The Baker” Stagno, and November 2013 murder of Meldish (said to be over $100,000 from Meldish’s loan shark book).

In March 2014, 6 people including Benjamin Castellazzo Jr. (son of Colombo underboss Benjamin Castellazzo Sr.), Rocco "Irving" Miraglia (a foreman at the NY Daily News, Colombo associate, and son of late Colombo soldier Rocco Miraglia Sr), Rocco Giangregorio and Glen LaChance (NMDU business agents, Anthony "The Irish Guy" Turzio (a Genovese associate who worked at El Diario), and Thomas "Tommy Stacks" Leonessa (had a no show job at the NY Post), were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of conspiracy to defraud, wire fraud, and theft and embezzlement from employee benefit plans from the Newspaper & Mail Deliverers Union (which had become IBT Local 1901 in March 2009, Queens) involving a plot to obtain a union card and employment at Hudson News (a retail news stand chain) for Castellazzo Jr. In September 2014, an investigation was underway into the involvement of Genovese captain Peter "Petey Red" DiChiara in the newspaper industry, including meeting with late Newspaper & Mail Delivery Union vice-president James "Jimmy D" DeMarzo, Nicholas "Nicky Cats" Vazzano (Mailer's Union member who worked at the NY Post), and Turzio, obtaining a "no show" job for his son at El Diario, and engaging in "bootlegging" schemes where non-union workers were used to delivery stolen newspapers and magazines, after which a check-cashing and tax-evasion scheme through a shell corporation (Mary L. Trucking) was used to hide kickbacks from the non-union drivers, including $55,000 in an 8-month period. Previously, in May and July 2010, Vincent "Vinny Bionics" Disario and Joseph Torre (a Bonanno soldier and associate and members of IBT Local 1901/NMDU), as well as Turzio, were barred from the IBT. In July 2011, Michael Prelli (a Lucchese associate and member of IBT Local 1901.

In October 2014 and April 2016, 14 people including Genovese captain Charles "Chuckie" Tuzzo, soldier Vito Alberti, and associates Domenick Pucillo (who had been arrested in Florida in February 2013), Robert Spagnola, Vincent Coppola (son of Genovese captain MIchael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola), Abel Rodrigues (owner of Portucale restaurant), Manuel Rodriguez (former ILA Local 1478 shop steward), John Trainor, and Jerry Albanese were indicted in New Jersey (Essex) on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, promoting gambling involving a multi-million sports bookmaking operation (which utilized an offshore wireroom in Costa Rica and handled $1.7 million in bets while netting $400,000 in 2011), criminal usury and business of usurious loans involving loan sharking (yielded $4.7 million in illegal interest), running an unlicensed check-cashing business (Tri-State Check Cashing) that made $9 million in fees over 4 years while enabling customers to launder funds and evade taxes by skirting federal reporting requirements, money laundering (involving $666,000 in drug money via a check-cashing business - I&T Financial Services - owned by Puccillo in Newark and Florida from which he collected $22,000 in fees), illegal control and use of a trucking firm (GTS Auto Carriers) - check forgery, tax evasion, leasing trucks from AMJ Transport for $300,000 a year, no-show jobs for Coppola and another associate, and siphoning off money for personal use - which had a contract with Nissan to transport cars from Port Newark to dealers in New Jersey, and tax fraud and evasion.

In August 2014, Genovese captain Daniel "Danny" Pagano (who was also reported to be involved in the construction, demolition, and asbestos removal business) and associate Michael Palazzolo were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, illegal gambling, and loan sharking in Westchester and Rockland. Palazzolo was also charged with extortion conspiracy, as had associates Michael Lucente, Michael Rizzo, and Paul Presta (former NYPD officer) previously, involving extortion of someone they believed had robbed one of their marijuana loads. In September 2014, as part of the ongoing investigation, associate Anthony "Harpo'' DePalma (a barber at Mr. Tony's Barber Shop) was indicted in Rockland County, NY on charges of criminal usury involving a loan sharking operation that charged 200% interest. As part of the ongoing investigation, in December 2014, 14 people including Genovese and Gambino associate Patsy Capolongo, were indicted in Rockland on charges of promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, money laundering, and criminal possession of a weapon involving a large scale sports bookmaking operation that took in tens of millions of dollars a month in bets over a 16 month period and stretched from New York to New Jersey and Florida. Later that month, 7 more people including Frank Giordano, Gerardo Dimatteo, William Robbins, and Robert Aulicino were indicted in Rockland on charges of promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, and money laundering. As part of the ongoing investigation, in February 2015, 8 people tied to the Genovese including Capolongo, Erik Bishop, Allan Klein, Michael D'Angelo, and Joseph Petrolino, were indicted in Florida (Broward) on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, bookmaking, money laundering, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device involving the sports bookmaking operation that stretched from New York to Boston and Florida and utilized offshore betting websites. In June 2015, 8 more people tied to the Genovese, including Ronald Ayes, Nicholas Farese, and Anthony Moschella, were indicted in Rockland County on charges of promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, loansharking (with interest rates topping 25% and weekly or biweekly payments), and money laundering involving a sports bookmaking operation that utilized a gambling website and stretched from Rockland to Westchester County, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida. In December 2015, Luigi Sessa and Joseph Ruback (athletic director at Biondi School in Yonkers) were indicted in Rockland on charges of loan sharking and grand larceny as part of the ongoing case.

In November 2015, 9 companies and 44 people (12 principal owners, 29 truck drivers, 3 dispatchers) - including 4th Avenue Transport, Inc (Charles Cuneo, Robert Mina, Salvatore Sciangula), All Boro Transportation, Inc (Frank Algerio, Michael Guadagno), Enterprise Petroleum Inc (Carmine Falcone, Michael Fortuna, Richard Piazza, Robert Tarantola), G&D Heating Oil Inc (Gabriel Nortesano, Gaetano Nortesano, Vincent Pugliese) - were indicted in Manhattan on charges of enterprise corruption, scheme to defraud, grand larceny, falsifying business records, criminal possession of stolen property, and offering a false instrument for filing involving a scheme between September 2006 and October 2015 to defraud 130 customers of at least $18 million (with an estimated $4 million stolen annually from the city) by shorting deliveries (through rigged meters) to residential, commercial, and municipal properties in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, and Westchester and reselling the stolen heating oil. In February 2016, Scott Vitello, Bard DiCarlo, Angelo Guadagno, Alexander Cocchiola (Cyprus Fuel), Paul Ciliento (Boomerang Trucking), Peter D’Arco (SJ Fuel), and Frederick DeCicco, were indicted in Manhattan and Brooklyn on charges of grand larceny involving the theft of $500,000 worth of heating oil between January and July 2014 from an oil terminal in Brooklyn (Buckeye Partners LP) from which they resold it at a fraction of the cost. Previously in July 2010, Thomas Cherubino and Frank Amato (who had ties to the Gambinos) pled guilty in the Eastern District to evading over $200,000 in federal taxes owed by their heating oil distribution company by diverting company checks to check-cashing businesses and paying their employees in cash.

In May 2016, Gambino associate Michael Rizzi (related to Gambino captain Joseph “Sonny” Juliano) was charged in a criminal complaint in the Eastern District on charges of conspiring to launder the proceeds of a multi-million dollar prostitution operation that he ran through BJM/Manhattan Stakes and Entertainment (which had succeeded Pure Platinum Models which was shut down in 2014) which employed high-end escorts, telephone bookers, drivers and advertised on over 50 websites. Rizzi was also reported to own the Nitecap Megastore & Smoke Shop on Staten Island, considered the largest supplier of porn and adult toys on the East Coast.

In May 2016, 6 people tied to the Luccheses including soldier Eugene “Boopsie” Castelle (later had a $1,500 a week job at World Wide Plumbing Supply) and associate Michael Grecco, were indicted in Brooklyn on charges of enterprise corruption, conspiracy, loan sharking, and promoting gambling involving a sports bookmaking operation that utilized toll-free number, website, and offshore wire room and took in over $13 million in bets. It was later reported in May 2018 that Castelle had also shared a shakedown racket with the Bonannos, been surveilled meeting with the Gam

In July 2016, 22 people tied to the Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, and Colombo families, including Gambino captain Michael "Mikey Boy" Paradiso, John Kelly, Bonanno associate Richard Sinde, Frank Parisi (Parisi Bakery in Little Italy), Christopher Alvino, Carl Muraco (reported to own Faber's Fascination Arcade and Beer Island in Brooklyn in 2011), and Lawrence Dentico (grandson of Genovese captain Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico), were indicted in Manhattan on charges of conspiracy, criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal sale and possession of marijuana, promoting gambling, criminal tax fraud, and offering a false instrument for filing involving transporting $15 million ($350,000 a month, money laundered through Regional Food Brokers) in marijuana from legal grow houses in California for distribution in New York over a 21 month period, distribution of hundreds of oxycodone tablets worth at least $18,000, and running a sports bookmaking operation that utilized an offshore wire room and website and took in $1 million in profit. Previously, in August 2015, Alvino and August Chinnici were indicted in Brooklyn on charges of criminal possession of a weapon (Thompson submachine gun, Remington Model 700 rifle, Ruger Old Army revolver, Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol, Bruni 8mm semi-automatic pistol, 4 starter pistols, a starter rifle, 3 hunting knives, ammunition) and criminal possession of a controlled substance (more than 40 glassines of heroin). Prior to that, in May 2014, Alvino and 5 others were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of trafficking in over 220 lbs of marijuana and money laundering.

In August 2016, 46 people including Genovese captains Pasquale "Patsy" Parello and Conrad Ianniello, Genovese acting captain Eugene "Rooster" O'Nofrio, Genovese soldiers Ralph "The Undertaker" Balsamo, Anthony Conigliaro, and Ralph "Ralphie Sant" Santiello, Gambino soldier (?) Daniel "Danny" Marino Jr., Lucchese soldiers Marco Minuto and Vincent "Vinny" Casablanca, Bonanno acting captain John "Johnny Joe" Spirito, Bonanno soldier Pasquale "Patty Boy" Maiorino, Philadelphia LCN boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, and associates Bradley Sirkin and Anthony Cirillo (owner of Princeton Securities Group - a NY stock exchange floor broker, in April 2017 brought a civil lawsuit against LA Dodgers owner Mark Walters and other directors of Dava Pharmaceuticals for withholding information about the company's assets), were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation in New York, New Jersey, and Florida that utilized internet websites in Costa Rica, running a gambling club (poker, dice, horse racing, video poker machines), in Yonkers, NY, loan sharking, extortion of $20,000 (as well as $2,000 a month) from a towing company in Springfield MA, receiving $3 million worth of contraband cigarettes, conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, health care fraud (kickbacks to doctors for unnecessary and excessive prescriptions for compound cream), firearms trafficking (selling 11, buying 6), arson (of a vehicle parked outside a rival gambling club), assault, and use of a firearm in a felony. That same month, in a related case 8 people including Sirkin, Nicholas Borgesano Jr, and Scott Piccininni, were indicted in the Middle District of Florida on charges of conspiracy, health care fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering (including through a safety management firm called The Safety Group LTD) involving a health care scheme where several pharmacies in Tampa Bay and Miami were used to submit fraudulent reimbursement claims ($157 million in reimbursements for $633 million in claims) prescription compounded medications to 2 private insurance companies in return for bribes and kickbacks. Shell companies were used to disburse and hide the money. In January 2017, it was reported that retired judge Anthony Fiorella, who was a regular at Parello’s Rigoletto’s restaurant, had agreed to be a potential bond provider for Parello.

In December 2016, 13 people including Genovese soldiers Salvatore “Sallie” DeMeo and John “Johnny Bull” Gaglio, as well as associate Vincent “Vinny” Taliercio (owned Smith Union Market in Brooklyn), were indicted by the NY AG in Manhattan on charges of running multi-million sports bookmaking operation and loan sharking operation that utilized a website and offshore wire room, as well as selling untaxed cigarettes (30,000). In February 2017, it was reported that several well-known Hollywood celebrities were among the ring’s bettors, including Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Tony Danza, Charlie Sheen, Larry David, Regis Philbin, James L. Brooks, and the late Jerry Orbach. In October 2017, DeMeo was indicted in the Eastern District on charges of tax evasion and failure to file tax returns involving the concealing of $1.6 million in profits from the sale of several Brooklyn real estate properties (for nearly $13.5 million) by laundering it through a plumbing company (RCI Plumbing owned by Genovese soldier Chris Chierchio) and an unlicensed check-cashing company.

In February 2017, in Operation Trashnet, the Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Police, Department of Transportation, and Suffolk County Police targeted illegal dumping of contaminated construction and demolition (C&D) debris at disposal sites across Long Island, New York City, and the Mid-Hudson Valley. This led to 28 truck drivers being ticketed and 167 additional tickets issued for various misdemeanors and other serious safety violations of the Environmental Conservation Law. In November 2018, in Operation Pay Dirt, over 30 people and 9 companies including Anthony "Rock" Grazio (dirt broker) and Louis Durante, were indicted in Long Island (Suffolk) on charges of conspiracy, criminal mischief, criminal facilitation, endangering public health, operating a solid waste management facility without a permit, transporting solid waste without authorization, and falsifying business records involving a scheme to dump illegal material (aldrin, dieldrin and heptachlor, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, zinc and mercury) taken from recycling and transfer stations located in New York City and Long Island, including Queens-based Durante Bros Construction Corp. It was then transported and dumped at 24 sites on Long Island by trucking companies including Durante Bros Construction Corp., DJCI Enterprises, Inc., IEV Trucking Corp. Kris Trucking Corp, Modern Leasing, Inc. (Dumpmasters - extorted by Gambino captain Nick Corozzo), New York Trucking and Carting Corporation, NYTAC Corp., ClairCo Industries, Inc. (St. Clair Trucking), Starfire Industries, Inc. (Platinum Aggregates, Inc.)

In March 2017, 10 Bonanno members and associates, including soldier/acting captain Ronald “Ronnie G” Giallanzo (who in 2016 had been charged with violating parole after he and captains Joseph "Joe Desi" DeSimone and Anthony "Little Anthony" Pipitone were caught attending family meetings the previous year) and soldiers Michael Padavona (collected $400,000 in disability claiming he was disabled and couldn't work), Michael Palmaccio, Nicholas “Pudgie” Festa, and associate Robert “Rob” Pisani (owned All American Deli) were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, loansharking ($3 million on the street), extortion, robbery (including of rival drug dealer stash house), attempted robbery, cocaine and hydrocodone trafficking, kidnapping, arson, murder conspiracy (rival drug dealer Chris Cognata who “ran solo” and was wounded in 2006 and later killed in November 2016 in a drug dispute with Joseph Amatuccio), and obstruction of justice, that took in $26 million from 1998-2017 and operating primarily in Queens.

In November 2017, Bonanno acting captain Damiano Zummo, Bonanno associate Salvatore Russo, Gambino soldier Paul Semplice, and Bonanno/Gambino associate Paul Ragusa were charged in 3 indictments in the Eastern District with conspiracy, selling over a kilo of cocaine from a gelato store in Manhattan, loan sharking with interest rates up to 54% a year and brought in thousands a week, money laundering of $250,000 in cash by providing business checks issued to a fictitious consulting company that purported to bill the company for consulting services, and possession of 9 firearms including 3 automatic assault rifles and a silencer. In a coordinated bust, Canadian authorities conducted raids in Hamilton, York Region, Niagara, Innisfil, Vancouver, and Montreal and charged 14 people, including Domenico Violi and Giuseppe Violi (sons of late Canadian Bonanno mafioso Paolo Violi in Montreal and grandsons of late Giacomo Luppino of Hamilton - Ndrangheta/Buffalo LCN?) with conspiracy, trafficking in 6 kilos of fentanyl and carfentanil, over 20 kilos of cocaine, 1 kilo of heroin, 250,000 tablets of methamphetamine, MDMA, MDA and LSD, weapons trafficking, 3 million contraband cigarettes, and sports bookmaking, and video poker machines.

In January 2018, following raids including at the Xcess gentlemen's club on Staten Island, 13 people including Bonanno acting boss Joseph “Joe C” Cammarano Jr., consigliere John “Porky” Zancocchio, captain Joseph “Joe Valet” Sabella (owned Supreme Valet Parking, one of largest in tristate area), acting captain George “Grumpy” Troppiano, former consigliere Simone Esposito, soldiers Albert “Al Muscles” Armetta, Domineck Miniero, Joseph “Joey Blue Eyes” Santapaolo, Genovese soldier Ernest “Butch” Montevecchi, Lucchese soldier Eugene “Boopsie” Castelle, as well as Bonanno associates Patrick “Patty the Cop” Balsamo and Frank Gillette, were charged in 3 indictments in the Southern District with racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, loansharking (1-2% interest a week), extortion of contractors including $20,000 a year from a construction/demo company owner (Breeze Demolition, who was also given business with Bonanno-connected trucking companies and dumped site materials at an illegal landfill (controlled by the Bonannos, Gambinos, and Genovese) which charged trucking companies a fee to dump without permits), inflation of paychecks and use of undocumented workers on construction projects, no-show jobs, conspiracy to bid-rig projects and form a phony minority owned construction company, attempted extortion of a contractor (Whitestone Construction) by trying to get him to take $200,000 instead of $1.7 miliion in a settlement, falsifying of business records and time cards, extortion of at least 2 restaurants from 2012-2018, extortion of $10,000 from a Long Island strip club from 2012-2018, extortion of $1,500 from a strip club manager, marijuana trafficking (with the Colombos, as well as shipments from California via mail carrier), mail fraud, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, assault in aid of racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder, assault, interstate transfer of firearms, and a scheme to defraud FEMA of $80,000 in storm recovery money for debris removal that had not been completed. In February 2018, Zancocchio was charged with violating his court order by eating at the Bella Mama Rose restaurant in Staten Island he co-owned with his cousin and Gambino captain Frank Camuso (who was alleged to control many businesses in the Tottenville section, running the crime family's Staten Island rackets for years.) In November 2018, it was reported that from 2012 to 2018 the Bonannos had sought several booth spaces at the San Gennaro Festival which was controlled by the Genovese (who decided which companies provided services such as lumber, electric, and propane, as well as which vendors could have a booth), and the Gambinos and Bonannos owned a strip club together. In January 2019, an arrest complaint was filed naming Sabella, Gambino captain Frank “Calypso” Cammuso (said to have several real estate holdings and investments in Staten Island, owned Mama Bella Rose restaurant with Zannochio), and Joseph Prezioso (former spokesman for the owner of the 66-acre who made $146,000 in kickbacks from truckers who dumped illegal waste). It was also reported that Camuso's involvement with Xcess (now under Gambino control) was being investigated.

In January 2018, 5 people including Genovese member Vincent Esposito (son of late Genovese boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante), soldiers Steven Arena and Frank Giovinco, and associates Frank Cognetta (former Secretary-Treasurer of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1D - Brooklyn) and Vincent D'Acunto Jr, (former Secretary-Treasurer of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 2D - Brooklyn), were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion of annual payments of $10,400-$12,400 from Vincent Fyfe (president of UFCW Local2D, $300,000 a year) from 2001-2015, honest services fraud, wire fraud, and bribery involving annuity schemes, i.e. soliciting and accepting bribes and steering union benefit plans into investments in exchange for kickbacks (over $1 million).It was subsequently reported that Fyfe and Genovese soldier John Fazio Sr both associated with captain John “Johnny Sausage” Barbato), had used union funds to buy non-existent materials from shell companies as a way to launder and embezzle money (scam going since 1986). It was also reported that Raymond Papaleo, driver and bodyguard of Genovese captain John “Johnny Sausage” Barbato, remained part of the Local 2-D office staff. It was also later reported Cognetta has been in several schemes involving union annuities, medical plan, employee benefit plan, and disability plan and had received over $44,000 from 15 separate kickbacks in 2015 from the disability scheme alone. It was also reported that there had been discussions about unionizing a Brooklyn beer and liquor distributor. In March 2019, it was reported that Esposito and Giovinco were running a company called Triangle Ventures LLC to manage extortion or kickback payments from the waste carting or recycling industries, including “commissions” from Ekman Recycling in New Jersey. In December 2019, it was reported Cognetta and Arena had conspired to use the threat of unionization to extort Il Mulino restaurant, which had 6 locations.

In February 2018, 17 people including Gambino member (?) Carl Fava, George Coppolino, and Daniel Steininger, as well as 10 towing and auto body repair companies, were indicted in Manhattan on charges of enterprise corruption, conspiracy, agreement for monopoly in restraint of trade, money laundering, criminal tax fraud, scheme to defraud, criminal possession of forged instruments, and offering a false instrument for filing involving a $19 million monopoly on the towing industry in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, between June 2015 and December 2017, using shell companies, bid-rigging of highway segment towing contracts, and insurance fraud to restrict competition in the towing industry in New York City, maximize auto body work at their shops by fraudulently acquiring tow truck companies and their licenses, and inflating insurance claims for the work done at the shops. Previously, in February 2005, 34 people including 2 Bonanno members, were indicted in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx on charges of submitting fraudulent documents, which failed to admit prior criminal histories and having a pre-existing auto-related operation, in order to participate in the city's Rotation Tow Program.

In December 2018, it was reported that the merchant cash advance industry - which offered fast money to small-business owners like truckers or restaurateurs at high rates and got around lending regulations by saying they’re not making loans—they’re buying the money businesses will make in the future at a discount - was attracting organized crime members, including Joseph LaForte (grandson of late Gambino soldier Joseph "The Cat'' LaForte) and brother of Gambino associate James LaForte (who worked as an outside broker for the company) who had opened Philadelphia-based Par Funding (also known as Complete Business Solutions Group) and used associate Renato "Gino" Gioe to collect debts. That same month, Par was ordered to stop raising capital from investors in New Jersey. Previously, in November 2018, the company had been ordered to stop selling securities in Pennsylvania. It was also reported that a Bonanno member brokered loans for a company in Staten Island and another Gambino associate did the same for a company in Manhattan. It was also reported that the New York attorney general was investigating the merchant cash advance industry. In July 2020, 8 companies and 7 people, including associate Joseph Laforte, were charged by the Securities & Exchange Commission with fraud and sale of unregistered securities involving fraudulently raising over half a billion dollars (through company Par Funding, which gave loans to small businesses) from more than 1,200 investors, by making false claims including claiming it had a default rate of less than 1% when it was over 10%. The company had also hid Laforte's background, which included charges of sports bookmaking, loansharking, and mortgage fraud. In August 2020, Gioe was indicted in New Jersey on charges of loan sharking.

In January 2019, 3 people including Genovese associate John Andriello, Marco Minuto (relative of Lucchese soldier?), and Brian Levine, were indicted in Rockland County, NY on charges of enterprise corruption, promoting gambling, and money laundering involving a multimillion dollar sports bookmaking operation that had numerous employees, took bets online and settled up in cash.

In July 2019, Gambino soldier Thomas Gambino (Joseph Gambino's son, main collector of video poker machine money from bars and social clubs in Brooklyn) and Cologero Zito (ran the Dolce & Caffe in Philadelphia) were among 19 arrested in Sicily, the rest Passo di Rigano mandamento members and affiliates including Giovanni Buscemi (Inzerillo clan boss), Tommaso Inzerillo (brother in law of Joseph Gambino), Francesco Inzerillo, and Salvo Gambino (Torretta mayor). In the US, the FBI and Italian investigators raided the homes of 3 men suspected of belonging to the Gambinos, in New Jersey, Staten Island and Philadelphia. As part of a plot to rebuild the Inzerillo family powerbase in Sicily, they were charged with membership in the Mafia, aggravated extortion, unfair competition, and fraudulent transfer of valuable goods (property in Dominican Republic owned by late Gambino underboss Frank Cali, who was also partners with Salvatore Pietro Inzerillo in 2 pizzerias in New York). It was alleged the Inzerillos had infiltrated businesses including wholesale food supplies, gambling outlets, and online betting. Over $3 million worth of real estate and other assets were confiscated by Italian authorities.

In October 2019, 20 people including Colombo captain Joseph Amato, soldiers Daniel Capaldo, Thomas Scorcia (part-owner of ABR Plumbing, large loan shark book), Vincent Scura, and associates Joseph Amato, Jr. and Anthony Silvestro, were indicted in the Eastern District (Staten Island) on charges of racketeering, illegal gambling involving poker and blackjack games, the transmission of wagering information involving sports betting, loansharking, extortion involving stealing property (gambling paraphernalia, future revenue from the gambling customer accounts, etc. Non-connected Joseph "Rocky" Bosco, Nicholas Bosco, and Anthony Bosco bookmaking operation - charged in September 2019) through threats, marijuana distribution, interstate stalking, conspiracy to violate the travel act, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, threats of violence, and a scheme in commerce to influence by bribery a sporting contest from January 2014 to October 2019.

In December 2019, 12 Gambino members and associates including captain Andrew "Andy" Campos and soldiers Richard Martino, James Ciaccia, George Campos, and Vincent Fiore, and associates Benito DiZenzo and Mark Kocaj, were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of racketeering; honest services wire fraud bribery schemes involving paying and kickbacks (including in free labor and materials) to employees of numerous construction companies and real estate developers, including HFZ Capital Group, a Manhattan real estate developer that’s built multiple luxury residential and hotels across the city. In exchange, these employees took steps to benefit CWC Contracting Corp. (carpentry company run by Campos, Fiore, Kocaj, and DiZenzo), including awarding contracts and approving change orders to add or delete from the original scope of a contract (including via overbilling and embezzlement); obstruction of justice involving attempts to hide Martino's wealth despite operating multiple companies that earned millions of dollars, including construction work, investments in pizzerias and other business ventures; loansharking (including 2% weekly vig on $45,000 loan); retaliation against a witness; additional alleged criminal schemes, including bank fraud and wire fraud involving laundering money by cashing checks made out to others, purportedly for work performed in connection with CWC construction projects, fraudulently procuring cards from the United States Department of Labor indicating completion of certain Occupational Safety and Health Administration training courses when, in fact, the courses were never completed, defrauding the U.S. government by paying CWC employees millions of dollars in cash without making the required payroll tax withholdings and payments, overbilling CWC clients by causing them to pay for fraudulent or inflated work orders, and evading taxes and money laundering, including by having CWC construct Campos’s residence. It was subsequently said by prosecutors the investigation showed the Gambino family was thriving, earning millions of dollars through various forms of fraud, bribery, money laundering, and extortion, particularly in the construction industry, and distributed these illicit proceeds to other members and associates of LCN. It was subsequently reported that Kocaj had donated nearly $4,000 to Bronx councilman Mark Gjonaj. In April 2020, it was reported that, while the influence of organized crime in construction wasn't as systemic as it was decades ago, it was still a major factor. This was due, in part, to the division of labor in construction, with many layers that gave opportunities for fraud. It was also reported that the Manhattan District Attorney had begun to take a closer look at the LCN's continued involvement in real estate, including involvement of organized crime in some levels of construction and related businesses.

In December 2019, 6 people, including Bonanno soldier Anthony "Scal" Sclafani, and associated Ross Branca and Joseph "Joe Brooklyn" Melfi, were indicted in Brooklyn on charges of conspiracy, promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, and money laundering involving running a sports bookmaking operation that utilized 2 websites in Costa Rica, served customers in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, New Jersey and elsewhere, and took in $11 million in bets from September 2018 to March 2019.

In March 2020, it was reported the Manhattan District Attorney's office was investigating Staten Island-based Gambino captain Frank "Calypso" Camuso, and several crew members - including Xcess strip club owner Louis Astuto (son of late Gambino soldier Louis "Louie Fats" Astuto), construction company owner John "The Hammer" Laforte, Louis Petrocelli, Robert "Rusty" Baselice, and Paul Noto - in a wide-ranging case involving extortion, big-rigging, commercial bribery, and money laundering in New York and New Jersey over the previous 5 years. As part of the investigation, the offices of 3 construction companies were searched, including the Rinaldi Group, Dora Energy, and Dora Solutions. In March 2021, it was reported a wide-ranging investigation was continuing into Gambino captains Frank Camuso (who had split $146,000 w/ Bonannos involving kickbacks from truckers dumping illegal waste on Staten Island) and Louis Filippelli (who had protected Plumbers Union official James Cahill's nephew from a threat by Milijanic's crew), as well as Mileta Miljanic (Gambino associate and Serbian gang leader) involving bribery, bid-rigging, extortion, and other racketeering charges in the construction, demolition, and asbestos removal industries. Records and books from numerous construction companies, including ones owned by Gambino soldiers Diego "Danny" Tantillo (Specialized DEC LLC) and Angelo "Fifi" Gradilone (former LIUNA Local 79 member), both employees of Waldorf Demolition Company (owned by James, Joseph, and Michael Marrone) which had operated trash hauling companies in New York City before being banned for fraudulent business practices involving cheating union employees out of $400,000 and claiming personal expenses as a business expense. Also investigated was PAL Environmental (owned by Salvatore DiLorenzo), an asbestos removal company that had $9 million in contracts with the city over the past 5 years and had been cited in 2004 for illegally disposing of toxic office equipment. In June 2021, it was reported the investigation by the Manhattan DA into extortion, bid-rigging, bribery, obstruction of justice, and money laundering involving Camuso and a dozen construction companies was continuing. It was alleged Camuso and others shook down the builders for 2% to guarantee them quality contractors, and then shook down the contractors for 2% for obtaining them the contract. It was reported Anthony Rinaldi, the CEO of the Rinaldi Group, a Secaucus NJ-based builder with numerous ongoing projects in New York, New Jersey, and Florida was also under investigation for his role in setting up shell companies to collect kickbacks from dozens of contractors.

In August 2020, 4 people including Genovese soldier Christopher Chierchio, Jason Kurland (Brooklyn attorney who serviced lottery winners), and Francesco Russo (nephew of Colombo acting boss Andrew "Andy Mush" Russo), were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, honest services fraud, loansharking and money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud Kurland’s clients that resulted in $107 million in losses by having them invest their money in the defendants' companies and business deals for which Kurland received kickbacks.

In September 2020, it was reported that Brandon Garcia, the new president of ILA Local 1235 (Newark), was the stepson of Genovese captain Silvio DeVita and grandson of associate and former ILA local 1235 president Albert "The Bull" Cernandes. It was also reported that DeVita crew members Salvatore and Joseph Cetrulo had 4 family members working on the waterfront and their niece was the wife of Genovese captain Stephen "Beach" DePiro. Garcia also had several family members who had worked for the ILA, including the Local 1235 credit union, all with six-figure salaries.

In October 2020, 11 people including James Cahill (brother of late Westies/Gambino associate Michael "Mickey" Cahill and president of the New York State Building & Construction Trades Council and former business agent of Plumbers Local 638 - past ties to Gambino/Genovese, who had been caught in surveillance meeting with Gambino captain Louis Filippelli); Christopher Kraft, Patrick Hill, Matthew Norton, Kevin McCarron, Jeremy Sheeran, and Andrew Mckeon (Local 638 business agents); and Robert Egan (Local 638 Financial Sec-Treasurer), were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, honest services fraud, receipt of bribes as labor union officials, and receipt of unlawful employer payments to labor organization officials involving the receipt of over $100,000 as cash bribes, as well as bribes in the form of “loans” that were never repaid, free meals and drinks, free labor on personal property, and purchases of home appliances; including from a non-union employer to secure certain subcontracts, for union positions, etc.

In April 2021, after conspirators Brian Herbstman and Sean Hogan had pleaded guilty, Colombo consigliere Thomas "Tom Mix" Farese, associate Pat Truglia (who had been charged in September 2020 in a similar DME healthcare fraud case resulting in $10 million in payouts from Medicare), Domenic Gatto Jr. (owner of Banyon Cay, a hotel resort development firm), Nicholas Defonte, and Christopher Cirri (Defonte and Cirri owners of fraudulent marketing companies) were indicted in New Jersey on charges of conspiracy and health care fraud involving a scheme to defraud Medicare and other programs by using DME (durable medical equipment) companies in New Jersey and Florida they had interests in (through fronts). Qualified beneficiaries were identified through marketing call centers and unnecessary orders were placed on their behalf via telemedicine companies; from which kickbacks (via sham invoices) ranging from $100-$385 were received for every order ($1.2 million in kickbacks to telemedicine executives). From October 2017 to April 2019, a total of $65 million was taken from 3 government healthcare programs.

Post by **Jimmy Napoli** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:24 am

Wiseguy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:13 am In April 2012, 11 people including Genovese captain Conrad Ianniello, soldier James Bernardone (Secretary Treasurer of International Union of Journeymen & Allied Trades Local 124 - Connecticut) soldier Salvester Zarzana (former President of Carpenters Union Local 926 - Brooklyn), and associates Robert Scalza (Secretary Treasurer of International Union of Journeymen & Allied Trades Local 713 - Long Island- $260,000 a year) and Ryan Ellis, were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, loan sharking, extortion of vendors at the San Gennaro Street Festival, extortion of a subcontractor at building sites in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn; embezzlement of the employee pension and annuity funds of the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Union Local 7 (Long Island) through a sweetheart deal which provided non-union labor at the Paramount Hotel project in Manhattan, thereby avoiding payment into the local's pension and benefit plans, conspiracy to extort a labor union by intimidating it into ceasing efforts to unionize at a chocolate company on Long Island so that the LCN-connected Local 713 could expand there, and obstruction of justice. In September 2014, it was reported that from 1997 to 2005, an LCN contractor handled the San Gennaro lights; and the festival had only donated $210,000 to charity of the $4.4 million it took in from 2007 and 2012.

In May 2012, 14 people including Genovese captain Joseph "Pepe" LaScala and Franklin "Frankie the Flea" Militello (president of the Professional Industrial Trade Workers Union), were charged in a criminal complaint in New Jersey (Essex) with racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation that used offshore websites in Costa Rica, operating illegal card games at local clubs, loan sharking, and the receipt, interstate transportation, and sale of 4 stolen LG plasma TV's, 293 cases of wine shipped from Italy, and bedsheets.

In September 2012, Gambino captain Joseph Giordano was indicted in Manhattan on a charge of grand larceny involving using force and threats to extort $50,000 from a construction company official. In July 2014, in an extension of the original case, 8 people including Gambino soldier Joseph Isgro, Gambino associate Leonard Rapisardi, and Giordano (then deceased), were indicted in Manhattan on charges of conspiracy, gambling, and money laundering involving a multi-million dollar sports bookmaking operation that utilized offshore wirerooms in Costa Rica and a software betting program (Action Sports International) and took in $2.3 million from bettors in 13 states including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, and California. Previously, in April 2010, Rapisardi had been charged with loan sharking and extortion.

In October 2012, 25 people including Bonanno soldier Vincent Basciano Jr. (Runs Titan Concrete?) Pinnacle Sports owners Stanley Tomchin, Brandt England, and George Molsbarger, and Cantor Gaming vice president Michael Colbert (who operated sports books in 7 Las Vegas casinos), were indicted in Queens on charges of enterprise corruption, conspiracy, promoting gambling, money laundering, involving a sports bookmaking operation, which used 4 internet websites based in Panama and Costa Rica, took in over $50 million in bets over 18 months, and stretched from New York to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and California.

In January 2013, 32 people including Genovese associate Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco, Genovese soldiers Anthony "Muzzy" Pucciarello, Joseph "Joe Sass" Sarcinella, Dominick "Pepe" Pietranico, and Peter Leconte (Fiumara/Coppola crew), Genovese associates Frank Oliver (husband of New Jersey judge Joanne Cocchiola Olivery) and Anthony "Tony Lodi" Cardinale (owner of Satin Dolls and AJ's strip clubs, formerly owned Harem strip club), Gambino soldier Anthony Bazzini, Gambino associate Scott Fappiano, and Lucchese associate Charles Giustra, were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion, mail fraud, wire fraud, transporting stolen property, trafficking in contraband cigarettes, cocaine trafficking, loan sharking, and felon possession of a firearm, involving control of the garbage industry in Long Island, Westchester and Rockland counties, and New Jersey (through front companies) whereby they enforced "property rights" in which they dictated which pick up stops a trash company could service, demanded extortion payments for protection of the company from other organized crime figures, stole garbage containers and cardboard from competing waste disposal businesses, and defrauded customers of the businesses. Subsequently, it was reported that the Westchester Solid Waste Commission would place an independent auditor over AAA Carting (owned by Pasquale Cartalemi Sr. and Pasquale Cartalemi Jr.) who were involved in the indictment. In March 2013, it was recommended by the IBT that internal charges be filed against another defendant in the case (Michael Russo, member of IBT Local 282 - trucking, Long Island).

In April 2013 criminal complaint (following a bust of Bronx-based Albanian gang called the "Wolf Pack'' for narcotics and firearms offenses, which included Genovese associate Anthony Zoccolillo and 13 others), and in a superseding indictment in September 2013, 12 people including Genovese captain Pasquale ``Patty Boy'' Falcetti, Genovese soldier Salvatore "Sally KO'' Larca, Bonanno soldier Vincent Basciano Jr., and Bonanno associates Stephen Basciano (who had been charged with assaulting his Bronx neighbor in 2005) and Joseph Basciano (sons of former Bonanno acting boss Vincent ``Vinny Gorgeous'' Basciano) were indicted in the Southern District on charges of loan sharking (including a $34,000 loan at 5% interest every 2 weeks which earned $64,600 in interest) and narcotics conspiracy involving a $2 million operation that smuggled 3,000 lbs of marijuana from California to New York. 40,000 lbs of marijuana were discovered in a warehouse owned by Larca. In May 2013, Joseph Basciano, Leonard Filippone, and Andrew Reid were indicted in Queens on charges of conspiracy, attempted possession of marijuana, and criminal possession of marijuana involving a scheme to smuggle $65,000 worth of marijuana from California through the Postal Service.

In November 2013, former Purple Gang (which had ties to the Genovese, Lucchese, and Bonannos) member Michael Meldish (later described as a Lucchese associate) was shot and killed in the Bronx. In May 2015, Bonanno soldier Pasquale "Patty Boy" Moirano, and Terrence Caldwell (from a group of black drug traffickers who became a Lucchese associate) were arrested on federal gun charges after 2 stolen guns were found in their car and were subsequently indicted in the Bronx on charges of murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon in June 2015. In February and May 2017, 19 Lucchese members and associates, including street boss Matthew Madonna (later reported in April 2019 to have job at Big Geyser), underboss Steven “Wonderboy” Crea ($100k a year labor consultant for Sparrow), consigliere Joseph DiNapoli, captains or acting captains John “Big John” Castellucci, Dominic Truscello, Steven Crea Jr (former Tanglewood member), and Tindaro “Tino” Curso, and soldiers Joseph Venice, James "Jimmy the Jew" Maffucci, Joseph "Big Joe" Datello, Paul "Paulie Roast Beef" Cassano, and Christopher Londonio, were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, sports bookmaking, video poker machines, loansharking, contraband cigarettes, trafficking in cocaine (5+ kilos), heroin (1+ kilos), marijuana (1,000+ kilos), and oxycodone, robbery, mail fraud and wire fraud in connection with various public building projects (including Bronx-Lebanon hospital where Crea-connected, non-union Sparrow Construction was overseeing $42 million expansion; Sparrow billed the hospital through falsified invoices and change orders for $26 million for only $21 million worth of work, with the $5 million going to the Luccheses and hospital execs; payoffs were also for keeping unions they controlled from picketing or disrupting the project; also extortion of coffee boys on Lucchese-controlled construction sites; also $200,000 in shakedowns involving multi-million dollar Holland Tunnel and the Lenox Avenue subway station projects in 1980s using threats, bribes to union officials, and bid-rigging; worked closely with Genovese family), money laundering, firearms offenses, witness intimidation and retaliation, assault, attempted murder in aid of racketeering and firearms offenses involving the 2000 attempted murder of Lucchese associate Sean Richard, the May 2013 wounding of Bonanno soldier Enzo “The Baker” Stagno, and November 2013 murder of Meldish (said to be over $100,000 from Meldish’s loan shark book).

In March 2014, 6 people including Benjamin Castellazzo Jr. (son of Colombo underboss Benjamin Castellazzo Sr.), Rocco "Irving" Miraglia (a foreman at the NY Daily News, Colombo associate, and son of late Colombo soldier Rocco Miraglia Sr), Rocco Giangregorio and Glen LaChance (NMDU business agents, Anthony "The Irish Guy" Turzio (a Genovese associate who worked at El Diario), and Thomas "Tommy Stacks" Leonessa (had a no show job at the NY Post), were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of conspiracy to defraud, wire fraud, and theft and embezzlement from employee benefit plans from the Newspaper & Mail Deliverers Union (which had become IBT Local 1901 in March 2009, Queens) involving a plot to obtain a union card and employment at Hudson News (a retail news stand chain) for Castellazzo Jr. In September 2014, an investigation was underway into the involvement of Genovese captain Peter "Petey Red" DiChiara in the newspaper industry, including meeting with late Newspaper & Mail Delivery Union vice-president James "Jimmy D" DeMarzo, Nicholas "Nicky Cats" Vazzano (Mailer's Union member who worked at the NY Post), and Turzio, obtaining a "no show" job for his son at El Diario, and engaging in "bootlegging" schemes where non-union workers were used to delivery stolen newspapers and magazines, after which a check-cashing and tax-evasion scheme through a shell corporation (Mary L. Trucking) was used to hide kickbacks from the non-union drivers, including $55,000 in an 8-month period. Previously, in May and July 2010, Vincent "Vinny Bionics" Disario and Joseph Torre (a Bonanno soldier and associate and members of IBT Local 1901/NMDU), as well as Turzio, were barred from the IBT. In July 2011, Michael Prelli (a Lucchese associate and member of IBT Local 1901.

In October 2014 and April 2016, 14 people including Genovese captain Charles "Chuckie" Tuzzo, soldier Vito Alberti, and associates Domenick Pucillo (who had been arrested in Florida in February 2013), Robert Spagnola, Vincent Coppola (son of Genovese captain MIchael "Mikey Cigars" Coppola), Abel Rodrigues (owner of Portucale restaurant), Manuel Rodriguez (former ILA Local 1478 shop steward), John Trainor, and Jerry Albanese were indicted in New Jersey (Essex) on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, promoting gambling involving a multi-million sports bookmaking operation (which utilized an offshore wireroom in Costa Rica and handled $1.7 million in bets while netting $400,000 in 2011), criminal usury and business of usurious loans involving loan sharking (yielded $4.7 million in illegal interest), running an unlicensed check-cashing business (Tri-State Check Cashing) that made $9 million in fees over 4 years while enabling customers to launder funds and evade taxes by skirting federal reporting requirements, money laundering (involving $666,000 in drug money via a check-cashing business - I&T Financial Services - owned by Puccillo in Newark and Florida from which he collected $22,000 in fees), illegal control and use of a trucking firm (GTS Auto Carriers) - check forgery, tax evasion, leasing trucks from AMJ Transport for $300,000 a year, no-show jobs for Coppola and another associate, and siphoning off money for personal use - which had a contract with Nissan to transport cars from Port Newark to dealers in New Jersey, and tax fraud and evasion.

In August 2014, Genovese captain Daniel ``Danny" Pagano (who was also reported to be involved in the construction, demolition, and asbestos removal business) and associate Michael Palazzolo were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, illegal gambling, and loan sharking in Westchester and Rockland. Palazzolo was also charged with extortion conspiracy, as had associates Michael Lucente, Michael Rizzo, and Paul Presta (former NYPD officer) previously, involving extortion of someone they believed had robbed one of their marijuana loads. In September 2014, as part of the ongoing investigation, associate Anthony "Harpo'' DePalma (a barber at Mr. Tony's Barber Shop) was indicted in Rockland County, NY on charges of criminal usury involving a loan sharking operation that charged 200% interest. As part of the ongoing investigation, in December 2014, 14 people including Genovese and Gambino associate Patsy Capolongo, were indicted in Rockland on charges of promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, money laundering, and criminal possession of a weapon involving a large scale sports bookmaking operation that took in tens of millions of dollars a month in bets over a 16 month period and stretched from New York to New Jersey and Florida. Later that month, 7 more people including Frank Giordano, Gerardo Dimatteo, William Robbins, and Robert Aulicino were indicted in Rockland on charges of promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, and money laundering. As part of the ongoing investigation, in February 2015, 8 people tied to the Genovese including Capolongo, Erik Bishop, Allan Klein, Michael D'Angelo, and Joseph Petrolino, were indicted in Florida (Broward) on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, bookmaking, money laundering, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device involving the sports bookmaking operation that stretched from New York to Boston and Florida and utilized offshore betting websites. In June 2015, 8 more people tied to the Genovese, including Ronald Ayes, Nicholas Farese, and Anthony Moschella, were indicted in Rockland County on charges of promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, loansharking (with interest rates topping 25% and weekly or biweekly payments), and money laundering involving a sports bookmaking operation that utilized a gambling website and stretched from Rockland to Westchester County, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida. In December 2015, Luigi Sessa and Joseph Ruback (athletic director at Biondi School in Yonkers) were indicted in Rockland on charges of loan sharking and grand larceny as part of the ongoing case.

In November 2015, 9 companies and 44 people (12 principal owners, 29 truck drivers, 3 dispatchers) - including 4th Avenue Transport, Inc (Charles Cuneo, Robert Mina, Salvatore Sciangula), All Boro Transportation, Inc (Frank Algerio, Michael Guadagno), Enterprise Petroleum Inc (Carmine Falcone, Michael Fortuna, Richard Piazza, Robert Tarantola), G&D Heating Oil Inc (Gabriel Nortesano, Gaetano Nortesano, Vincent Pugliese) - were indicted in Manhattan on charges of enterprise corruption, scheme to defraud, grand larceny, falsifying business records, criminal possession of stolen property, and offering a false instrument for filing involving a scheme between September 2006 and October 2015 to defraud 130 customers of at least $18 million (with an estimated $4 million stolen annually from the city) by shorting deliveries (through rigged meters) to residential, commercial, and municipal properties in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, and Westchester and reselling the stolen heating oil. In February 2016, Scott Vitello, Bard DiCarlo, Angelo Guadagno, Alexander Cocchiola (Cyprus Fuel), Paul Ciliento (Boomerang Trucking), Peter D’Arco (SJ Fuel), and Frederick DeCicco, were indicted in Manhattan and Brooklyn on charges of grand larceny involving the theft of $500,000 worth of heating oil between January and July 2014 from an oil terminal in Brooklyn (Buckeye Partners LP) from which they resold it at a fraction of the cost. Previously in July 2010, Thomas Cherubino and Frank Amato (who had ties to the Gambinos) pled guilty in the Eastern District to evading over $200,000 in federal taxes owed by their heating oil distribution company by diverting company checks to check-cashing businesses and paying their employees in cash.

In May 2016, Gambino associate Michael Rizzi (related to Gambino captain Joseph “Sonny” Juliano) was charged in a criminal complaint in the Eastern District on charges of conspiring to launder the proceeds of a multi-million dollar prostitution operation that he ran through BJM/Manhattan Stakes and Entertainment (which had succeeded Pure Platinum Models which was shut down in 2014) which employed high-end escorts, telephone bookers, drivers and advertised on over 50 websites. Rizzi was also reported to own the Nitecap Megastore & Smoke Shop on Staten Island, considered the largest supplier of porn and adult toys on the East Coast.

In May 2016, 6 people tied to the Luccheses including soldier Eugene “Boopsie” Castelle (later had a $1,500 a week job at World Wide Plumbing Supply) and associate Michael Grecco, were indicted in Brooklyn on charges of enterprise corruption, conspiracy, loan sharking, and promoting gambling involving a sports bookmaking operation that utilized toll-free number, website, and offshore wire room and took in over $13 million in bets. It was later reported in May 2018 that Castelle had also shared a shakedown racket with the Bonannos, been surveilled meeting with the Gam

In July 2016, 22 people tied to the Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, and Colombo families, including Gambino captain Michael "Mikey Boy" Paradiso, John Kelly, Bonanno associate Richard Sinde, Frank Parisi (Parisi Bakery in Little Italy), Christopher Alvino, Carl Muraco (reported to own Faber's Fascination Arcade and Beer Island in Brooklyn in 2011), and Lawrence Dentico (grandson of Genovese captain Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico), were indicted in Manhattan on charges of conspiracy, criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal sale and possession of marijuana, promoting gambling, criminal tax fraud, and offering a false instrument for filing involving transporting $15 million ($350,000 a month, money laundered through Regional Food Brokers) in marijuana from legal grow houses in California for distribution in New York over a 21 month period, distribution of hundreds of oxycodone tablets worth at least $18,000, and running a sports bookmaking operation that utilized an offshore wire room and website and took in $1 million in profit. Previously, in August 2015, Alvino and August Chinnici were indicted in Brooklyn on charges of criminal possession of a weapon (Thompson submachine gun, Remington Model 700 rifle, Ruger Old Army revolver, Desert Eagle semi-automatic pistol, Bruni 8mm semi-automatic pistol, 4 starter pistols, a starter rifle, 3 hunting knives, ammunition) and criminal possession of a controlled substance (more than 40 glassines of heroin). Prior to that, in May 2014, Alvino and 5 others were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of trafficking in over 220 lbs of marijuana and money laundering.

In August 2016, 46 people including Genovese captains Pasquale "Patsy" Parello and Conrad Ianniello, Genovese acting captain Eugene "Rooster" O'Nofrio, Genovese soldiers Ralph "The Undertaker" Balsamo, Anthony Conigliaro, and Ralph "Ralphie Sant" Santiello, Gambino soldier (?) Daniel "Danny" Marino Jr., Lucchese soldiers Marco Minuto and Vincent "Vinny" Casablanca, Bonanno acting captain John "Johnny Joe" Spirito, Bonanno soldier Pasquale "Patty Boy" Maiorino, Philadelphia LCN boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, and associates Bradley Sirkin and Anthony Cirillo (owner of Princeton Securities Group - a NY stock exchange floor broker, in April 2017 brought a civil lawsuit against LA Dodgers owner Mark Walters and other directors of Dava Pharmaceuticals for withholding information about the company's assets), were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation in New York, New Jersey, and Florida that utilized internet websites in Costa Rica, running a gambling club (poker, dice, horse racing, video poker machines), in Yonkers, NY, loan sharking, extortion of $20,000 (as well as $2,000 a month) from a towing company in Springfield MA, receiving $3 million worth of contraband cigarettes, conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, health care fraud (kickbacks to doctors for unnecessary and excessive prescriptions for compound cream), firearms trafficking (selling 11, buying 6), arson (of a vehicle parked outside a rival gambling club), assault, and use of a firearm in a felony. That same month, in a related case 8 people including Sirkin, Nicholas Borgesano Jr, and Scott Piccininni, were indicted in the Middle District of Florida on charges of conspiracy, health care fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering (including through a safety management firm called The Safety Group LTD) involving a health care scheme where several pharmacies in Tampa Bay and Miami were used to submit fraudulent reimbursement claims ($157 million in reimbursements for $633 million in claims) prescription compounded medications to 2 private insurance companies in return for bribes and kickbacks. Shell companies were used to disburse and hide the money. In January 2017, it was reported that retired judge Anthony Fiorella, who was a regular at Parello’s Rigoletto’s restaurant, had agreed to be a potential bond provider for Parello.

In December 2016, 13 people including Genovese soldiers Salvatore “Sallie” DeMeo and John “Johnny Bull” Gaglio, as well as associate Vincent “Vinny” Taliercio (owned Smith Union Market in Brooklyn), were indicted by the NY AG in Manhattan on charges of running multi-million sports bookmaking operation and loan sharking operation that utilized a website and offshore wire room, as well as selling untaxed cigarettes (30,000). In February 2017, it was reported that several well-known Hollywood celebrities were among the ring’s bettors, including Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Tony Danza, Charlie Sheen, Larry David, Regis Philbin, James L. Brooks, and the late Jerry Orbach. In October 2017, DeMeo was indicted in the Eastern District on charges of tax evasion and failure to file tax returns involving the concealing of $1.6 million in profits from the sale of several Brooklyn real estate properties (for nearly $13.5 million) by laundering it through a plumbing company (RCI Plumbing owned by Genovese soldier Chris Chierchio) and an unlicensed check-cashing company.

In February 2017, in Operation Trashnet, the Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Police, Department of Transportation, and Suffolk County Police targeted illegal dumping of contaminated construction and demolition (C&D) debris at disposal sites across Long Island, New York City, and the Mid-Hudson Valley. This led to 28 truck drivers being ticketed and 167 additional tickets issued for various misdemeanors and other serious safety violations of the Environmental Conservation Law. In November 2018, in Operation Pay Dirt, over 30 people and 9 companies including Anthony "Rock" Grazio (dirt broker) and Louis Durante, were indicted in Long Island (Suffolk) on charges of conspiracy, criminal mischief, criminal facilitation, endangering public health, operating a solid waste management facility without a permit, transporting solid waste without authorization, and falsifying business records involving a scheme to dump illegal material (aldrin, dieldrin and heptachlor, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, zinc and mercury) taken from recycling and transfer stations located in New York City and Long Island, including Queens-based Durante Bros Construction Corp. It was then transported and dumped at 24 sites on Long Island by trucking companies including Durante Bros Construction Corp., DJCI Enterprises, Inc., IEV Trucking Corp. Kris Trucking Corp, Modern Leasing, Inc. (Dumpmasters - extorted by Gambino captain Nick Corozzo), New York Trucking and Carting Corporation, NYTAC Corp., ClairCo Industries, Inc. (St. Clair Trucking), Starfire Industries, Inc. (Platinum Aggregates, Inc.)

In March 2017, 10 Bonanno members and associates, including soldier/acting captain Ronald “Ronnie G” Giallanzo (who in 2016 had been charged with violating parole after he and captains Joseph "Joe Desi" DeSimone and Anthony "Little Anthony" Pipitone were caught attending family meetings the previous year) and soldiers Michael Padavona (collected $400,000 in disability claiming he was disabled and couldn't work), Michael Palmaccio, Nicholas “Pudgie” Festa, and associate Robert “Rob” Pisani (owned All American Deli) were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, loansharking ($3 million on the street), extortion, robbery (including of rival drug dealer stash house), attempted robbery, cocaine and hydrocodone trafficking, kidnapping, arson, murder conspiracy (rival drug dealer Chris Cognata who “ran solo” and was wounded in 2006 and later killed in November 2016 in a drug dispute with Joseph Amatuccio), and obstruction of justice, that took in $26 million from 1998-2017 and operating primarily in Queens.

In November 2017, Bonanno acting captain Damiano Zummo, Bonanno associate Salvatore Russo, Gambino soldier Paul Semplice, and Bonanno/Gambino associate Paul Ragusa were charged in 3 indictments in the Eastern District with conspiracy, selling over a kilo of cocaine from a gelato store in Manhattan, loan sharking with interest rates up to 54% a year and brought in thousands a week, money laundering of $250,000 in cash by providing business checks issued to a fictitious consulting company that purported to bill the company for consulting services, and possession of 9 firearms including 3 automatic assault rifles and a silencer. In a coordinated bust, Canadian authorities conducted raids in Hamilton, York Region, Niagara, Innisfil, Vancouver, and Montreal and charged 14 people, including Domenico Violi and Giuseppe Violi (sons of late Canadian Bonanno mafioso Paolo Violi in Montreal and grandsons of late Giacomo Luppino of Hamilton - Ndrangheta/Buffalo LCN?) with conspiracy, trafficking in 6 kilos of fentanyl and carfentanil, over 20 kilos of cocaine, 1 kilo of heroin, 250,000 tablets of methamphetamine, MDMA, MDA and LSD, weapons trafficking, 3 million contraband cigarettes, and sports bookmaking, and video poker machines.

In January 2018, following raids including at the Xcess gentlemen's club on Staten Island, 13 people including Bonanno acting boss Joseph “Joe C” Cammarano Jr., consigliere John “Porky” Zancocchio, captain Joseph “Joe Valet” Sabella (owned Supreme Valet Parking, one of largest in tristate area), acting captain George “Grumpy” Troppiano, former consigliere Simone Esposito, soldiers Albert “Al Muscles” Armetta, Domineck Miniero, Joseph “Joey Blue Eyes” Santapaolo, Genovese soldier Ernest “Butch” Montevecchi, Lucchese soldier Eugene “Boopsie” Castelle, as well as Bonanno associates Patrick “Patty the Cop” Balsamo and Frank Gillette, were charged in 3 indictments in the Southern District with racketeering, conspiracy, running a sports bookmaking operation, loansharking (1-2% interest a week), extortion of contractors including $20,000 a year from a construction/demo company owner (Breeze Demolition, who was also given business with Bonanno-connected trucking companies and dumped site materials at an illegal landfill (controlled by the Bonannos, Gambinos, and Genovese) which charged trucking companies a fee to dump without permits), inflation of paychecks and use of undocumented workers on construction projects, no-show jobs, conspiracy to bid-rig projects and form a phony minority owned construction company, attempted extortion of a contractor (Whitestone Construction) by trying to get him to take $200,000 instead of $1.7 miliion in a settlement, falsifying of business records and time cards, extortion of at least 2 restaurants from 2012-2018, extortion of $10,000 from a Long Island strip club from 2012-2018, extortion of $1,500 from a strip club manager, marijuana trafficking (with the Colombos, as well as shipments from California via mail carrier), mail fraud, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, assault in aid of racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder, assault, interstate transfer of firearms, and a scheme to defraud FEMA of $80,000 in storm recovery money for debris removal that had not been completed. In February 2018, Zancocchio was charged with violating his court order by eating at the Bella Mama Rose restaurant in Staten Island he co-owned with his cousin and Gambino captain Frank Camuso (who was alleged to control many businesses in the Tottenville section, running the crime family's Staten Island rackets for years.) In November 2018, it was reported that from 2012 to 2018 the Bonannos had sought several booth spaces at the San Gennaro Festival which was controlled by the Genovese (who decided which companies provided services such as lumber, electric, and propane, as well as which vendors could have a booth), and the Gambinos and Bonannos owned a strip club together. In January 2019, an arrest complaint was filed naming Sabella, Gambino captain Frank “Calypso” Cammuso (said to have several real estate holdings and investments in Staten Island, owned Mama Bella Rose restaurant with Zannochio), and Joseph Prezioso (former spokesman for the owner of the 66-acre who made $146,000 in kickbacks from truckers who dumped illegal waste). It was also reported that Camuso's involvement with Xcess (now under Gambino control) was being investigated.

In January 2018, 5 people including Genovese member Vincent Esposito (son of late Genovese boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante), soldiers Steven Arena and Frank Giovinco, and associates Frank Cognetta (former Secretary-Treasurer of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1D - Brooklyn) and Vincent D'Acunto Jr, (former Secretary-Treasurer of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 2D - Brooklyn), were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, extortion of annual payments of $10,400-$12,400 from Vincent Fyfe (president of UFCW Local2D, $300,000 a year) from 2001-2015, honest services fraud, wire fraud, and bribery involving annuity schemes, i.e. soliciting and accepting bribes and steering union benefit plans into investments in exchange for kickbacks (over $1 million).It was subsequently reported that Fyfe and Genovese soldier John Fazio Sr both associated with captain John “Johnny Sausage” Barbato), had used union funds to buy non-existent materials from shell companies as a way to launder and embezzle money (scam going since 1986). It was also reported that Raymond Papaleo, driver and bodyguard of Genovese captain John “Johnny Sausage” Barbato, remained part of the Local 2-D office staff. It was also later reported Cognetta has been in several schemes involving union annuities, medical plan, employee benefit plan, and disability plan and had received over $44,000 from 15 separate kickbacks in 2015 from the disability scheme alone. It was also reported that there had been discussions about unionizing a Brooklyn beer and liquor distributor. In March 2019, it was reported that Esposito and Giovinco were running a company called Triangle Ventures LLC to manage extortion or kickback payments from the waste carting or recycling industries, including “commissions” from Ekman Recycling in New Jersey. In December 2019, it was reported Cognetta and Arena had conspired to use the threat of unionization to extort Il Mulino restaurant, which had 6 locations.

In February 2018, 17 people including Gambino member (?) Carl Fava, George Coppolino, and Daniel Steininger, as well as 10 towing and auto body repair companies, were indicted in Manhattan on charges of enterprise corruption, conspiracy, agreement for monopoly in restraint of trade, money laundering, criminal tax fraud, scheme to defraud, criminal possession of forged instruments, and offering a false instrument for filing involving a $19 million monopoly on the towing industry in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island, between June 2015 and December 2017, using shell companies, bid-rigging of highway segment towing contracts, and insurance fraud to restrict competition in the towing industry in New York City, maximize auto body work at their shops by fraudulently acquiring tow truck companies and their licenses, and inflating insurance claims for the work done at the shops. Previously, in February 2005, 34 people including 2 Bonanno members, were indicted in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx on charges of submitting fraudulent documents, which failed to admit prior criminal histories and having a pre-existing auto-related operation, in order to participate in the city's Rotation Tow Program.

In December 2018, it was reported that the merchant cash advance industry - which offered fast money to small-business owners like truckers or restaurateurs at high rates and got around lending regulations by saying they’re not making loans—they’re buying the money businesses will make in the future at a discount - was attracting organized crime members, including Joseph LaForte (grandson of late Gambino soldier Joseph "The Cat'' LaForte) and brother of Gambino associate James LaForte (who worked as an outside broker for the company) who had opened Philadelphia-based Par Funding (also known as Complete Business Solutions Group) and used associate Renato "Gino" Gioe to collect debts. That same month, Par was ordered to stop raising capital from investors in New Jersey. Previously, in November 2018, the company had been ordered to stop selling securities in Pennsylvania. It was also reported that a Bonanno member brokered loans for a company in Staten Island and another Gambino associate did the same for a company in Manhattan. It was also reported that the New York attorney general was investigating the merchant cash advance industry. In July 2020, 8 companies and 7 people, including associate Joseph Laforte, were charged by the Securities & Exchange Commission with fraud and sale of unregistered securities involving fraudulently raising over half a billion dollars (through company Par Funding, which gave loans to small businesses) from more than 1,200 investors, by making false claims including claiming it had a default rate of less than 1% when it was over 10%. The company had also hid Laforte's background, which included charges of sports bookmaking, loansharking, and mortgage fraud. In August 2020, Gioe was indicted in New Jersey on charges of loan sharking.

In January 2019, 3 people including Genovese associate John Andriello, Marco Minuto (relative of Lucchese soldier?), and Brian Levine, were indicted in Rockland County, NY on charges of enterprise corruption, promoting gambling, and money laundering involving a multimillion dollar sports bookmaking operation that had numerous employees, took bets online and settled up in cash.

In July 2019, Gambino soldier Thomas Gambino (Joseph Gambino's son, main collector of video poker machine money from bars and social clubs in Brooklyn) and Cologero Zito (ran the Dolce & Caffe in Philadelphia) were among 19 arrested in Sicily, the rest Passo di Rigano mandamento members and affiliates including Giovanni Buscemi (Inzerillo clan boss), Tommaso Inzerillo (brother in law of Joseph Gambino), Francesco Inzerillo, and Salvo Gambino (Torretta mayor). In the US, the FBI and Italian investigators raided the homes of 3 men suspected of belonging to the Gambinos, in New Jersey, Staten Island and Philadelphia. As part of a plot to rebuild the Inzerillo family powerbase in Sicily, they were charged with membership in the Mafia, aggravated extortion, unfair competition, and fraudulent transfer of valuable goods (property in Dominican Republic owned by late Gambino underboss Frank Cali, who was also partners with Salvatore Pietro Inzerillo in 2 pizzerias in New York). It was alleged the Inzerillos had infiltrated businesses including wholesale food supplies, gambling outlets, and online betting. Over $3 million worth of real estate and other assets were confiscated by Italian authorities.

In October 2019, 20 people including Colombo captain Joseph Amato, soldiers Daniel Capaldo, Thomas Scorcia (part-owner of ABR Plumbing, large loan shark book), Vincent Scura, and associates Joseph Amato, Jr. and Anthony Silvestro, were indicted in the Eastern District (Staten Island) on charges of racketeering, illegal gambling involving poker and blackjack games, the transmission of wagering information involving sports betting, loansharking, extortion involving stealing property (gambling paraphernalia, future revenue from the gambling customer accounts, etc. Non-connected Joseph "Rocky" Bosco, Nicholas Bosco, and Anthony Bosco bookmaking operation - charged in September 2019) through threats, marijuana distribution, interstate stalking, conspiracy to violate the travel act, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, threats of violence, and a scheme in commerce to influence by bribery a sporting contest from January 2014 to October 2019.

In December 2019, 12 Gambino members and associates including captain Andrew "Andy" Campos and soldiers Richard Martino, James Ciaccia, George Campos, and Vincent Fiore, and associates Benito DiZenzo and Mark Kocaj, were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of racketeering; honest services wire fraud bribery schemes involving paying and kickbacks (including in free labor and materials) to employees of numerous construction companies and real estate developers, including HFZ Capital Group, a Manhattan real estate developer that’s built multiple luxury residential and hotels across the city. In exchange, these employees took steps to benefit CWC Contracting Corp. (carpentry company run by Campos, Fiore, Kocaj, and DiZenzo), including awarding contracts and approving change orders to add or delete from the original scope of a contract (including via overbilling and embezzlement); obstruction of justice involving attempts to hide Martino's wealth despite operating multiple companies that earned millions of dollars, including construction work, investments in pizzerias and other business ventures; loansharking (including 2% weekly vig on $45,000 loan); retaliation against a witness; additional alleged criminal schemes, including bank fraud and wire fraud involving laundering money by cashing checks made out to others, purportedly for work performed in connection with CWC construction projects, fraudulently procuring cards from the United States Department of Labor indicating completion of certain Occupational Safety and Health Administration training courses when, in fact, the courses were never completed, defrauding the U.S. government by paying CWC employees millions of dollars in cash without making the required payroll tax withholdings and payments, overbilling CWC clients by causing them to pay for fraudulent or inflated work orders, and evading taxes and money laundering, including by having CWC construct Campos’s residence. It was subsequently said by prosecutors the investigation showed the Gambino family was thriving, earning millions of dollars through various forms of fraud, bribery, money laundering, and extortion, particularly in the construction industry, and distributed these illicit proceeds to other members and associates of LCN. It was subsequently reported that Kocaj had donated nearly $4,000 to Bronx councilman Mark Gjonaj. In April 2020, it was reported that, while the influence of organized crime in construction wasn't as systemic as it was decades ago, it was still a major factor. This was due, in part, to the division of labor in construction, with many layers that gave opportunities for fraud. It was also reported that the Manhattan District Attorney had begun to take a closer look at the LCN's continued involvement in real estate, including involvement of organized crime in some levels of construction and related businesses.

In December 2019, 6 people, including Bonanno soldier Anthony "Scal" Sclafani, and associated Ross Branca and Joseph "Joe Brooklyn" Melfi, were indicted in Brooklyn on charges of conspiracy, promoting gambling, possession of gambling records, and money laundering involving running a sports bookmaking operation that utilized 2 websites in Costa Rica, served customers in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, New Jersey and elsewhere, and took in $11 million in bets from September 2018 to March 2019.

In March 2020, it was reported the Manhattan District Attorney's office was investigating Staten Island-based Gambino captain Frank "Calypso" Camuso, and several crew members - including Xcess strip club owner Louis Astuto (son of late Gambino soldier Louis "Louie Fats" Astuto), construction company owner John "The Hammer" Laforte, Louis Petrocelli, Robert "Rusty" Baselice, and Paul Noto - in a wide-ranging case involving extortion, big-rigging, commercial bribery, and money laundering in New York and New Jersey over the previous 5 years. As part of the investigation, the offices of 3 construction companies were searched, including the Rinaldi Group, Dora Energy, and Dora Solutions. In March 2021, it was reported a wide-ranging investigation was continuing into Gambino captains Frank Camuso (who had split $146,000 w/ Bonannos involving kickbacks from truckers dumping illegal waste on Staten Island) and Louis Filippelli (who had protected Plumbers Union official James Cahill's nephew from a threat by Milijanic's crew), as well as Mileta Miljanic (Gambino associate and Serbian gang leader) involving bribery, bid-rigging, extortion, and other racketeering charges in the construction, demolition, and asbestos removal industries. Records and books from numerous construction companies, including ones owned by Gambino soldiers Diego "Danny" Tantillo (Specialized DEC LLC) and Angelo "Fifi" Gradilone (former LIUNA Local 79 member), both employees of Waldorf Demolition Company (owned by James, Joseph, and Michael Marrone) which had operated trash hauling companies in New York City before being banned for fraudulent business practices involving cheating union employees out of $400,000 and claiming personal expenses as a business expense. Also investigated was PAL Environmental (owned by Salvatore DiLorenzo), an asbestos removal company that had $9 million in contracts with the city over the past 5 years and had been cited in 2004 for illegally disposing of toxic office equipment. In June 2021, it was reported the investigation by the Manhattan DA into extortion, bid-rigging, bribery, obstruction of justice, and money laundering involving Camuso and a dozen construction companies was continuing. It was alleged Camuso and others shook down the builders for 2% to guarantee them quality contractors, and then shook down the contractors for 2% for obtaining them the contract. It was reported Anthony Rinaldi, the CEO of the Rinaldi Group, a Secaucus NJ-based builder with numerous ongoing projects in New York, New Jersey, and Florida was also under investigation for his role in setting up shell companies to collect kickbacks from dozens of contractors.

In August 2020, 4 people including Genovese soldier Christopher Chierchio, Jason Kurland (Brooklyn attorney who serviced lottery winners), and Francesco Russo (nephew of Colombo acting boss Andrew "Andy Mush" Russo), were indicted in the Eastern District on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, honest services fraud, loansharking and money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud Kurland’s clients that resulted in $107 million in losses by having them invest their money in the defendants' companies and business deals for which Kurland received kickbacks.

In September 2020, it was reported that Brandon Garcia, the new president of ILA Local 1235 (Newark), was the stepson of Genovese captain Silvio DeVita and grandson of associate and former ILA local 1235 president Albert "The Bull" Cernandes. It was also reported that DeVita crew members Salvatore and Joseph Cetrulo had 4 family members working on the waterfront and their niece was the wife of Genovese captain Stephen "Beach" DePiro. Garcia also had several family members who had worked for the ILA, including the Local 1235 credit union, all with six-figure salaries.

In October 2020, 11 people including James Cahill (brother of late Westies/Gambino associate Michael "Mickey" Cahill and president of the New York State Building & Construction Trades Council and former business agent of Plumbers Local 638 - past ties to Gambino/Genovese, who had been caught in surveillance meeting with Gambino captain Louis Filippelli); Christopher Kraft, Patrick Hill, Matthew Norton, Kevin McCarron, Jeremy Sheeran, and Andrew Mckeon (Local 638 business agents); and Robert Egan (Local 638 Financial Sec-Treasurer), were indicted in the Southern District on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, honest services fraud, receipt of bribes as labor union officials, and receipt of unlawful employer payments to labor organization officials involving the receipt of over $100,000 as cash bribes, as well as bribes in the form of “loans” that were never repaid, free meals and drinks, free labor on personal property, and purchases of home appliances; including from a non-union employer to secure certain subcontracts, for union positions, etc.

In April 2021, after conspirators Brian Herbstman and Sean Hogan had pleaded guilty, Colombo consigliere Thomas "Tom Mix" Farese, associate Pat Truglia (who had been charged in September 2020 in a similar DME healthcare fraud case resulting in $10 million in payouts from Medicare), Domenic Gatto Jr. (owner of Banyon Cay, a hotel resort development firm), Nicholas Defonte, and Christopher Cirri (Defonte and Cirri owners of fraudulent marketing companies) were indicted in New Jersey on charges of conspiracy and health care fraud involving a scheme to defraud Medicare and other programs by using DME (durable medical equipment) companies in New Jersey and Florida they had interests in (through fronts). Qualified beneficiaries were identified through marketing call centers and unnecessary orders were placed on their behalf via telemedicine companies; from which kickbacks (via sham invoices) ranging from $100-$385 were received for every order ($1.2 million in kickbacks to telemedicine executives). From October 2017 to April 2019, a total of $65 million was taken from 3 government healthcare programs.

Its definitelly worth to be in mob,if you are specialist for internet scams and gambling.

Post by **Dave65827** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 10:51 am

Great List Wiseguy. Really puts some of what the higher level guys are doing

Post by **Wiseguy** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:10 am

I forgot to include the Ndrangheta-affiliated Gigliotti bust in 2015 Queens in 2015. No Genovese figures were charged but intel from an informant stated the operation was partly funded by Romanello and the CI had witnessed large amounts of money being delivered on a regular basis to a restaurant connected to Romanello.

Gambling, loans, and legit businesses (including union connected ones) seem to be the safest way to go and are what Borello said the Genovese family mainly does.

As always, drugs can be a big money maker but it's high-risk.

Scams can also be a big money maker but are ad-hoc by nature and aren't the consistent, day-to-day revenue producer that some other things are.

Post by **furiofromnaples** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:51 am

DeCavalcante Family 2015

Stango crew

Reputed members of a New Jersey crime family long believed to be the model for HBO's Sopranos plotted to kill a recalcitrant member who, they told an undercover informant, was "out of control" and had to "meet death," federal prosecutors alleged in a criminal complaint released Thursday.

Three criminal complaints name 10 reputed members or associates of the DeCavalcante crime family, including 71-year-old Charles Stango of Henderson, Nevada, believed to be a capo, or captain, in the family. The arrests were the fruits of more than three years of work by an undercover agent who was able to infiltrate the family and gain the confidence of Stango and others, according to the complaints.

The complaints charge the 10 with a litany of crimes including conspiracy to distribute cocaine, promoting prostitution and purchasing 120,000 untaxed cigarettes.

Stango, who purportedly went by the nickname "Beeps," was charged with two other men, 72-year-old Frank Nigro and 68-year-old Paul Colella, both of Toms River, with scheming to kill the unidentified victim over a dispute regarding the victim's being promoted as a "made" member of the family. Colella purportedly was known by the nickname "Knuckles."

According to one complaint, the intended victim also had insulted an acting DeCavalcante boss at a social gathering.

The complaint alleges the DeCavalcante family operates under the direction of New York's Gambino crime family. For years, the DeCavalcantes have been considered the inspiration for the hit HBO series that starred the late James Gandolfini.

Some of the dialogue alleged in the complaint wouldn't have been out of place in the frequently violent TV series.

Stango allegedly sought and obtained permission from Nigro to carry out the murder in New Jersey. Authorities say Stango discussed his plans with the undercover agent, telling him the target was "out of control." The intended victim "had to meet death or you gotta maim him or you just gotta put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life," Stango told the agent, according to the complaint.

Prosecutors claim Stango and his son, Anthony, also planned to operate a high-end escort service in the Toms River area.

Nine of the men appeared in federal court in Newark on Thursday; no pleas were entered. Five of the nine were ordered held pending bail hearings next week, while the rest were allowed to post bail. The tenth, Stango, was to appear in court in Nevada.

"My client is professing his innocence and wants to vindicate his name," said Christopher Patella, an attorney representing Rosario Pali, who is charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine with Anthony Stango.

Other defense attorneys deferred comment, saying they hadn't had time to look at the complaints.

Philly Mob 2020

Fifteen Members and Associates of the Philadelphia Mafia Indicted on Federal Racketeering and Related Charges

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that a Superseding Indictment was unsealed today against 15 defendants, including alleged members and associates of the South Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey-based criminal organization La Cosa Nostra (LCN), known as the “mafia” or the “mob.” The Superseding Indictment charges various crimes including racketeering conspiracy, illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, and drug trafficking.

The defendants charged in the seven-count Superseding Indictment are Steven Mazzone, aka “Stevie,” age 56; Domenic Grande, aka “Dom,” aka “Mr. Hopkins,” aka “Mr. Brown,” aka “Dom14,” age 41; Joseph Servidio, aka “Joey Electric,” age 60; Salvatore Mazzone, aka “Sonny,” age 55; Joseph Malone, age 70; Louis Barretta, aka “Louie Sheep,” age 56; Victor DeLuca, aka “Big Vic,” age 56; Kenneth Arabia, aka “Kenny,” age 67; Daniel Castelli, aka “Danny,” aka “Cozzy,” aka “Butch,” aka “Harry,” age 67; Carl Chianese, age 81; Anthony Gifoli, aka “Tony Meatballs,” age 73; John Romeo, age 58; Daniel Malatesta, age 75; Daniel Bucceroni, age 66; and John Michael Payne, age 34.

According to court documents, the Philadelphia LCN is one of a number of LCN organized crime families based in various cities throughout the United States. The purpose of the LCN in Philadelphia and elsewhere is to make money through the commission of various crimes, including illegal gambling, loansharking, drug trafficking, and extortion.

Like other LCN families, the Philadelphia LCN is operated through a defined hierarchical structure, including a Boss, an Underboss (defendant Steven Mazzone), and Captains (defendant Domenic Grande), who oversee “crews” consisting of “soldiers” and “associates.” As detailed in the Superseding Indictment, soldiers are members of the family who have been formally initiated through a ritual called a “making ceremony,” during which they swear allegiance to LCN above all else, take a vow of secrecy about the organization (the Code of Silence or “Omerta”), and agree to commit violence on behalf of the LCN, if necessary. After this ceremony, these men (who must be of 100% Italian ancestry) are then referred to as “made members” of the LCN. Associates are men who engage in criminal activity on behalf of LCN but who have not been formally “made,” either because they are up-and-coming and aspire to full membership, or because they are ineligible to be made because they lack fully Italian ancestry. Made members and associates who break Omerta may be targeted for death by other members of the group.

As described in the Superseding Indictment, the Philadelphia LCN sought to use its reputation and influence to exercise control over criminal rackets, like bookmaking and loansharking in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, particularly Atlantic City. During a period beginning in August 2015, ten of the defendants allegedly conspired to conduct and participate in the affairs of the Philadelphia LCN through both a pattern of racketeering activity and through the collection of unlawful debts. The remaining five defendants are charged with allegedly committing a variety of other offenses, including conducting an illegal gambling business, conspiracy to make extortionate extensions of credit, and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, in partnership with other members and associates of the Philadelphia LCN.

As alleged in the Superseding Indictment, on October 15, 2015, defendants Steven Mazzone, Domenic Grande and Salvatore Mazzone participated in a “making ceremony” (as detailed above) in a South Philadelphia residence, during which several new soldiers were inducted into the Philadelphia LCN. The Superseding Indictment goes on to describe the various acts allegedly committed by the defendants and others as members of the group, including the distribution of heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and oxycodone pills; the disbursement and collection of tens of thousands of dollars of unlawful bookmaking and other debts “owed” to the group at interest rates as high as 400%; and even an alleged conspiracy to kidnap or murder a drug dealer in order to protect the reputation of the Philadelphia LCN after the dealer sold members of the group fake drugs.

“Thanks to the dedicated and courageous efforts of federal law enforcement over the past several decades, the Philadelphia mob isn’t what it used to be, and thank God for that,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “But it is still a problem and is still allegedly committing serious federal crimes, which is why we at the Department of Justice are focused on stamping it out. We will not rest until the mob is nothing but a bad memory.”

“The charges unsealed today against these 15 alleged members and associates of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra show that the mafia remains a criminal presence in our city and beyond,” said Michael J. Driscoll, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division. “From loansharking and illegal gambling to drug trafficking and extortion, the mob continues to keep its fingers in many different pots, in its ceaseless quest for illegal profits. This group should’ve learned by now that the FBI is as committed to eradicating organized crime as wise guys are to embracing it.”

The case is being investigated by the FBI, including its Philadelphia Field Division and Atlantic City Resident Agency, as part of a long-running investigation, with the assistance of the Philadelphia Police Department, the Pennsylvania State Police and the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan Ortiz of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Trial Attorney Alexander Gottfried of the Department of Justice Criminal Division, Organized Crime and Gang Section.

An indictment, information, or criminal complaint is an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Chicago Outfit

The P/K Gang

An alleged Outfit soldier has pleaded guilty to a state racketeering charge more than four years after he was caught posing as a cop to rip off a drug stash house on Chicago’s Southeast Side.

Robert Panozzo Sr., a reputed member of the Outfit’s Grand Avenue crew, was sentenced Thursday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building to 18 years in prison. But he could be paroled in just 4 ½ years because of credit for time already served and expected day-for-day credit.

Panozzo still faces separate federal charges of extortion for the alleged beating of a McHenry County man. Cook County records indicate his sentence in the racketeering case will run concurrent with his federal sentence and that the time will be served in federal prison — likely indicating he also intends to plead guilty in federal court.

Panozzo and longtime associate Paul Koroluk are part of a crew run by Albert "Little Guy" Vena, according to sources and court testimony in the federal trial of Steven Mandell, a former Chicago police officer who was convicted in a grisly plot to kill a suburban businessman.

The sweeping racketeering charges allege the crew participated in wide-ranging crimes, including home invasions, armed robberies, burglaries, insurance fraud and prostitution. They allegedly carried out five or six major "rips" a year, robbing drug stash houses while posing as police officers.

The case against Panozzo and his associates was the second Cook County case brought under a state law modeled after the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Many of Panozzo’s associates, including his son, Robert Jr., previously pleaded guilty to RICO-related charges. Koroluk was also sentenced to 18 years in prison. The crew’s purported “computer guy,” Maher Abuhabsah, still has a pending case, according to court records.

Panozzo and Koroluk were arrested in a dramatic sting in 2014 after the two posed as cops to rob what they thought was a cartel stash house on the Southeast Side. They kicked in the door and grabbed stacks of drugs — only to be arrested by Chicago police and federal agents who had wired the house for audio and video surveillance and watched from above with an FBI spy plane. Koroluk wore a police star dangling from his neck, authorities said.

Prosecutors allege the crew participated in several other elaborate schemes targeting drug dealers, many of which involved tracking their targets with GPS to find where they stashed their product.

Raised in the old Italian-American enclave known as "the Patch" on the Near West Side, Panozzo and Koroluk have criminal histories that stretch back decades, court records show. In 2006 they were both sentenced to seven years in prison for a string of burglaries targeting tony north suburban homes that netted millions of dollars in jewelry and other luxury items. Police at the time described the burglars as some of the most sophisticated they'd ever seen, from the disabling of state-of-the-art alarm systems to the cutting of phone lines.

According to court records, Panozzo got his start as a juice loan collector under former Grand Avenue boss Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, who was convicted in the landmark Operation Family Secrets trial.

Before his arrest in the racketeering case, Panozzo was operating a house of prostitution masquerading as a massage parlor in the 800 block of West Superior Street, according to the charges.

The racketeering charges also alleged that Panozzo has a history of violence. Panozzo has often bragged to associates that he threw an elderly woman down three flights of stairs to her death in 1987 after tricking her into signing over ownership rights to her three-flat in the 2300 block of West Ohio Street, authorities alleged.

Court records also allege Panozzo discussed arranging the killing of a witness in a kidnapping case against one of the crew members.

Post by **Pogo The Clown** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:38 pm

I don't think you can classify either the Stango Crew or the Phlly Crew as doing it big. They were pretty small time and scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Pogo

Post by **Dave65827** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:49 pm

They ain’t exactly what I had in mind either

Post by **queensnyer** » Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:17 pm

TommyGambino wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:25 am
Dave65827 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:18 pm Since he decline of the mob I’m interested in crews that have been doing it big the past 10 yrs
By big I mean like through Power family wise, rackets, scores, violence whatever

Like the Ronnie G crew and how he was doing it big and if I remember Borrello claimed they where the only crew doing it big in Howard Beach. Not to mention they where doing it in a relatively blue collar fashion in a age of Informants and CCTV footage

The other crew I find the most fascinating is the Crea Jr crew. Considering how willing they where to use violence in the modern age. The Meldish hit, the Ulzheimer attempt and if you count the Enzo Stango shooting. Would be interesting to know if any more info on this crew comes up in the Desantis indictment

Then you had patsy parrellos crew masterminding the east coast LCN fraud case according to the feds totaled around 157 million but got split among different crews/families. Would be interested about hearing about different crews doing it big in this day in age
Borello is an idiot, gambinos have a big crew in Howard beach

the gambinos have 2 different crews in the area. or at one point did when anthony gurino was alive. dont know the current set upbut doing it big the gurinos are multi multi multi millionaires.. semi legit. real estate, etc. construction. etc.. but numbers and loan etc as well. hands in drugs too. respected as stand up gangsters..and a lot of people think they are just earners, but they got killers with them.

Post by **TommyGambino** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 1:25 am

queensnyer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 5:17 pm
TommyGambino wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:25 am
Dave65827 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 4:18 pm Since he decline of the mob I’m interested in crews that have been doing it big the past 10 yrs
By big I mean like through Power family wise, rackets, scores, violence whatever

Like the Ronnie G crew and how he was doing it big and if I remember Borrello claimed they where the only crew doing it big in Howard Beach. Not to mention they where doing it in a relatively blue collar fashion in a age of Informants and CCTV footage

The other crew I find the most fascinating is the Crea Jr crew. Considering how willing they where to use violence in the modern age. The Meldish hit, the Ulzheimer attempt and if you count the Enzo Stango shooting. Would be interesting to know if any more info on this crew comes up in the Desantis indictment

Then you had patsy parrellos crew masterminding the east coast LCN fraud case according to the feds totaled around 157 million but got split among different crews/families. Would be interested about hearing about different crews doing it big in this day in age
Borello is an idiot, gambinos have a big crew in Howard beach
the gambinos have 2 different crews in the area. or at one point did when anthony gurino was alive. dont know the current set upbut doing it big the gurinos are multi multi multi millionaires.. semi legit. real estate, etc. construction. etc.. but numbers and loan etc as well. hands in drugs too. respected as stand up gangsters..and a lot of people think they are just earners, but they got killers with them.

Capeci had Cesare Gurino as a capo a few years ago then a soldier not long after, isn't that gene gottis old crew?

Post by **furiofromnaples** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:02 am

Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 12:38 pm I don't think you can classify either the Stango Crew or the Phlly Crew as doing it big. They were pretty small time and scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Pogo

Doing big for their size.

Post by **desertdog** » Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:42 am

Jeez...what a disease these people are. Stand them up against a wall...

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