MISTRIAL NY & FL - 46 Named* in Organized Crime Indictment, 4 Aug 2016

NY & FL - 44 Named* in Organized Crime Indictment - 4 Aug 2016

Thursday, August 4th: CBS WDJT TV:

http://www.cbs58.com/story/32685913/dozens-of-alleged-mobsters-nabbed-by-feds
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* https://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress....indictment-u-s-v-parrello-et-al-15-cr-522.pdf

[44 are named in the 32 Page Indictment]:

Alberti, Reynold
Allen, Laurence Keith

Bagon, Craig
Balsamo, Ralph
Barbone, Frank

Camacho, Agostino
Camisa, Anthony
Capolongo, Pasquale
Casablanca, Vincent
Cassano, Paul
Cassetta, Anthony
Cirello, Anthony
Conigliaro, Alex

Depalma, Anthony
Depergola, Francesco
Devito, Nicholas
Dimarco, Joseph

Falco, Joseph
Fusco, Mitchell

Gallo, Carmine

Ianniello, Conrad

Lacava, Richard
Lembo, John

Maiorino, Pasquale
Marino, Daniel
Merlino, Joseph
Minuto, Mario

O'Norfio, Eugene

Parrello, Pasquale
Poli, Michael

Santaniello, Ralph
Spirito, John

Teriacciano, Vincent
Thomas, Harold
Thomas, Vincent
Tognino, John
Tomanelli, Joseph
Torres, Israel
Trapini, Frank

Vazzano, Anthony
Vuolo, Nicholas

Wedra, Bradford

Zinzi, Anthony


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NY & FL - 46 Named* in Organized Crime Indictment - 4 Aug 2016

Thursday, August 4th: CBS WDJT TV:

http://www.cbs58.com/story/32685913/dozens-of-alleged-mobsters-nabbed-by-feds
&
* https://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress....indictment-u-s-v-parrello-et-al-15-cr-522.pdf:

[A 32 Page Indictment]:

Alberti, Reynold
Allen, Laurence Keith

Bagon, Craig
Balsamo, Ralph
Barbone, Frank

Camacho, Agostino
Camisa, Anthony
Capolongo, Pasquale
Casablanca, Vincent
Cassano, Paul
Cassetta, Anthony
Cirillo, Anthony
Conigliaro, Alex

Depalma, Anthony
Depergola, Francesco
Devito, Nicholas
Dimarco, Joseph

Falco, Joseph
Fusco, Mitchell

Gallo, Carmine

Ianniello, Conrad

Kreisberg, Wayne

Lacava, Richard
Lembo, John

Maiorino, Pasquale
Maiuzzo, Mark
Marino, Daniel
Merlino, Joseph
Minuto, Marco

O'Nofrio, Eugene

Parrello, Pasquale
Poli, Michael

Santaniello, Ralph
Sirkin, Bradley
Spirito, John

Terracciano, Vincent
Thomas, Harold
Thomas, Vincent
Tognino, John
Tomanelli, Joseph
Torres, Israel
Trapani, Frank

Vazzano, Anthony
Vuolo, Nicholas

Wedra, Bradford

Zinzi, Anthony

In a 32-page indictment that revealed the Mafia is still hanging around even after decades of arrests and long prison sentences, federal prosecutors charged 46 members and associates of five La Cosa Nostra crime families for a sprawling criminal enterprise with operations from Massachusetts to Florida. The long list of crimes includes assault, gun trafficking, loan-sharking and health care fraud, while the defendants’ nicknames—like Tony the Cripple, Rooster and Tugboat—evoke the bygone era of mob movies like The Godfather or Goodfellas.

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Federal agents arrested alleged gangsters from four out of the five New York crime families, busting members of the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese and Bonanno clans, plus Joey Merlino, the reputed head of the Philadelphia mob, along with made members and associates in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida and Costa Rica, federal prosecutors said.

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Richard Mangan, a criminal justice professor at Florida Atlantic University and former Drug Enforcement Administration agent, tells Newsweek he was surprised to see such a large bust targeting La Cosa Nostra, as opposed to more active Russian or Mexican organized crime operations. “It may be twilight, but it’s not nighttime,” he says of the Italian mob. “There wouldn’t be an indictment like this if there wasn’t significant crime. I’m going to use this indictment in my course.”

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http://www.newsweek.com/mafia-mob-l...gambling-fbi-487466?google_editors_picks=true

Accused mob boss headed to trial for racketeering

Accused Genovese mob boss Eugene “Rooster” O’Nofrio has given up on plea talks and is headed to trial for racketeering.

O’Nofrio and reputed Philadelphia mob boss Joey “Skinny Joey” Merlino have been accused of being leaders of what the government has dubbed the East Coast La Cosa Nostra Enterprise, a conglomerate of different mob families working together across multiple states.

They are going on trial Jan. 16.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/07/accused-mob-boss-headed-to-trial-for-racketeering/

Accused mob boss Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino — whose trial was slated to start on Jan. 16 in Manhattan Federal Court — is in Florida recuperating from a heart ailment.

The trial has been postponed until Jan. 22.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...postponed-due-health-issues-article-1.3752553

This week, reputed Philadelphia mob boss Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, 55, once again will find himself in a federal courtroom — fighting a case that could force him to grow old in prison.

The charges, unveiled by prosecutors in 2016, are all crimes that Merlino has faced and fought before – racketeering, conspiracy, illegal gambling – with one significant exception. In a first, investigators allege that Merlino led a Mafia attempt to muscle into health-care fraud with a racket involving prescriptions for topical pain creams.

Jury selection is set to begin Monday (today) in Manhattan The trial, which will play out over the next month in New York, is the result of a multiyear investigation that Merlino’s lawyers, Edwin Jacobs and John Meringolo, have characterized as thin on evidence, mishandled by agents, and aimed at dismantling an organization they say doesn’t exist.

Forty-six purported mobsters and associates were swept up in the dragnet as authorities nearly two years ago unsealed their indictment detailing the workings of an entity described as the “East Coast La Cosa Nostra Enterprise.”

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/p...b-trial-eugene-onofrio-new-york-20180129.html

Opening statements in the trial of Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino are set for Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/30/reputed-philadelphia-mob-boss-faces-nyc-fraud-trial.html

Philly mobster gave some tips on committing murder in recorded conversation played for court

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...ving-tips-committing-murder-article-1.3793271

Purported mob boss and 'crew' allegedly greet juror by name outside federal trial

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/0...reet-juror-by-name-outside-federal-trial.html

Jurors hear closings at Philadelphia crime boss trial

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/13/jurors-hear-closings-at-philadelphia-crime-boss-trial.html

Mistrial for Merlino: Deadlocked jury ends NYC trial of reputed mob boss 'Skinny Joey'

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/p...-mistrial-philly-mob-boss-mafia-20180220.html

Philly Mob boss Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 17 after pleading guilty in April to a gambling charge.

Philly Mob boss 'Skinny Joey' Merlino asks judge to seal 'sensitive' letters from cardiologist

Joey Merlino is headed back to prison. "Skinny Joey," the onetime boss of the Philadelphia mob, was sentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison for a gambling-related count to which he pleaded guilty in April.

2-year sentence for ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino, reputed longtime Philly mob boss