The United States District Court docket for the Eastern District of Recent York stands within the Brooklyn borough of Recent York City, January 18, 2019.
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Federal prosecutors in Recent York on Wednesday announced the arrests of 10 men allegedly belonging to or linked with the Gambino Mafia family, to boot because the arrests in Italy of six other alleged organized crime people and colleagues.
The defendants in Brooklyn federal court are accused of a racketeering conspiracy that allegedly interesting “violent extortions, assaults, arson, and union-linked crimes,” the U.S. Attorney’s Train of job for the Eastern District of Recent York acknowledged.
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Prosecutors acknowledged the Brooklyn defendants, who’re charged in a 16-count indictment, dedicated those crimes as fragment of an effort to dominate Recent York’s carting and demolition industries.
The Gambinos are one of Recent York’s 5 Cosa Nostra organized crime cliques. It previously used to be led by the uninteresting notorious boss John Gotti, who died in a federal penal advanced in Missouri in 2002.
The defendants arrested in Recent York on Wednesday incorporated the alleged Gambino captain Joseph “Joe Brooklyn” Lanni.
Prosecutors acknowledged the arrests had been fragment of a coordinated operation with Italian law enforcement, who arrested the six defendants in Italy on costs that consist of mafia association and linked offenses.
One defendant remains at great if this is the case.
Prosecutors acknowledged the opposite defendants in Brooklyn consist of: “Diego ‘Danny’ Tantillo, Angelo Gradilone, also identified as ‘Fifi,’ and James LaForte, alleged Gambino troopers, Vito Rappa, alleged U.S.-based fully mostly Sicilian Mafia member and Gambino associate, Francesco Vicari, also identified as ‘Uncle Ciccio,’ alleged U.S.-based fully mostly Sicilian Mafia associate and Gambino associate, and Salvatore DiLorenzo, Robert Brooke, Kyle Johnson, also identified as ‘Twin,’ and Vincent Minsquero, also identified as ‘Vinny Slick,’ alleged Gambino associates.”
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