Brooklyn baker’s mob hit sentence overturned for the second time!

A Brooklyn baker convicted of a mob hit walked out of prison a free man Friday after an appellate court overturned his 2008 conviction.
It was the second time Mario Fortunato, 63, serving a 15-to-life sentence for helping murder a Luchese crime family loanshark at a Williamsburg social club in 1994, had his case overturned.
“The game [...]

Eppolito and Bravatti get off light

After five years of legal wrangling, “Mafia Cops” case minor players Anthony Eppolito and Guido Bravatti walked out of U.S. District Court Tuesday free men.
In September 2009, Eppolito and Bravatti were convicted by a jury of federal drug charges – distribution and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine – as part of a larger case that focused [...]

Craigslist ‘mob thug’ sings the bruise

A tough-guy Mafia associate who prosecutors say tried to steal an engagement ring in a brutal mugging says he’s the one who was roughed up.
“I’m innocent. Completely innocent,” Gerald DeGerolamo, 65, told The Post, sporting bandages on his nose and head while awaiting a court appearance.
Law-enforcement sources said DeGerolamo replied to a Craigslist ad for [...]

Man selling ring is Maced by mob thug

A man who tried to sell an engagement ring through Craigslist ended up getting sprayed with Mace and robbed by his supposed buyer — a Mafia associate who helped pull off a daring armored-car heist in the ’80s, authorities said.
Gerald DeGerolamo, 65, responded to the ad for an engagement ring posted by David Cushman and [...]

Grandson of Luchese crime captain – Joseph Cutaia – faces rap in robbery attempt

A Mafia scion has been charged in the violent attempted robbery of a Brooklyn businessman and is a suspect in five other armed heists, officials said Wednesday.
Joseph Cutaia – grandson of Luchese crime capo Domenico Cutaia and son of reputed soldier Salvatore Cutaia – was remanded after a bail hearing in Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday.
“Every [...]

‘Goodfellas’ mobster is arrested in metro-east

The former mobster who inspired “Goodfellas” was arrested Sunday in Fairview Heights because he had “one too many” drinks in a hotel lobby, he said.
Henry P. Hill, 66, of Topanga, Calif., was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in the Drury Inn Hotel, 12 Ludwig Drive in Fairview Heights.
“I got a [...]

Reputed crime family underboss summoned to court in Newark

Martin Taccetta, a reputed former underboss of the Lucchese crime family’s New Jersey faction, has been summoned to a Newark courtroom next week to possibly resolve the charges pending against him in a mob case that has resulted in the convictions of 19 others.
U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler signed an order last week directing [...]

Mafia , Unions, and NYC Newspapers

Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers  as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long faced accusations of ties to organized crime, a law enforcement official said.
Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney’s office searched for paperwork related to the Newspaper and Mail [...]

Nearly two dozen ‘mobsters’ busted in bookie, loansharking ring

A mob-tied Sanitation Department chief was busted Wednesday on charges of taking kickbacks to steer city contracts to a New Jersey concrete company, authorities said.

Deputy Chief Frederick Grimaldi’s arrest on bribery charges is the second indictment in a month involving mob infiltration of a city agency.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Grimaldi was busted with 21 [...]

No sympathy for sick mobster Domenico Cutaia suffering from MS

A once-powerful Luchese crime capo now suffering from an advanced stage of multiple sclerosis was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for bank fraud.
Domenico (Danny) Cutaia, 72, hobbled into Brooklyn Federal Court with a walker hoping to get off with a sentence of home confinement.
Federal Judge Brian Cogan noted that [...]

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