{"id":213,"date":"2022-04-01T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mafiatoday.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2022-04-01T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:23:10","slug":"reputed-crime-family-underboss-summoned-to-court-in-newark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafiatoday.com\/lucchese-family\/reputed-crime-family-underboss-summoned-to-court-in-newark\/","title":{"rendered":"Reputed crime family underboss summoned to court in Newark"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"213\" class=\"elementor elementor-213\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-64166e3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"64166e3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-916ac7e\" data-id=\"916ac7e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-968470c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"968470c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Martin Taccetta, a reputed former underboss of the Lucchese crime family\u2019s 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.<\/p><p>U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler signed an order last week directing the warden of New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, where Taccetta is currently incarcerated, to have him brought before the judge for a plea hearing on Tuesday.<\/p><p>But Taccetta apparently has not signed off on a plea deal.<\/p><p>\u201cAll I can tell you is that there were plea negotiations and its Mr. Taccetta\u2019s position at this point that he\u2019s not going to plea guilty of anything,\u201d his attorney, Maria Noto, said Thursday. \u201cHe maintains his innocence.\u201d<\/p><p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald D. Wigler, who is prosecuting the case, declined to comment Thursday on the negotiations or the scheduled plea hearing.<\/p><p>Taccetta, 58, of East Hanover, was among 23 reputed members and associates of the Gambino and Lucchese crime families indicted in May 2008 on charges of engaging in what the FBI called a \u201cveritable smorgasbord of criminal activity\u201d \u2013 illegal gambling, loan-sharking, extortion, identity theft, fraud and labor racketeering.<\/p><p>The defendants were accused of shaking down lunch truck operators, putting mobsters in no-show jobs, using union muscle to collect bribes to allow non-union workers on construction sites and raking in hefty profits from bettors who wagered more than $1 million a month.<\/p><p>The mob also allegedly targeted a Lowe\u2019s home improvement store in Paterson, where conspirators bought high-ticket power tools and appliances by switching bar code labels from less expensive items and attempted to steal the identities of patrons who applied for Lowe\u2019s credit cards.<\/p><p>Taccetta was charged in only three of the 30 counts in the indictment. He was accused of conspiring to use extortion to collect a loan from an unidentified debtor. He also charged with conspiring with the lead defendant, Andrew Merola, and others to demand and receive about $20,000 in unlawful labor payments to allow non-union labor on a construction project at a Morristown BMW dealership in 2007.<\/p><p>Merola, 42, of East Hanover, is among the defendants still in the case. He is identified in the indictment as one of the Gambino crime family\u2019s highest ranking members in New Jersey and is accused of overseeing a mob crew that profited from gambling, loan-sharking, extortion and labor racketeering.<\/p><p>Also awaiting trial are Edward Deak, 45, of Secaucus, an alleged \u201cgambling agent\u201d charged with one count of operating an illegal gambling business, and Kyle Ragusa, 42, of East Hanover, an alleged associate and member of Merola\u2019s crew, charged with racketeering, operating a gambling business, loan-sharking and wire-fraud.<\/p><p>Taccetta had been under house arrest until July when the New Jersey Supreme Court reinstated his sentence of life plus 10 years in prison in a 1993 state case in which Taccetta was convicted of racketeering and extortion but acquitted of murder in the golf-club beating death of an Ocean County businessman.<\/p><p>Noto said the reinstated life sentence was \u201cthe reason I was in negotiations at all, but at this point there is no plea agreement.\u201d<\/p><p>Source:\u00a0northjersey<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Taccetta, a reputed former underboss of the Lucchese crime family\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reputed crime family underboss summoned to court in Newark | Mafia Today - Your Source for Mafia &amp; 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