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... five murders in New York City. Marisa Seifan, Assistant United States Attorney, accused the alleged Gambino crime family hitman as being an "executioner" who murdered when he was ordered to or "felt he was disrespected." Carneglia sat motionless, ... Gambino associate Michael (Mikey Scars) DiLeonardo was the first to take the stand and said the Carneglia was respected within the Gambino family because of his connections to the Gottis and readiness to kill. All violent crimes are severely punished. ...

This was back in 1986, back when Giuliani was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and had indicted the heads of the five families. The Gambino and Colombo families said yes, but the other 3 said no, and it did not happen. I doubt if any blogger will consider it inapt for me at this point to note that Bill and Hillary Clinton once did a commercial where they play-acted roles associated with the fictional TV crime family "The Sopranos." In this world, there is the real and the fake ...

... acts evincing his participation were within the scope of the illegal agreement. Accordingly, here, the evidence was sufficient. The Gambino family was an enterprise whose members "routinely conducted its affairs through a nearly limitless range of racketeering ... -object conspiracy" referenced in § 1B1.2(d). Rather, the sole object of the conspiracy was to further the affairs of the Gambino family. Despite all of the various acts that made up this pattern of activity, the underlying objective was ...

... who made the stupid mistake of stealing from the mob is playing out at the trial of the man accused of murdering them, a reputed Gambino organized crime family captain named Dominick ''Skinny Dom'' Pizzonia. ''There's virtually no greater insult than ... Corozzo noted that the government was relying on an unsavory cast of Mafia turncoats to make their case, including former Gambino family capo Michael ''Mikey Scars'' DiLeonardo. The case reflects a new willingness among several old-school gangsters _ ...

... v. City of New York, Carl Gambino, a NYC Department of Sanitation worker, sued the City of New York for personal injuries suffered after he slipped and fell ... failed to keep the area reasonably safe, and was responsible for the accident, a jury awarded Gambino $5.1M. On appeal to the Appellate Division, Second Department, the City argued that oil ... ,002.75). The City couldn't squeak out of that one! For a copy of the Appellate Division's decision, please use this link: Gambino v. City of New York

... , February 8, 2008. "State and federal indictments have charged 87 people in a government move against the upper echelon of the Gambino crime family, reports the New York Times. A roundup began yesterday morning that authorities called the biggest in memory, ... . The charges took aim at the family's leadership and a cadre of middle managers and lower level figures in the Gambino clan and others in the Bonanno and Genovese families. " "The case left no doubt that organized crime, often declared as ...

... ruled Thursday that Joseph Corozzo Jr. had a conflict of interest because he once represented a witness in the ongoing racketeering case against the Gambino organized crime family. The lawyer's father, Joseph "Jo Jo" Corozzo, is accused of being a Gambino consigliere. He was among more than 60 people charged last month in the latest crackdown on a once-mighty crime family already crippled by convictions of high-ranking members. Corozzo, 41, "is a ...

... analysis of the distinction between admissible lay testimony and expert testimony. Facts Yannotti, an alleged member of the Gambino Crime Family, was convicted after trial of a RICO conspiracy. The only RICO predicate act of which Yannotti was ... [d] to, the general criminal objective of a jointly undertaken scheme." A reasonable juror could conclude that by becoming a "soldier" in the Gambino Crime Family (which involves pledging "to use any means necessary to further the objectives of the Family ...

... during one of John Gotti's trials in the early '90s. Shargel, who had been for some time an attorney for members of the Gambino crime family, was part of the Gotti defense team, which also included Bruce Cutler, a barrel-chested, bombastic ... engineered the disqualification of Shargel and Cutler from Gotti's defense, on the grounds that they had become "house counsel" to the Gambino crime family.... Gleeson threatened for years to bring Shargel and Cutler up on charges of witness tampering and ...

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