Five Families of New York City

Updated news on the Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno, Lucchese and Colombo Organized Crime Families of New York City.

  • Home
  • Current Leadership Charts of the Five Families
  • Mobster Quotes
  • Mafia Terminology
  • Lucchese
  • Genovese
  • Gambino
  • Colombo
  • Bonanno
  • The Commission
  • History

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Bonanno mobster pleads guilty to filing false tax return

  July 18, 2013    Dapper_Don



Reputed New York mob figure Vincent Faraci, left, walks into the federal courthouse in Las Vegas on Wednesday morning with his lawyer, David Chesnoff. Faraci pleaded guilty to filing a false 2006 tax return.

Vincent Faraci, a mob-connected player in the racketeering days of the old Crazy Horse Too strip club, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to filing a false 2006 tax return.

Faraci, 58, a reputed Bonanno crime family member now running a nightclub in Brooklyn, admitted in his plea agreement that he failed to report $134,904 in income on the tax return when he filed it in 2008. He also admitted he did not pay $46,869 in additional taxes.

When Senior U.S. District Judge Lloyd George asked him how he wanted to plead to the tax charge, he replied, “Guilty, your honor.”

George set an Oct. 28 sentencing. Faraci faces 15 to 21 months in prison on the charge under the terms of his plea agreement.

Faraci was allowed to remain free on his own recognizance, but ordered to surrender his passport. He has agreed to pay the $46,869 as restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

Afterward, Faraci declined comment. But his Las Vegas lawyer, David Chesnoff, said, “We’re very pleased with a fair resolution to an old tax dispute.”

The tax case is not related to a massive FBI-IRS investigation of the Crazy Horse Too several years ago.

Faraci, a former shift manager at the Crazy Horse Too, was one of 16 of the club’s employees who pleaded guilty in 2006 to a conspiracy charge of failing to pay taxes on tips and other income. He was sentenced in 2007 to 10 months behind bars, but was allowed to serve five months under home detention.

The group deal, which also included a guilty plea from Crazy Horse Too owner Rick Rizzolo, brought an end to a decade-long federal racketeering investigation that uncovered a pattern of lawlessness at the strip club, once regularly visited by mobsters, politicians and celebrities.

Agents investigating a series of beatings at the club, including one involving Kansas City-area man Kirk Henry, who was paralyzed in a fight over a bar tab at the club in 2001.

Following his plea, Rizzolo spent a year in prison and lost his club, which was closed for several years until it re-opened this year under a new name and ownership.

Rizzolo, who was last reported to be selling cars, is still mired in civil litigation with Henry. As part of his deal in the racketeering case, Rizzolo was ordered to pay Henry $10 million, but has been slow to make good on the promise.

For years, Rizzolo was linked to a series of organized crime figures, including Joseph Cusumano, once a lieutenant for Anthony Spilotro, the Chicago mob’s slain overseer of street rackets in Las Vegas.

Rocco Lombardo, the brother of onetime reputed Chicago mob boss Joseph Lombardo, worked with Faraci as a doorman at the Crazy Horse Too. Lombardo also pleaded guilty in the racketeering investigation, receiving 60 months of probation.

In recent months, suspected Bonanno mob associate John Venizelos, the manager of Faraci’s Brooklyn nightclub, Jaguars 3, has attracted headlines in the New York media for his alleged involvement in a major marijuana trafficking organization tied to a Canadian drug lord.

The New York Post reported in April that Venizelos had a deal to plead guilty in the federal investigation into the drug organization, which is suspected of operating through alliances with the Hells Angels and a Mexican cartel.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/accused-mob-figure-pleads-guilty-filing-false-tax-return



Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook

  Bonanno Crime Family / Vincent Faraci

  No Comments

Newer Post Older Post Home

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • Elderly Genovese Captain busted for punching restaurant owner in the face over unpaid debt
    A Queens bookie who once acted in a movie called “Albanian Gangster” was arrested along with two reputed Genovese crime family m...
  • Judge sentences longtime Colombo mobster nicknamed Shrek and the Wig to over two years in prison
      Despite a criminal history dating back nearly three decades, reputed Colombo crime family mobster Daniel Capaldo insisted he has turned ...
  • The story of how a powerful Colombo Underboss and his crew controlled a federal prison
     
  • Feds round up six members of the powerful Genovese crime family
    Six reputed mobsters who allegedly served in various roles in the Genovese crime family were charged in a racketeering conspiracy in Manh...
  • Colombo family Boss remembered at Brooklyn funeral
      He may have been a cold-blooded mob boss who used threats of violence to get what he wanted — but to his granddaughter he was just “Poppy...
  • Son of Gambino Captain sentenced to two months in prison for MTA overtime fraud
    The son of a notorious Queens mobster was sentenced to prison time Wednesday for his part in a scheme to bilk the MTA out of thousands of d...
  • Former New England Captain demands return of $268K seized by the attorney general
    A one-time Boston mobster who served 16 years in prison before he was freed by a judge who ruled that prosecutors may have coerced him int...
  • Judge rules that former New England Captain wont be getting his money back and seals records from the public until 2025
      Former North End mobster Vincent “The Animal” Ferrara’s hopes of a judge’s injunction to get Attorney General Maura Healey to give him hi...
  • Celebrity chef admits to secret life as a soldier in the Gambino crime family
    He’s now dishing on his main course with the mob. One-time TV chef and lauded Big Apple restauranteur David Ruggerio has admitted to a...
  • Feds wont reveal identity of agent afraid of revenge from jailed aging Gambino associate
    Federal prosecutors declined Thursday to identify the law enforcement agent who’s worried that an aging mobster could seek revenge against ...

Search This Website

Copyright © Five Families of New York City | Powered by Blogger
Design by Hudson Theme | Blogger Theme by NewBloggerThemes.com

TOP