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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Gotti grandsons busted for beating down mob associate in Queens

  June 03, 2025    Dapper_Don


Two grandsons of the late Gambino crime boss John Gotti were arrested and charged with assaulting a former family friend.

Cops said brothers Frankie Gotti, 27, and John Gotti, 31, son of the late crime boss’ youngest son, Peter, were arrested after assaulting Gino Gabrielli, who was accused of breaking into a home associated with one of the brothers and stealing $3,300.

Gabrielli, an alleged mob associate, was arrested Sunday and charged with burglary, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property after the break-in.

Not satisfied with the arrest, the brothers tracked Gabrielli down to his mother’s house in Howard Beach and administered a beatdown in front of his own mother, officials said.

Frankie and John Gotti were arraigned before Judge Sharifa Nasser-Cullar in Queens Criminal Court early Tuesday evening. They were released on their own recognizance without bail and are scheduled to return to court Aug 7. They said nothing as they left court.

In 2015, federal authorities said, Gabrielli accidentally set himself on fire while torching the Mercedes-Benz of a Queens businessman who had stopped making his annual payoffs to an irate mob captain involved in an extortion scheme.

The victim’s home security video system caught Gabrielli, first seen dousing the year-old car with an accelerant, fleeing the scene with his pants ablaze.

Gabrielli pleaded guilty to the arson in August 2016.

In 2017, John Gotti, the grandson, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to selling oxycodone pills in New York City.

At the time, his lawyer, Gerard Marrone, said his client’s name was a blessing and a curse.

“His last name is what his last name is and he’s always walking around with a target on his back,” Marrone said. “It’s a double-edge sword, I think sometimes the name is a cross [to bear], but sometimes I think it’s a blessing. They’re a beautiful family, they’re very supportive of him since Day One. They really stick together, the entire family.”

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/03/gotti-grandsons-busted-queens-beatdown-reputed-mob-associate/

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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Gambino Soldier gets nearly 12 years for $400 million fraud

  March 16, 2025    Dapper_Don


James LaForte Brutally Assaulted Receivership Attorney, Threatened Government Witnesses, Extorted Merchants

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that James LaForte, 48, of New York, New York, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney to 137 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release to include 12 months’ home confinement, for crimes committed as part of a criminal enterprise that ran a fraudulent investment vehicle[1] known as Complete Business Solutions Group, Inc., d/b/a Par Funding (“Par Funding”) for a number of years, before it was taken over by a court-appointed receivership pursuant to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. LaForte was also ordered to pay $2,488,645 in restitution, representing the portion of investor proceeds that he illegally diverted from Par Funding’s numerous investors for his own use through sham merchant contracts and other self-dealing conduct.

In February 2024, the defendant, his brother Joseph LaForte, Par Funding’s president and CEO, and Joseph Cole Barleta, Par Funding’s chief financial officer, were charged in an amended second superseding indictment with racketeering conspiracy and related crimes.

James LaForte pleaded guilty in September 2024 to racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, and extortionate collection of debt, as well as obstruction of justice, for his violent assault on one of the Par Funding receivership’s Philadelphia attorneys, and retaliation, for threatening several government witnesses.

“James LaForte served as one of his brother’s enforcers,” said U.S. Attorney Metcalf. “He not only used threats of violence to collect on Par Funding’s debt, but stalked and assaulted an attorney, in retaliation for that man’s efforts to hold the LaForte family responsible for one of the largest financial frauds in Philadelphia’s history. As today’s sentence shows, this brand of brazen and violent lawbreaking simply won’t be tolerated in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.”

“Since its earliest days, the FBI has been dedicated to investigating complex financial crimes,” said Wayne A. Jacobs, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Philadelphia. “James LaForte participated in a criminal enterprise driven by greed and sustained through threats and violence. The FBI is proud to stand with our partners in the pursuit of justice — disrupting these schemes and ensuring restitution for victims.”

“The defendant in this case was brought to justice for his participation in a criminal enterprise that caused significant financial harm to numerous investors,” said Special Agent in Charge Patricia Tarasca of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General (FDIC OIG), New York Region. “The FDIC OIG will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to pursue those who commit such egregious crimes that threaten investors and the safety and soundness of our Nation's financial institutions.”

Joseph LaForte also pleaded guilty in September 2024 to racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud, and related crimes and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 26, 2025. Barleta pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one count of racketeering conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 2, 2025.

This case was investigated by the FBI, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General, and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Matthew Newcomer, Samuel Dalke, and Eric Gill.

The SEC in Florida investigated and litigated the civil securities fraud charges, which formed the basis of a portion of the Par Funding criminal prosecution.

[1] On January 21, 2025, the Court found the Par Funding fraud scheme caused an actual fraud loss of approximately $404,000,000, which it reduced to $288,395,088 after factoring in credit for collateral seized from Par Funding by federal authorities when the investigation became public in July 2020.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/par-funding-enforcer-sentenced-11-12-years-prison-rico-conspiracy-obstruction-justice

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Turncoat Gambino hitman linked to the Gotti family now a New Jersey Councilman

  March 16, 2025    Dapper_Don


He’s gone from lawbreaker to lawmaker.

John Alite, a former Gambino crime family enforcer-turned-mob turncoat, was sworn in Wednesday as a councilman representing the sleepy New Jersey borough of Englishtown.

“You know what? I can really do some good. I already had a bad past, and I’m here to redeem my whole life, and I would like to go out doing everything in a positive way,” Alite, 62, told The Post.

His work in the 1980s and 1990s as a top “earner” for the “Teflon Don,” Gambino boss John Gotti, and son John “Junior” Gotti, will serve him well in politics, he explained.

“I understand the Machiavelli stuff, the treachery,” said Alite.


“I mean every aspect of the street is like the government, so I understand the maneuvering these candidates are doing, so I feel I’ll be able to bring my knowledge and past history into politics.”

Alite said he spent 14 years in prison on convictions that include six murders, at least 37 shootings and countless beatdowns while working as a Gambino henchman.

But he didn’t have to put any rivals in cement boots to score his council seat.

He was appointed to fill a vacancy through the end of the year after being recruited by Englishtown Mayor Daniel Francisco and other local leaders impressed by his civic work helping youths.

At first there were skeptics – including some members of the Council — but Alite eventually convinced them he was someone they couldn’t refuse.

“Yeah, there were people who opposed it — but I don’t run from my past at all,” he said. “I use it as a way to move forward, to influence kids and get them off the street, to turn a negative into a positive.”


The ex-mobster will hold the seat for an additional two years through 2027 — unless someone dares file paperwork by March 21 to challenge him in an election.

“I’ve been told I won’t be challenged because there’s other seats held by people less popular than me, and obviously I’m in the public eye and do lots of media and [motivational] talks around [Monmouth] County,” he said. “Everybody knows me, so I’d be hard to beat in a race.”

The former wiseguy said he’s more qualified than any lefty Democrat currently holding higher office.

“You hear some of these people like [Texas Democratic Rep.] Jasmine Crockett talk, and they don’t sound educated,” added Alite, who graduated Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn and went to University of Tampa on a baseball scholarship only to drop out a few years later after blowing out his arm.

And he’s already looking at his next move.

“I was asked — I can’t talk about names, but I was already asked to go for a higher position,” said Alite, who confided he’s eyeing someday running for Congress, and aims to model himself after President Trump, whom he’s campaigned for since 2016 and personally met five times.

“He’s not your typical politician; he gets the job done; he’s a workaholic. I mean he’s got so many good qualities,” said Alite, who records show has donated $6,501 to Trump and other Republican candidates since 2020.


The Queens-born goodfella reinvented himself since becoming a free man in 2012 — four years after becoming the star government witness in a 2008 racketeering case against his one-time best friend Junior Gotti.

The trial ended in a hung jury.

Alite said he wants to mend fences with Junior, but he’s not holding his breath.

Gotti did not return messages. However, he told The Post in 2016 that he’s a “forgiving guy” — but not when it comes to Alite.

“He is one of the most shameless human beings that God has created . . . He uses the Gotti theme to enhance his career,” Gotti said.

Alite co-authored five books about mob life, is a prolific podcaster and also earns a paycheck as a traveling motivational speaker who tackles topics like domestic violence, bullying and the nation’s drug epidemic.

He makes a good enough living that he waived the modest $3,500-a-year borough council salary, but admitted it’s a far cry from the “millions of dollars” he earned “during a good year” in the mob, when his portfolio included owning four NYC nightclubs and a dozen homes along the East Coast.

At the top of Alite’s political platform is speaking out against the dangers of illegal drugs. His 30-year-old daughter Chelsea died three years ago of a fentanyl overdose. The tragedy led him move to Englishtown.

Alite — who could never rise to being a made man in the Italian mob because he’s 100% Albanian — said he wants to make sure there are enough after-school programs to keep “kids off the street” and away from drugs.

“The drug influence in this county is terrible,” said Alite, whose one-time employer was notorious for trafficking cocaine. “As a kid I was part of that, and now I have a chance to change that.” 

Alite, who is divorced and has four sons, was surrounded by his mother and other family members when he was sworn in Wednesday at Englishtown Borough Hall. Afterwards, he participated in his first Council meeting.

On the agenda for the tiny Central Jersey community with a little over 2,300 residents: filling potholes, Christmas lights, eyesore fencing, and appointing an acting police chief.

Francisco, Englishtown’s mayor, said Alite deserves a chance.

“I can only judge him on what I know,” he said. “John is a guy that is quick to being open and friendly. He has vast experience and connections in the political and business world.”

“I know he does a lot of outreach work,” the mayor added. “He shares a vision for development in our local downtown, and I think he’s going to be instrumental to this effort to redefine our community’s landscape.”

https://nypost.com/2025/03/15/us-news/ex-gambino-mobster-john-alite-now-councilman-in-englishtown-new-jersey/

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Genovese gangsters werent fooled by fake raid conducted by corrupt Long Island cop working for Bonanno family

  February 26, 2025    Dapper_Don

This is what happens when you hire bargain-basement wiseguys.

The Nassau County cop who allegedly worked for the Bonanno crime family bungled a raid on a rival family’s gambling den so badly that it totally failed to fool the victimized gangsters — including a gambler named “Mario the Landscaper,” who quickly said, “These are not real police,” a court heard Wednesday.

“It wasn’t professionally done — you could see it was fake,” mobster Sal Russo testified Wednesday at ex-officer Hector Rosario’s trial for obstruction and serving as a soldier for the Bonannos in their struggles against the rival Genovese crime family.

“I just heard yelling and screaming, ‘This is the police! This is the police!’” Russo testified about the shocking raid. “They broke the screens on one of the machines, and they kept screaming, ‘This police! This police!’ before they left the store.”

But the fake sortie — which targeted Salvatore “Sal the Shoemaker” Rubino’s illegal casino inside his Merrick store, Sal’s Shoe Repair — was so shoddily done that none of the illicit gamblers thought Rosario and his small crew actually cops.

“These are not real police,” Mario the Landscaper, who Russo described as a “steady player at Sal’s,” allegedly told the others after the initial shock wore off.

“They don’t just come in breaking [things],” Russo said, quoting Mario.

Russo testified that the low budget raid by Rosario — who was only being paid $1,500-a-month by the Mafia — looked so fake he feared he might get clipped by the Genovese bosses in retaliation.

When asked what he thought might happen to him, Russo answered, “Hospital, cemetery … anything.”

The b-grade raid on the gambling den wasn’t the only bungling by the alleged dumb-fella.

At a later point, Rosario tried to play like a movie Mafioso and talk to Russo about a pot growing operation in a code that involved a movie he saw in Netflix.

“When I get the name of the movie, try to watch it. It’s good,” Rosario said in a recording of the phone call played in court.

Russo, however, said he had no idea what the cop was talking about and thought he was really just calling to talk about film.

“I thought he was talking about a movie,” he said.

Rosario, a 51-year-old former detective, conspired to target rival Genovese mafiosos in a feud that erupted after the Cosa Nostra families struck a rare agreement to split the profits of a gelato shop’s backroom gambling den, federal prosecutors said.

But the shaky peace deal didn’t last — and Rosario “sold himself” to the Bonnanos before staging the faux raid, Brooklyn prosecutors have said.

Rosario, who was first busted in 2022 and released on a $500,000 bond, was allegedly put on the payroll by two Bonanno family members and told to target Rubino’s betting parlor in 2013 or 2014.

Rosario has been charged with obstructing a grand jury probe into racketeering and lying to the FBI.

On the trial’s opening day, prosecutors introduced the jurors to a laundry list of alleged mobsters and mapped out a constellation of illegal gambling operations — which led to a sweeping 2022 bust that rounded up eight alleged mobsters and Rosario.

“He chose the crime family over the public he swore to protect,”  Anna Karamigios, assistant US attorney for the Eastern District, told jurors in Brooklyn federal court.

Yet despite his criminal allegiance, Rosario doesn’t appear to have been a cunning ally.

Still, Rosario took home $2,500 after the second-rate raid, and launched three others aimed at different backroom casinos run by Genovese and Gambinos gangsters — including one at the Gran Caffe Gelateria in Lynbrook, Russo said.

But they didn’t work out.

Rosario would flash his badge at the camera, the mobster said from the stand. But they would never buzz him in to let him raid the joints.

Still, the Bonannos paid him about $8,000 in total for his escapades, which Russo hoped would prompt the closure of Gran Caffe and push the Bonannos to set up a gambling spot at his Soccer Club in Valley Stream.

“If Gran Caffe closed, I would put [Rosario] on the payroll at soccer club,” Russo said, adding Russo would have made about $1,500 weekly.

The plan never came to fruition, however.

The jury also heard a series of seven wiretapped conversations between Russo and Rosario — including one in which Russo told the crooked cop he wanted him to stage another fake raid to “rob Mexicans” who were dealing heroin.

Rosario agreed — and would have taken home $50,000 in payment.

But the raid never happened.

In another recording, Russo tried to get Rosario to move his weed stash to a buyer.

Rosario pushed back, however, and claimed the feds were watching him.

“They got you by the balls, bro,” Rosario said. “They’re watching you, they’re watching you. They’re just waiting for you to f–k up again.”

“You scratch your ass? They’re watching you,” he said. “They’re waiting for you to s–t.”

The two never ended up selling the marijuana.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/us-news/ex-nassau-county-cop-on-mob-payroll-staged-fake-raid-that-didnt-fool-illicit-gamblers-these-are-not-real-police/

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Corrupt Long Island cop worked for the Bonanno family to bust rival Genovese gambling operations

  February 26, 2025    Dapper_Don


Mob justice is best served cold.

A crooked Nassau County police detective moonlighting as a Bonanno soldier helped fuel a mini-mob war on Long Island — choosing “the crime family over the public he swore to protect,” a court heard Tuesday.

Ex-Det. Hector Rosario conspired to target rival Genovese mafiosos in the feud that spilled out after the organized crime clans struck an unusual agreement to split the proceeds of a gelato shop’s backroom gambling den, according to the feds.

But peace didn’t last and Rosario “sold himself” to the Bonnanos — even staging a fake police raid at a covert casino run by the Genoveses, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said in opening remarks at the alleged dirty cop’s trial.

“He and other men barged in acting like actual police officers, broke a gambling machine and sent a message,” Anna Karamigios, assistant US attorney for the Eastern District, told jurors.

The Bonannos and Genovese – two of the Five Families in the American mafia – generally kept to their separate spheres during the 1980s and into the early 2000s, said a long-time mob investigator.

“There were no beefs and no sit-downs,” the investigator said. “As far as business, there were no major schemes that they worked on together.

“Back then, ‘The Chin’ (Vincent Gigante), the head of the Genovese family, did not respect (Bonanno boss) Joe Messina, so he would have nothing to do with him.”

Now, the expected two-week trial against Rosario — who is charged with obstructing a grand jury probe into racketeering and lying to the FBI — promises to expose secrets of New York’s alive-and-well mob underworld.

Jurors spent the trial’s first day of testimony Tuesday being introduced to a Who’s-Who of wiseguys, from Sal Russo to “Sal the Shoemaker.”

They also learned about a constellation of illegal gambling operations — leading to a sweeping bust in 2022 that rounded up eight alleged mobsters and Rosario, who’s accused of being on the take for $1,500 a month.

“He chose the crime family over the public he swore to protect,” Karamigios said.

The then-detective’s nefarious side gig as Bonanno stooge came in handy for the family sometime around 2012, according to trial testimony.

A former Bonanno soldier — Damiano Zummo, 51 — testified that the family had entered into an arrangement with their Genovese brethren to share profits from Gran Caffe, a gelato shop in Lynbrook that doubled as a covert casino.

The shop had two card tables in the back, along with poker machines in a small room, Zummo, the first witness to testify, said.

The owner originally split profits 50-50 with a Genovese family member, but that arrangement ended when the mobster got sent to prison, Zummo testified.

The Bonannos got involved after the owner sought protection after being beaten up, Zummo said. They reached an uneasy agreement for a 25% each share of profits, effectively making it a joint Bonanno-Genovese mob venture, he said.

The understanding between mob families was that they could not operate competing gambling parlors within a 5-mile radius, Zummo said.

But tensions boiled over when a down-on-his-luck gambler opted to stop patronizing the gelato shop in favor of gambling at Sal’s Shoe Repairs, which was run by Salvatore “Sal the Shoemaker” Rubino, a Genovese mobster, Zummo testified.

The move resulted in the Bonanno family — which was pulling in $10,000 — “losing money,” Zummo said.

He said Sal Russo, a Bonanno, wanted to “intimidate” the Genovese by using Rosario.

“Russo came up with the idea of a fake raid and I was all for it,” Zummo testified.

“For Hector to go in there, to Sal’s Shoe Repairs, and intimidate them in hopes they close down.”

Sal’s Shoe Repair had a card table in the back room with three or four gambling machines, Zummo said.

The fake raid of the shoe repair gambling den didn’t result in any arrests or citations, prosecutors said.

Zummo said that Rosario carried out an aborted raid at a coffee shop with a gambling den in Valley Stream owned by the Gambino family, because it was less than a mile from “Soccer Club,” a Bonanno-operated parlor owned by Sal Russo.

But the would-be raid went south when Rosario and a crew of a few guys weren’t able to get inside the gambling den, Zummo said.

The reason: it had a buzzer and they weren’t allowed inside, Zummo testified.

Rosario liked “again, and again” when pressed by the FBI during interviews in 2020, claiming he didn’t know anything about gambling dens, prosecutors said.

He also pulled information of a rival mob member from a law enforcement database and gave it to the Bonanno family, according to prosecutors.

The Bonanno family paid Rosario $1,500 per month during the time of the raids, which went on for a “few months,” according to Zummo.

Zummo testified that Rosario also tipped him that he was under investigation and to “stay off the phone” because “the feds are listening.”

He testified that he considered Rosario to be a “street guy.”

“Street guy means he’d break the law if he had to,” he said.

Zummo was arrested in 2017 alongside Russo in a drug-trafficking scheme that involved a $40,000 sale of cocaine in a Manhattan gelato shop.

Both are cooperating with the feds in the case.

Rosario’s defense attorney Lou Freeman told jurors that the former cop had made a false statement to authorities, but it was about a marijuana grow house in Queens that wasn’t material to the case.

He also argued that witnesses who are convicted of racketeering, distribution of cocaine and other serious crimes would be testifying against Rosario, who has pleaded not guilty and is out on bail.

“Each of these witnesses were in organized crime,” he said.

Sal Russo, who was once a “close friend” of Rosario’s, had put the former Nassau cop on the feds’ radar in hopes for a more lenient sentence, Freeman said.

“You will hear Sal Russo made up information about Hector Rosario to get one more notch on his belt because more notches on a cooperating witness’s belt mean less jail time,” Freeman said.

The feds confirmed they will be calling three cooperating witnesses during the trial, which resumes Wednesday.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/25/us-news/crooked-ex-li-cop-who-moonlighted-as-a-bonanno-solider-helped-fuel-mini-mob-war-with-rival-genovese/

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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Long Island couple files $50M lawsuit against the Gotti family over high school brawl

  February 15, 2025    Dapper_Don


The black Long Island family allegedly assaulted by the wife and daughter of John “Junior” Gotti in a race-fueled rage at a high school basketball game have sued the mother-daughter duo for $50 million.

Jean and Crystal Etienne claim Kimberly and Gianna Gotti allegedly called their son a “f–king monkey,” “f–king faggot,” “f–king bitch,” and told him, “f–k your mother,” according to a Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.

The explosive February 2024 incident during the Oyster Bay vs Locust Valley game at Locust Valley High School — resulted in assault charges for Kimberly, wife of Junior and daughter-in-law of the late Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, along with her daughter Gianna.

But the case went sideways in October on a technicality and the charges were dismissed.

Kimberly’s son, Joe Gotti, was playing for Oyster Bay and Etienne’s son, identified only as S.S., was on the Locust Valley team. Both Mama Bears claimed they were trying to protect their sons from verbal abuse from the stands.

The Gottis have vehemently denied using racial slurs and insisted Crystal Etienne was the aggressor who hurled insults at their son.

But Crystal Etienne, 48, said Kimberly Gotti, 56, and Gianna, 24, were “yelling ‘shut up’ and getting in some of the faces of other children in the stands” before Crystal’s son entered the game.

“Please do not call my son. Please do not. They’re just kids,” Etienne allegedly begged the pair.

The dispute then turned physical, with Etienne allegedly suffering a head injury as the Gotti women tried to rip her wig off.

“In a fit of race fueled rage, the Gottis, along with unknown cohorts physically assaulted both Etiennes and their child,” including punching, scratching and hitting them while school officials did nothing, according to court papers.

The Etienne family further alleged that the “aggressive behavior had gone on for the whole entire game without any intervention by, direction from, or warnings from” Locust Valley Central School District officials.

The ugly, caught-on-video episode was the culmination of years of “racist and degrading” behavior at Locust Vally High School, claimed the Etiennes, a pair of wealthy business owners who live in a $6 million mansion in the tony enclave of Upper Brookville. 

“Students and instructors have repeatedly voiced, and utilized electronic devices to utter racial words, including but not limited to, the ‘n’ word being played in classes,” according to court papers.

S.S. has also been falsely accused by school officials of marijuana use and assaulting a girl, the family contended.

The Gottis repeatedly rejected plea deals in the case from Nassau County prosecutors, and insisted their famous last name is what sparked criminal charges.

Their lawyer called the new lawsuit “absolute hog wash, totally frivolous and a waste of time.”

“They should leave the Gotti family alone. The case was dismissed because it had no merit,” said attorney Gerard Marrone. “Crystal started the entire fight.”

He pointed to the fact that Crystal Etienne was charged with grand larceny in 2015 for allegedly embezzling $50,000 from a car dealership where she worked. She pleaded guilty in 2016 to petty larceny and was sentenced to probation and restitution, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s office.


“I guess Crystal needs $50,000 to pay the restitution she owes,” Marrone quipped, calling any allegation of racial slurs being slung in the incident “pure bullsh-t.” 

Junior Gotti served six years and five months behind bars for racketeering and was the target of four federal trials between 2004 and 2009, which all ended in mistrials.

A spokeswoman for the Locust Valley Central School District declined to comment on the litigation.

A lawyer for the Etiennes declined comment. 

https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/long-island-family-wants-50-million-from-gottis-for-hs-brawl/

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Grandson of deceased Gambino Boss pleads guilty to COVID relief fraud

  September 26, 2024    Dapper_Don

 

The grandson of John Gotti, the infamous former boss of the Gambino crime family, pleaded guilty on Thursday to fraudulently collecting more than $1 million in Covid disaster relief loans, much of which he invested in cryptocurrency.

The grandson, Carmine G. Agnello Jr., 38, was arraigned on Thursday in a federal courthouse in Central Islip, Long Island, on charges of wire fraud. Mr. Agnello faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $2.2 million.

Breon S. Peace, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement that Mr. Agnello had “shamefully” used the pandemic “as an opportunity to line his pockets.”

On Thursday, Mr. Agnello appeared alert and solemn as he entered his plea in court, answering the judge in one-word answers. He stood beside his lawyer, James R. Froccaro Jr., wearing a blue checkered blazer and a white silk pocket square. His hair was pulled back in a bun, and he had a fading tan. He appeared anxious, until his mother, Victoria Gotti, arrived in court.

Ms. Gotti sat behind her son in the gallery, wearing knee-high patent leather boots and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag. At one point, she wiped tears from her eyes. While being questioned by the judge, Nusrat Jahan Choudhury, about the bond, Ms. Gotti described her son as “my song.”

After the proceedings, Mr. Agnello left the federal courthouse under a cloudy sky, declining to speak with reporters before driving off in a Mercedes Maybach.

Mr. Agnello’s grandfather, who died in 2002, seized control of the Gambino family in a murderous coup and went on to run the organization through the late 1980s, when it was the nation’s most powerful crime ring.

Mr. Agnello’s mother, a novelist and a former columnist for The New York Post, married his father, Carmine "the Bull" Agnello, another Gambino family mobster, in 1984. The pair divorced in the early 2000s, not long after the elder Mr. Agnello had been sentenced to prison.

A former Gambino family associate reportedly testified in 2007 that about three decades earlier, Mr. Gotti had ordered him to wound Mr. Agnello after learning that Mr. Agnello had beaten up his daughter; the associate said he shot him in the rear. Ms. Gotti called the accusation a lie.

The junior Mr. Agnello starred alongside his mother and his two brothers, Frank and John, in “Growing Up Gotti,” a reality television show showcasing their Long Island mansion, its marble-and-leopard-skin décor and their unique family life. The show ran for three seasons on A&E, starting in 2004, before it was canceled.

The charges against Mr. Agnello concern a scheme that began in April 2020, when he fraudulently applied for at least three loans through a Covid-era relief program that provided loans for small businesses affected by the pandemic. Mr. Agnello applied on behalf of Crown Auto Parts & Recycling L.L.C., a Queens-based business he operated.

In order to get the loans, prosecutors say, Mr. Agnello submitted documents with false information, including his intended use for the loans. He also submitted a statement saying that he did not have a criminal record, despite charges against him from an earlier case.

Between April 2020 and November 2021, prosecutors say, Mr. Agnello stole $1.1 million in relief funds from the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, which he used to line his pockets — for example, by investing about $420,000 in a cryptocurrency business.

He is due back in court for his sentencing on May 7.

The charges are not Mr. Agnello’s first brush with law enforcement officials.

In 2018, Mr. Agnello was charged with operating an unlicensed scrapyard in Queens and falsifying business records, according to news reports. In that case, Mr. Agnello was accused of crushing hundreds of vehicles at his business, LSM Auto Parts & Recycling, with no license to do so. Mr. Agnello pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges and served no prison time for the charges.

This July, Mr. Agnello’s business agreed to pay at least $210,000 in fines and clean up toxic fluids that had leaked out of the business's scrap yard in Queens, according to a settlement announced by the New York attorney general, Letitia James.

But scrapyard schemes, it seems, are something of a family trait.

In January 2000, Mr. Agnello’s father was indicted on federal charges that he had used strong-arm tactics to dominate a lucrative scrap-metal industry in the Willets Point neighborhood of Queens. The senior Mr. Agnello, who prosecutors said ran the Gambino family’s car theft ring, was charged after threatening a rival scrap company in Queens that was actually run by the Police Department as part of a sting operation.

He later pleaded guilty to federal racketeering and tax charges and was sentenced in October 2001 to nine years in prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/nyregion/gotti-grandson-guilty-plea.html

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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

NYC orders Gotti family business to clean up chemicals and pay hefty fine

  July 09, 2024    Dapper_Don


It was an offer they couldn’t refuse.

Family businesses run by the Gottis have agreed to pay at least $210,000 in fines and clean up toxic chemicals that spewed from a Queens scrap yard they operate, according to a settlement announced Tuesday by state Attorney General Letitia James.

LSM Auto Parts & Recycling (LSM), BGN Real Estate and two related companies agreed to a remediation plan to clean up the dangerous ooze that seeped off their property.

Carmine Gotti Agnello Jr., the grandson of infamous late Gambino crime-family mob boss John Gotti, is one of the owners of the Jamaica-based LSM Auto Parts & Recycling at 155-11 Liberty Ave. in Jamaica.

BGN Real Estate and Three Sons Real Estate Group, which owns the property of the scrap yard, belongs to Victoria Gotti, John Gotti’s daughter and Carmine’s mother.

LSM and its affiliates will be required to clean up the property under the watchful eye of the state Department of Environmental Conservation and pay a penalty of $210,000, according to the settlement.

The companies could pay additional penalties of $287,000 if they fail to meet clean-up requirements — bringing total potential fines to $497,000.

“LSM made an environmental mess, and now they are responsible for cleaning it up,” AG James said in a statement.

A lawsuit filed by James in 2022 alleged that LSM ignored rules governing the proper disposal of toxic automobile waste.

The suit said the lack of care was responsible for significant amounts of oil and antifreeze seeping off the site, contaminating the groundwater and soil in an area near the surrounding low-income neighborhood.

“For too long, LSM ignored basic laws and regulations about handling dangerous chemicals and exposed neighbors to toxic pollutants,” the AG said. “Now, LSM will finally clean up their years of pollution and we’re going to make sure they do it right.”

DEC interim Commissioner Sean Mahar, whose agency is responsible for enforcing the agreement, said in a statement, “This settlement sends a message to other companies — New York State aggressively prosecutes polluters who flout environmental laws and regulations.”

Victoria Gotti signed the settlement “Victoria Agnello,” using the last name of her ex-husband, Carmine Agnello.

A lawyer for the Gotti clan and their firms did not respond to a Post request for comment.

Carmine Gotti Agnello Jr. — who along with his two brothers starred in the reality show “Growing Up Gotti’’ 16 years ago — was busted in 2018 on charges of crushing cars without a license and falsifying business records.

Like his grandfather, he had a touch of Teflon.

Carmine copped a plea to reduced misdemeanor charges — dodging prison time — in exchange for a $1,000 fine and a forfeiture of $4,605 in ill-gotten gains.

Mafioso John Gotti, 61, died of throat cancer in prison in 2002 while serving a life sentence without parole for a string of murders.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/02/us-news/gotti-family-business-ordered-to-clean-up-toxic-chemicals-pay-210k-fine-over-nyc-scrap-yard-mess/

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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Staten Island Gambino crew busted in over 80 count indictment

  June 05, 2024    Dapper_Don


New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced the arrests and indictments of 17 individuals on charges stemming from the operation of lucrative loansharking and illegal gambling operations on Staten Island controlled by members of the Gambino organized crime family. The individuals were charged in an 84-count indictment for their roles in an illegal sports gambling operation that handled more than $22.7 million in illegal bets and an illegal loansharking operation that brought in weekly loan payments on approximately $500,000 in usurious loans. In addition, four individuals were charged in a separate indictment for an illegal mortgage fraud scheme to purchase a $600,000 home in New Jersey. 

Among those arrested today are alleged Gambino soldiers John J. LaForte, Anthony J. Cinque, Jr., and John Matera, alleged Gambino associates Edward A. LaForte, Frederick P. Falcone, Sr., Giulio Pomponio, Daniel F. Bogan, and alleged Colombo associate Charles Fusco.

“Illegal gambling and loan sharking schemes are some of the oldest rackets in the mob’s playbook,” said Attorney General James. “While organized crime may still be active in New York, today we are putting several Gambino family members out of business. These criminal enterprises took tens of millions of dollars from New Yorkers and trapped many in dangerous amounts of debt. I thank all of our partners in law enforcement for their collaboration in this investigation to bring these individuals to justice and keep New Yorkers safe.” 

The investigation, conducted with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), the New York Waterfront Commission, and the United States Department of Labor Office of Inspector General, utilized court-authorized wiretaps and bugs, covert video surveillance cameras, search warrants on an offshore illegal gambling website, and search warrants of the residences of some of the defendants. 

Much of the enterprise’s loansharking and bookmaking business, including the collection of illicit revenue from loansharking victims, was conducted during meetings at the Eltingville Shopping Center and the Greenridge Shopping Center on Staten Island.

The investigation uncovered that Frederick P. Falcone, Sr., a former member of the NYPD, and Edward A. LaForte acted as loan sharks who maintained detailed ledgers with the names of victims and their respective usurious loan amounts. At times, Falcone, Sr. and LaForte needed authorization and funding from LaForte’s brother John J. LaForte and Anthony J. Cinque, Jr. to make the usurious loans. Evidence amassed during the investigation, including intercepted communications, showed that both John J. LaForte and Anthony J. Cinque, Jr. are soldiers in the Gambino Crime Family and utilized this role to oversee the illegal operations.

Additionally, the investigation uncovered that Edward LaForte had a managerial role within an illegal sports gambling operation utilizing an offshore illegal gambling website that is not legally sanctioned in New York state. From September 2022 to March 2023, the operation involved over 70 bettors who wagered approximately $22,753,964. The operation was also run with Amy McLaughlin, who allegedly assisted in maintaining and organizing the gambling ring, keeping records of the weekly gambling figures, and collecting and distributing proceeds. In addition to receiving illegal gambling proceeds, John LaForte operated and acted in a supervisory role over the operation. John LaForte and Anthony Cinque, Jr. also funded a portion of the illegal gambling activities to assist with the payment of winning bettors.  

In his role managing the gambling operation, Edward LaForte supervised several sheetholders – individuals who manage the bets and collections for individual bettors – and other individuals who participated in the illegal sports gambling operation. These individuals have been identified as Charles Fusco, Robert W. Carter, Giulio Pomponio, Arthur Geller, Daniel M. Scarabaggio, Daniel H. Shah, Vincent J. Ricciardi, Frederick Falcone, Sr., Frederick Falcone, Jr., Louis A. Palombo, Daniel F. Bogan, and John Matera. Often, the gamblers who were wagering illegally through these sheetholders would fall into debt and the members of this criminal enterprise would exploit this opportunity by providing a usurious loan and charging and collecting illegally high interest on these loans, making a profit off of a gambler who had fallen into debt.

In addition, a separate mortgage fraud investigation originating from wiretap communications of the gambling and loan shark operations revealed that John LaForte and his wife Tracy Alfano recruited his nephew Joseph W. LaForte, Jr. to fraudulently apply for and accept a mortgage loan to purchase a $600,000 home in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Joseph W. LaForte, Jr. acted as a straw purchaser of the property where John LaForte and Tracy Alfano currently reside. John Palladino, acting as a mortgage broker, assisted the others in obtaining the mortgage by guiding them through the process. Palladino coached them through the transfer of money to show mortgage eligibility as well as closing on the loan and the property.

The 84 count indictment related to the loan sharking and gambling operations – unsealed today before Richmond County Supreme Court Judge Lisa Grey – charged 17 individuals with multiple crimes, including Enterprise Corruption, Criminal Usury in the First Degree and Second Degree, and Promoting Gambling in the First Degree. If convicted of Enterprise Corruption, a Class B felony, the defendants face a maximum of 25 years in prison. 

Those charged in today’s indictment include: 

  1. John J. LaForte, 56, of Monmouth County, New Jersey 
  2. Anthony J. Cinque, Jr., 39, Richmond County, New York
  3. John Matera, 53, Monmouth County, New Jersey
  4. Edward A. LaForte, 58, Richmond County, New York
  5. Frederick Falcone, Sr., 66, Richmond County, New York
  6. Giulio Pomponio, 61, Richmond County, New York
  7. Charles Fusco, 49, Richmond County, New York 
  8. Daniel F. Bogan, 41, Richmond County, New York
  9. Robert W. Carter, 56, Richmond County, New York
  10. Louis A. Palombo, 61, Richmond County, New York
  11. Arthur Geller, 62, Ocean County, New Jersey 
  12. Daniel M. Scarabaggio, 62, Ocean County, New Jersey 
  13. Daniel H. Shah, 38, Hudson County, New Jersey 
  14. Vincent J. Ricciardi, 59, Ocean County, New Jersey 
  15. Amy L. McLaughlin, 44, Richmond County, New York
  16. James Miranda, 23, Richmond County, New York
  17. Frederick Falcone, Jr., 41, Richmond County, New York

Another four-count indictment was unsealed before Richmond County Supreme Court Judge Lisa Grey charging four individuals, including Gambino soldier John LaForte, with Residential Mortgage Fraud in the Second and Third Degree, and Falsifying a Business Record in the First Degree. If convicted of Residential Mortgage Fraud in the Second Degree, a Class C Felony, the defendants face a maximum of 15 years in prison. 

Those charged in this indictment include: 

  1. John J. LaForte 56, Monmouth County, New Jersey 
  2. Tracy Alfano, 38, Monmouth County, New Jersey
  3. Joseph W. LaForte, Jr., 34, Richmond County, New York 
  4. John Palladino, 54, Monmouth County, New Jersey

The charges against the defendants are merely accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. 

“This case is a stark reminder that organized crime continues to thrive in the New York metropolitan area,” said Commissioner Paul Weinstein of the New York Waterfront Commission. “The Gambino Crime Family has historically exerted its influence on the Port of New York. Disruption of its profits from gambling and loansharking weaken that family’s grip. We will continue to work together with our law enforcement partners to combat corruption and racketeering and to keep the public safe.”

“As we have seen for over a century and once again here, illegal bookmaking is often intertwined with organized crime,” said New York State Gaming Commission Chairman Brian O’Dwyer. “This is why we have regulated gaming with strong safeguards, player protections, and revenue to make our communities better. With the numerous legal gambling opportunities available in our state, there is no legitimate reason to wager with offshore operations and blindly line the pockets of alleged gangsters. I applaud Attorney General James and our partners in government for working together to bring this important case.”

“These arrests reflect the commitment of the NYPD and our law enforcement partners, at all levels of government, to keep our communities safe by dismantling organized crime and protecting the public from its insidious effects,” said NYPD Commissioner Edward A. Caban. “I commend all of our investigators and everyone at the state Attorney General’s office for their dedication to this long-term case and their ongoing commitment to our shared public safety mission.” 

“While sports betting may be legal in the state of New York, operating an off-the-books multi-million dollar gambling enterprise, engaging in blatant usury and intimidation, and sinking countless New Yorkers into crippling debt is not,” said Richmond County District Attorney Michael E. McMahon. “Illegal gambling is by no means a victimless crime and these 17 defendants, including nearly a dozen Staten Islanders, stand accused of raking in tens of millions of dollars from our neighbors while engaging in brazen loansharking and mortgage fraud. I commend our partners in the New York State Attorney General’s Office, NYPD, Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, and U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Inspector General for their incredible investigatory efforts and commitment to holding these individuals accountable in the courtroom.”

The investigation was led by NYPD Sergeant Jack Dagnese, formerly of the Criminal Enterprise Investigations Section, under the supervision of NYPD Sergeant Joseph Rivera, Lieutenant Jason Forgione, Inspector Osvaldo Nunez and Assistant Chief Jason Savino of the Criminal Enterprise Investigations Section, and under the overall supervision of Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. 

For the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), the investigation was led by Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) Detectives Shavaun Clawson and Ramon Almodovar, under the supervision of OCTF Supervising Detective Paul Grzegorski, Assistant Chief Ismael Hernandez, and Deputy Chief Andrew Boss, with special assistance from the detective specialists from the OAG Special Operations Unit, led by Deputy Chief Sean Donovan. The Attorney General’s Investigations Division is led by Chief Oliver Pu-Folkes.

For the New York Waterfront Commission, the investigation was conducted by Detective Joseph Curran and Detective William McCabe, under the supervision of Sergeant Andrew Varga and under the overall supervision of Executive Director Phoebe Sorial. 

The case is being prosecuted by OCTF Assistant Deputy Attorney General Joseph Marciano, under the supervision of Downstate OCTF Deputy Chief Lauren Abinanti with the assistance of OCTF Legal Analyst Christine Cintron. Nicole Keary is the Deputy Attorney General in Charge of OCTF. The Criminal Justice Division is led by Chief Deputy Attorney General José Maldonado. Both the Investigations Division and the Division for Criminal Justice are overseen by First Deputy Attorney General Jennifer Levy.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-announces-arrests-alleged-crime-family-members-staten

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

FBI agents return to New York farm looking for bodies in Gambino family investigation

  April 03, 2024    Dapper_Don

 

FBI agents were back at two upstate New York horse farms after searching the same properties for bodies last year in connection to federal investigations into the Gambino crime family.

The feds, along with members of the New York State Police and NYPD, descended on the two farms on Hampton Road in Goshen and on Hamptonburgh Road in Campbell Hall on Tuesday morning, witnesses told The Times Union.

Excavators, a police K9 unit and a New York City medical examiner were also on site, video from the scene shows. It’s not clear if anything was found.

The two farms, located about five miles apart, were raided by the FBI last November after a tipster said bodies were buried on the grounds, sources told The Post at the time.

An FBI spokesperson confirmed to The Post that agents from its New York office were at the two addresses on Tuesday, but could not provide additional information about the investigation.


Both farms were formerly owned by Giovanni DiLorenzo — who has the same surname as one of the 10 alleged mafiosi from the Gambino crime family indicted in November over accusations they used violent tactics to take over the Big Apple’s garbage hauling and demolition industry.

The Campbell Hall farm is currently owned by Viviane DiLorenzo, according to property records. The Goshen farm is currently owned by GDLI LLC.

Salvatore DiLorenzo was one of 10 alleged Gambino associates indicted on racketeering charges in November in federal court in Brooklyn. Much of the indictment centers on the group’s alleged attempts to extort money from an unidentified garbage company and an unidentified demolition company, starting in late 2017.

The defendants include Joseph Lanni, also known as “Joe Brooklyn” and “Mommino,” an alleged captain in the Gambino family; and three alleged Gambino soldiers: Diego “Danny” Tantillo; Angelo Gradilone, also known as “Fifi;” and James LaForte.

They allegedly hospitalized a man in a vicious hammer attack, threatened to saw a business owner in half and tried to burn down a restaurant that had thrown them out, among other crimes, according to the 16-count indictment.

The men were hit with charges including racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation, fraud and embezzlement. They each face between 20 and 180 years in prison for the laundry list of alleged crimes.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/02/us-news/fbi-returns-to-ny-horse-farms-connected-to-gambino-crime-family-probes/

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Saturday, March 30, 2024

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Notorious Lucchese Soldier paroled from life sentence

  March 10, 2024    Dapper_Don


They’re getting the gang back together.

Notorious Lucchese crime family hitman Joey Testa will be out on the streets in April after 35 years behind bars, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced — just weeks after The Post reported on the release of Testa’s partner Anthony Senter, the other half of the murderous duo known as the Gemini Twins.

Both Testa, 69, and Senter, 68, were paroled after serving a fraction of the life-plus-20-year sentences they were handed in 1989 for participating in at least 11 murders, the feds confirmed.

“Joey’s had serious medical problems for years, and he has done well in prison,” Testa’s attorney Linda Sheffield told The Post.

“Those are things that play into setting a release date.”

In the 1970s and 1980s, Testa and Senter belonged to a mob crew run by Gambino made man Roy DeMeo.

The crew used the Gemini Lounge at 4021 Flatlands Ave. in Flatlands, Brooklyn, as the launchpad for murders, car thefts, drug trafficking and other crimes.

“It was a regular blue-collar place,” a one-time Gemini Lounge regular recalled of the bar, which has since become a storefront church. 

“You didn’t know that there was a murderous maniac running around.”

The inseparable Testa and Senter, pals since childhood, spent so much time at their boss’s hangout that they were dubbed the Gemini Twins.

Federal and city authorities traced at least 75 deaths and disappearances to DeMeo’s crew — and independent researchers put their savage toll at more than 200.

Witnesses for the prosecution in Testa’s 1989 trial revealed that those marked for death would be lured to an apartment-turned-slaughterhouse next to the Gemini Lounge.

“When the [victim] would walk in, somebody would shoot him in the head with a silencer,” former gang member Dominick Mantigilio told the court.

“Somebody would wrap a towel around to stop the blood and somebody would stab him in the heart to stop the blood from pumping.”

Crew members would haul their prey into the bathtub to let his blood drain away, then “take him apart and package him,” Mantigilio testified — dumping the body parts in a nearby landfill.

Many of the gang’s alleged targets were never found.

The gruesome murders were “so horrendous and so inhumane and so unbelievable,” US District Court Judge Vincent L. Broderick said at Testa’s 1989 sentencing, that “the only sane course” was to send him to prison for life.

But because his crimes were committed prior to 1987, when new federal sentencing guidelines kicked in, Testa became eligible for parole after serving just 10 years of his lifetime term, according to the US Parole Commission.

Nephew and godson Tony Testa, 44, said the family is thrilled to see the ex-mobster set free.

“The Lord is amazing,” said Testa, a real estate developer in Commack, Long Island. 

“Uncle Joey did his time, he never complained. And the parole board saw that he’s served his penance.”

Tony Testa – who bills his family as “The Kennedys of Cosa Nostra” on social media — has tried to spin his uncle’s infamy into pop-culture gold.

A self-proclaimed “mob rapper,” he has released two albums — complete with a grisly music video dramatizing the DeMeo crew’s bloody execution technique.

“Hey, that’s entertainment,” he said.

“I’m a law-abiding citizen, but I’ll use what I can, you know?”

While Senter, scheduled to be released in June, is already living in a New York City halfway house, Testa will likely reside with his wife JoAnn, 71, in Nevada, Sheffield said. 

The couple has two grown daughters and two grandchildren.

“He is not well enough to go to a halfway house,” the attorney said.

“He’ll go home.”

But locals suspect the dual release signals new revelations to come.

“There’s a rumor going around that when those guys get out, they’ll spill the beans,” the former Gemini Lounge patron said.

“They know where a lot of bodies are buried. There is no reason for them to be let out unless they’ve been cooperating with someone.”

https://nypost.com/2024/03/10/us-news/second-gambino-gemini-twin-hitman-paroled-from-life-sentence/

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Junior Gotti's family rejects plea deals after basketball game brawl

  March 06, 2024    Dapper_Don


It was an offer they could refuse.

John “Junior” Gotti’s wife and daughter shot down plea deals that would’ve put them in anger management to settle charges that they sparked a wild brawl at a Long Island youth basketball game.

Kimberly Gotti, 55, and 23-year-old Gianna Gotti refused an offer to plead guilty to assault charges in exchange for 12 weeks of anger management and an order of protection for the victim, the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.

The pair were charged with attacking a woman at a Locust Valley High School game in Lattingtown on Feb. 8 after the victim shouted insults at Kimberly’s son, Joe, who was playing for visiting Oyster Bay High School, according to authorities and court records.

The victim suffered “substantial pain to her scalp and bruises to both sides of her face,” according to a complaint filed in Nassau County First District Court.

The Gottis’ attorney blamed the blowup on the victim, telling The Post last month that she threw the first punch and was “badgering” Kimberly’s youngest son.

The lawyer, Gerard Michael Marrone, also denied his client used a homophobic slur.  

He said after the incident that Gianna, a professional basketball player who played for Brooklyn College before signing with a team in Portugal, stepped in to break up the brawl and help her mom after she was slugged in the face by the alleged victim.

But he said both Gottis declined to press charges against the woman when cops arrived.

“The Gottis don’t press charges,” Marrone said after the pair was arraigned last month.

Instead, they were arrested and charged.

Marrone did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

Kimberly Gotti is the daughter-in-law of the late mafia boss “Dapper Don” John Gotti — who infamously took over the Gambino crime family by ordering the mob hit of boss Paul Castellano outside Sparks Steak House in 1985.

He died of throat cancer in federal prison.

John “Junior” Gotti, meanwhile, served six years and five months behind bars for racketeering.

The hulking Queens-bred mafia scion was the target of four federal trials between 2004 and 2009 — all of which ended in mistrials. Federal prosecutors said they would no longer seek cases against him.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/kimberly-gianna-gotti-shoot-down-plea-deals-that-would-place-them-in-anger-management-after-wild-li-youth-basketball-brawl/

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