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Monday, June 29, 2026

Springfield Mob Figure “Little Joe” Manzi Arrested Again as Rhode Island Casino Fraud Case Expands

  June 29, 2026    Dapper_Don


Alleged Springfield organized crime figure Giuseppe “Little Joe” Manzi has been arrested for the second time in less than three months, adding another chapter to a criminal history that stretches back more than two decades and includes alleged ties to the Springfield faction of the Genovese crime family.

The 51-year-old Manzi was taken into custody during a large-scale law enforcement operation involving more than 100 local and state officers. Authorities arrested five men wanted on a Rhode Island warrant alleging casino-related fraud offenses, including cheating at casinos and obtaining property under false pretenses. The underlying court records remain sealed because investigators are still seeking at least one additional defendant.

Five Men Arrested in Rhode Island Casino Investigation

Along with Manzi, authorities arrested:

  • Anthony Capua, 47, of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts
  • Claudio Cardaropoli, 47, of East Longmeadow
  • Alfonso B. Lalli, 51, of Springfield
  • Salvatore Fusco, 23, of Longmeadow

The defendants are currently facing fugitive-from-justice proceedings while Rhode Island prosecutors pursue extradition. The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office indicated that the case is being prosecuted by Rhode Island authorities, although many details remain under seal.

A Familiar Name in Springfield Organized Crime

For longtime observers of organized crime in Western Massachusetts, Giuseppe Manzi is far from an unfamiliar figure.

Manzi served federal prison time after pleading guilty in a racketeering and extortion case involving members and associates of the Springfield-based Genovese crime family. He was sentenced in 2003 and released from federal custody in 2006.

His father, Carmine "The Barber" Manzi, was also indicted in the same federal organized crime investigation alongside several alleged Genovese family members and associates operating in the Springfield area.

The elder Manzi has long been identified by law enforcement as a prominent figure within Springfield's organized crime network, which historically operated under the umbrella of New York's Genovese crime family while maintaining relationships with New England organized crime groups.

The Fusco Family's Long Mafia History

The latest arrests also bring renewed attention to another well-known Springfield organized crime family.

Salvatore Fusco is the son of imprisoned mob figure Emilio Fusco, a longtime alleged Genovese soldier who became one of the most recognizable names in Western Massachusetts organized crime.

Federal prosecutors previously accused Emilio Fusco of participating in two separate Mafia murder conspiracies, including the plot that resulted in the 2003 assassination of Springfield mob boss Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno outside his social club.

Although Fusco was acquitted of murder charges, he was later convicted on federal racketeering charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison. According to federal prison records, his projected release date is in 2031.

Salvatore's older brothers, Antonio Fusco and Franco Fusco, have also faced criminal charges in Hampden County involving firearms and narcotics.

Second Major Criminal Case for Manzi in 2026

The Rhode Island casino case comes only weeks after Manzi was named in a sweeping federal gambling indictment unsealed in Northwest Indiana.

Federal prosecutors charged 22 defendants in Operation Porterhouse Parlay, alleging they operated a multi-million-dollar illegal sports betting enterprise between 2021 and 2026. Prosecutors claim the organization accepted wagers through gambling websites, text messages, encrypted communications, and traditional bookmakers while extending illegal lines of credit to bettors and using extortionate methods to collect gambling debts.

According to the federal indictment, Manzi allegedly operated under the nickname "Joe Polozzo." He has pleaded not guilty.

The alleged gambling organization was led by Chicago-area restaurateurs:

  • James "Jimmy the Greek" Gerodemos
  • Dean "Dean Gem" Gialamas

Federal investigators say the operation centered around Gino's Steakhouse in Merrillville, Indiana, and Paragon Restaurant in Hobart, Indiana, while accepting sports wagers from bettors across multiple states.

Alleged Role in the Indiana Gambling Enterprise

Court documents do not portray Manzi as one of the alleged leaders of the Indiana organization.

Instead, prosecutors allege he helped recruit bettors into the illegal sports betting operation while maintaining relationships with other bookmakers connected to the network. Investigators also allege the enterprise relied on modern technology—including betting websites, encrypted messaging, text communications, and electronic payment applications—while continuing old-school bookmaking practices such as distributing NFL betting cards inside restaurant menus.

Court Proceedings

Several defendants have already appeared in Massachusetts courts while Rhode Island seeks extradition.

Anthony Capua and Claudio Cardaropoli waived extradition and were ordered held without bail pending transfer.

Salvatore Fusco declined to waive extradition. His attorney argued that sealed court records prevented the defense from reviewing the allegations before making that decision.

Defense attorneys representing Alfonso Lalli likewise criticized prosecutors for withholding the supporting affidavit while asking the court to detain defendants without bail.

Manzi is expected to face extradition proceedings separately after an apparent scheduling error initially sent him to the wrong Massachusetts court.

Other Defendants' Criminal Histories

The latest arrests involve several individuals previously linked to criminal investigations.

Claudio Cardaropoli was previously charged in a nationwide marijuana trafficking conspiracy in 2020. During those proceedings, his attorney argued that Cardaropoli played only a minor role in the alleged operation.

Anthony Capua has also been publicly associated with organized crime figures over the years, although many of those alleged associations have never resulted in criminal convictions.

Investigation Continues

Because the Rhode Island charging documents remain under seal while authorities pursue another unidentified suspect, many details of the alleged casino cheating scheme have not yet been released publicly.

Investigators have not disclosed which casinos were allegedly targeted, how the fraud was carried out, or the amount of money involved.

As both the Rhode Island casino case and the Indiana federal gambling prosecution move forward, Giuseppe "Little Joe" Manzi once again finds himself at the center of two of the most significant organized crime investigations involving alleged Mafia figures in New England during 2026.

All defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.

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Saturday, February 7, 2026

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Who were the NYC mobsters busted in NBA poker scheme?

  October 23, 2025    Dapper_Don



The son of a legendary mafia capo, a newbie made man and a mobster who did time for an infamous Queens racial attack were among the 13 reputed mobsters busted alongside NBA stars in a sweeping historic gambling bust, according to a new federal indictment.

Among the most prominent of the gangsters who were dealt into the high-stakes scams is Angelo Ruggiero Jr, the son of the late Gambino captain Angelo “Quack Quack” Ruggiero Sr.

Ruggiero Jr’s father was close friends with notorious Gambino boss John Gotti, who helped plan the murder of Gambino leader Paul Castellano in 1985.

When Gotti became head of the crime family, he promoted Ruggiero, who later acted as a liaison for the family while Gotti stood trial for murder in 1992.

The gangster — who earned his ducky nickname because of his penchant for talking a lot and who did things like threaten to feed people to sharks — became infamous because the feds picked him up on wiretaps complaining about his mob bosses and used his comments in case against Castellano.

The younger Ruggiero, who is also a made man, now stands accused of receiving “proceeds” of the rigged poker games “on behalf of the Gambino crime family.”

A second wiseguy arrested for his alleged role in the FBI’s gambling and poker probe is Ernest “Ernie” Aiello — who made headlines for inquiring in court about how he can avoid mob ties and still eat at his favorite Italian bakery back in 2018.

The 43-year-old Bonanno crime family mobster was busted for loansharking, gambling and drug dealing in July 2013, but ultimately walked free after a mistrial in May 2017.

During a court hearing the next year, a judge warned him not to commiserate with fellow mobsters —which Aiello said may spoil his breakfast, since he frequents a beloved Italian bakery in Brooklyn.

The judge, in turn, warned him to simply keep his visits to Fortunato Brothers Cafe in Williamsburg short and sweet, according to the Daily News.

He’s now accused of receiving a portion of the criminal proceeds from the rigged poker games on behalf of the Bonanno crime family.

Busted Gambino wiseguy Lee Fama, meanwhile, has a history of cleaning up at the poker table.

In 2012, as the Drug Enforcement Administration probed him for drug charges he won big playing poker at casinos in Vegas and Atlantic City, The Post reported at the time.

Fama raked in more than $22,000 at poker tournaments at the Borgata in Atlantic City and $666 at a Las Vegas’s Rio hotel as Drug Enforcement Administration officials probed him for conspiring to distribute marijuana in 2012.

He was later arrested for allegedly buying and selling several pounds of marijuana.

He’s now accused of getting proceeds from the rigged card games on behalf of the Gambino crime family.

Nicholas “Fat Nick” Minucci — a Gambino associate who was convicted of beating a black kid with a baseball bat while shouting the N-word in 2005 — was also busted in the NBA gambling case.

Minucci, 39, of East Northport, was convicted of the hate crime after chasing down battery victim Glenn Moore.

At the time, Fat Nick claimed he was not a bigot and said he only chased down Moore because he thought he’d come to Howard Beach to steal cars. He was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in prison.

He’s now accused of participating on “cheating teams” during the rigged card games.

Matthew “The Wrestler” Daddino — a hulking newbie Genovese made man and former star high school wrestler from Long Island— was also indicted during the historic gambling bust.

Daddino is “a recently inducted member” and “rising star” of the crime family.

He’s accused of receiving cash from the rigged card games on behalf of the Genovese family.

In total, 13 alleged members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Lucchese, and Genovese crime families were arrested in the gambling and sports betting bust. Among other reputed gangsters charged was Thomas “Tommy Juice” Gelardo, who received proceeds on behalf of the Bonanno family.

Other suspects with suspicious names were also busted, including Ammar “Flapper Poker” Awawdeh, Zhen “Scruli” Hu and Robert “Black Rob” Stroud who helped organize the games and Tony “Black Tony” Goodson and Shane “Sugar” Hennen who helped supply the marks.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/us-news/from-the-son-of-a-legendary-mafia-capo-to-a-wiseguy-poker-pro-these-are-the-mobsters-charged-in-the-nba-gambling-scandal/

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Latest indictment shows NYC mafia families are still in business

  October 23, 2025    Dapper_Don



In New York City, it seems, the mob’s five families still have a few cards to play.

That was on full display Thursday when federal and local officials announced charges against a grab bag of gangsters from four of the families, including leaders, made men and associates, saying they oversaw a complex scheme to rig illegal poker games that raked in millions of dollars. The victims were lured to the high-stakes tables by the presence of current and former N.B.A. luminaries, officials said.

While the mob’s outright stranglehold on a host of industries, from construction and trucking to control of the waterfront and garment center, is a thing of the past, organized crime remains alive and well, if less visible, according to current and former investigators. Its presence is perhaps most vibrant in the New York City metropolitan area.

This stubborn resilience continues, they said, despite more than four decades of aggressive investigations and prosecutions that have decimated the leadership of the five families and secured thousands of convictions — and the recruitment of an army of chatty informants.

Over the years, the mob’s savvier operators have learned that violence — not to mention the antics of strutting crime family peacocks like the Gambino boss John Gotti — attracts law enforcement attention, which can land them in prison, where moneymaking opportunities are decidedly fewer and farther between.

The Italian Mafia, known as La Cosa Nostra, “is still alive and well in the New York City area, they just changed some of their methods in the way they operate,” said F.B.I. supervisor Mike Mullahy, a veteran mob investigator who oversaw the agents who made the poker case.

“Being brazen and up front in how they operate has not always worked out well for them,” he added, “so they have changed their methods and modes of operation, and we have changed our method of investigating them.”

The poker indictment was unsealed on Thursday along with an unrelated case with no mob involvement that accused three current and former N.B.A. players and coaches and three other men of defrauding gamblers and online betting firms out of millions of dollars.

In the poker case, prosecutors charged 32 men, accusing 11 of them of being leaders, members or associates of the Genovese, Gambino, Bonanno and Lucchese families, including one Bonanno figure, Ernest Aiello, who was reputed to be the family’s acting street boss. The charges include wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, operating an illegal gambling enterprise and conspiracies to commit extortion and robbery.

Both indictments were brought by prosecutors from the office of the Brooklyn U.S. attorney, Joseph Nocella Jr., after separate investigations by his office and several other agencies. In the poker inquiry, they included the F.B.I., the Police Department and the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, which, like the U.S. attorney’s office, has long been among the agencies at the forefront of investigating the mob.

The two cases were not directly related. But three men — none of them accused mob figures — were charged in both indictments, so the inquiries were coordinated and conducted in parallel and the cases were announced together.

Illegal gambling has long been a lucrative mob staple, with its attendant crimes of loan-sharking and extortion, and it continues to be a big moneymaker for all five families, investigators said. But the scheme outlined in the poker indictment took it to another level, leaving nothing to chance.

High rollers were lured to the tables at the mob-sanctioned games in Manhattan, the Hamptons and elsewhere, where, unbeknown to them, the players were interspersed with members of what the indictment said defendants referred to as “cheating teams.” Shuffling machines were altered with chips that could read all the cards in the deck so each player’s hand could be determined in real time and communicated to one of the scheme’s participants at the table, referred to as the “quarterback” or “driver.”

While the indictment said the victims thought they were playing in a “straight” illegal card game “gambling against other participants on equal footing,” in reality, they were facing the cheating team, a lineup of the defendants and their co-conspirators.

At the end of the day, the sophistication of the scheme, and the involvement of four of New York’s five families, strongly indicate that the mob is still thriving. It has hummed along in the background as law enforcement’s priorities have shifted elsewhere — to terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks and, more recently, immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.

“Having worked these families firsthand for 15 years, I can tell you they never really disappear,” said Seamus McElearney, a retired F.B.I. agent who supervised cases against three crime families and has written a book about his time investigating the mob. “They adjust and find ways to cash in.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-gambling-mafia-gambino-genovese-bonanno-luchese.html

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NBA stars and NYC crime families indicted in poker scheme

  October 23, 2025    Dapper_Don

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been charged in a sweeping federal probe into an alleged illegal poker scheme tied to organized crime, sources told The Post.

The 49-year-old former NBA champion with the Detroit Pistons was arrested in Oregon Thursday morning, the night after coaching his team in their season opener.

Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier aka “Scary Terry” was charged as well, in a separate but related illegal gambling case, ABC reported.

Billups, an NBA Hall of Famer, has been charged with partaking in an alleged illegal poker ring tied to the Gambino, Bonanno and Genovese crime families, sources told the Post.

A total of 31 people across the country are charged with running rigged games, which took place in Manhattan, the Hamptons and Las Vegas, sources said.

The players involved were being paid by mobsters to play in card games fixed with technology and card shuffling machines to give the house the advantage, sources familiar with the case said.

The athletes were told to take a dive when they had to and win when they were told. It didn’t appear as if they were attempting to pay off any debts, sources said.

Former NBA player Damon Jones, 49, who spent 11 years in the league with multiple teams, is also charged in the FBI’s investigation, according to sources.

Rozier previously had been under investigation for unusual betting activity during his time with the Hornets, specifically a March 2023 contest. However, the NBA did not find any violation.

Rozier’s attorney Jim Trusty, said that his client met with NBA and FBI officials during 2023 regarding the case and slammed the manner in which he was taken into custody Thursday morning.

“A long time ago we reached out to these prosecutors to tell them we should have an open line of communication. They characterized Terry as a subject, not a target, but at 6 a.m. this morning they called to tell me FBI agents were trying to arrest him in a hotel,” Trusty told the Post.

“It is unfortunate that instead of allowing him to self surrender they opted for a photo op. They wanted the misplaced glory of embarrassing a professional athlete with a perp walk. That tells you a lot about the motivations in this case,” he continued.

“Terry was cleared by the NBA and these prosecutors revived that non-case. Terry is not a gambler, but he is not afraid of a fight, and he looks forward to winning this fight,” the attorney said.

Former NBA player Damon Jones, 49, who spent 11 years in the league with multiple teams, is also charged in the FBI’s investigation, according to sources.

The charges come less than a year after former Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter pleaded guilty to tipping off gamblers to games he purposely was going to rig — and earning them $1 million — in an effort to clear his own gambling debt.

Billups is scheduled to make his initial appearance in Oregon federal court on Thursday, but will eventually appear in Brooklyn federal court in the Eastern District of New York, which handled the case against Porter.

Billups, a five-time All-Star, was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame last year.

Prosecutors and FBI Director Kash Patel are expected to announce further details about the alleged schemes at a press conference in Brooklyn on Thursday morning. Also named in the sweeping case is reputed gangster Tommy Gelardo.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/sports/portland-trail-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-arrested-in-alleged-poker-scheme/

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Killer Colombo hitman serving life for 4 murders denied compassionate release

  June 12, 2025    Dapper_Don


A Mafia killer who whacked other members of his own Colombo crime family hit crew— and shoved the severed penis of one murder victim into the dead man’s mouth — will not get compassionate release, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled.

John Pappa, 50, won’t get a break on his two life sentences plus 65 years for four gangland murders in the 1990s, Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Pamela Chen ruled, describing his crimes as “brutal and senseless” and suggesting the remorse he showed at a hearing last year was a cynical act.

“The court cannot shake the impression, after observing and listening to defendant over the course of the two-hour April proceeding, that he feels no remorse about committing the four murders nor empathy for the victims or their families,” Chen wrote. “Defendant’s statements … felt hollow and performative.”

Pappa, who has the creed “Morte prima di disonore” — meaning “death before dishonor” — tattooed across his back, committed the 12th and final murder of the bloody Colombo civil war of the early 1990s, then killed a fellow button man because he wanted credit for the slay.

The whole sordid affair was laid out in Chen’s ruling, filed May 30.

Pappa and another mobster, John Sparacino, were part of a three-man “hit team” assembled by Eric Curcio, and on Oct. 20, 1993, they rubbed out Colombo underboss Joseph Scopo, ambushing him as he pulled up to his Queens home in Ozone Park.

Sparacino sprayed Scopo’s car with bullets, but Scopo managed to get out of his car and run off.

Pappa ran after him, shot him three times and killed him.

Sparacino began taking credit for the killing, which angered Pappa and Curcio, so the two started plotting to kill him. But first, they went after one of Sparacino’s friends, Rolando Rivera. because he told his girlfriend that Curcio warned him to stay away from Sparacino.

Rivera’s loose lips doomed him. On June 7, 1994, Curcio and Pappa drove with Rivera in a stolen van to Staten Island, and when they crossed into the Forgotten Borough, they shot him four times and shoved him out of the van while it was moving.

An off-duty cop found Rivera alive, but he died shortly after.

Their attention turned back to Sparacino after learning he’d dissed Curcio and Pappa at a nightclub. So they enlisted a pal in the drug trade, Calvin Hennigar, to lure Sparacino to his Staten Island home. There, Hennigar shot him in the back of the head.

Pappa and Hennigar drove Sparacino’s body to another spot on Staten Island in a stolen car, and lit the vehicle on fire, their victim still inside.

An autopsy revealed Sparacinio’s gruesome fate — he had been hog–tied and mutilated, with a flap of skin cut from his face and his severed penis shoved in his mouth.

Finally, Pappa turned on Curcio, who he thought wasn’t giving him credit for the Scopo kill, and who may have killed one of his close friends.

“I killed Joe Scopo, I did all the work,” Pappa complained to Joseph Iborti, who testified at Pappa’s 1999 trial.

No one would help Pappa with the hit, so he went solo, ambushing Curcio outside his place of business on Oct. 4, 1994 — shooting him more than 10 times.

Pappa was convicted of all four killings in 1999, while Hennigar was found guilty of the Sparacino slay.

Pappa put in for compassionate release in 2022, arguing that his history growing up led him into the arms of La Cosa Nostra. His father was a Genovese gangster murdered by the Colombo crime family in retaliation for committing two slayings — a story people told Pappa as a child — and his stepfather was locked up for drug and tax evasion charges.

“Pappa was raised in a life of organized crime and drug dealing, and after his father was killed and his stepfather was incarcerated, he
began to look up to organized crime members to fill the fatherhood gap,” wrote his lawyer, Shon Hopwood.

At a tense hearing last year, the loved ones of Pappa’s victims spoke out, asking Chen to keep him locked away forever.

“You’re a phony, you’re a fake, you’re a loser, and you’re a killer, and that’s all you’ll ever be. Remember that. You’ve taken lives. You’ve
gotten that taste. Don’t act like you deserve anything from anybody. You deserve nothing but suffering like we’ve suffered,” said Michelle Gedz, who was five months pregnant with Rivera’s daughter when he died. “You are pure evil and you are the spawn of evil, and there is nothing else you will ever be.”

At the April 2024 hearing, Pappa told Chen he found his humanity in prison.

“It’s been productive. It’s been transformative. I’ve completely changed my way of thinking, my belief system. I’ve learned that working as hard as you possibly can, being honest and helping others, that those are the three keys to a meaningful life,” he said. “I now see things clearly, act correctly, and my actions are positive, effective, and completely unselfish.”

Sparacino’s brother, Salvadore, interrupted Pappa as he spoke, declaring: “And the Oscar goes to you.”

https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/08/colombo-killer-john-pappa-jailed-for-life-in-4-nyc-rubouts-denied-compassionate-release/

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

95 year old Genovese gangster who plotted to kill John Gotti granted compassionate release

  April 23, 2025    Dapper_Don

 

A 95-year-old mobster who once plotted to whack John Gotti will be allowed to die at home with his family, after a federal judge granted the ailing wiseguy compassionate release.

Louis “Bobby” Manna — who rose to the rank of consigliere, the number three spot in the Genovese Crime Family, before his 1988 arrest on racketeering charges — has served about 36 years of his 80-year federal racketeering sentence. He was denied release back in 2020.

On April 16, New Jersey District Court Judge Robert Kirsch granted Manna compassionate release under the First Step Act, stating that his grim health prognosis and his efforts at rehabilitation behind bars tipped the scales in his favor.

“Mr. Manna’s well-chronicled severe health problems undoubtedly establish ‘extraordinary and compelling reasons’ for compassionate release,” Kirsch wrote. Those problems include a stroke, high risk Stage II metastatic lung cancer, chronic kidney disease and a recurring infection.

He was placed in a “Fall Watch” room, under 24-hour medical observation, at the Federal Medical Center prison in Rochester, in September.

Manna will be placed on five years of supervised release, on 24-hour house arrest with electronic monitoring, and won’t be allowed to communicate with anyone but his custodians and probation officials.

“The court is satisfied that these conditions, which essentially render Mr. Manna a dying prisoner in his custodians’ home, reflect the seriousness of his crimes and are just punishment for a man at the very last stage of life,” Kirsch said.

Manna, whose criminal history dates back to at least 1952, oversaw the “Manna Faction” of the Genovese family, and answered at times to underboss “Fat” Tony Salerno and boss Vincent “Chin” Gigante,

He was admired in organized crime circles in his heyday for never turning government informant even as he faced down prison terms, and once refused a shot of Novocaine for a prison tooth extradition because he was afraid he’d break omerta.

Manna was convicted of plotting to kill rival Gambino family boss John Gotti and his brother Gene back in the late ’80s. He was caught discussing the plan on a FBI bug planted in a Hoboken restaurant: “Remember I told you it was a big hit? John Gotti.”

The feds warned Gotti about the plot, and the attempt never got off the ground.

He also ordered the August 1987 rub-out of Irwin Schiff, an FBI informant who was also skimming cash from the Genovese family. A masked gunman, selected by Manna, walked out of the bathroom of the Bravo Sergio Restaurant on the Upper East Side and shot Schiff twice in the head.

Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, President Trump’s late sister, handed down Manna’s sentence in 1989. Trump signed the First Step Act, which ultimately led to Manna’s release, during his first term as president.


https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/23/genovese-gangster-95-who-once-plotted-to-kill-john-gotti-gets-compassionate-release/

  

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Friday, April 18, 2025

Supreme Court rules Genovese associate committed a violent act

  April 18, 2025    Dapper_Don

Whether attempted murder rose to a crime of violence split the Supreme Court 7-2 on Friday, with the majority finding that an associate of the infamous Genovese crime family committed a violent act despite his unsuccessful murder-for-hire plot. 
In a 7-2 ruling, the justices ruled that Salvatore Delligatti’s attempted murder plot was a crime of violence. 
“Delligatti insists that his position — that murder is not a crime of violence — is not as outlandish as it sounds,” Justice Clarence Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, wrote for the majority. 
Thomas said Delligatti’s argument defied precedent, congressional intent and logic. 
“Intentional murder is the prototypical ‘crime of violence,’ and it has long been understood to incorporate liability for both act and omission,” Thomas wrote. 
Justices Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump appointee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Joe Biden appointee, dissented. 
Delligatti planned to murder Joseph Bonelli, a local “bully” suspected of threatening the Genovese family’s gambling business. He gave his partner $5,000 and a .38 revolver to kill Bonelli, but police intercepted the accomplice and several members of the Crips gang before the crime took place.
A jury convicted Delligatti on six charges including conspiring to murder for hire, operating an illegal gambling business, racketeering and attempted murder. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. 
Violent crime carries a mandatory minimum sentence under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering Act. Facing an additional six years in prison, Delligatti sought to convince the court that his crimes fell short of the statute’s use of force requirement because his murder plot failed. 
The high court disagreed, finding that the firearms sentencing enhancement applied when an individual intends to cause bodily injury — whether or not those intentions materialize. 
Thomas said it is impossible to deliberately cause physical harm without the use of physical force. Delligatti’s second-degree murder conviction proved that he intentionally caused the death of another person. 
Delligatti can’t escape that conclusion under harm by omission, the court ruled, because a person can use something by deliberate inaction, such as using the rain to wash a car by leaving it parked on the street. 
“The knowing or intentional causation of injury or death, whether by act or omission, necessarily involves the use of physical force against another person,” Thomas wrote. 
Gorsuch chastised the majority for diverging from the statute’s text, arguing that the ruling was too broad. A lifeguard who sees someone struggling to swim and does nothing to save them, Gorsuch claimed, could now be convicted of a crime of violence if the person drowned. 
“In cases like that, prosecutors can prevail simply by showing that a defendant did nothing when he had a legal duty to do something,” Gorsuch wrote. “And because a defendant can be convicted of the crime without proof that he used, attempted to use, or threatened to use physical force against anyone or anything at all, New York’s offense cannot qualify as a crime of violence.” 
Gorsuch said the decision “comes up short on every count,” neglecting definitional terms, ignoring contextual clues and misinterpreting precedent. He added that his position didn’t guarantee a lighter sentence for Delligatti because the judges have imposed a sentence of up to 28 years. 
“With or without a §924(c)(1) enhancement, those convicted of serious offenses in our federal criminal justice system routinely face serious sentences and judges amply equipped with the means to issue them,” Gorsuch wrote. 
https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-rebukes-genovese-crime-family-associate-finding-attempted-murder-is-violent/

  

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Mixed verdict in trial of Long Island cop accused of selling his badge to the Bonanno crime family

  March 05, 2025    Dapper_Don


A former Nassau County cop accused of moonlighting for the mob while still wearing a badge was found guilty Wednesday of making false statements to the FBI — but cleared of an obstruction of justice charge.

A Brooklyn federal court jury deliberated for nine hours over two days before reaching its verdict, with ex-cop Hector Rosario having no visible reaction as the verdict was read.

“We’re glad the jury acquitted on the obstruction, and it’s a relief they did,” his lawyer, Lou Freeman, said outside the courtroom.

Prosecutors said during the eight-day trial that the 51-year-old former cop “sold his badge” to the mob for a $1,500 a month payoff – and even set up phony raids to harass rival Mafiosos.

They said Rosario waged war on the Genovese mob on behalf of his alleged Bonanno family handlers after a deal for the two crime syndicates to split the proceeds from an illegal gambling den called the Gran Caffe fell apart – and then allegedly lied to the feds about his illicit moonlighting gig.

A 15-year veteran of the Nassau County department when he was busted in 2022, Rosario allegedly also tipped off the mob about law enforcement activity.

Federal prosecutors said the former cop lied to the FBI at least 30 times when he was interviewed about his link to the mob in January 2020.

“He chose the crime family over the public he swore to protect,” Assistant US Attorney Anna Karamigios told jurors during opening arguments in US District Court in Brooklyn.

Prosecutors said Rosario pulled off “at least one” phony raid on rival gambling operations run by a Genovese associate, according to federal court documents.

The ex-cop allegedly targeted Salvatore “Sal the Shoemaker” Rubino’s backroom casino inside his Long Island store, Sal’s Shoe Repair.

The Merrick business served as a front for poker games three times a week and computerized gambling machines.

Rubino, who testified at Rosario’s trial, pleaded guilty to charges in April along with his associates.

But Rosario’s lawyer maintained that prosecutors didn’t prove their case – and relied largely on three mob turncoats who cut cooperation deals with the feds.

“We are asking you not to be swayed by the inflammatory evidence of the Mafia,” defense attorney Kestine Thiele said during closing arguments Monday.

“You cannot convict our client on the word of three convicted members of the Mafia who all have lied in the past, who have lied to hundreds of people over the course of their criminal behaviors and in their personal lives,” Thiele said.

Jurors in the case declined to comment on the split verdict as they left court on Wednesday.

Brooklyn prosecutors asked the judge to revoke Rosario’s $500,000 bail, but the request was denied and he remains free until his sentencing, when he will face up to five years in prison. 

“This corrupt detective chose to prove his loyalty to an organized crime family over the public he was sworn to protect,” US Attorney John Durham said in a statement after the verdict. “When police officers exploit their positions for personal gain, it erodes public trust in law enforcement.”

https://nypost.com/2025/03/05/us-news/verdict-reached-in-case-of-alleged-long-island-mob-cop-accused-of-selling-his-badge-to-bonanno-crime-family/

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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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Thursday, December 26, 2024

Supreme Court hears gun charge appeal from Genovese associate called Fat Sal

  December 26, 2024    Dapper_Don

Dropping poison in a drink. Serving food gone dangerously bad. Or, hiring hitmen to take out a foe. 

Are those violent crimes?  

The Supreme Court appeared unconvinced Tuesday by a New York crime family associate’s argument that his conviction in a foiled murder-for-hire plot does not qualify as a “crime of violence” because he used no physical force. However, the justices seemed open to ruling that some crimes committed through inaction cannot be deemed violent. 

Salvatore Delligatti, a Genovese crime family associate also known as “Fat Sal,” was found guilty of charges including racketeering and attempted murder after plotting to kill a local “bully.” He hired members of the Crips street gang and provided them with a .38 revolver and getaway car, but police intervened before the plot was carried out. 

Delligatti was also convicted of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a “crime of violence,” which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five consecutive years in prison. He was sentenced to 25-year prison term in total. 

Delligatti lawyer Allon Kedem argued Tuesday that a crime requiring death or bodily injury like murder, but committed through inaction, cannot be deemed a “crime of violence.” He asked the justices to throw out that conviction.

“Using physical force against another requires taking some step to bring force into contact with the victim,” Kedem said. “That can happen directly, as with a kick or punch, or indirectly, such as giving a gentle push to someone teetering on the edge of a cliff. But it does not involve an offense that can be committed by pure omission, such as failing to render aid to someone suffering from a natural disorder.” 

In court filings, Delligatti’s counsel contended that — while perhaps “morally reprehensible” — failing to provide a person with necessary medical care or nutrition, causing serious injury or death, does not involve the use of any force. The same is true in Delligatti’s case, where no one pulled the trigger, he said.  

The justices seemed skeptical, posing several hypothetical questions about whether inaction can still be violent.  

Justice Elena Kagan asked whether offering an enemy food so spoiled it was “completely toxic” would qualify as a violent crime, while Justice Sonia Sotomayor raised scenarios about choosing not to offer the Heimlich maneuver to a random person choking versus one’s own child, noting the obligation to act. 

Justice Samuel Alito called the legal arguments “fascinating,” but noted that Delligatti’s crime is perhaps more cut-and-dry than others.  

“Would you argue that your client is not the kind of armed career criminal that Congress was trying to get at when they enacted this statute?” he asked. 

“We would not argue that,” Kedem replied. 

Justice Neil Gorsuch, pointing specifically to states with Good Samaritan statutes, questioned if letting a “little old lady” step into a manhole without intervening would qualify. 

“Physical force (is), I guess, the gravity — what more powerful force in the universe is there than that?” Gorsuch said. “Would that, in your view, fall within the government’s understanding of what will qualify as the application of violent force?” 

“It would have to,” Kedem replied. “The government’s view, essentially, is, anytime you have a bad result, you know that there must have been violent physical force. Which means that, not only would the death or other injury in your example be violent physical force, it would also be involved in literally every death since the beginning of time, because in every death, something bad happens.” 

Eric Feigin, deputy solicitor general, strongly pushed back. 

“It’s hard to believe that we’re actually here debating whether murder is a crime of violence,” Feigin argued before the justices Tuesday. 

Despite the justices’ skepticism of Delligatti’s position, sharp hypothetical questions were asked of the government, as well. 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson posed a scenario where a lifeguard sees a child she “hates” get into the pool; when the child starts drowning, she doesn’t jump into the water to save him.  

“Is it your position that she uses physical force against this kid if she doesn’t jump into the water when she sees him drowning?” Jackson asked. 

Federal appeals courts have split over how to apply the gun charge to other cases, with two of 10 appeals courts that have weighed the matter determining that use of force is not an element of such crimes if the crime can be committed by inaction, as Delligatti contends. 

In an unusual move, the government agreed that the justices should hear Delligatti’s appeal to give lower courts better clarity, despite opposing it. 

A decision is expected by next summer.  

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4986375-supreme-court-crime-violence-delligatti-case/

  

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Former Genovese Acting Captain gets 30 months for illegal gambling

  December 26, 2024    Dapper_Don

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A former acting captain in the Genovese organized crime family was sentenced on Friday to 30 months in prison, federal prosecutors said.

Carmelo Polito, also known as "Carmine Polito" was sentenced for racketeering in connection to operating an illegal gambling business at the Gran Caffé in Lynbrook, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace announced.

Polito, 64, of Queens, also attempted to extort someone who owed him money stemming from a separate online sports betting business, prosecutors said.

"The cards did not favor Carmelo Polito's illicit gambling parlor or his extortionate methods,” stated FBI Assistant Director in Charge James Dennehy. “His illegitimate business and death threats financed the operations of two crime families.

Polito is a longtime, inducted member of the Genovese organized crime family.

As detailed in earlier court filings, for years, numerous members and associates of the Genovese
and Bonanno organized crime families operated several illegal gambling operations, the U.S. Attorney said. The Genovese and Bonanno families jointly operated a lucrative illegal gambling parlor concealed inside a coffee shop called the Gran Caffé in Lynbrook.

Polito is the first person sentenced in this case and a related case against four members and associates of the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra.

Awaiting sentencing are:

  • Joseph Macario, 69, (also known as "Joe Fish"), of West Islip
  • Salvatore Rubino, 60, ("Sal the Shoemaker"), of Bethpage
  • Joseph Rutigliano, 65, (also known as "Joe Box"), of Commack
  • Mark Feuer, 61, of Oceanside
https://patch.com/new-york/malverne-lynbrook/genovese-crime-family-captain-gets-30-months-prison-fbi

 

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Longtime wealthy Genovese associate is union boss resposible for nationwide port strike

  October 02, 2024    Dapper_Don


Harold Daggett — the union boss who has vowed to “cripple” the US economy if ports don’t ban automation and raise dockworkers’ wages sharply — had a Bentley convertible parked outside his sprawling mansion in New Jersey this week, exclusive photos obtained by The Post reveal.

Photos taken by drone on Tuesday show the British luxury car parked with its top up outside what appears to be a five-car garage that’s connected to his 7,136-square-foot, Tudor-style home by a covered skyway.

The hulking, two-story mansion — located on a 10-acre property in Sparta, a leafy enclave 50 miles west of New York City — encircles a spacious backyard patio with an amoeba-shaped pool. A covered outdoor bar is situated next to what appears to be a massive, brick pizza oven.

A gate on the far side of the patio opens toward what looks like a free-standing sauna surrounded by a spacious wooden deck. A expansive swathe of forest surrounds the property on all sides.

The posh compound is nestled in a picturesque section of the Garden State near the Delaware Water Gap, where five-bedroom homes list for as much as $6 million, according to Zillow.

One realtor who spoke to The Post said that Daggett put the four-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom property on the market in 2004 at a listing price of $3.1 million before reducing it to $2.9 million. He eventually took it off the market.

Daggett, who fought back federal accusation of having Mafia ties, became president of the International Longshoremen’s Association in 2011, a job that comes with a salary of $728,000 annually on top of an additional $173,000 from ILA-Local 1804-1.

In 2005, he was accused of steering union benefits contracts to firms that paid kickbacks to organized crime at a Brooklyn trial, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Daggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged him and two others with racketeering.

He described himself as a target of the mob – though a turncoat Mafia member had testified Daggett was a member of the Genovese crime family, The New York Times reported.

During the course of the trial, one of Daggett’s co-defendants – Lawrence Ricci, an alleged Genovese associate – disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposing in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner.

Ricci’s death remained unsolved, though speculation circulated that he was killed after refusing to plead guilty to avoid news reports of the trial.

Daggett was acquitted, along with the other co-defendants.

The 78-year-old boss — who is often seen in public sporting a polo shirt and a chunky gold medallion around his neck while casting himself as a staunch advocate for blue-collar workers — also previously owned a 76-foot yacht, according to reports.

“They’re gonna be like this,” Daggett said, grabbing his neck in a choking gesture during an interview last month as it became apparent that the union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), the group negotiating for the ports, would fail to reach agreement on a new contract.

“I’ll cripple you. I will cripple you and you have no idea what that means. Nobody does,” he said.

The foul-mouthed union boss has apparently dug in his heels for a protracted strike.

“I don’t have a f—ing crystal ball between my legs, but it will last very long, I would tell you that,” he told The Wall Street Journal.

More than 45,000 dockworkers went on strike on Tuesday, shutting down 36 ports from Maine to Texas for the first time in nearly half a century.

The dockworkers’ strike, their first since 1977, could snarl supply chains and cause shortages and higher prices if it stretches on for more than a few weeks. It is also costing the US economy more than $3 billion per day.

Beginning after midnight, the workers walked picket lines Tuesday and carried signs calling for more money and a ban on automation that could cost workers their jobs.

Experts say consumers won’t likely notice shortages for at least a few weeks, if the strike lasts that long, though some perishable items such as bananas could disappear from grocery stores — although at this time of year, most other fruits and vegetables are domestically grown and not processed at ports, according to Alan Siger, president of the Produce Distributors Association.

In anticipation of a strike, most major retailers also stocked up on goods, moving ahead shipments of holiday gift items.

The USMX said both sides did budge from their initial positions.

The alliance offered 50% raises over the six-year life of the contract.

Comments from the union’s leadership had briefly suggested a move to 61.5%, but the union has since signaled that it’s sticking with its initial demand for a 77% pay increase over six years.

“We have demonstrated a commitment to doing our part to end the completely avoidable ILA strike,” the alliance said Tuesday.

The ports’ pay offer is more than every other recent union settlement, the group said.

“We look forward to hearing from the Union about how we can return to the table and actually bargain, which is the only way to reach a resolution,” the statement said.

On Tuesday, the Biden administration put pressure on port employers to raise their offer to secure a deal with dockworkers.

Administration officials led by Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su have been urging both sides to return to the bargaining table.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/02/business/harold-daggetts-sprawling-nj-mansion-has-bentley-5-car-garage-and-guest-house/

  

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