This Week In Gang Land
Genovese Wiseguy Linked To Electrical Company In $2 Billion Waldorf Rehab
The
45-year-old worker who fell to his death at the Waldorf Astoria last week
worked for an electrical company tied to a twice-convicted Genovese wiseguy
currently being investigated for bank fraud and labor racketeering by the
office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Gang Land has learned.
Sources say the investigation is separate and apart from Bragg's grand larceny case against mobster Christopher Chierchio, who recently copped a sweet no jail plea deal to charges he stole $300,000 in a $5 million bid-rigging and kickback scheme by mobsters and associates of two crime families who preyed on major builders of hotels and Manhattan high-rise apartments.
Sources say the DA's office has information that Chierchio, who officially worked for the company, Pinnacle Electric, two years ago, has been a secret partner allegedly involved in dealings by the company which has a $39 million subcontract for the electrical work in the landmark hotel's $2 billion rehab that began in 2017.
Former Acting Colombo Boss: I Was No Snitch!
Ralph
DeLeo had a lot on his mind the other day. The aging Boston-based gangster
said Gang Land got it wrong 15 years ago in reporting that he had been an
informer 30 years earlier. DeLeo had no gripe about being identified as an
acting Colombo family boss for a year. And he didn't argue that his job
ended when the FBI busted him for a drug rap in Little Rock, Arkansas, in
November of 2009.
Luchese Family Bookmakers Looking To Cop Plea Deals
Luchese
wiseguy Anthony Villani enjoyed what most likely will be his last New Year's
Eve dinner as a free man for the next couple of years when he celebrated
with friends and relatives in Manhattan. Push is finally coming to shove in
the long-running racketeering case in which he was charged in September of
2022 with running a lucrative gambling business named "Rhino Sports," Gang
Land has learned.
