This Week In Gang Land
He Killed Five When He Was A 'Rash Young Man;' He's Headed Home Now As A 'Reflective, Empathic, Middle-Aged Adult,' Thanks To The First Step Act
Vito
Guzzo, a violent Colombo crime family gangster who copped a plea deal
decades ago calling for a 38-year prison term for five 1990s mob murders,
has had ten years shaved off his prison term by provisions of the First Step Act of 2018 (FSA), Gang Land has learned. Sources say Guzzo, 60, will be released
from prison next month
Guzzo's official Bureau of Prisons get-out-of-jail day isn't until November 4, 2028. But sources say provisions of the seven-year-old law have enabled the convicted gangster to pick up enough "earned time credits" to win an early release by completing scores of programs that the BOP says "support a successful return to society, reduce recidivism and promote public safety."
Using a different gambit two years ago, Guzzo struck out. He filed a motion in court seeking compassion under the First Step Act. That was denied by a judge who wrote that 38 years behind bars was "not extraordinarily long" for a gangster who killed five people and conspired to kill five others. Gang Land's sources say the BOP's FSA-based decision is final, and cannot be challened in Court. Guzzo will soon be transferred from the low security federal prison in Danbury to a New York halfway house.
Gambino Wiseguys Awaiting Trial On Racketeering Charges Have Money Problems
As the racketeering trial of Gambino capo Joseph (Joe Brooklyn) Lanni and
nine codefendants moves at a snail's pace toward a scheduled trial in
September, money problems have arisen for two of Lanni's accused fellow
wiseguys, according to a spate of recent court filings in the 16-month-old
case.
Lowkey, Well-Respected Gambino Wiseguy Philip Modica, Checks Out At 96
The leaders of the Gambino family and many of its members paid their
final respects last week to Philip Modica, a well-respected, elderly soldier
who owned the Manhattan restaurant that led to the trial — and the acquittal
— of mob boss John Gotti in 1990 for ordering the 1986 shooting of
carpenters union official John O'Connor. Modica was 96.
