This Week In Gang Land
Mobster In Hock For Millions From Debt Scams Sues Lawyer's Widow for $150,000
Robert
Giardina is a different kind of mobster. For one thing, this made member of
the Gambino crime family had a brief stint acting as a mobster in a TV
series. For another, he carved out a career as a specialist in nuclear
medicine, acquiring science-related degrees from St. John's and Rutgers
Universities along the way.
Now Giardina has broken more new ground in Gang Land, becoming the first wiseguy known to file suit against the estate of his former attorney. Giardina is suing the lawyer's widow and their two children. Giardina wants the family to cough up nearly $150,000 that he says he is owed for legal services he paid for but which were never delivered before attorney John Meringolo died of a heart attack at age 48.
Giardina is seeking the money from the estate of Meringolo – a rising star of the defense bar and the scourge of federal prosecutors in Brooklyn and Manhattan when he died suddenly two years ago.
Mob-Tied Bloods Gangsta Gets 10 Years In Plot To Fly High With $2M In Drugs To Liverpool
Edwin (Money) Spears, a Newark NJ-based Bloods gangster with ties to
three New York mob families has received 10 years in prison for an aborted
plan to smuggle 25 pounds of cocaine and 500 pounds of marijuana that he and
a cohort loaded onto a private jet at Teterboro Airport bound for John
Lennon Airport in Liverpool, Gang Land has learned.
Mob Honchos Still Hanging Tough In $5 Million Construction Industry Ripoff Scheme
A mob-connected contractor charged in the huge 22-month-old labor
racketeering case with conspiring with Genovese and Gambino mobsters to
steal $5 million from builders of dozens of Manhattan high-rise apartments
and hotels copped a plea deal this week. But the main defendants are still
hanging tough.
