This Week In Gang Land
Ex-Federal Mob Prosecutors Agree; Trump's Push to Drop Corruption Charges Against Mayor Adams Should Be Squashed
Former
Manhattan federal prosecutors Nick Akerman and Hagan Scotten have never met.
Their careers were decades apart, but both men convicted powerful Mafia
leaders on racketeering charges and they agree that the Trump
Administration's push to dismiss the federal bribery and corruption charges
against NYC Mayor Eric Adams should be squashed, Gang Land has learned.
Akerman convicted acting Genovese boss Frank (Funzi) Tieri on racketeering charges back in 1980. Scotten convicted acting Luchese boss Matthew Madonna and underboss Steven (Stevie Wonder) Crea of racketeering and the murder of ex-Purple Gang leader Michael Meldish in 2019. They are both Harvard Law grads. And their convictions came after hotly contested trials.
Scotten quit last week after ten years as an assistant U.S. attorney rather than move to dump the case as ordered by his newly appointed superiors at the Department of Justice, and has no say anymore in the case. But Akerman, who resigned in 1983, after seven years as an AUSA, is trying to have one. He has filed a motion on behalf of city residents asking the judge to block the dismissal of the Adams case.
Feds To Unveil Two Turncoat Bonanno Gangsters At Obstruction Of Justice Trial Of Ex-Detective Hector Rosario
Eight
years after they flipped, a pair of turncoat Bonnano gangsters will make
their debut at the trial of former Nassau County Detective Hector Rosario
that starts next week and testify that the ex-cop took part in a slew of
crimes with them over the years, Gang Land has learned. That's despite the
fact that Rosario isn't charged with committing any crimes with any Bonanno
family members or associates.
Sliwa: Before They Became Deadly Killers, The Gemini Twins Loved To Play Stickball
Curtis
Sliwa, the busy Republican candidate for Mayor recently took time out from
his campaign and the court battle over the current Mayor's corruption
indictment to talk to Gang Land. He didn't want to talk about the mayoral
race, or even Gang Land's item last week about soldier Joseph (Little Joe) D'Angelo, the
taxi driver from hell who was behind the wheel when Sliwa was shot in 1992.
No. He wanted to talk about stickball.
