This Week In Gang Land
Double Trouble For Gambino Crime Family Odd Couple
They
never met. They live in different boroughs. And they have never been
codefendants. But Kyle (Twin) Johnson and Mileta (Michael Michael) Miljanic
are a Gambino crime family Odd Couple. On the same day three years
ago, they were both arrested and jailed after the feds found loaded guns as
they searched their apartments looking for evidence tying them to mob-run
construction industry rackets.
The arrests have meant double trouble for the duo. Each mob associate was hit with federal weapons charges in the federal district where he lives — Johnson in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and Miljanic in the Eastern District (EDNY.) And each defendant was later indicted for other crimes in the federal courts on the opposite side of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.
Meanwhile, the main target of the labor racketeering investigations by the feds in both districts, Louis (Bo) Filippelli, a 57-year-old Gambino capo who has two prior racketeering convictions in cases going back two decades, has suffered none of those worries. He has avoided any trouble with the law since his release from federal prison back in 2008.
Good Things — Or Bad Things, Depending On your Point Of View — Often Lead To More Of The Same
Two
recently inducted Gambino mobsters who were charged last month with running
a lucrative Staten Island-based gambling and loansharking ring first showed
up on the radar screen of NYPD mob watchers five years ago while detectives
were investigating capo Frank Camuso and his crew for their involvement in
the alleged theft of $5 million from major NYC builders, Gang Land has
learned.
Judge Says: Wiseguy On Home Detention Can Work, And Attend A Wedding In His Backyard
Carmelo
(Carmine Pizza) Polito recently received two positive decisions regarding
his home detention from the judge who'll be sentencing the wiseguy for
racketeering in the coming months. But the stories behind the rulings by
Brooklyn Federal Judge Eric Vitaliano indicate that things aren't going well
for the 65-year-old Genovese capo these days.
