This Week In Gang Land
Genovese Gangster Who 'Hates Rats' Jailed Without Bail On Federal Weapons Charges
Anthony
Costa, a violence prone Genovese gangster who boasts, "I HATE FUCKIN RATS"
in a tattoo on his back, was arrested last week on federal weapons charges
after FBI agents found a loaded handgun and two baseball bats in his car,
Gang Land has learned. Costa was jailed without bail after prosecutors
accused him of numerous crimes including the shooting of a victim two years
ago.
Sources say Costa, who savagely pummeled a cooperating witness in 2003 when he saw him in a Manhattan restaurant years after the witness had testified against him in a fraud case, is a target of a long-running investigation by the FBI and Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's office into gambling and loansharking by the Genovese crime family.
In a court filing, prosecutors say they have evidence that since 2018, Costa, 58, has been involved in several "extortionate schemes." Since "the summer of 2021," they wrote, he's been tape recorded speaking to loanshark victims. In June of 2023, Costa was recorded threatening one, and in August of 2023, he shot another victim "in the vicinity of Costa's home."
'Boo Hoo Bazoo' Isn't Done Yet: Wants One Year Behind Bars — Not The Six And A Half Years That The Feds Want Him To Have
John
(Boo Hoo Bazoo) Ragano (Yes, we've tweaked his nickname because his lawyers
again claim he's a victim) has lost his argument that jurors would have
acquitted him of all four counts – not just three of them – in the Naked
City Loansharking case if they had known that the key government
witness had planned to get him "heated" so that he'd threaten the witness
during a tape-recorded session. But the Bonanno soldier has another argument
for the judge.
Nassau County Cop Goes Down for the Count: Lying To The FBI About Bonanno And Genovese Crime Family Doings
Former
Nassau County detective Hector Rosario dodged one bullet: He was acquitted
of obstruction justice, a charge carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years
behind bars. But the fired detective was a big loser last week when a jury
found him guilty of lying to the FBI five years ago when he denied knowing
turncoat Bonanno wiseguy Damiano (Danny) Zummo.
