This Week In Gang Land
Feds Slam-dunk NYC-Based Mob Gambling Operation
Looking to
put down a few bucks on a sure thing? Don't bet against the mob. The feds
made that clear two weeks ago.
The FBI got together with their law enforcement partners in Brooklyn to announce the arrests of 31 suspects, including NBA players and a dozen wiseguys and mob associates from four crime families charged with raking in $7 million from gamblers in rigged card games they ran in East Hampton, Manhattan, Miami and Las Vegas.
The whole gang was there to announce the indictment of an NBA coach and active basketball player in the case: FBI Director Kash Patel. US Attorney Joseph Nocella, NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. NY FBI boss Christopher Raia. NY Homeland Security boss Ricky Patel, and NY Waterfront Commission Executive Director Phoebe Sorial.
Feds Want To Use Gangster's Made Man Status To Convict His Business Partner Of Extortion
Brooklyn
federal prosecutors are seeking to break new legal ground in the upcoming
extortion trial of mob associate Robert Brooke, Gang Land has learned.
Brooke, 52, is charged with extorting
$40,000 six years ago from three brothers who own the Waldorf Demolition
Company of Englewood, NJ.
Compassion Denied; Wiseguy Huck Carbonaro Dead Behind Bars
One
week after one of his legs was amputated and prison doctors told him they
would soon need to cut off the other one, Gambino mobster Thomas (Huck)
Carbonaro noted he was dying in a 41-page request for a compassionate
release after 22 years behind bars.
