This Week In Gang Land
It Wasn't Business, It Was Personal: Mob-Linked Businessman Manzo Says Jealousy, Not Racketeering, Sparked Bloody Assault Of Ex And Boyfriend
Tommy
Manzo has filed an unusual appeal of his conviction for rewarding a Luchese
soldier with a posh wedding reception in return for his bloody assault of
the current husband of his ex-wife, Dina Manzo, the Reality TV star of the
Real Housewives of New Jersey, Gang Land has learned.
Manzo doesn't deny giving wiseguy John Perna a gala wedding party for more than 300 guests at The Brownstone, Manzo's luxurious banquet hall in August of 2015. That event was the payoff a month after Perna bashed Dina's then-fiancé David Cantin over the head with a slapjack about 15 times, inflicting a gash in his head that required 11 staples to close the wound.
With its many twists and turns in the four-year-old case, the conviction of Manzo last year earned three assistant U.S. attorneys Gang Land’s Prosecutor of the Year in 2024. The trial came after Manzo turned down a zero-to-14 month plea deal even though he knew the feds had a video of the assault as well as tape recordings and testimony tying him to it.
Wiseguy Makes A Federal Case Out Of His Gripe With His Sentencing Judge
The 20-year-long shakedown of a union president was the centerpiece of
the blockbuster case that took down the leadership of the Colombo crime
family nearly four years ago. Like five other gangsters, wiseguy Michael
Uvino admitted his guilt, and was sentenced. But Uvino has had a bone to
pick with his sentencing judge about his restitution for two years now. The
other day, his gripe was heard by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sal The Shoemaker Now Works For Team America
Turncoat
Bonanno mobster Damiano (Danny) Zummo was the leadoff witness this week at
the trial of ex-detective Hector Rosario. And, as expected, Zummo fingered
the fired gumshoe for raiding a rival gambling parlor at Sal's Shoe
Repair.But there was a surprise development on Day 1: Sal The
Shoemaker, aka Genovese associate Salvatore Rubino, has flipped and backs up
what Zummo and fellow snitch Salvatore Russo say about the raid. The
Shoemaker is expected to take the stand today.
