PikaDaDon
Thunderbolt Them Suckers
Why so emotional?
The Italian Mafia is looking flabby n sick these days
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Why so emotional?
Nothing emotional about it, it was a snide remark, because you feel so compelled to comment on things you obviously know nothing about it
in other words its better to appear stupid and say nothing than to open your mouth removing all doubt
all you had to do was google his name, this ain't frank lucas I'm talking about
you just negged me who's emotional
you made a snide remake talking about "where's frnak mathhews at now" assuming he met the same fate as the snitches like Frank Lucas and you were ill informed
that' why I called you a dumb ass
man up and take your medicine, you're not worth the energy of clicking to neg you back
Agreed.
Demon
Evil b*stard
Whether or not they are "running shyt" is up for debate...i would guess they dont, but the areas they operate in they definitely run. By that, I mean their own neighborhoods.
But the mafia in america is always active. you can just check this blog there is always mafia shyt going on, people still getting "wacked", etc.
http://www.fivefamiliesnyc.com/
But the mafia in america is always active. you can just check this blog there is always mafia shyt going on, people still getting "wacked", etc.
http://www.fivefamiliesnyc.com/
Young/Nacho\Drawz
...come on let's picture the possibility...
Thanks, here's a good article.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Feds bust massive Genovese family money laundering ring
Authorities have charged 11 members and associates of the notorious Genovese crime family with running a number of illegal financial schemes, including elaborate loansharking and sports gambling operations that raked in millions of dollars in recent years.
At a press conference in Newark this morning, Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced the takedown of the wide-ranging ring, saying their schemes were evidence that the Mafia had “evolved and learned to exploit sophisticated financial systems to hide and launder the proceeds of traditional street crimes.”
Seven defendants were arrested this morning, including a Genovese “capo”, 80-year-old Charles “Chuckie” Tuzzo and 55-year-old Vito Alberti, a “made” soldier – both of whom report directly to the crime family’s hierarchy in New York, authorities said. Another three were charged by summons, and one, Vincent Coppola, remains at large.
Check-cashing schemes
According to Hoffman, the man at the helm of the family’s alleged check-cashing scheme is Domenick Puccillo, a 56-year-old Florham Park man who oversaw operations at Tri-State Check Cashing Inc., located on Avenue A in Newark’s Ironbound District, and other licensed check cashing locations.
There, he allegedly extended lines of both cash and credit to customers, and charged annual interest rates ranging between one to three “points”, or between 52 and 156 percent.
The victims, who Hoffman said were typically indigent with poor credit, were required to pay interest weekly, or face threats of violence from Puccillo and an associate, Robert “Bobby Spags” Spagnola.
They typically made payments by check, so that it appeared they were simply cashing them as part of the Tri-State’s regular course of business, but the two were in fact keeping the proceeds for themselves and kicking profits up the line to Tuzzo and Alberti.
The ring also ran an unlicensed check-cashing operation out of the Portucale Restaurant & Bar, also in Newark’s Ironbound District, which was allegedly used to launder money and evade taxes.
According to Hoffman, customers looking to avoid government scrutiny when cashing checks over $10,000 would visit the restaurant, where owner Abel Rodrigues would hand over cash provided by Tri-State in exchange for a fee. Customers typically cashed the checks in order to finance “under the table” payrolls at their own businesses, Hoffman said.
Rodrigues, meanwhile, would flout federal law by failing to file required transactions reports on the checks, and Tri-State would be reimbursed by another company, Viriato Corp., for six-figure sums they had directed to the illegal operation.
Over a four-year period, Rodrigues and an associate, Manuel Rodriguez, are accused of cashing more than $400 million in checks and collecting over $9 million in fees.
Two employees at Tri-State and Portucale, Flor Miranda of Newark and Jennifer Mann of Bayonne, are each accused of helping to keep records and file false reports related to the schemes.
Sports Gambling
Authorities claim the ring ran a multi-million dollar illegal sports gambling business, headed by 37-year-old Coppola, the son of jailed Genovese capo Michael Coppola.
According to Hoffman, Coppola used an offshore “wire room” located in Costa Rica to process bets, and supervised underlings John Trainor and Jerry Albanese, who vetted new clients and dictated how much specific groups of bettors could gamble per week or per game.
During 2011, Coppola allegedly handled more than $1.7 million in bets, bringing in more than $400,000 in profits to the Genovese family.
Trainor allegedly became tied up with the ring after becoming indebted to the crime family. The ring then took over his car business, GTS Auto Carriers, and siphoned money from it - which Hoffman likened to a memorable episode of “The Sopranos” during which mobsters force a gambling addict to hand over profits from his sporting goods store until it hits bankruptcy.
“That’s the analogy that works for me. This guy Trainor got involved with the mafia, the mafia got involved in his business, and they really bled the business dry and took advantage of him,” he said.
Under a lucrative deal with Nissan, GTS transported cars from Port Newark to area dealerships. Alberti is accused of creating a company called AMJ Transport, which collected more than $300,000 a year to to lease trucks to GTS, and placed himself and another Genovese associate on the payroll, despite never performing any legitimate work.
Drug Money, Tax Charges
Authorities say another check-cashing company acquired by Pucillo, Florida-based I&T Financial Services, was used to launder and transfer money from drug traffickers.
Money would initially be delivered to Miranda at Tri-State, then wired under a fictitious name to I&T to an account managed by the client, who authorities were unable to identify, Hoffman said.
I&T allegedly took in about $666,000 in laundered money from the scheme, and collected about $22,500 in fees. Hoffman declined to be specific about the type or amount of drugs the ring may have helped conceal, citing an ongoing investigation.
Tuzzo, Alberti, Pucillo, Spagnola, Rodriguez, Coppola, Rodrigues and Trainor are all facing charges including first-degree racketeering and money laundering, each of which could land them in jail for up to 20 years.
Alberti, Trainor, Rodrigues and Rodriguez are also facing tax-related charges for their illegal activity related to the check-cashing businesses and other endeavors.
Hoffman said the cases will be tried out of State Superior Court in Morris County.
A full list of the defendants and charges:
∙ Charles “Chuckie” Tuzzo, 80, Bayside, N.Y. – first-degree racketeering, first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, criminal usury and promoting gambling
∙ Vito Alberti, 55, New Providence – first-degree racketeering, first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, criminal usury, promoting gambling and filing a fraudulent tax return
∙ Domenick Pucillo, 56, Florham Park – first-degree racketeering, first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, criminal usury, possession of usurious loan records, operating an unlicensed check-cashing facility
∙ Robert “Bobby Spags” Spagnola, 67, Morganville – first-degree racketeering, first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, criminal usury, possession of usurious loan records
∙ Manuel Rodriguez, 49, Chatham – first-degree racketeering, first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, operating an unlicensed check-cashing facility, filing a fraudulent tax return, failure to file a tax return
∙ Vincent P. Coppola, 37, Union – first-degree racketeering, first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, promoting gambling
∙ Abel J. Rodrigues, 52, Bridgewater – first-degree racketeering, first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, operating an unlicensed check-cashing facility, filing a fraudulent tax return
∙ John W. Trainor, 42, Brick – first-degree racketeering, first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, promoting gambling, forgery, failure to file a tax return
∙ Jerry J. Albanese, 47, Scotch Plains – first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, promoting gambling
∙ Flor Miranda, 40, Newark – first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, criminal usury, possession of usurious loan records
∙ Jennifer Mann, 30, Bayonne – first-degree money laundering, conspiracy, operating an unlicensed check-cashing facility, issuing a false financial statement, forgery
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2...oansharking_gambling_ring.html#incart_m-rpt-1
Demon
Evil b*stard
and theres a reason the feds still got a hard on for joey merlino. He must got some rats in his circle and the feds are scrambling around. He got 4 months for meeting with a mob associate....ironically, the person he met, John Ciangalini, fukking SHOT and KILLED his own brother Michael Ciangalini AND joey merlino himself back in the 90's. There has to be big money involved to go sit down with the nikka that shot you your ass and killed your mans back in the day
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
there's a gang of 9-5 birds chirping in here
My 2 cents is that the Italian Mafia in US is definitely not extinct. They'e obviously learned from their past mistakes, and went back to keeping things quiet (the way it was meant to be.) The 90's was definitely a CRUSHING decade for the Mob, but I think the influence and connections they've built over the last 80 years simply won't go away within one decade. They've been connected to Labor Unions and the Construction industry for Decades, and my guess is they are still involved heavily within those 2 groups.
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
most the movies are based on true stories... the other half are knock offs of true stories
act like the mob hasn't operated in this country since the beginning of the 1900s brehs
act like the commission didn't have a 50-60 year run brehs
act like this isn't a internationally connected criminal organization brehs
act like they still ain't making millions upon millions in illegal money daily brehs
act like they didn't invent las vegas and still run shyt there behind the scenes today brehs
what exactly is their rating anyway to be over rated
most the movies are based on true stories... the other half are knock offs of true stories
act like the mob hasn't operated in this country since the beginning of the 1900s brehs
act like the commission didn't have a 50-60 year run brehs
act like this isn't a internationally connected criminal organization brehs
act like they still ain't making millions upon millions in illegal money daily brehs
act like they didn't invent las vegas and still run shyt there behind the scenes today brehs
what exactly is their rating anyway to be over rated
Okay lmao
stop watching movies
you probably believe the godfather was the head of the illumunati
you can say the same thing about traids and yakuza
mafia is glamorized because of the movies
they were never this all powerful all seeing group
frank matthews was one guy he backed them down and lived right across the street from the head of the mafia families which pissed off yet they were too scared to do anything
southpawstyle
Superstar
As an Italian-American I can confidently say Italian-Americans are some of the worst people now days.
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
they spoke on this on sopranos a little... when they go to collect and dude is like "this is starbucks dude, we have a safe and the money gets sent to corporate and if a cup is missing, they will audit us"
technology caught up with the mob.. they used to be anti drugs.. they extort mom and pop businesses, steal shyt, grease palms, put plants in police stations, courtrooms, political power, then extort them or have them work for them... to get them ahead in the game.. it was all quiet cause nobody told, they could kill in the streets with ease, and fix the books and shyt
now they got corporations killing mom and pop stores.. the unions are breaking up.. everything is out in the open.. nikkas is telling.. politicians info is leaking.. everyone got a camera and a google to follow you around and be all up in your business... they can't move like they used to
but you see from the list of arrests and new promotions... that it's still going on.. they are not broke.. they are not dying off.. and nobody is shutting them down on a permanent basis
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
you just sound dumb... go read an actual book.. go read some actual court transcripts... shyt go read the articles in the thread..
it'll tell you exactly what they do and did... and everything i listed was fact...
i'm not saying suck their dikk and call them gods... i'm saying they robbed, murdered and killed people for over 100 fukking years now in this country.. and as of today, are still doing exactly that.. in a somewhat organized fashion... and have managed to put themselves in millionaire and hundred thousandaire type positions... that can't be denied
meanwhile..... we have the crips and bloods doing what?
and no you can't say the same about triads and yakuza cause they ain't big in america.. we talking about america.... but yes.. if i went to asia.. that's their mafia
if i went to ireland, they'd have their own organized crime syndicate.. it's called the IRA
every country got some sort of organized crime that is going on...
yea frank had some boss shook... you know there's about 10-20 more bosses out there right?? did he have all of them shook too? guess he would have styled on lucky luciano and the boys too right? cause they were made up fiction