Among those charged was year-old capo Vincent 'Vinny Unions' Ricciardo, who was recorded during a phone call in June threatening to kill a labor union official if he didn't play ball, according to the count indictment. The indictment against the crime family members lays out multiple schemes in a long-running campaign to infiltrate and take control of a Queens-based labor union and its affiliated health care benefit program, and a conspiracy to commit fraud in connection with workplace safety certifications.
Capo Vincent 'Vinny Unions' Ricciardo, 75, allegedly threatened to kill a union boss. Russo, Castellazzo, DiMatteo, Ferrara, Persico, Uvino, and Vincent and Domenick Ricciardo colluded with fellow defendants Erin Thompkins, 53, and Joseph Bellantoni, 39, among others, to devise a scheme to launder money from union healthcare contracts and payments through various channels linked to Bellantoni, and eventually to the Colombo crime family's leaders, according to the indictment.
Attorney Jacquelyn M. Kasulis said of the high-profile arrests. The feds also arrested a soldier for the Bonanno family, year-old John 'Maniac' Ragano, who is charged with loansharking, fraud and drug-trafficking offenses. Ragano is accused of leading a scheme to issue fraudulent workplace safety training certifications to construction workers, according to the indictment.
Rather than provide candidates the proper training, Ragano and fellow defendant and business partner, John Glover, 62, allegedly falsified federal paperwork, indicating hundreds of workers completed mandatory safety courses that they did not actually complete - or even attend.
Instead, various defendants used Ragano's pseudo-schools to conduct meetings involving Sicilian mafia members and to store stashes of illegal drugs. The feds also arrested a soldier for the Bonanno family, John 'Maniac' Ragano, who is charged with loansharking, fraud and drug-trafficking offenses. The final defendant, Vincent Martino, 43, was charged along with Vincent Ricciardo, Ragano, Costa, and Glover with conspiracy to distribute marijuana by transporting large shipments of the drug across state lines in vehicles from New York to Florida.
November 14, State troopers raid a national meeting of mafia leaders at the home of mobster Joseph 'Joe the Barber' Barbara in Apalachin, New York. Dozens escape and the 58 taken into custody insisted they were there to deliver well-wishes to an ailing friend, and were eventually released. The incident raised major national awareness of the mafia. The Mafia Commission Trial delivered a crushing blow to the mob. January 20, Authorities arrested organized crime suspects in what the FBI called the largest single-day operation against the Mafia in history.
Regardless of how many times they fill the void we create in their ranks, our FBI Organized Crime Task Force, and our law enforcement partners, are positioned to take them out again, and again. According to the indictment, the defendants and their co-conspirators committed and are charged with a wide array of crimes — including extortion, loansharking, fraud and drug trafficking — on behalf of the Colombo organized crime family.
The document asserts that Russo, Castellazzo, and DiMatteo, as well captains Persico, Ferrara and Vincent Ricciardo, initiated direct threats of bodily harm, to control the management of the labor union that they were targeting, and influenced decisions that benefitted the family.
According to the U. The suspects were taken to federal court in Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon and will appear before a judge via videoconference to face the slew of charges against them. Unlike the others, Vincent Ricciardo was arrested in North Carolina and will be arraigned in Charlotte, also Tuesday afternoon.
Russo, known as 'Mush,' is a cousin of Carmine Persico, and first rose to prominence in the family when he was promoted to acting underboss in Carmine Persico, nicknamed the Snake, died in Russo was sentenced to 14 years in state prison in November , until his release in July , under special parole conditions. He first ruled as street boss from to , bringing the then-warring Colombos back from the brink after a devastating civil war, but was arrested again in by the FBI, who slapped him with racketeering charges, claiming he illegally controlled and oversaw Long Island's garbage hauling industry.
In August , Russo was convicted of jury tampering and sentenced to 57 months in prison, compounded by months for both parole violation and his involvement in the racketeering case.
After his release in at 76 years old, Russo again took over the family as street boss after his parole expired, succeeding the incarcerated Ralph DeLeo, while Persico's son, Alphonse 'Allie Boy' Persico, served as acting boss.
In , he was arrested again on racketeering charges, garnering a 33 month sentence. He resumed his role as street boss on his release in Regardless of how many times they fill the void we create in their ranks, our FBI Organized Crime Task Force, and our law enforcement partners, are positioned to take them out again, and again.
According to the indictment, the defendants and their co-conspirators committed and are charged with a wide array of crimes — including extortion, loansharking, fraud and drug trafficking — on behalf of the Colombo organized crime family.
The document asserts that Russo, Castellazzo, and DiMatteo, as well captains Persico, Ferrara and Vincent Ricciardo, initiated direct threats of bodily harm, to control the management of the labor union that they were targeting, and influenced decisions that benefitted the family. According to the U. The suspects were taken to federal court in Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon and will appear before a judge via videoconference to face the slew of charges against them.
Unlike the others, Vincent Ricciardo was arrested in North Carolina and will be arraigned in Charlotte, also Tuesday afternoon. Russo was sentenced to 14 years in state prison in November , until his release in July , under special parole conditions. In August , Russo was convicted of jury tampering and sentenced to 57 months in jail, compounded by months for both parole violation and his involvement in the racketeering case. In , at 76 years old, Russo again took over the family as street boss after his parole expired, succeeding the incarcerated Ralph DeLeo.
The Colombo Crime Family is the youngest of the big five families which run the organized mafia in New York. This website uses cookies to personalize your content including ads , and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
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