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Subscribe to RSSAn investigation of the extortion of trash haulers has resulted in charges against 32 people in the New York area, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Thirty of the suspects were arrested Wednesday, and two others were expected to surrender later in the week, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the southern district of New York said in a press release.
Suspected members or associates from three different organized crime families in the New York area were among the arrested, the statement said.
The main indictment alleges 12 members of "an organized criminal enterprise" were connected to a waste disposal business that was involved with loansharking, mail and wire fraud, extortion and stolen property offenses. These 12 were charged with racketeering conspiracy charges.
Among the dozen is Carmine Franco, also known as "Papa Smurf" and "Uncle Sonny," who authorities also accuse of extortion and the interstate transportation of stolen property. The attorney's office said 77-year-old Franco is an associate of the Genovese crime family.
Seventeen others were charged with individual acts of extortion, loansharking and other crimes, the attorney's office said.
Court documents claim the suspects controlled several waste disposal businesses, including those based in New York's Westchester, Rockland and Nassau counties, and in New Jersey's Bergen and Passaic counties. The men allegedly threatened the businesses by demanding extortion payments for protection and telling them which trash pick-up stops they could use, the attorney's office said. Officials say many of the charged had avoided having any sort of official connection to the trash collection businesses they controlled.
"...While these accused mobsters may have hidden themselves behind seemingly legitimate owners of waste disposal businesses, law enforcement was able to pierce that veil through its painstaking, multi-year investigation," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
"In addition to the violence that often accompanies their schemes, the economic impact amounts to a mob tax on goods and services," George C. Venizelos, assistant director-in-charge of the FBI's New York office, said in a statement.
The thirty arrested suspects, who are all residents of either New York or New Jersey, were expected to appear and be arraigned in a Manhattan federal court Wednesday.
The Genovese, Gambino and Luchese organized crime families have a long history of extorting trash collection companies, The Associated Press reported.
From the archives, Jan. 2011: More than 120 alleged mobsters arrested on East Coast
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Local 813 of the Teamsters is mobbed up? Say it isn't so!!!
This is part of the new Gun Control Legisltation passed in New York. Soon even mobsters will not have any means of protecting themselves.......
Rounding up 30 mobsters is jusice.
Rounding up 30 Illegals is racial profiling
denver. That's great. Love it love it love it!
The mob still exists???
I have yet to see a union that isn't controlled by the Mafia in one form or another. They all work by intimidation and extortion.
Janine: And rounding up 30 politicians would be a good start. Other than the fact that we're stupid enough to keep voting the same ones in, there's not much difference bewtween them and the mob as far as I can see. That's why I haven't voted for a single incumbent in a decade now.
The "Mob" does exist. Its called "one million moms"...
Yes it does, NEWSWINNER, its called Capital Hill.
What a F**kin comedy! ... The Mob is a threat to americans? LOL ...
Why not take down the real threat to American citizens ... the thieves that steal more with a briefcase and their complete control of our senators & congressional representatives then the mob ever stole?
The crooks that control wall street, banks and corporations ... that have laws made that harm millions of everyday American citizens so they can line their pockets, limit competition, control world markets ...
This is like killing a flea crawling up a elephants ass with the intention of rape ...... just another dog & pony show to convince the citizenry that they do something ..making a mountain out of a mole hill
It's a sad day in this country when you can deal with the "MOB" and get more integrity than your banker ..
I agree with you there Conserv.
Definition of Stupidity = doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
People vote for the familiar names over and over again, but then complain about why nothing ever changes.
It's about time they went up to Capitol Hill and rounded them up.
Polish plumbers gang are sleeping with dem fishes ! The Purples own NY understand ! And as for you small people keep running like headless chickens. Capich !>= )
ALL
THOSE DEMANDING GUN CONTROL BY EXECUTIVE ORDER, SIDE STEPPING OUR CONGRESS ARE
TRAITORS.
YOU ARE LEFT WING NUT JOBS and are to be deemed REVOLUTIONIST TO OVER THROW OUR CONSTITUTION.
AMENDMENT
II
"A
well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the
right of the
people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
*SHALL
NOT BE INFRINGED*…END OF SUBJECT
Drug
dealers and criminals love gun bans...
Dear
President Obama,
Let
me begin by saying that you can count on us to support your efforts in
disarming American citizens in any way we can. The Fast and Furious operation
backfired a bit in this regard, but I’m glad to see it hasn’t stopped you. As
you know, we are making inroads on US soil. We’ve set up significant operations
in the Southwest, one area where armed citizens can be a bit of trouble to us,
especially if they own land we cross or are adjacent to.
We
view their disarming with a positive attitude. I would say your basic
gun-grabbing strategy is primarily aimed at the American West. The Border
States need to be cleaned out. The fewer people there who have guns
(particularly those with high-capacity clips), the easier it is for us. But
since our drug trafficking lines take in most of America, wherever citizens
aren’t armed we’re generally in better shape.
I’m
pleasantly surprised that media in your country haven’t pressed you to name the
areas where most gun violence is taking place. After all, if your objective is
to reduce that violence, you would think a campaign directed at gangs in inner
cities would rank number one on your to-do list. Those areas and those gangs do
subcontracting work for us (and other Mexican cartels). Leaving them in place
is a priority for us. So congratulations on being able to skirt this tricky
issue. Your cojones are, indeed, huge.
Please
pass along my thanks to Brian Williams, Scott Pelley, and Diane Sawyer. I assume
they are in your pocket and carrying your message. Undoubtedly, they are also
refraining from bringing up the gang issue. Whenever I speak with the president
of Mexico, I point out your masterly and deft control of media as a model we
should emulate.
Now
to the real reason I’m writing. In Chicago, your crime stronghold, one of our
people is on trial. This is a sensitive matter, as you know. Whenever I speak
with the president of Mexico, I point out your masterly and deft control of
media as a model we should emulate.
The
defendant, Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, wants to expose our arrangement. This
must not happen. So far, your DEA and CIA have managed to gain trial delays. Niebla
and his lawyers are ready to offer documents that show the Sinaloa has US
federal permission to ship tons of drugs into Chicago, and from there to other
distribution points in the US. Niebla will reveal this deal was made so that
Sinaloa would provide valuable information on our rival cartels to the DEA and
the FBI. Therefore, Niebla will point out that he has special immunity from
prosecution. That was part of the deal for high-ranking Sinaloa members.
Fortunately,
his trial hasn’t been played up in the American press. Again, well done.
Coverage has been stifled. It’s stayed on the back burner, and the CIA and DEA
are claiming no such immunity deal exists for Niebla. But at the same time, the
CIA has been making motions in court to have documents excluded from the trial
on the basis of National Security. This is a gross tip-off to our deal, and it
doesn’t sit well with me. It’s awkward. I’m sure you agree, Mr. President.
The
last thing we need here is exposure, especially while you’re pushing forward
your gun-grabbing program. Sinaloa has members and agents and sub-contractors
operating all over the US, and naturally these people are armed. They not only
sell drugs, they shoot people. We can’t control everything they do. They get
into intramural squabbles and use their weapons to settle disagreements. Bodies
pile up. Sometimes, innocent people are killed.
Our
subcontractors commit unrelated crimes that have nothing to do with drugs. They
rob, they steal, they shoot, they kill. If it comes out that Sinaloa and all
its component parts, operating within US borders, are contributing mightily to
high gun-violence statistics— And if it comes out that Sinaloa has a special
arrangement to do business in the US without fear of disruption—Your
gun-grabbing program and our operations will both be in dire jeopardy.
And
the blow-up in the press will be catastrophic for both of us. You and I
understand this is just business, but other people don’t see it that way. Therefore,
Mr. President, I’m stating, in the strongest terms possible, that the Niebla
trial in Chicago has to be shut down, one way or another.
Either
a quiet plea deal has to be struck, or we will be forced to do something
drastic. Soon. If I’m reading you right, and I believe I am, your gun-grabbing
program is just one step in an Operation Chaos aimed at destabilizing your
country. In the past, we have contributed to that agenda, and we continue to do
so. We don’t pretend to understand this whole game at its higher levels, but to
us that doesn’t matter. We’re in business to make money and sell product.
We
support you. And we expect you to support us. Congratulations on achieving a
second term in office. Please pass along my regards to President Bush, his
father, and President Clinton. By the way, in case you weren’t briefed on the
specifics of the Aurora and Sandy Hook shootings, I want to state,
unequivocally, that no Sinaloa member provided professional services in those
operations, which were obviously aimed at provoking a successful follow-up
gun-control program.
Yours
truly, XXXXXX
CEO,
Sinaloa
Dear President Obama,
HOW IS GUN CONTROL GOING TO HELP THESE KIDS?
It is speculated that many of these missing children have been
sold on the human sex slave market that exist world wide.
Losing children is not something unique to New York City or the
District of
Columbia. The State of Illinois has managed to lose track of a number of
children in its care.[12]
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has also
managed to
lose track of the availability of its own foster homes, its system having been
described by the Chicago Tribune as: "a ludicrous tracking system
that
amounts to three-by-five file cards kept in piles by placement workers."[13]
The ubiquitous three-by-five index card would appear to be
something of an
industry fixture.
After a young boy was raped in a Massachusetts foster home, it
came to light
that Department of Social Services caseworkers and supervisors had apparently
managed to overlook a pattern of nine foster children having run away from the
home.
When asked how they could have overlooked such a pattern, DSS
Commissioner
Linda Carlisle said that with the Department's outdated computer system, there
is no way to check how many children have run away from any given home, adding:
"We have 3-by-5 index cards, manual records."[14]
But both the computer and the index cards were more than
sufficient for
department spokesperson Lorraine Carli just a few years earlier. After a
scathing legislative report revealing serious deficiencies in foster care
tracking was released, Carli said the agency had a good tracking system and
reviewed each placement every six months.
"We found that not to be the case," said Gloria Fox, a
member of the House
subcommittee on foster care, which released the report.
"Clearly, they're working on that," Fox said, but
"some people haven't seen
their social worker in years."[15]
Among the conclusions reached in the 306-page report:
court backlogs leave children's lives dangling from childhood to
adolescence; children shift from home to home in a pattern of "foster care
drift."
increasing numbers of children were entering foster care, DSS had
no reliable means for tracking the location of children in its care.
had, on several occasions, failed to qualify for federal
funding because it had not been in compliance with federal regulations.
shortage of foster homes in the state had resulted in many
children being placed in "marginal homes" only slightly better than
those from
which they were removed.
parents did not receive vital information about the children they
accepted, often resulting in less than adequate care.
minority children were entering the foster care system than ever
before, but because the system had few minority homes for them, they were being
placed outside their ethnic or racial groups.
"I feel we have condemned children to limbo," said
Representative Marie
Parente, one of four former foster children on the seven-member subcommittee.
"They are suffering silently."
Gerald W. Robinson, then the newly appointed Commissioner of the
Department,
took issue with several of the report's criticisms. He maintained that DSS did
have a reliable tracking system for its children, noting that confidentiality
requirements prevented the agency from furnishing the legislators with specific
information about children in its care.
He described the state's foster care system as
"excellent" and "one of the
best in the country," and said that though "all the problems the
report points
out have some validity, it just doesn't focus on the positive part of the
system."[16]
No value
I noticed they hit em in New York and left the Outfit ha out of it in Chicago, where you really need to take the trash out!
Hey Bubba, don't mess with Chicago ! The Purples own Chicago even the garbage there is ours to sift through>= )
Johny, I'm from Chicago! When I was growing up we had a guy down the block who was friends of a person who used to be Big Al's driver, Mr. Accardo, uses knows him! I never met the man, but we all had Great 4ths the police use to open up there trunks and light the place up, always had the streets plowed. You know what I mean.
So Bubba how do you like our new mayor ?
Compared to politicians the mob is a ant attempting to rape a elephant, take that baby.
I'm so happy now that NY is making its city the safest place in the world to live, I know in my heart that every New Yorker is jumping for joy because with no mob and no firearms their will be no crime, New Yorkers will be able to walk the streets after midnight with a true feeling of security, knowing they are safe, they will be safe from all types of crime because there will be no garbage wars and no firearms, that alone will put a end to all other types of crime and violence, just like it worked in Chicago. people just for the fun of it lets start monitoring the crime rates in these cities and do some comparing of present and future.
I assume that is sarcasm D Buck?
Johny, I don't live there anymore got tired of the cold moved to Arizona! Only one Mayor Da Mayor! Go Bears. Dis guys a puppet!
Stomp out crime. STOP VOTING BACK INTO OFFICE THE SAME CROOKS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Talk about beng "mobbed up".
Now the FBI ought to focus on the Senate. A lot of those bastards ought to be rounded up and incarcerated.
i cant believe there are still mobsters anywhere. dont they realize its 2013 and not 1922? get a real job already.
Um, they bring in more money than everyone heres salaries combined. Why would this ever go away?
Really? That much? Wow.
Dude. How do I apply for a position with that organization, and where is their human resources office? Do they have an online application process, and does it allow a potential applicant to attach his/her resume'?
The retirement plan is killer, you should be aware.
So this is why N.Y. moved so fast to get their gun laws passed.
N.Y. will need to hold a special election to fill these vacancies.
TFNJ, excellent info. Thanks!
Really?
Organized crime will always exist.
they like live like a parasits, we have many kinds of them, welfare recipientes, some politicians
Illegal gun running will soon increase dramatically...
Extortion and bribery is a real job Rockme just ask any politician! If is wasn't for organized crime what would the President and Attorney General do!
What do you think allows the container ship to even get unloaded? Ha,ha always been, always will!
To bad there are not federal crime laws relating to the "garbage spewing" - then they could have arrested Donald Trump.
@ unfair(uninformed)unbalancedfox And the entire Democratic party, there are not enough land fills and trash barges in the country for them. that means all the garbage from MSNBC will just have to pile up.
Their garbage industry involvement is just the tip of the iceberg. This is nothing but a disruption to them.
They need check in MA, CT, Chicago send out of business !
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Barry will take credit for this also.
Oh please just STFU!
Who's Barry? I thought that was that black crackhead that was voted as mayor of DC both before and after his prison term.
J Edgar would be so proud. How about some cement boots and a ride out to sea? Why waste taxpayer money on a fair trial and subsequent incarceration expenses.
Would that also apply to the "legal" criminals in DC?
The Italian mafia is like a raindrop in the ocean, relative to the corporate mafia and the federal mafia in DC.
Boy you got that right.This story is just a distraction ,while the real corruption is in DC.
Amen.
Multiplewoman
Its called distraction!
Now lets round up some criminals in DC.
Go after the unions, they are worse than MOB gangsters any day.
Your a moron..........
@ frank,
you may be correct about that, but his point about unions is a valid opinion, LOL.
Maybe your right.Most people would rather work for Wally -Mart for $8.00 dollars a hr, rather than make a decent salary with a union for $15.00 a hr.
lol, Frank said "Your a moron........." Good stuff frank. (I bet he doesn't even get this.)
Justsayinginco,
Attempts to educate collective-bargaining unit members on the proper use of punctuation, contractions and other criteria for using good English may not be effective.
Frank,
I refused to join a union once and was treated so badly that I quit after two days. I went back to college immediately and now my salary (equated to hourly wages) is many times over the figures you mentioned. And...the best part is, I get to tell union employees what to do!
Don't tell Frank that stuff. It's more fun watching these guys parade around like they are large and in charge. A depressed worker is a bad worker. Now, back to the table!!!
You are both morons, the mob and the unions are one in the same.
You tried something once.And that was all you needed. And have you subtracted the cost of college from your start up. I had a good Union job. Made 40 to 50 thousand a year with ot. Retired now,with nice pension. About 2,75.00 a month. Have a few investments paying well ,because i could afford to invest. You may just be one of those hater guy's.
Nice pension Frank, $2.75 a month :)
@Frank, I'll pay people $15/hr that deserve it, not b/c some union tells me so. Everyone has value, but it should be determined by the employer. That's why all these jobs keep getting shipped over seas and employment is up. Americans think they are too good for them. So, quit your whinning.
The Unions are today the Strong holds from the Mafia and whit the bless of the feds, when ehen a FREE WORK become a reality in USA the Mafia will be in retreat or extint
@Dan T.... Great, LOL
ha! i'm still here! suckers!
Come on, the wiseguys are petty thieves compared to Wall Street bankers. How much tax payer money did the FBI waste chasing these guys around when Wall Street raids our country of tons of money every day?
Actually I bet they spent more to catch them than the wiseguys made!
Ya tink Wall street bankers and da mafia are connected yet! Guys we just want to be business men, honest that's all! Mr. Colombo wats yous got to say, I drinks da fivs!
hopefully they are some of the hard core Russians
You make a good point. While the article states that they are members of the 5 crime families, that would mean the Italian mob. But the Russians, and others, operate quietly and efficiently in NY.
I was thinking the same - read the article and noticed "mob families" - that's Italian.
You're definitely putting a lot of faith in NBC to have accurate information. While "families" means Italian and "Bratva" means Russian, did NBC get it right???? Come to think of it, this question is actually more interesting than the content of the article.
The Feds want to find out if they've started their new NYC gun-running business yet, and when they can expect to start getting their bribe money.
When is the FBI going after the real criminals; polluters, politicians, lobbyists?
step by step, I hope so
I live below the Mason Dixon line and know very little about the Teamsters but I guess the Feds took the opportunity to protect the pork laden Sandy Relief Funds and the reselling of salt water damaged cars in other areas of the country.
Get with the program,you guy's lost that one.
who is (you guy's)? ...are we not all Americans or are we going to continue to divide and fall???
Here is my program, America the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. Man up to your morals and convictions and work hard...
But alas, you have another Agenda... this Agenda...
Then Again you may prefer organized crime over a land of laws. From your postings, I think you do.
There are not a lot of Teamsters in this area Frank. I wasn't talking about the War of Northern Aggression that took the dishonest Abe almost 5 years and almost total destruction of the country east of the Mississippi to end..
And you folks had Hue Long. Now there was a honest man.
Not a War of Northern Aggression.It was a labor dispute.The south had free labor. That was the injustice.
Like the mythological hydra the Italian mafia continues to survive and create new heads as the old ones are severed.
I guess the golden age of the mafia in America is over. But they are still out there lurking in the shadows trying to suck the life out of society in whatever ways they can.
They sell their souls when they become 'made men' where they take their vows of loyalty and secrecy. Often however they violate those sacred oaths when faced with long prison sentences.
When Salvatore 'Sammy The Bull' Gravano became a made man Paul 'Big Paul' Castellano was present.
Big Paul stated:
"I'm the boss. I'm the head of the family. I am your god."
Little did Big Paul realize then what a fateful day that was and how his and the Bull's paths would cross in the future.
In a bad economy some folks figure if you can make it ,you just take it. That's how it all started in the 20"s. You just can't keep some people down.
The problem for the unions Frank (I'm former member) is the push to much all the time fot "decent" payments, and benefits to the investment business, companys, all this companies want nice incomes in return but whit the unions after their ass they don't see much profits especially whit the cheap products come in from outside, so they have a problem, the unions don't want see this because are idiots and still asking for new bargains and benefits, they are protec for the law (big mistake) In this case You, Me in positin like investor look for best option to survive and is ESCAPE from USA them going overaseas and the americans see the jobs fly far away because the unions kill the chicken gold ! You opinion show you are selfish like the average union member, short vision. Me son is not union member and I can see the hard is for him mede "a decent salary" I don want him support any union more !
Looks like somebody wasn't bribed enough and or another crime family is moving in.
You know, if you cross the mob, you will simply disappear. That is the time honored way they do things. If they just happened to put all these mobsters on a single bus and that bus just happened to disappear on its way to the police department, wouldn't that be a good tradeoff?
"hey, i gotcha FBI round up, right heeah."
Glad we have the FBI watching!
The FBI take care the mob in control of the Local #230 the Labores Unions in Hartford CT many years ago, send to prison to the boss belong to the Gambino family of New York, now the union is weak, good job !
private garbage-hauling industry-I thought this was Jersey's venue. There you go then.
So while the FBI does this with a few Mobsters and Garbage thousands are coming into this Country over Barbed wire in Arizona and Texas. We should have the Military on the Border and shoot them. Sink the Submarines. I have supported Obama on some things but he has no balls for stopping the Bad guys coming in this country. He does good in Afghanistan and shoots them from the drones so use the drones and shoot the people coming over. Shoot the sub's
stop, stop, too many shots ! they are flyng now over our heads, many imigrants are now everyere but WE NEED it, you now why ? bacause we support many lezy people in welfare, SS. etc. they don;t work and all imigrant I see around WORK for us everywere and for they food because they don't qualify for the "programs"
i thought that it was an article about the Jewish mobsters running our financial system, but it is the poor Italians trying too make a living by employing people and actually making a profit!
and there is that.
You are right, maybe this crackdown is inspired for the jewish mafia for rip off competitors, they are infiltrated now on the government in both sides, in White House (remenber Kissinger) check now the "new" secretary of treasure is the jewis bakground
Nowhere in the article did it refer to a nationality of the perps. they may be, chinese, russian,bosnian, irish , italian, to many ganster movies
5 families = Italian mob
And where ever you find 4 Catholics you will find a 5th (of Irish Whisky). A Catholic priest told me that one.
Go away, you spambot moron!
Silly BobW. In NYC, when you refer to the five families, it is the Italian Mafia, La Cosa Nostra, or whatever. There are no Chinese, Irish, Russian, or Bosnian members of the Mafia. One hundred percent Italian. Period. Try not being so disingenuous next time.