Mobsters charged in worldwide plot to regulate New York rubbish truck business, DOJ says

The plot turned out to be rubbish.

Ten New York-based mobsters and one other six in Italy have been charged in a global conspiracy case that alleges they conspired to dominate the Massive Apple’s trash hauling and demolition industries whereas scamming unions and beating up individuals who bought of their means, in keeping with the Justice Division.

The suspects, all alleged members or associates of the Gambino crime household, face federal racketeering expenses on allegations that embody extortion, arson, a number of assaults and union fraud.

The alleged ringleader is Joseph Lanni, in keeping with courtroom paperwork, often known as “Joe Brooklyn” and “Mommino,” a purported mob captain who the Justice Division alleges was concerned within the unrelated beating of a person and girl who owned a New Jersey restaurant in September.

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Co-defendant Francesco Vicari allegedly despatched this picture of himself holding a champagne bottle to fellow suspect Diego Tantillo after allegedly extorting a trash-carting enterprise proprietor into handing over $4,000. (Justice Division)

In a single reported incident, alleged Gambino “soldier” Diego Tantillo, alleged Sicilian mobsters Vito Rappa and Francesco Vicari in addition to Gambino affiliate Kyle “Twin” Johnson have been accused of focusing on a New York Metropolis carting enterprise proprietor by threatening him with a bat, lighting his entrance porch on hearth and having somebody vandalize his vehicles.

In addition they allegedly beat up one in every of his associates earlier than cornering the sufferer and his father-in-law.

In accordance with federal prosecutors, a wiretap recorded Rappa telling Vicari that he’d coerced the father-in-law into appearing “just like the ‘Final of the Samurai’” and threatening to chop the enterprise proprietor in half as a way to extract extortion funds.

Federal prosecutors say this house surveillance video, taken on Sept. 22, 2020, reveals an extortion sufferer’s entrance porch burning along with his spouse and kids inside the house. (Justice Division)

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The sufferer then handed over $4,000, prosecutors stated, and Vicari and Rappa allegedly despatched Tantillo an image of a champagne bottle “as in a toast.”

The 16-count indictment additionally names alleged Gambino troopers Angelo Gradilone, often known as “Fifi,” James LaForte and alleged associates Salvatore DiLorenzo, Robert Brooke and Vincent Minsquero, often known as “Vinny Slick.”

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Brooke allegedly beat up the proprietor of a demolition firm on a busy Manhattan road nook earlier than Tantillo and Johnson allegedly mauled one in every of his staff with a hammer, in keeping with the DOJ.

“As alleged, for years the defendants dedicated violent extortions, assaults, arson, witness retaliation and different crimes in an try and dominate the New York carting and demolition industries,” stated Breon Peace, U.S. lawyer for the Japanese District of New York.

Federal prosecutors allege that this Oct. 17, 2019, {photograph} reveals two of the defendants, Diego Tantillo and Angelo Gradilone, on the day of their induction into the Gambino crime household. (Justice Division)

The group can also be accused of organising “no-show” jobs to gather union well being advantages for each other.

9 of the ten defendants pleaded not responsible Wednesday.

Lanni’s lawyer didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. In an announcement to the New York Instances, he denied all the expenses in addition to “uncharged acts” the prosecutors outlined in courtroom filings.

This surveillance picture reveals purported Gambino capo Joseph Lanni shopping for a pink fuel can after allegedly threatening to burn down a restaurant throughout the road. He later returned it, however the restaurant proprietor and his spouse have been assaulted that very same night, in keeping with federal prosecutors. (Justice Division)

These embody the brutal assault of a New Jersey couple outdoors their Toms River restaurant on Sept. 1, in keeping with courtroom paperwork.

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Lanni and Minsquero allegedly bought into an argument with one other patron when employees requested them to go away.

Whereas federal authorities didn’t cost both man over the incident, they allege that Lanni threatened to burn the place down, went throughout the road to a fuel station and purchased a gas tank earlier than Minsquero satisfied him to return it. Later that night, nonetheless, the husband and spouse homeowners have been overwhelmed at knifepoint within the car parking zone after locking up.

U.S. Lawyer for the Japanese District of New York Breon Peace speaks throughout a information briefing on June 23, 2023, in Washington, D.C. He stated in an announcement Wednesday {that a} federal racketeering case in opposition to 10 alleged Gambino crime members of the family and associates broke up an try and “dominate” the rubbish assortment business in New York Metropolis. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Photographs)

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One other alleged incident remembers a violent scene from HBO’s “The Sopranos” TV collection within the sixth-season episode “The Fleshy A part of the Thigh,” during which mob-affiliated trash haulers who need to purchase a route beneath Tony Soprano’s safety beat a driver mindless in entrance of his son.

Tantillo and Johnson, in an ongoing dispute with the homeowners of a cargo switch warehouse, allegedly beat one in every of their staff with a hammer.

A search of Johnson’s cellphone allegedly discovered that he despatched Tantillo three thumbs-up emojis after the assault and that he had images of the proprietor’s house alongside along with his title and tackle.