This Week In Gang Land
One Down, 15 Coming Soon; But 34 Still Hanging Tough In The Frank Camuso State Racketeering Case
More
than a dozen mob-connected defendants have agreed to cop guilty pleas to
resolve charges in the state racketeering case against 26 construction
companies and two dozen members and associates of the Genovese and Gambino
family charged with stealing $5 million from the builders of dozens of
Manhattan high-rise apartments and hotels, Gang Land has learned.
Sources tell Gang Land that as many as 15 defendants — the number includes individuals and corporations — have agreements in principle to plead guilty to lesser charges in the 83-count enterprise corruption indictment that accuses the mobsters and their cohorts of using a bribery and bid-rigging scheme from 2013 until 2021 to line their own pockets.
The sources say that the Manhattan District Attorney's office has promised no-jail plea deals to the individual defendants in the group in an effort to push the major players — Gambino capo Frank Camuso, Genovese soldier Christopher Chierchio, and the central figure in the scheme, Robert (Rusty) Baselice — to either plead guilty in the two-year-old case or prepare for trial.
Tony Cakes Conigliaro; A Good Businessman; A Lousy Wheel Man
Genovese
wiseguy Anthony (Tony Cakes) Conigliaro survived many close calls. He was
long suspected of being the wheel man in the "mercy killing" of a mobster
who had become mentally unbalanced, but managed to dodge serious jail time.
He survived all the bloody mob violence of the 1980s and 1990s. Last month,
on June 12, however, he died the way too many New York City pedestrians do:
Crossing the street near his Brooklyn home. He was flattened by a truck. And
that was all she wrote. He was 86.
Imprisoned Wiseguy's Daughter Plans Ahead; Gets Her Passport Back While Behind Bars
Amanda Lubrano, the daughter of Luchese mobster Joseph (Big Joey)
Lubrano, recently began serving her 22-month sentence for selling a kilogram
of cocaine to an undercover agent. But she, and her partner-in-crime are
already thinking ahead to their release from the only federal prison in the
tristate area that houses women.
