A mobster nicknamed “Vito Love” wasn’t shown any by a judge in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday. Judge Sandra Townes denied Gambino associate Vito “Vito Love” Cortesiano’s bid for home confinement to care for his disabled young son. His crimes — including gambling and loan-sharking — require jail, the judge said in sentencing him to 15...
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Mobster ‘Vito Love’ is denied home confinement
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Ex-cop among alleged mobsters busted for drugs, extortion
Four alleged Gambino crime family associates — one of them a former Port Authority cop — were busted Tuesday in connection with the sale of narcotics and the extortion of a Manhattan businessman, sources told The Post. Two of the four, ex-PA cop Steve Cilluffo, 62, and Quentin Carbone, 49, were expected to be charged with extortion...
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Mobster who had in-law killed gets off with time-served
A veteran mob rat was rewarded with a sentence of time served — just three days — for helping to whack his own brother-in-law despite pleas for punishment Thursday from his victim’s relatives. Calling his cooperation “historic,” prosecutors said Gambino associate Anthony Ruggiano Jr., 61, helped the feds bag capos Bartolomeo “Bobby Glasses” Vernace and...
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US cops arrest alleged NY mobster at Italy’s request
New York FBI agents on Thursday busted a reputed Gambino crime family underboss wanted in Italy on extortion charges. A court in the southern Italian city of Potenza had ordered the arrest of 61-year-old Francesco Palmeri after he and seven other mobsters allegedly tried to shake down an Italian businessman for $1 million. Federal agents...
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Reputed mobster with reality TV past indicted
A reputed Gambino associate whose criminal past and crumbling marriage were featured on the 2011 reality show “I Married a Mobster” is up to his old tricks. Fiore “Philly” Caruso, 59 — who once did a prison stint for drug-trafficking — has been indicted for allegedly selling undercover cops $23,000 worth of cocaine and nearly...
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Fashion-conscious mobster gets over 3 years for gunrunning
This wiseguy turned in his scarf and blazer for prison duds. A fashion-conscious Italian mobster — who moved to New York to run a gun-dealing operation — was rewarded with a three-year-plus prison sentence Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court. Eschewing the American mob’s weakness for tracksuits and sneakers, Raffaele Valente wore a scarf-accented blazer-and-cardigan ensemble during...
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Gotti, guns & gay bars: Inside NYC’s mob history
Florida has Disney World, but New York has Gangland. The history of the mob in America begins here, at Ellis Island. Between 1899 and 1910, nearly 2 million southern Italians fled grinding poverty to arrive at the gateway to America — Giuseppe Masseria, Frank Costello and Salvatore Lucania (the future Charles “Lucky” Luciano) among them....
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John Gotti’s ex-son-in-law arrested in car-theft probe
Victoria Gotti ex and convicted Gambino mobster Carmine Agnello has been running the same old scrap-metal scam he plied in Queens in his new haunts in Ohio, according to an indictment charging he helmed a $3 million stolen-car racket there. Detective Lynn McCarthy, of the NYPD Organized Crime Investigation Division, on Wednesday handcuffed Agnello and...
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Mobster so focused on flirting with clerk he couldn’t be arraigned
A Gambino crime family associate who beat the rap for stabbing the owner of popular Brooklyn pizzeria Lucali – only to wind up behind bars for another stabbing – is now using the prison mail system to deliver threats, prosecutors said. Battista “Benny” Geritano was back in court Thursday to face charges he’d been using...
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Gambino associate busted peddling pills outside Poly Prep
A Gambino crime-family associate has been busted for peddling pain-killers right outside posh Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, authorities said Thursday. Cops charged alleged ringleader Raymond Raimondi, Robert Florio, Louisa Valentin, Jeffery Tesoro, Vincent Maniscalco and Paul Consentino with conspiracy and sale of a controlled substance. Raimondi and Maniscalo have ties to Gambino...
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John Gotti’s son is fuming this crime boss was in jail for so long
Junior Gotti has a brand new beef with the feds — he’s outraged that geezer gangster John “Sonny’’ Franzese was held in prison past his 100th birthday. “The government should be ashamed of themselves for holding [Franzese] that long,” said Gotti who served as acting boss of the Gambino crime family after his late father,...
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Mobster fixates on finances of female prosecutor who put him behind bars
An obsessive Gambino crime-family associate has become so fixated on his female prosecutor he’s trying to dig into her finances, it was revealed in court Thursday. Battista “Benny” Geritano is seeking Assistant US Attorney Lindsay Gerdes’ financial disclosure forms, Brooklyn federal court judge Sterling Johnson Jr. informed her after the mobster, who spent the proceeding...
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‘Gotti’ trailer shows first clips of John Travolta as infamous mob boss
The trailer for John Travolta’s “Gotti” biopic dropped Tuesday — showing the mob boss’ violent rise to power, including his most infamous hit outside Sparks Steak House. “I was a kid in these streets, and I made it to the top,” Travolta’s John Gotti Sr. says in the two-minute clip. The film, which is due...
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Purported mobster sentenced for role in drug trafficking ring
A reputed Gambino crime family associate was sentenced Monday to two years behind bars for his role in a $15 million, bi-coastal marijuana trafficking ring. “I regret my actions,” Stephen Gallo, 66, mumbled before Judge Neil Ross scolded the alleged mobster and told him it was time to give up a life of crime. “You...
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Reputed mobster played Russian roulette with ex-gal pal, their kid: feds
A reputed Gambino wiseguy, who faces charges for sending death threats to his former lawyer, once callously risked his ex-gal pal’s life playing a twisted game of Russian roulette, Brooklyn federal prosecutors say. Battista “Benny” Geritano played sick mind games with his ex and their daughter in 1994 and the feds want to tell a...
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Gambino captain pleads guilty to racketeering
An aging Long Island Gambino crime-family captain is facing the rest of his life in prison for running a gambling and loan-sharking operation, officials said Thursday. John “Johnny Boy” Ambrosio, 74, could get up to 20 years after pleading guilty to racketeering in Central Islip federal court. From 2014 to 2017, he oversaw a scheme...
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Mobster admits he used prison mail system to send death threat
A reputed Gambino associate admitted Thursday that he used the prison mailing system to threaten to behead his former lawyer’s son–but blamed it on a heart condition. “I don’t even remember, your honor, I was going through a breakdown,” Battista “Benny” Geritano prattled after Brooklyn federal court judge Anne Donnelly asked him if he’d sent...
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John Gotti’s grandson busted for allegedly running illegal scrapyard
He’s grown up Gotti, all right. One of late Mafioso John Gotti’s grandsons was just busted for running an illegal scrapyard in Queens, according to court records. Carmine Gotti Agnello Jr., 32 — who, along with his two brothers, starred in the reality show “Growing Up Gotti’’ more than 10 years ago — was arraigned...
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Gene Gotti’s release from prison has mob on edge
“Dapper Don” John Gotti’s younger brother, Gene, is back on the streets after serving 29 years in prison for dealing heroin — and the mob is bracing for what it will mean to their rackets, The Post has learned. An exclusive Post photo shows Gene Gotti, 71, outside his family home in Valley Stream, Long...
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Reputed mobster facing life in prison trying to wriggle out of guilty plea
A reputed mobster is trying to wriggle out of a guilty plea by claiming he didn’t think the prosecutor would push for maximum prison time. Reputed Gambino associate Battista “Benny” Geritano admitted in court that he threatened to behead his ex-lawyer’s son. But he’s now saying he wouldn’t have copped to the single charge of...
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