{"id":752858,"date":"2021-09-14T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=752858"},"modified":"2021-09-14T20:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T00:21:37","slug":"reputed-new-york-mob-boss-arrested-charged-with-shaking-down-a-labor-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reputed-new-york-mob-boss-arrested-charged-with-shaking-down-a-labor-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Reputed New York Mob Boss Arrested, Charged With Shaking Down A Labor Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freputed-new-york-mob-boss-arrested-charged-with-shaking-down-a-labor-union%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=752858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/NYC.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that ten reputed members and associates of the Colombo crime family of La Cosa Nostra, including its top leaders, have been charged for multiple crimes related to shaking down a New York-based labor union.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombo family is one of the \u201cfive families\u201d of the Italian-American Mafia that historically controlled organized crime in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said a 19-count indictment was unsealed in a Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday, charging a total of 14 defendants with various offenses, including labor racketeering and extortion. Thirteen of the defendants had been arrested at the time the charges were announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nyc-crime\/ny-colombo-mob-arrests-20210914-xsixgwl4ibf7pctecxkzngxwjm-story.html\">According<\/a> to The New York Daily News, \u201cThe Colombo hierarchy took a major hit,\u201d reporting, \u201cFamily head Andrew (Mush) Russo, 87, underboss Benjamin Castellazzo and consigliere Ralph DiMatteo were among those arrested.\u201d They were all charged with racketeering, along with alleged Colombo captains Theodore Persico, Jr. (nephew of former longtime Colombo boss Carmine Persico), Richard Ferrara, Vincent Ricciardo (a.k.a. \u201cVinny Unions), along with soldier Michael Uvino and associates Thomas Costa and Domenick Ricciardo.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/14\/nyregion\/colombo-family-mafia-arrested.html\">reported<\/a>, \u201cThe indictment accuses the Colombo family of orchestrating a two-decade scheme to extort an unnamed labor union that represented construction workers, using threats of violence to secure payments and arrange contracts that would benefit the crime family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s charges describe a long-standing, ruthless pattern by the administration of the Colombo crime family, its captains, members and associates, of conspiring to exert control over the management of a labor union by threatening to inflict bodily harm on one of its senior officials and devising a scheme to divert and launder vendor contract funds from its health care benefit program,\u201d said Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News provides more details:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"30\">\n<p><em>In addition to racketeering, the charges included loansharking, money laundering, drug trafficking and a construction safety scam, officials charged. According to the indictment, alleged family captain Vincent Ricciardo callously threatened to murder a construction union boss who was forced to surrender a portion of his annual income to the mob.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(The union head) knows I\u2019ll put him in the ground right in front of his wife and kids, right in front of his f\u2014ing house,\u201d Ricciardo was quoted as saying in court papers. \u201cYou laugh all you want, pal, I\u2019m not afraid to go to jail. Let me tell you something, to prove a point? I would f\u2014ing shoot him right in front of his wife and kids. Call the police.\u201d \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Colombos first started the shakedown in 2001 of the union representing construction workers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The family\u2019s top echelon became involved two years ago, the 46-page indictment charges, with an eye on turning the union into a mob-run operation. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Michael Driscoll said, \u201cThe underbelly of the crime families in New York City is alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese soldiers, consiglieres, under bosses, and bosses are obviously not students of history, and don\u2019t seem to comprehend that we\u2019re going to catch them,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cRegardless 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that ten reputed members and associates of the Colombo crime family of La Cosa Nostra, including its top leaders, have been charged for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}