Mob justice is best provided coldly.
Moonlight, a bent Nassau County police detective as a soldier in Bonanno, helped promote the mini-mob war on Long Island.
ex-det. Hector Rosario conspired to target rival Genovese Mafios in a feud that leaked after an organized crime clan attacked an extraordinary agreement to split the proceeds of a gelato shop's backroom gambling nest.
However, the peace did not last. Rosario “selled himself” to Bonanos – even committed a fake police attack at a hermit casino run by Genoves, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said he began making remarks at the trial of a dirty police officer .
“He and the other men acted like real police officers, smashing gambling machines and sending messages,” Anna Karamidios, a US lawyer for the Eastern District, told the ju judge.
Two of the five American mafia families – Bonannos and Genovese, generally maintained separate spheres in the 1980s and early 2000s, longtime mob investigators said.
“There was no beef or sit-ins,” the investigator said. “Business-wise, there were no major schemes they worked on together.
“At the time, Genovese's family head, 'The Chin Gigante' (Vincent Gigante), had no respect for (Bonanno boss) Joe Messina, so he had nothing to do with him. That was.”
Currently, the expected two-week trial for the Rosary – accused of assaulting the FBI and lying to the FBI – reveals secrets of the living, enthusiastic mob underworld in New York I promise that.
Ju umpire was introduced to anyone's Wise Guize, from sal Russo to “shooter monkeys.”
They also learned about the constellations of illegal gambling operations, rounding up the rosary with eight gangs in 2022, rounding up the rosary accused of making a take for $1,500 a month.
“He chose criminal families over the public whom he sworn to protect,” Karamigios said.
According to trial testimony, the evil side gig of the time, when Bonanno Stooge became convenient for his family around 2012.
Damiano Zummo, 51, a former Bonanno soldier, said his family has entered into a deal with Genovese's brothers to share the benefits of Gran Café, a gelato shop in Limbrook, which has doubled as a secret casino. I testified.
The shop has two card tables in the back, along with a poker machine in the small room, said Zummo, the first witness to testify.
The owner originally split the 50-50 with Genovese's family, but the arrangement ended when the gang was sent to prison, Zummo testified.
According to Zummo, Bonannos was involved after the owner sought protection after the owner was beaten. They reached an uneasy agreement on each 25% share of profits, effectively turning it into a joint mob venture of Bonanno Genovese, he said.
The understanding among the mob family was that they could not operate competing gambling parlors within a five-mile radius, Zummo said.
However, tensions boil when they chose to stop sponsoring the gelato shop in favor of gambling in repairs to monkey shoes run by Genove's gangster Salvatore “Sal Shoemaker” Rubino I did.
The move led to the Bonanno family (who had been pulling in $10,000) “lost money,” Zummo said.
He said that Bonanno's Sal Russo wanted to “blackmail” Genovese using the rosary.
“Russo came up with the idea of a false assault, and I was everything for it,” Zummo testified.
“To get Hector there, he repairs the monkey's shoes and threatens them in the hopes they'll get closer.”
Zummo said Sal's shoe repairs included a card table in the back room with three or four gambling machines.
Prosecutors said the false attack on the shoe repair gambling nest did not lead to arrests or quotes.
Zumo said the Rosario carried out a cancelled attack at a coffee shop with gambling dens in a creek in a valley owned by the Gambino family.
However, when the Rosary and several men's crew were unable to enter the gambling den, the attack went south, Zumo said.
Reason: There was a buzzer and the inside was not permitted, Zummo testified.
Rosario claimed he liked “again, and again” when he was pushed against the FBI during a 2020 interview and had no idea about the gambling den, prosecutors said.
According to prosecutors, he also pulled information from the law enforcement database of rival MOB members and gave it to the Bonanno family.
According to Zummo, the Bonanno family paid the Rosary $1,500 a month during the attack.
Zummo testified that Rosario was also under investigation and tilted him down as “away from the phone” because “the Fed is listening.”
He testified that he thought the Rosary was a “street guy.”
“Street Guy means he breaks the law if he has to,” he said.
Zummo was arrested in 2017 along with Russo in a drug trafficking scheme that involved a $40,000 sale of cocaine at a Manhattan gelato shop.
Both are working with the federal government in this case.
Rosario's defense attorney Lou Freeman told the ju judge that the former officer issued a false statement to the authorities, about the Marijuana Glow House in Queens.
He also argued that witnesses convicted of assault, dispensing cocaine and other serious crimes will testify against the Rosary, who has pleaded not guilty and is on bail.
“Each of these witnesses had suffered organized crime,” he said.
Sal Russo, once “best friend” of Rosario, placed a former Nassau police officer on the federal government's radar, in hopes of a more generous sentence, Freeman said.
“Sal Russo constructed information about Hector Rosario and heard him get another notch on his belt, as it means that the notch on the belt of the cooperative witness means there is less time in prison. Let's,” Freeman said.
The federal government confirmed that it will call three cooperative witnesses during the trial, which will resume on Wednesday.
– Additional report by Larry Celóna
