FBI agents returned to two horse ranches in upstate New York last year after searching the same properties for bodies in connection with a federal investigation into the Gambino crime family.
Police, along with New York State Police and New York City Police Department personnel, rushed to two farms on Hampton Road in Goshen and Hamptonboro Road in Campbell Hall on Tuesday morning, witnesses said. told the Times Union.
An excavator, a police K9 unit and the New York City medical examiner were also at the scene, according to video from the scene. It is unclear whether anything was found.
The two farms, about eight miles apart, were raided by the FBI in November after a tipster said there were bodies buried on the property, officials told The Post at the time.
An FBI spokesperson confirmed to the Post that employees from the New York office were at the two addresses on Tuesday, but could not provide additional information about the investigation.
Both farms were previously owned by Giovanni DiLorenzo. Giovanni DiLorenzo is one of 10 Mafia suspects from the Gambino crime family who were indicted in November on charges of using violent tactics to take over the Big Apple’s garbage collection and demolition industry. They have the same last name.
According to property records, Campbell Hall Farm is currently owned by Vivian DiLorenzo. Goshen Farm is currently owned by GDLI LLC.
Salvatore DiLorenzo was one of 10 alleged Gambino associates indicted on racketeering charges in federal court in Brooklyn in November. Much of the indictment focuses on the group’s alleged attempts to extort money from an unidentified garbage disposal company and an unidentified demolition company starting in late 2017.
The defendants include Joseph Lani, also known as “Joe Brooklyn,” and “Momino,” the alleged captain of the Gambino family. Three alleged Gambino soldiers: Diego “Danny” Tantillo; Angelo Gradirone, also known as “Fifi”. And James LaForte.
According to the 16-count indictment, they committed crimes including a vicious hammer attack that hospitalized a man, threatened to dismember the owner, and attempted to set fire to the restaurant they had kicked out.
The men were charged with racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation, fraud, and embezzlement. They each face potentially 20 to 180 years in prison for a series of alleged crimes.
