Maxi-FBI raid against Cosa Nostra in New York. During the operation were arrested 127 members in five families of Italian Americans in the Big Apple: Gambino, Lucchese, Genovese, Bonanno and Colombo. According to what has been learned in the coming hours there should be a stop in Italy. Ended up in handcuffs a few men of the clan of DeCavalcante, which operates in New Jersey.Arrests in New England. The haul was taken before dawn and within two hours dozens of gangsters have been brought into the prison at Fort Hamilton. More than 800 officers involved. Among the charges mafia association, murder, extortion and gambling. The New York Time s, who has called the anti-mafia operation, the more important that the federal police have ever made, said that the Colombo family was the hardest hit by the raid, which led to the arrest of the entire leadership.
Among those arrested there were also union officials. A Brooklyn ended up in handcuffs 13 members of the Gambino family. According to the Minister of Justice, Eric Holder, the arrests "will destroy the Mafia." According to the New York Daily News are among those arrested: Anthony Russo, the alleged head of the Colombo family, charged with the murder of crime boss Joseph purpose in 1993 during a feud within the family, the alleged head of the Gambino family, accused of a double murder in Shamrock Bar in Queens in 1981, Andrew Russo, 76, known member of the Colombo family, Joseph (JoJo) Corozzo, 79, believed to be the adviser of the Gambino family; Castellazzo Benjamin, 73, another alleged member of the dome of Colombo, Luigi Manocchio , 83, alleged former head of the Mafia in New England.
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