Fed’s hit Gambino Family with new Indictments

The Fed’s are once again on the attack against the Gambino crime family in New York. New indictments have been handed down for 14 Gambino family members and associates on a variety of charges. The rash of charges in the indictments include extortion , wire fraud , illegal gambling , loansharking , narcotics trafficking, jury tampering , and sex trafficking of minors. The indictments include members of the Gambino family from top to bottom.

The reputed boss of the Gambino family Daniel Marino was also named in the indictment. Marino is thought by many to be the current boss of the Gambino family and in full control of its more then 200 made members. Other charged in the indictments are reputed Gambino soldiers Onofrio Modica and Thomas Orefice who run there own respective crews that include defendants Michael Scotto, Anthony Manzella, Michael Scarpaci, Dominick DiFiore, David Eisler, Thomas Scarpaci, and Salvatore Borgia. Also charged were Gambino family associates Suzanna Porcelli, Steve Maiurro, Anthony Vecchione, and Keith Dellitalia for committing crime for the Gambino family.

Reputed boss Marino is being charged with the 1998 mafia murder of his own nephew Frank Hydell and the 1989 murder of Thomas Spinelli as it was feared the two mobsters were passing on family secrets to the Fed’s. Onofrio Modica is also being charged with murder for the double murder in 1987 of Richard Sbarra and James DiGuglielmo over a drug related dispute. There were also various defendants charged for running a prostitution ring which were selling girls age 15-19 possibly using craigslist.com as a operating avenue.

The indictments also revealed extortion scheme’s run by the Gambino family that involved construction , financial services , and the home heating oil industries. Charges for running a drug ring that sold marijuana , cocaine , and Oxycontin were also released along with a plot to use jury tampering during the 1992 trial of then Gambino mafia boss John Gotti. The Gambino’s were also running a restaurant scam involving Manzella’s meat company as a front filling false invoices for deliveries and paying kickbacks to the kitchen chef’s.