Gambino Indictments fueled by Rat

With the new crop of Gambino crime family members on the streets it is no real surprise that a rat has shown up once again. The latest indictments of the Gambino family were the direct cause of a rat working within the teenage prostitution ring the family ran using craigslist.com. The informant wore a wire for at least a six month period making over 40 recordings equaling over 200 hours of conversations with Gambino family members.

The wire tap tapes include a Gambino family member talking to a teenage prostitute on how to conduct business. Court records indicate that within all of the recordings they do not have reputed Gambino family boss Daniel Marino , his name comes up in various conversations involving other Gambino family members but he was able to avoid being caught on tape. Marino’s name is repeatedly used as one of the men in charge of the Gambino family operations.

Gambino soldier Onofrio Modica was not so lucky or as quiet on tape as Marino. Modica was captured on more then 17 recorded conversations talking about mafia business including loansharking and extortion. Matthew Mari the lawyer for Modica said that the Fed’s made Modica an offer to cooperate and flip one day on his way to physical therapy but his client wanted no part of it. Modica’s lawyer said that “Modica is not in the mafia , and simply knows people who are” and the Fed’s case is guilty by association. But prosecutors in the case say they have powerful evidence of Modica’s involvement in not only prostitution , loansharking, and extortion but also murder. Mari said his client was told by the Fed’s if he cooperated he could walk away from these charges but he refused to flip and that is why he is under arrest now.

The last Gambino family member wanted in the case Steven “Stevie” Maiurro surrendered to the Fed’s Thursday on Staten Island. Maiurro was able to avoid being arrested on Tuesday when the Fed’s hit the rest of the Gambino members. The Gambino family like most other mafia families now a days has been plagued by informants and once again they have to deal with being betrayed from within.