At Danbury Prison, Albanians, Mafiosi Duked It Out
Jerry Capeci's GanglandNews today reports that "25 inmates — including five mobsters and two Albanian hoods whose names Gang Land has obtained," engaged in a "bloody jailhouse brawl"during leisure time in the rec room of the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, on Saturday, March 14.
Danbury, the article noted, is a low-security facility that houses 750 sentenced inmates.
Following the violent confrontation, everyone involved was "thrown into "the hole" after receiving stitches or treated for cuts, bloody noses and other non-life-threatening injuries."
Prison officials and the FBI are investigating but declined to confirm or deny the fight, the website reported.
One Albanian gangster told Cosa Nostra News: "For sure we Albanians are serious, and in Europe we took over Milan and Bari. So we're pushing south. As we continue to migrate here, we will keep pushing them and become more organized. We do work -- all Albanians are workers. We're a violent people when we want to be."
Danbury, the article noted, is a low-security facility that houses 750 sentenced inmates.
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| Alex Rudaj,of Albanian Mafia. |
Prison officials and the FBI are investigating but declined to confirm or deny the fight, the website reported.
Sources say the suspected mob pugilists included Colombo soldier Vito Guzzo, 50, Gambino mobsters Michael (Mikey Y) Yannotti, 51, Michael Roccaforte, 38, and Neil Lombardo, 59, and Bonanno wiseguy Robert Lino, 48.
Their primary victims, sources say, were Albanian gangsters Prenka (Big Frankie) Ivezaj, 49, and Nardino (Lenny) Colotti, an Italian-American hood who once ran with the Gambinos but defected and co-founded the violent gang of mostly Albanian heritage gangsters with Alex Rudaj in the 1990s. Colotti, 53, was with about six crew members during the riot.
Sources say the fighting, which took place in an area that is constantly videotaped, stemmed from a beating early that morning that several Albanian gangsters gave to an older non-Italian inmate who is friendly with the wiseguys while he was asleep in his cell. .....
... Before the older inmate was attacked, the rival gangsters had been feuding about the allegiances of another inmate, who had ties to both groups, but whom the mobsters felt very strongly was "with them" and not the Albanians. The gangster, whom Gang Land was unable to identify, was "on the fence," but the wiseguys were adamant that he "belonged with them, not the other guys," said one source.
The "Rudaj Organization" was named for Alex. Called "The Corporation" by its members, it started operating in 1993 in Westchester, then spread into the Bronx and Queens.
This Albanian Mafia shouldn't be confused with other iterations of the group, the FBI has noted.
Another Albanian Mafia, also highly active in the Bronx, apparently commenced operations in 2004, the same year the FBI cleared the Rudaj group off the streets before a bloody street war with the Luchese crime family could erupt.
The Feds gained intel from snitches and were compelled to arrest the group earlier than planned to prevent a potential bloodbath, according to an FBI source.
This Albanian Mafia shouldn't be confused with other iterations of the group, the FBI has noted.
Another Albanian Mafia, also highly active in the Bronx, apparently commenced operations in 2004, the same year the FBI cleared the Rudaj group off the streets before a bloody street war with the Luchese crime family could erupt.
The Feds gained intel from snitches and were compelled to arrest the group earlier than planned to prevent a potential bloodbath, according to an FBI source.