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The two mobsters who stabbed and threatened a doctor in Brooklyn in order to obtain oxycodone prescriptions were sentenced last week, on December 6, in Brooklyn federal court.  Anthony Grado, a member of the Luchese organized crime family, and Lawrence Tranese, an associate of the Colombo organized crime family, were sentenced by United States District Judge Carol B. Amon to 12 years and 40 months in prison respectively for conspiring to distribute oxycodone that they obtained through fraudulent prescriptions. Grado also must fork over $70,000 in forfeiture and Tranese $12,000. “Today’s sentence punishes the defendants for ruthlessly endangering our community through their organized crime-backed distribution of highly-addictive opioid drugs,” stated Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “This Office, working together with our law enforcement partners, will continue our relentless efforts against those responsible for the opioid...

A Luchese crime family soldier and an associate copped to charges of  conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. On Thursday, April 5, at Brooklyn Federal courthouse, Anthony Grado, the Luchese soldier, and Lawrence (Fat Larry) Tranese, the Luchese associate, copped to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone before United States Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara. The case was reported that day by Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; William F. Sweeney, Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI); and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD). “Luchese family member Grado imperiled our community, threatening a doctor to force him to write prescriptions for oxycodone and then trafficking in the addictive drugs,” stated Donoghue. “Violent threats to a doctor by Mafia defendants, combined with their trafficking of oxycodone pills, posed an e...