Operation Jersey Boyz Luchese Bust in Spotlight as Lawsuit Filed by Alleged Wiseguy's Family Moves Forward
Luchese wiseguy Frank Lagano was rounded up in 2004 in a gambling and loan-sharking probe dubbed Operation Jersey Boyz. Frank Lagano Three years later, he was whacked outside an East Brunswick restaurant he co-owned. The hit was never solved. His family has been alleging in a lawsuit that law enforcement officials, including a detective who allegedly had been in business with Lagano prior to the 2004 bust, had caused his death by revealing Lagano was a turncoat. Recently, the family won a victory when a state appellate court granted them access to sealed wiretaps and other evidence from the Jersey Boyz bust, which the family hopes will prove its allegations. In the lawsuit filed in 2012, Lagano’s family alleged that a member of the Bergen County prosecutor’s office had informed organized crime members that Lagano was an informant, which allegedly sent him to his death in the parking lot of his restaurant in 2007. The prosecutor’s office and a former chief of d...