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For threatening an ex-girlfriend's husband and father as well as "glorifying" mob life via a series of podcasts, former Bonanno associate/would-be podcaster Gene Borrello was sentenced yesterday to four months in prison, followed by six months of house arrest and three additional years of probation. He also was banned from doing podcasts and setting foot in Howard Beach, Queens. Gene Borrello  That is according to a court document John Alite, Gene's partner on the Johnny & Gene Show , read over the phone earlier today. Borrello, 36, was an up-and-coming associate close to becoming a wiseguy with the Bonanno crime family before flipping and helping Brooklyn Federal prosecutors put away more than 21 mobsters. He pleaded guilty in 2016 and was sentenced to three years supervised release and time served. In total, he spent about five years in prison for committing crimes that could've earned him a life sentence.  He and Alite launched the Johnny & Gene Show i...

UPDATED Reputed sitting Gambino boss Peter Gotti's compassionate release filing (reproduced in its entirety below) poses several arguments for his release, including that he suffers from more than a dozen medical ailments, including cardiovascular disease and a likely cancerous growth in at least one lung; that he's rehabilitated as well as sorry; and that his continued incarceration is financially irresponsible. Peter Gotti and John Gotti As first reported by Gang Land News  last Thursday (July 4) in Forgottiboutit! Dapper Don's Brother Says He's Done With The Mob; Wants Out of Prison , James Craven, the attorney representing Gotti, filed the motion in Manhattan federal court on June 28. Gotti, 79, has been in custody since June 4, 2002, and is serving a 25-year term on a federal racketeering conviction. He is now at FMC Butner, North Carolina. His slated release date is May 5, 2032. " In hindsight Peter Gotti made a terrible mistake in goin...

A Howard Beach-based newspaper publisher has been sentenced to five months in prison for attempting to threaten a sex crime victim's father on behalf of a Bonanno crime family aassociate. Robert Pisani, alleged associate of the Bonanno crime family. (They used to hide their face just for being wiseguys.) Patricia Adams, who operates the weekly Forum Newsgroup, threatened to use her position as publisher to have a hatchet piece written and published in a Queens newspaper about a woman who had accused a mobbed-up deli owner of a sex crime. Adams was sentenced on Oct. 11. She also must pay a fine of $200, though the full restitution amount has not yet been determined. Adams had pleaded guilty on June 25 to misprision of a felony, acknowledging her efforts to conceal the felonious crime of interfering in the sex assault case against Robert Pisani, an associate in acting capo Ronald Giallanzo's Bonanno crime family crew . Pisani was among a group of 10 reputed Bonanno ...

A Brooklyn federal court judge yesterday (August 15) sentenced acting Bonanno capo Ronald Giallanzo to 14 years behind bars for running a loansharking operation that she said terrorized a Queens neighborhood for nearly 20 years. A cting Bonanno capo Ronald Giallanzo Giallanzo, whose uncle is Bonanno mobster Vincent Asaro, and nine other Bonanno members and associates were arrested last year on a broad swath of criminal charges, including racketeering, kidnapping, robbery, and attempted murder in Brooklyn federal court. Ronnie G pleaded guilty in March to running the loansharking ring and was ordered to forfeit his $1.25 million mansion on 86th Street in Howard Beach, which he "built with his ill-gotten gains." On top of that, he still owes $268,000 in restitution to five loansharking victims. Prosecutors said the 48-year-old acting capo ran gambling and extortion rackets in Howard Beach since 1998. As per the indictment, Giallanzo and an associate o...

UPDATED, PHOTOS ADDED John Alite's new book, Darkest Hour, is part of a planned trilogy written with  author S.C. Pike that details John Alite's early years. John Alite signs his new book. John Alite signaled from the beginning, nearly six years ago in May 2012, that he was taking a different approach following prison after testifying against ex-Gambino acting boss John (Junior) Gotti. (Alite also testified against Charles Carneglia, whose brother is getting out soon with Gene Gotti , in June 2019 and September 2019, respectively.)  Alite never intended to disappear and pop-up in Tucson, Arizona, under an assumed name. While John Alite failed in his attempt to help put Junior away, the Feds thought highly enough of him to spring him early, granting him a five-year supervised release stint that enabled John to spend Easter Sunday in Howard Beach, where he ate a holiday dinner ensconced with his family. “I’m shocked,” a former Howard Beach neighbor to...

Reputed Bonanno crime family acting capo Ronald (Ronnie G) Giallanzo, who pleaded guilty on Monday to running a loansharking ring based in Queens, was ordered to sell his 86th Street Howard Beach mansion. Before and after pictures of Giallanzo's home. He must put whatever price he gets towards the $1.23 million he's been ordered to forfeit, but can keep the rest. (He'll still probably come out of this a millionaire; the crew allegedly netted $26 million and the Fed's initially were looking to seize ... $26 million. .... why'd the number shrink?) Giallanzo, whose uncle is Bonanno mobster Vincent Asaro, and nine other Bonanno members and associates were arrested a year ago on a broad swath of criminal chargees, including racketeering, kidnapping, robbery, and attempted murder in Brooklyn federal court. All 10 ultimately copped pleas, seven last year, Giallanzo and Bonanno soldier Michael Palmaccio this past Monday, and Nicholas (Pu...

John Gotti grandson UPDATED In an exclusive interview with the New York Daily News on Saturday, John Gotti (grandson of the notorious former  Gambino crime family boss ) detailed some of the dynamics that he believes led to his arrest two days prior to his discussion with two journalists. His own decision to allegedly mastermind the selling of Oxycodone and other diverted prescription drugs didn't figure once in the interview. And, disturbingly, for reasons of his own, he referenced the brutal rape and murder of a young woman last Tuesday in Howard Beach, one of two Queens neighborhoods in which Gotti and six others allegedly sold illegal prescription drugs. The murder remains unsolved . Calling Karina Vetrano "drop-dead gorgeous" as well as a "sweetheart" whom he personally knew, Gotti also made a bizarre reference to her father, who found her body , calling him a "man's man."