Cosa Nostra News

When Bronx-based Luchese associate Michael Meldish was shot to death in front of his home on November 15, 2013, at the age of 62, he was suspected of running a protection racket in the Edenwald area of the north Bronx. Meldish's boots were still outside the door to his apartment days after he was killed. As per early reports, initial law enforcement suspicion was centered on that racket as a possible cause of the shooting. Meldish, however, was known to have had a steady supply of enemies going back decades. He'd been arrested five times in the 1970s on various charges including assault and weapons possession, and he had other convictions throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He was suspected of committing as many as 10 murders as well. Meldish lived on 2nd Avenue near 111th Street in East Harlem. According to neighbors, he lived alone, was occasionally visited by a son and grandson, and was considered affable by many who knew him in the neighborhood. One neighbor claimed...

Yesterday, in federal court in Central Islip, Frank (Frankie Boy) Salerno, a soldier in the Bonanno crime family, was sentenced to five years in prison for racketeering conspiracy. John Ambrosio And last week, acting Gambino capo John (Johnny Boy) Ambrosio and Gambino associate Anthony Saladino were sentenced to five years and six years, respectively, for the same charge. (They also stuck Ambrosio with a hefty $100,000 forfeiture, including the $66,116 in cash that the Feds snatched from his Huntington, Long Island, home.) Ambrosio, Saladino and Salerno are the last of seven defendants to be sentenced on a superseding indictment that charged Gambino and Bonanno members and associates with racketeering charges that included loansharking, illegal gambling, and drug trafficking on Long Island from January of 2014 until December 2017, when the 13-count indictment was filed. Ambrosio, who goes directly back to the John Gotti days, and underling Anthony Rodolico were also hit wit...

John (Johnny Boy) Ambrosio, 74, a Gambino soldier (and acting capo), won criminal justice immortality of sorts by paying regular homage to then-Gambino boss John Gotti outside the much-surveilled Ravenite social club in Manhattan’s Little Italy from around 1988 to 1990. Surveillance outside Ravenite social club. Though never a Gotti crony himself, Ambrosio was once closely affiliated with a member of Gotti's original Bergen crew in Ozone Park, Queens. Ambrosio, who gets arrested every 10 years or so, was arrested again just two weeks back. (He was about due for it.) He was nabbed along with a Bonanno soldier and five Gambino associates. They all face a 13-count superseding indictment unsealed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York that charges them with racketeering conspiracy, including loansharking, illegal gambling, narcotics distribution conspiracy and obstruction of justice conspiracy. Their alleged crimes took place f...