Why Did Federal Agents Raid Victoria Gotti's Home?
Peter Gotti departs Queens Criminal Court after bail hearing. Federal agents conducted authorized searches of Victoria Gotti 's estate in the Long Island town of Old Westbury, as well as an auto-parts store located in the New York City borough of Queens. The auto-parts shop is owned by Victoria's ex-husband Carmine Agnello, who is in jail pending a racketeering case , but it is run by the former couple's three sons. The sons "appear to be the targets of the probe rather than their mom," the New York Daily News reported , adding that a federal prosecutor from the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's tax fraud section is overseeing the inquiry, which appears to have originated with the IRS. Victoria's ex-husband's lawyer declined to comment for the News story, which referenced the 2015 trial of Bonanno mobster Vincent Asaro (who was found not guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court), noting: A snitch secretly taped a conversation inside...