Cosa Nostra News

The following was released last month by the Queens District Attorney's Office. It highlights numerous mob-related investigations, including one that resulted in the arrest of more than 80 who'd robbed around $14 million in property from facilities in and around JFK Airport. Auto theft also is highlighted in the form of, among other things, the bust of Gambino mobsters operating a scrap metal enterprise in Willets Point.

The late John Gotti’s grandson (and namesake) was granted bail of $2 million in a late-December hearing. At the same time, Gotti, whose father is Peter Gotti, brother of former Gambino acting boss John "Junior" Gotti, was hit with additional conspiracy counts. (No details about these new counts were readily available.) John Gotti, the grandson. Queens Supreme Court Justice Charles LoPresto decided that the grandson of the former legendary Gambino crime family boss should be allowed out on bail, though he's not going anywhere until a "bail sufficiency" ✶  hearing is held.

Grandson of John Gotti. John Gotti, Gambino crime family boss, never, ever conducted mob business in his home. The reason was simple: he never wanted what happened yesterday to happen to him. The legendary mob boss sought to protect his family from anything related to that other world. Yesterday was the first time ever that anyone entered the late John Gotti's Howard Beach home uninvited. And it was NYPD cops armed with a search warrant who gained entry and reportedly ransacked the place as per Operation Beach Party .

Former Gambino boss  John Gotti 's grandson and namesake appears to be facing a long, uphill legal battle, at the end of which a possible 25-year prison stretch may await him. And in an ironic twist, it may be his own words that do him in. Gotti, who was arrested with six others today, is alleged to have sold drugs to undercover officers -- and most of the buys were allegedly videotaped. In addition, numerous incriminating conversations were recorded as part of the year-long operation led by elements of the NYPD and the Queens DA. Today, as 46 mobsters were busted up and down the East Coast for a host of mob-related crimes , the grandson of the former Gambino crime family boss and six others were charged with selling Oxycodone and other controlled substances in the Queens neighborhoods of Howard Beach and Ozone Park over the past year. The New York City Police Department’s Narcotics Borough and the Queens District Attorney’s Narcotics Invest...