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"It's omerta." --The father of a woman murdered by the Young Guns, aka The Ozone Park Boys Ronald Trucchio, a capo in the Gambino crime family, could spot talent, an innate ability that helped him put together a crew in Ozone Park, Queens, that pulled in tens of millions of dollars a year and that, in time, also operated in Florida committing just about every crime in the book. So alleged law enforcement. Ronnie One-Arm with Peter Gotti When Trucchio, known as Ronnie One-Arm because of a childhood accident that deformed his left arm, went on trial in Miami in 2006, he represented himself, giving the opening statement, which is reproduced in its entirety below. Saying he meant no disrespect, Trucchio asked to go it alone in his racketeering and extortion trial, at least for a few days. New York lawyer Joseph Corozzo Jr. was supposed to represent him, but was stuck in a trial up north. So, minutes before jury selection began, an alleged Gambino crime family capo ...

UPDATED In November 2000, David Antinuche threatened an Assistant District Attorney with whom he found himself in a Queens courthouse elevator. "I've got a trophy for you for loser of the year," Antinuche told him .... David Antinuche, 51, and four alleged accomplices were busted following a 10-month narcotics probe in Queens and Brooklyn dubbed “Operation Goodfellas.” Undercover officers made 19 purchases, buying a total of 300 grams of cocaine and 150 grams of heroin with a combined street value of $35,000. At least two batches of the heroin contained the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The undercovers convinced Antinuche, an alleged Gambino associate, to introduce them to his suppliers, said Deputy Inspector Dominick D’Orazio, commanding officer of the NYPD’s Criminal Enterprise Investigative Section. Antinuche’s rap sheet includes previous busts for attempted murder, robbery and drugs. He was once described by law enforcement authorities as the leader of t...

It's not very often a governor, his cabinet, three federal prosecutors and other government officials go to bat for a former drug addicted mob associate -- but that is exactly what happened yesterday. Murder scene Kevin Bonner, for the past decade, had been serving 24 years of a state sentence at an undisclosed federal prison. And yesterday his sentence was commuted, thanks to the Feds, as well as the state of Florida. Bonner has put away, or on trial, a multitude of Gambino wiseguys. A former Woodhaven resident, he has testified about mob mayhem and murder going back to the early 1980s. Gov. Rick Scott and Cabinet "ended the long prison sentence of a robber-turned-mob informant whose testimony prosecutors say helped break up the Gambino crime family in Florida and New York," according to the Miami Herald. Also lending their support via letters were three federal prosecutors -- Tampa U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III, New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bhar...

Updated "Well, he said that he would - that he wanted to kill me, and that he was going to rape (my wife) and slit her throat..." --Testimony of a Prestige Valet competitor  The strip club itself is a  ripe target for organized crime . Shaking down the premium joints like Scores was a constant for guys like  Gambino capo Greg DePalma  and Colombo underboss  John Sonny Franzese . "Thee DollHouse" was among Prestige Valet's clients. In late 2011, 20 suspects, including seven reputed Gambino and Bonanno mobsters, were arraigned in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday on charges ranging from racketeering to visa fraud. Reputed Gambino captain  Alphonse Trucchio  (Ronnie's son) and alleged Bonanno captain Anthony " Perry Como " Frascone were among those snagged in the case. Joaquin  "Jack Falcone" Garcia  provided us with a wealth of background on the many ways Mafiosi can leech businesses that fall into the "gray area...

Mobsters, even once the game is over and they are sentenced to life, are not ones to give up so quickly. In  The Good Rat , Jimmy Breslin's book of musings about the mob, Burt Kaplan and the murderous NYPD detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, he related how Vic Orena thought he had a legal way over the wall. Orena had waged war for ownership of the Colombo family but lost when he got two life sentences plus 80 years courtesy of U.S. District Court Judge Jack Weinstein, age 84, a judge who, Breslin writes, "knows that numbers, as in years in prison, not speeches, are the way to end the Mafia." Three of the five families tried to stop the third Colombo war. Orena, sent to cool his heels -- forever -- in Atlanta was soon on a bus back to Weinstein's courtroom after his lawyers entered a motion to throw everything against Orena out the window. The trip took weeks, and Orena "spent the nights with bugs and rodents in county jails" on his way...