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“Without independent corroboration, little can be done to tell a false memory from a true one” – Elizabeth Loftus On July 11, 1963, a murder took place at a Brooklyn flower shop named Flowers by Charm. Alfredo Santantonio, the owner, was behind the counter and shot five times. As reported,…...
Part 2 The Sicilians Salvatore “Toto” Catalano shared Carmine Galante’s dream of building a heroin pipeline from Sicily to New York. There was only one thing stopping him from being on the receiving end of that pipeline: Carmine Galante. Catalano, a Sicilian native, despised the fact that Galante, an American,…...
Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it- W.W Jacobs Appearing before US District Judge LaShann DeArcy on March 2, 2022, mob-wannabe Peter “Peter Pan” Tuccio received a ten-year sentence. His crime, setting a car on fire, an act he did not want to commit alone so he…...
“There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others” – Ada Adams In one of South Florida’s most infamous murder cases, freedom is on the horizon for Anthony “Tony” Moscatiello. Twenty-one years have passed since the murder occurred leaving Moscatiello…...
“If you took a poll of the people within his family and the mob in general, you’d find him to be a liability rather than an asset to want him dead rather than alive” -Ronald Goldstock, Director of the State Organized Crime Task Force “The ability of the mob to…...
“These 19 defendants, along with their co-conspirators…agreed and conspired to work as narcotic racketeers in order to generate millions of dollars…When it’s all said and done, the case before you is about two commodities-dollars and drugs…” – Prosecutor Louis J. Fresh “It is a tremendous victory in the effort to…...
Part 3 https://sitdownnews.com/brains-behind-the-gotti-crew-2/ The FBI Document In an FBI investigation targeting the Gotti crew for narcotics trafficking, it became apparent a handwritten affidavit went missing. Specifically, the document contained authorization for the Angelo “Quack-Quack” Ruggiero wire-tap. A high-echelon informant disclosed where the affidavit could be found. Consequently, a raid was…...
