Sex Trafficking Charges In The Case Of The Gambino Organized Crime Family
April 21st, 2010 - 7:33 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
April 21, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): A reputed chief of the Gambino planned crime family and 13 other individuals were indicted on Tuesday with an assortment of felonies, including what prosecutors termed as fresh territory for the mob: sex trafficking of a minor.
Documents launched in a federal court in Manhattan have asserted that the Gambino soldiers and acquaintances employed prostitutes at strip clubs, including a 15-year-old. They publicized their services online.
Twelve of the 14 were detained early on Tuesday. One of those who faces charges is Suzanne Porcelli, is a female.
Prosecutors have uttered that the hoodlums drove the prostitutes to meetings in Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn and New Jersey, dividing their earnings with them. The defendants also ensured that the juvenile females were obtainable for sex to the players at the customary high-stakes poker games organized by the family. This was stated by the judicial documents.
At a press conference, American Attorney, Preet Bharara, referred to the sex trafficking ring as a new symbol of degeneration
A denunciation also charged Daniel Marino, a suspected member of the Gambino ruling board, with commanding a strike from a penitentiary on his own nephew because the nephew was collaborating with the FBI. Gunmen enticed the victim, Frank Hyell, to a Staten Island nightclub in 1998, where they shot him on three occasions in the face and back.
Marino was charged in a second assassination of an underworld rival in 1989, for wresting construction companies and for administering an unlawful gambling company. The court documentations declared that the proceeds prolonged Marino’s own fulsome lifestyle.
The case symbolized the most recent in a series of denunciations and prosecutions that have paralyzed the Gambino family ever since the dishonorable boss, John Gotti, the so-called Dapper Don, was awarded a sentence of life imprisonment in 1992. He expired in 2002.
The federal powers that be declared on Tuesday that, though the Gambinos now keep a lower profile, they are still 200 strong and are always looking at fresh ways to remain in business.
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