Federal authorities arrested the alleged leaders of one of NYC's infamous Mafia families on racketeering charges
Federal authorities arrested the alleged leaders of New York’s Colombo crime family on racketeering charges, prosecutors said Tuesday, accusing one of the New York City area’s five infamous Mafia families of scheming to extort a construction union.Prosecutors filed a slew of charges against 14 people, ten of whom were members or associates of the Colombo family, including the group’s 87-year-old purported boss Andrew “Mush” Russo, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s office.
The family was accused of extorting a construction labor union for 20 years: The group compelled the union’s health plan to steer contracts toward Colombo-related entities, threatened a union official into giving up a portion of his salary and laundered their earnings through other businesses, prosecutors said in an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Prosecutors also charged several people with loansharking, drug trafficking and running fake federal occupational safety training programs in the New York area. Most of the defendants were arrested Tuesday, but the Colombo family’s alleged consigliere Ralph DiMatteo is still at large, prosecutors said.their clients will enter not guilty pleas: Benjamin Castellazzo — charged with racketeering — “plans to fight the charges against him” according to his lawyer Jennifer Louis-Jeune, and Vincent Martino — charged with a marijuana distribution scheme — denies all charges and “looks forward to his exoneration,” per his lawyer Nancy Bartling.
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