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Huge Mob Bust Bags Dozens in NY, Sicily

Posted Feb 7, 08 11:42 AM CST in Arts & Living,  Crime & Courts,  US 

(Newser) – Authorities in New York and Sicily unleashed a massive mob takedown today, indicting more than 60 suspects, including the entire Gambino family leadership, the New York Times reports; 52 have already been arrested, including underboss Domenico Cefalu and consigliere Joseph Corozzo. “I can't think of a larger single-day roundup,” a source told the New York Post. “It dismantles the infrastructure of the family.”

Boss John D’Amico, aka “Jackie the Nose,” is still at large, believed to be on vacation. The indictment also targets members of the Genovese and Bonanno families, and executives from several trucking and construction companies. The 80-count indictment includes charges ranging from murder to racketeering, including five murders attributed to a single Gambino soldier, Charles Carneglia.

Sources New York Times, New York Post

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John "Jackie Nose" D'Amico, right, arrives at Brooklyn's Federal Courthouse in Brooklyn, in this file photo from March 6, 1992, for continued testimony in the John Gotti case. Other men are not identified....   (Associated Press)
Michael Coppola, a reputed acting captain of the Genovese crime family, looks around the court in Somerville, N.J., in this March 13, 2007 file photo. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, Pool)   (Associated Press)
Joseph Bonanno, the notorious founder of the Bonanno crime family, leaves the U.S. courthouse in New York after being freed on bail in this May 17, 1966 file photo. (AP Photo/File)   (Associated Press)
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