Colombo crime family mobster Lukey DiMatteo has been sentenced to five years in prison for a mafia shakedown of a Brooklyn tattoo parlor.
According to prosecutors the owner of the business was forced to pay $150 a week in extortion payments from the mid-1990s to 2015 totaling more than $100,000. Assistant U.S. Attorney Allon Lifshitz said “He’d use that man’s business as a personal piggy bank, They’d walk in, take cash and walk out.” according to the NYDailynews report. Lifshitz also noted that surveillance video had captured money being illegally taken from the business.
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Lukey was joined by his uncle Colombo family captain Luca DiMatteo in the mafia linked shakedown. The New York mafia duo will now both be behind bars with Luca already being sentenced to 33 months for his part in the scheme. According to the plea deal, Lukey was also ordered to pay $75,000 in criminal forfeiture to the government. The 47-year-old mobster told Federal Judge Leo Glasser “I’d just like to get home for my kids as soon as possible.” Even though Lukey showed no real remorse for his criminal actions judge Glasser told him “I know it’s hard for you to cut yourself loose from ‘the life, Good luck to you.”
Not sure how active either of these guys actually were esp Luca who seems to be plagued by all kinds of medical problems these days. Seems like this was a racket they established when Luca was probably more involved on the streets.
he was a capo don’t know much he is involved now he is in a bad shape not a good time to be going inside
Yes he seems to be in fairly bad shape health wise so have to think those 33 months are an extremely long haul for him and surely a chance he doesn’t make it back out.
He probably doesn’t have half the things he is claiming he has.
Your probably right to some extent as we know these old guys playing the health card often stretch it as far as they can and often aren’t in quite as bad a shape as it seems.
$600 a month? I guess this is effective if you have 10 business doing the same. Seems petty. 100,000 over 20 years ain’t exactly high stakes. Goes to show you, most of these guys are scraping by.
Very true , its seems like pretty slim picking in the context of it worth the heat for shaking down a business. Seems like hard times for those Colombo family guys and as you mentioned more.
its myth they all do it big or small chance look at tony megale he was underboss of the Gambino family back in early 2000s convicted of taking 150 a month did he really need that? same with this guy DiMatteo he is 71 with cancer and a capo did he really need its just how wiseguys act any opportunity they take it all adds up anyway like you said if they have a few places they are shaking down it adds up. All these guys take shakedowns like this from your Charles carneglias to your frank calis