Anthony Bazzini a reputed mobster in the Gambino crime family was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for making threats of bodily harm against a rival business owner. He was busted along with thirty one other reputed mobsters last year as part of an alleged scheme between the Gambino , Lucchese, and Genovese families to control the New York and New Jersey waste carting industry. Among those busted was reputed Genovese family associate Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco and retired state trooper Mario Velez who also coped to fairly light plea deals. Franco was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after coping his own plea and Velez avoided jail all together.
“Anthony Bazzini”
The 2013 mob carting case really ended in a whimper with the sentencing of Bazzini to just over a year. Prosecutors wanted a stiffer sentence for Bazzini who plead guilty as part of a plea agreement because of his history of making similar violent threats. Back in 2003 he was convicted of extortion for threatening to cut a stockbrokers mothers hands off and killing the brokers whole family over some lost investments.
The case did prove that the mafia is still making an effort to clean up in the garbage business in both New York and New Jersey with the use of strong arm tactics. Garbage has long been a very profitable area for the New York mafia and their grip on that industry although weakened still exists.
A bit of a waste of time and money for the feds as he will be out of prison very soon.It would be intersting to know how many things the New york families control many belive they have lost control of there power but things like this show they are still strong. Got a question of topic could the person who made this website could you please make a section for the DeCavalnte family they are strong with 50made guys and double the amount of associates they are even bigger than the New England and philly mobs
This whole case turned out to be a dud it seems for the feds as everyone got a pretty sweet plea deal it seems. And the mob def still has a hand in some way shape or form in a lot of the old rackets that many think they have been forced out of, like the unions etc.