Forty-six members of an organized crime network that included four of New York’s five Mafia families were charged in a large-scale racketeering conspiracy, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday. Edward A. McDonald, a former federal prosecutor in charge of organized crime prosecutions in Brooklyn in the 1980s, said that cooperation between Mafia families was not uncommon. “Give him a flat,” Mr. Parrello said on a recording, the indictment charged. “The Mafia is just not engaging in the significant criminal activities they were involved in the past,” he said. A few months later, Mr. Parrello ordered Mr. Zinzi and another man to attack a panhandler who had bothered a woman in a parking lot near the restaurant Pasquale’s Rigoletto, which Mr. Parrello operated on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, prosecutors said.

Source: New York Times August 05, 2016 01:52 UTC