After women in the neighborhood complained that a panhandler had bothered them in a parking lot near the restaurant, Parrello allegedly ordered his associates to “break” the man’s knees. “And tell him, ‘Listen to me … next time I’m not gonna stop choking … I’m gonna kill you,’ ” he said on the wiretap. The indictment said the defendants – all alleged members of the Genovese, Gambino, Luchese, Bonanno and Philadelphia organized crime families – had engaged in wide-ranging criminal activity. White police officer who shot unarmed black man to death found guilty of manslaughter in Virginia Preet Bharara of New York said investigators had uncovered a very real criminal enterprise that operated up and down the East Coast, including in Little Italy in the Bronx, Philadelphia, Massachusetts and Florida.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 04, 2016 22:00 UTC