From the Daily News:
Two wiseguys pleaded guilty Friday to extortion charges related to a racketeering scheme that the feds say stocked mob-controlled New York strip clubs with smuggled eastern European women, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced.
Alphonse Trucchio, a Gambino family capo, and Christopher Colon, a Gambino associate, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to extorting two Queens strip clubs, Perfection in Woodside and Rouge in Maspeth, Bharara said.
Trucchio faces eight to 10 years in prison and Colon six to eight years when they are sentenced May 17.
Judge Richard Berman revoked their bail following their pleas of guilty.
The two were among 20 suspects busted last November in what prosecutors said was a scheme by the Mafia and the Russian mob to import women from Russia and neighboring countries into New York to work as strippers.
3 comments:
So where are the names of the russian (ffr)mobsters that were locked up?
I'm confused, doesn't racketeering indicate these two mobsters were trying to extort the strip clubs in some way?
Sounds to me the mobsters were working FOR the club supplying them with women and that the mobsters, the club and other parties are all guilty of human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, etc.
No Italian names no laundry list of names published.
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