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Nine Gambino Mobsters Sentenced

Nine reputed Gambino mobsters were sentenced on Wednesday and Thursday to light prison terms ranging from 18 months to 100 months after variously pleading guilty to the usual mob rackets such as sex trafficking, drug distribution, and gambling, loansharking and extortion as reported by Courthouse News Service.  The nine defendants were among the fourteen indicted in April 2010.  The other five defendants, including reputed boss Dan Marino, previously have been sentenced.  Marino was sentenced last January to five years in prison after pleading guilty to green lighting a 1998 hit on his Bonanno associate nephew Frank Hydell whom mobsters feared was cooperating with the feds.  If these boys were a black crew from the Crips or Bloods would the sentences have been as lenient?

FBI Press Release

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Gambino Hooker Booker Gets House Arrest

Last September Suzanne Porcelli pleaded guilty for her role in an alleged Gambino teen prostitution ring which prosecutors say involved girls as young as fifteen, and this morning she "was sentenced to nine months under house arrest" as reported by Bruce Golding for the New York Post.

Mafia Exploitation Of Kids:  Really A New Low?

Two Defendants In Gambino Case Plead Guilty

Reputed Gambino soldier Thomas Orefice and his alleged top dog Dominick Difiore pleaded guilty this afternoon as reported by Bruce Golding for the New York Post:  Orefice pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge involving extortion, loansharking and gambling, and Difiore pleaded guilty to extortion conspiracy and drug trafficking charges.  Orefice and Difiore were among the fourteen defendants indicted on various charges last April, and they were the last two to reach plea deals.

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Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have declined to bring charges against Orefice's defense lawyer Seth Ginsburg after a bag of marijuana was discovered in his brief case last October while entering the Metropolitan Correctional Center to visit his client as reported by Scott Shifrel for the Daily News:  "Ginsberg blamed it all on his brother, who he told authorities had borrowed the bag - and left the narcotics in it."

Gambino Hooker Booker Asks For No Prison Time

Last September Suzanne Porcelli pleaded guilty for her role in an alleged Gambino teen prostitution ring which prosecutors say involved girls as young as fifteen, and although facing up to two years in prison under the plea agreement she is asking for a "non-jail sentence" since defendants in the hooker case which brought down former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer got only probation for their comparable roles as bookers as reported by Bruce Golding for the New York Post.  Of course, there were no allegations that the Emperors Club VIP from which Spitzer got his girls was tied to the Mafia nor that any of its working girls were underage.

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Anthony Manzella Pleads Guilty In Gambino Case

Anthony Manzella, a reputed Gambino associate who was accused last April of, among other things, "recruiting a baby-faced teen for a mob-run prostitution ring struck a plea deal yesterday in which prosecutors dropped sex-trafficking charges against him" as reported by Bruce Golding for the New York Post.  However, he admitted defrauding NYC restaurants through inflated invoices from his meat company Gold Pride Foods with kickbacks to the kitchen chefs, running a weekly high-stakes poker game, and extorting securities trading firm Griffin Financial.

The indictment had charged various defendants with running a teen prostitution ring which allegedly included girls as young as fifteen, and federal prosecutors alleged Manzella was "caught on tape giving one frightened girl advice on how to deal with a john who insisted on a sex act she didn't want to perform" as then reported by Alison Gendar and Rich Shapiro for the Daily News.

Last September co-defendant Suzanne Porcelli pleaded guilty for her role in the alleged Gambino teen prostitution ring.

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Reputed Gambino Boss Dan Marino Pleads Guilty

Reputed Gambino boss Dan Marino pleaded guilty yesterday to green lighting a 1998 hit on his Bonanno associate nephew Frank Hydell whom mobsters feared was cooperating with the feds, and pursuant to the terms of his plea agreement will serve five years in prison and forfeit $1.25 million as reported by Bruce Golding for the New York Post.

Marino and thirteen others were variously indicted last April on racketeering, murder, sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a minor, jury tampering, extortion, assault, narcotics trafficking, wire fraud, loan sharking and gambling charges.  You know, the usual mob crap.

Last September co-defendant Suzanne Porcelli pleaded guilty for her role in the alleged Gambino teen prostitution ring which prosecutors say involved girls as young as fifteen-years-old.

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