https://eu.app.com/story/news/inves...ill-here-port-newark-suburbs/3268727002/Mob NJ: The Mafia is still here, tied to Port Newark and the suburbs
The USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey learned the state remains a hunting ground for mobsters tied to Philadelphia and New York City. Two of the notorious five New York crime families — Lucchese and Genovese — operate in New Jersey, mob experts said. The Network also found documents identifying recent New Jersey ties to the Bonnano and Gambino families.
Taking over a company: A Galloway member of the Lucchese crime family was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2015 in connection to a scheme whereby he and others, including an associate of the Philadelphia crime family, conspired to take over a Texas financial services company and funnel millions of dollars from the company to themselves.
In one recent example, a Bonanno crime family captain was connected to a scheme in which a “dirt broker†trucked in demolition waste, including dirt tainted with a cancer-causing substance, to fill in backyards eroded by superstorm Sandy along the edge of Raritan Bay in the Cliffwood Beach section of Old Bridge, according to a 2017 report by the State Commission of Investigation.
