Oh they were out of the BX. Thought it was Lodi. They used to run a lot of Garbage Routes in North/Central Jersey.

How much per year these guys making off the garbage business or around their making ?

The latest, from Jerry Capeci over at gangland.com
What an abysmal failure this case has crumbled into....

Wiseguy Lawyers Say FBI Informer In Garbage Case Is A Bigger Crook Than Their Client, Anthony Bazzini
The FBI's paid informer in the once highly-touted "Papa Smurf" waste carting case against geezer gangster Carmine Franco and 28 others committed crimes that a legitimate wiseguy wouldn't stoop to. So say lawyers for Gambino mobster Anthony Bazzini, who is slated to be sentenced next week for his conviction in the racketeering case. Originally billed as a major blow at the mob, the three year-long probe of the waste hauling industry in New York and New Jersey has since fizzled down to a handful of relatively minor convictions.

Adding insult to injury, defense lawyers are now claiming the government's informant — already exposed as a child sex predator — was double dealing the feds while he was wearing a wire for the FBI and is clearly the biggest crook of the bunch.

Bazzini's attorneys, Raymond Perini and Michael Castronovo, say their client and a friend were conned into losing $20,000 in what they thought was a "legitimate" joint venture. At the same time, the lawyers assert, undercover operative Charles Hughes was provoking them to commit crimes while stealing money himself and keeping his illicit proceeds a secret from his FBI handlers.

In addition to stealing $3100 in carting fees, Bazzini's mouthpieces claim, Hughes helped steal three garbage Dumpsters worth about $20,000 each from Galaxy of Long Island, a company that Bazzini's friend owned. The theft included two roll-off containers that Hughes has since admitted swiping, according to court papers filed with Manhattan Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel.

Defense lawyers made the allegations against Hughes in court papers seeking home confinement for Bazzini. The 54-year-old wiseguy copped a super sweet deal on the eve of his racketeering trial in January with sentencing guidelines of 12 to18 months, a much lower recommended prison term than the original plea offer of 37-to-46 months.

Carmine FrancoIn the filing, lawyers say that the owner of a construction company, and a customer, both told defense investigators that they paid an unidentified Hughes confederate for the Dumpsters that Galaxy of Long Island supplied at the building site. Galaxy, Bazzini's attorneys allege, never received any part of the $3100.

"The dispute over this $3100 and the theft of two roll-off containers from the Hoboken, New Jersey job site (is what) led to Mr. Bazzini's criminal conduct in this case," the lawyers wrote about their client's actions in two phone calls he made in December of 2011.

In the calls, the lawyers wrote, Bazzini was heard "making implied threats of bodily harm" to Hughes if he didn't release the stolen containers to Galaxy. Employees of the company had tracked the stolen waste bins to a yard owned by a Garden State company named Galaxy of New Jersey. The defense memo claims the New Jersey firm has links to Hughes but is not connected to the company owned by Bazzini's pal.

"Bazzini was particularly angry" when he learned that "repairs had been made by Galaxy of New Jersey to one of the Galaxy of Long Island's roll-off containers," the lawyers wrote. The similarity in names was a clear indication that the New Jersey outfit intended "to repaint them and retain them for their own use," they stated.

Without denying their client's guilt, the lawyers asked Castel for leniency. Bazzini, they maintain, had good reason to be "angry with (Hughes's) pattern of deceptive conduct and lies, which hurt his friends at a time of economic vulnerability." The mobster was also "upset" because he himself had dragged them into a "phony business opportunity" with Hughes.

"It would be hard to argue that anyone would not feel the same, given the circumstances," wrote Perini and Castronovo.

In addition, the lawyers assert that "exceptional misconduct and provocative behavior" by Hughes against Bazzini was another mitigating factor that Castel could use to impose a lenient sentence for his client.

Judge P. Kevn CastelIn a conversation about his dispute with Bazzini about the roll-off containers that Hughes mistakenly taped with FBI agent Jon Jennings, the lawyers wrote that Hughes was heard telling the agent: "But then this is good, because maybe I'll get threatened."

In the same conversation, the informer was heard "actually counting up how many defendants he had to his credit" to help him obtain a lenient sentence for soliciting sex with a girl he believed to be 15 years old" by increasing his numbers in a so-called "5K-1 cooperation letter. It is implicit that he expected to add Bazzini to that number, and he did," wrote Perini and Castronovo.

"While Bazzini's conduct is not commendable behavior, it is not out of the range of normal human behavior to react angrily" when an employee of the government "stole payments for goods and services, caused equipment to be stolen, and harmed the friends' company at a particularly hard time for them," the lawyers wrote.

$87, 634.47 each. But that's after taxes.

Lmfao

Oh what a tangled web they weave, when Uncle Sam practices to deceive...


This Week in Gang Land
By Jerry Capeci

Feds Have Second Thoughts About FBI Operative In Mob Garbage Case
Gang Land Exclusive!Carmine FrancoThe office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is having second thoughts about its prime witness in what was to be a blockbuster case charging 29 mobsters and associates from three crime families with labor racketeering in the garbage business in New York and New Jersey.

Make that more second thoughts.

Gang Land has already revealed that FBI informer Charles Hughes only agreed to cooperate after he was caught trying to line up a sex date with a 15-year-old girl who turned out to be a fed trolling for perverts on the internet. And that the feds gave sweet plea deals to mobsters to keep Hughes off the stand. But now prosecutors are reviewing allegations raised by defense lawyers that Hughes also secretly stole valuable roll-off garbage containers and thousands of dollars during the three year federal probe of the mob and the waste hauling industry. After initially flatly denying the allegations against the witness, prosecutors abruptly announced last week that they were taking another look at the defense charges against the undercover operative.

Prosecutors disclosed those intentions in a June 3 letter to Manhattan Federal Judge P. Kevin Castel that requested a "brief adjournment" of the sentencing of Anthony Bazzini, a Gambino mobster who pled guilty to making two threatening phone calls to Hughes about the thefts in 2011. Defense lawyers, who had indicated they would further detail their corruption charges against the already tarnished witness at Bazzini's sentencing that had been set for June 4, agreed to the delay.

Sources say Hughes, a longtime low-level member of the waste hauling industry, began cooperating after his 2008 arrest by members of the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force for soliciting sex with a minor at an Elmsford, NY motel when he showed up with a supply of condoms for what he thought would be a tryst with the teen.

Anthony BazziniIn court papers, defense lawyers Raymond Perini and Michael Castronovo had argued that Bazzini, whose suggested sentencing guidelines are 12-to-18 months in prison, deserved a much more lenient sentence — probation — because sentencing statutes permit judges to consider the misconduct of cooperating witnesses as mitigating factors in favor of the defendant.

The attorneys stated that two independent witnesses — a New York contractor and a New Jersey homeowner — had linked Hughes to the theft of $3100 in garbage collection fees. Additional material that the government turned over to the defense on the eve of the scheduled start of trial in January also implicated Hughes in the theft of two waste bins worth about $40,000, the lawyers allege.

That scam is what "led to Bazzini's criminal conduct," the lawyers wrote. Their client, they state, only got "upset" in the first place because he had convinced a pal who owned a carting company named Galaxy of Long Island to enter into what turned out to be a "phony business opportunity" with the FBI operative.

In their initial reply, prosecutors Brian Blais and Patrick Egan dismissed the allegations.

"The government denies that CW-1 engaged in unauthorized illegal conduct," wrote the prosecutors, noting that "CW-1's actions were supervised on an intensive basis by his handling agents, including by physical surveillance on an almost daily basis." (Hughes has been identified as CW-1 in court filings and in open court before Bazzini and mob associate Scott Fappiano copped guilty pleas in January, but prosecutors do not name him in their papers.)

It was true, the prosecutors wrote then, that Hughes had "two Galaxy of Long Island containers moved" to a storage yard of a company named Galaxy of New Jersey. And it was true as well, they conceded, that the owner of that firm "had a relationship with (Hughes)." But it was all okay, they said, because everything was done "with full knowledge of the agents … who were conducting what was essentially daily surveillance of CW-1's movements and activities."

Judge P. Kevn CastelFurthermore, the feds insisted that Hughes and his pal at Galaxy of New Jersey were not planning to steal the roll-off containers, as Bazzini claimed. He had only moved them there at the request of a customer. And even then it was solely "as a temporary storage measure" until Galaxy of Long Island "could retrieve them," which the company eventually did.

That position was already a major change from the way the feds told it to defense lawyers last year in both a meeting and June 2013 letter, however. Back then, court records show, the feds insisted that Hughes "had no role in taking the containers" in the first place. Moreover they stated, he had "no authority" to order their release "to the Galaxy of Long Island driver who came to pick them up" after Bazzini demanded their return.

Also left unexplained was why it took until last November 19, months after the defense team had asked prosecutors about the matter, for Hughes to remember that he did have something to do with the waste bins ending up in the Garden State.

"In the debriefing notes" that were turned over to the defense on the eve of the expected trial of Bazzini and Fappiano, wrote lawyers Perini and Castronovo, "the cooperating witness admitted that he himself had the boxes moved to Galaxy of New Jersey."

Contacted by Gang Land, Perini declined to expand on the defense allegations, or discuss his recent talks with prosecutors regarding Hughes, but said he expects to file an additional sentencing memo today or tomorrow.

Prosecutors declined to comment about the garbage case, or the current status of Hughes.

Records show that Hughes, who was involved in the waste hauling industry for 25 years, was arrested on a federal complaint on August 27, 2008. He pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for sex and other charges on October 8 of 2009, the same year he began wearing a wire for the FBI.

Scott FappianoHis case is still sealed. But according to filings in the garbage case, Hughes was arrested after a three month long sting operation in which he had a series of "sexually explicit" online chats with a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl, and "two recorded telephone conversations with an individual he believed to be the girl with whom he had been chatting online."

Originally arrested on charges that carry a mandatory minimum of 10 years behind bars, Hughes has a cooperation agreement with the feds and is hoping to be rewarded for his undercover work with a much more lenient sentence. Prosecutors and FBI officials declined to say whether Hughes, who was freed on bail during the garbage probe, was remanded after his undercover work ended, and when they plan to sentence him. He is not expected to ever testify.

Meanwhile, prosecutors have decided to dismiss charges against seven of the original 29 defendants, and are expected to also move to drop charges against the three remaining defendants who did not agree to plea deals. All told, 19 defendants, including aging mob garbage kingpin Carmine (Papa Smurf) Franco, have pleaded guilty to various charges in the case.

The Feds aren't capable of shame or humility. This pervert kiddie toucher won't deter them one bit in their overzealous assault on the garbage business. I'm not a mob apologist, but it's clear that they're not going to be happy until they chase everyone out of the business. Cardboard and paper are next. Mark my words.

Jerkoffs wouldn't know the difference between Asian and home-grown cardboard if it bit them in their fat, lazy, government asses. And they've got the power to control the industry.

think that was the first time that guy went to a motel with condoms looking for a teenager?

Who knows, but he should have his brains blown out!..... And to boot he probably has kids of his own. Fukin ScumBum

He's got two kids, the piece of shit that he is. Girl and a boy.

Wonder if his kids had to change their names as well, because daddy decided he'd rather fuck sophomores rather than their mother.

Yeah i'm sure they did GMan......You can Run but you can't Hide!

Sure you can. When's the last time you heard of them catching up with a guy in WITSEC?

The Mob ain't gonna get him and they probably won't even bother to look. You have to leave it up to karma or God to catch up with a scumbag like that. Time is his worst enemy. I like to believe that time and fate always catch up to people like that. I hope so, anyway .

Yep, you're right,they won't look. Waste of time.
Then again, the kiddie banger only has one eyeball because the other one popped out when he got his skull caved in with a bat during his stint as Joe Pistone Jr. So he's going to have to use that one eye double-duty keeping a lookout. lol

That's what i was getting at PB. As much as i would like to see it the other way with 2 to the back of the head but he has to live with that embarrassment everyday of his life... I really feel bad for the kids, who had to change their lives for their father being a Chester!

I am absolutely shocked the Fed's would be willing to allow a sexual predator back onto the streets, just so they can bust a few mobsters off the street running a garbage scam? If you read any of the former FBI agents own material you will find that a very high amount of serial killers are sexual predator's, and are killing victims just avoid being caught.

That is from their own books.. Why would they possibly allow someone like that back out on the streets, when they know that can't be cured, they know they will be trolling for young girls(or boys) again. They are enabling a pervert to continue to do it, as long as he keeps giving them info on some scheming mobsters? Give me a break.. They can't even keep track of the shady shit the guy is pulling now(assuming its true he help ripped off the dumpsters), while he is on daily surveillance, what makes anyone think hes not out trolling now?

What's really the worst crime here? The mobsters or a sex predator being enabled by the FBI. Its disgusting.

Walkner,

You would think the feds would have not allowed this for such a small time bust, but the feds have been making deals forever with people a lot worse than this guy... think Gravano and Scarpa. My guess is that when they made the deal the feds believed it would lead to them to more information, indictments and bigger fish and it may before its all said and done. As a side note some of these FBI guys are addicted to the chase just like the wise guys are addicted to the action. As history has shown us there is not much the feds aren't willing to do to get what they want, and what some of these fed guys want today is notoriety, power and more money. Happy Fathers Day to all the Dads on here.

The sad fact is that the punishment for being a pedophile is not a strong enough deterrent and the pedophile's know it.

In this case, the targets were a one Tino Fiumara, a member of the ruling panel leading the Genovese, and Connecticut's Matty 'The Horse' Ianello. After 2 years of wasting time, Fiumara rolled a 7 and cashed out in 2010.

After the FBI recovered from the embarrassment of 24 months of massive multi-state surveillance and undercover work spanning from NY to Florida, what was their solution? They moved their focus to the next natural perfect choice for a lead defendant... 94 year old Ianello (lol). Another 24 months of multi-state surveillance later, Ianello checked out. Woops! What a surprise! Dickus Heldinhandus.

Fiugeddaboudit.

From gangland & Jerry Capeci

More shameful, embarrassing news for the feds and a first look at the FBI's star pedophile, Charlie Hughes


Wiseguy Uses Government Info To Slam FBI Informer In Mob Waste Hauling Case
Charles Hughes
The embarrassing list of low crimes and misdemeanors continues to mushroom in the not-so-great Papa Smurf garbage case. Problem is, the offending perp isn't Carmine Franco or any of the 29 wiseguys and mob associates indicted for labor racketeering. Instead, it's the FBI's own undercover operative in the three year probe into the mob's involvement in the waste hauling industry. That's him pictured at the right, Charles Hughes.

Hughes, 44, agreed to cooperate with the feds after he was arrested in 2008 on charges of soliciting sex with a girl he believed to be 15 years old. He pleaded guilty to unspecified charges in 2009, and was slated to testify at trial in January. He was spared that embarrassing appearance, however, when the two remaining defendants pleaded guilty.

The original sex charges against him remain sealed. All that's known for sure is that they carried a mandatory minimum of ten years behind bars. What's also known is that usually when the government gets its hands on such sex offenders it tries to get the maximum penalty. Just this week, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced a similar sex-solicitation arrest of another defendant and asked citizens for any other info they may have about the suspect. But Bharara, as well as the FBI, have declined repeated requests to explain why the charges against Hughes are still sealed, or to release any other info about Hughes, including whether he is behind bars, or free on bail.

New details did emerge this past week regarding alleged double dealing by Hughes during his undercover work, and the FBI's failure to keep tabs on him. They were cited in court papers filed by Raymond Perini, an attorney for Gambino mobster Anthony Bazzini. Bazzini, who pleaded guilty to threatening Hughes in two phone calls, is set for sentencing next week.

Federal prosecutors, who said last month that Hughes had funneled payments from 18 of 20 New Jersey customers to Galaxy of Long Island, a carting company linked to Bazzini, now concede that Hughes supplied only three customers, wrote Perini, asserting that his information comes from tape recordings, FBI documents or other records he received from the government.

Perini stated that Hughes now admits using a cohort who ended up being indicted in the case, Stephen Moscatello, to collect payments from two customers in Old Tappan, New Jersey — a total of $3100, according to Perini — and not passing the money on to Galaxy, after receiving it from Moscatello.

Hughes claims he didn't keep the cash, though. He says he passed it on to a second codefendant, Luchese associate Charles (Charlie Tuna) Giustra, "who must have stolen it and not passed it on to Bazzini," wrote Perini. The lawyer questioned why Hughes never brought that up in any of "the dozens" of taped talks he had later on with Giustra or with Bazzini's alleged partner-in-crime, Scott Fappiano — and why he never mentioned it to the FBI.

The lawyer never raised the real-world, real-life reason why Hughes's current account makes no sense: Even in 2014, when mob protocol is not what it used to be, there's no way that mob associate Giustra would ever steal money from Bazzini, a "made man," unless he first whacked the only other person who was involved in the deal, namely Hughes.

Gang Land could not reach Giustra, but Moscatello, 53, confirmed that he worked for Hughes, that he did service the customer in Old Tappan whom Hughes supplied, and that he did collect the fees and turn them over to Hughes.

"I did pick up the money — Charley told me to — but I don't think it was $3100," said Moscatello. "I think the customer paid me by check, but whatever it was, I know I gave it to Charley. I don't know what he did with it."

Moscatello, who was the first defendant whom Hughes tape-recorded in 2009, pleaded guilty to transporting stolen garbage containers across state lines. Probation officials recommended a no jail term, and prosecutors stated that "the plan to steal and transport containers was not" his idea. He was sentenced to 45 days behind bars.

Information the government gave Perini also indicates that prosecutors misspoke when they stated in court papers that Hughes moved two Galaxy of Long Island bins from a firehouse in Hoboken to a safe storage lot in New Jersey under the supervision of the FBI, according to the lawyer.

In fact, Perini wrote, the FBI learned that the bins were stolen on November 28, 2011 when a third defendant, Jonathan Greene, called Hughes and told him so in a tape-recorded conversation in which Greene gave Hughes "directions to the remote yard where the roll-offs were stored."

Two days later, two FBI agents "went to the location and photographed the roll-offs and noted in an official report that they were two roll off containers stolen from a construction site in Hoboken," wrote Perini.

The FBI declined to comment about the "stolen" garbage containers.

Prosecutors say they will respond to Perini's most recent filing before Bazzini is sentenced on Tuesday.

Ex-cop cuts deal with feds after alleged Mafia involvement
June 22, 2014

A retired state trooper busted for allegedly working as a mob enforcer while on the job has cut a sweetheart deal with prosecutors that will keep him out of jail — and wipe his record clean, The Post has learned.

Mario Velez, 46, agreed to the deal that requires him to do nothing more than stay out of trouble for three months. Velez of Peeks­kill was set to go to trial June 16 with three reputed mobbed-up associates also accused of making threats of force and fear to extort a trash hauler into turning over his business to them in 2011.

But under last-minute “deferred prosecution agreements” offered with the feds, they’ll avoid jail and future prosecution simply by remaining “law-abiding” citizens, agreeing to restricted local travel and following other terms over the three-month period.

“We feel this was the right and just thing for the government to do, based on his background,” Velez’s lawyer, John Meringolo, told The Post. “He’s a good citizen, a good trooper and a good father.”

Velez was mum about the deal — and his arrest.

“I took a beating, and I just want to get back on my feet,” he said.

Also arrested in 2013 were Pasquale P. Cartalemi Jr., 51, and his son, Pasquale L. Cartalemi 28, both of Cortlandt, at their company AAA Carting in Peekskill.

The trio had faced up to 40 years behind bars on extortion charges.

Another associate who caught a break, Andrew McGuire, 30, of Hawthorne, had faced up to 20 years on an extortion conspiracy charge.

The US Attorney’s Office declined to comment.

The suspects allegedly shook down and took control of Capital Waste Services in Hawthorne. McGuire is currently listed as the CEO of the carting business, according to state records. They all claim they’re innocent.

Sources said Velez retired under fire as a state trooper in 2012 after the FBI notified his bosses that he was a target of a probe that found rival Mafia families had banded together to circumvent official efforts to clean up the trash business. The state police had been looking separately into Velez’s actions at the same time that the feds were investigating,

An indictment said the suspects used strong-arm tactics to shake down the owners of legitimate companies and secretly assume ownership of their operations.

In January 2013, 32 people were indicted as a result of the probe, including Velez and his crew and alleged ringleader Carmine “Papa Smurf” Franco, 78. Franco was sentenced to a year in jail last month after copping a plea to a separate shakedown scheme.

http://nypost.com/2014/06/23/ex-cop-cuts-deal-with-feds-after-alleged-mafia-involvement/

I believe that makes 7 out of the original 29 indicted in the Papa Smurf 'proper' who've walked away with this deferred prosecution and once the 'be a good boy time' is up, charges are dropped.
I guess one could count dead Tino and dead Matty, if you really wanna get technical about it? They got deferred death. They wanted Tino so badly, they sent people to the funeral home to make sure the corpse was really him. I suppose with 94 year old Matty, they took the word of the death certificate. But hey, after 4 years of ball-busting surveillance, they got some prettyyyyy prettyyyyy prettyyyyy good collars with the jacked hot dog truck and the fugazi cigs lol.

I agree with everything you just posted. But they sealed the ex-cop's plea. What's that tell you?

PB, have you ever read Takedown? I've been seeing at my local used book store for weeks and keep thinking to buy it but never do.

Yeah, Snakes. That was my local. I was a member of 813 for twenty five years, a shop steward for ten, and a business agent for seven.

Good book, but the cop's ego was out of control (what else is new?). And Sal Benedetto is a whiny baby who PUT HIMSELF in a jackpot, then ran for help when he got scared.

Also, they made a few guys out to be heavyweights in the garbage business who were nothing more than wannabe gangsters. But that's to be expected in mob books.

When you read it, shoot me a pm .

That him and the other 6 have some stereotypical 302's floating around.

See? I told you that you should have been a lawyer .

Don't Fret Bret? Oh, wait, even better... Don't Get Bent Brent! I'd blow Don't Worry Murray away!