This Week In Gang Land
'Peaches,' A 'Bandleader,' & 'Amica Nostra': Feds Say Cryptic Comments On Secret Tapes Link Jealous Ex-Hubby Tommy Manzo To Assault Of Boyfriend Of Housewives Reality TV Star Dina Manzo
Nine
years after New Jersey-based mobster John Perna and a cohort assaulted the
boyfriend of Reality TV star Dina Manzo, the feds plan to play
three sets of taped talks in an effort to prove that jealous ex-husband
Thomas Manzo hired the mob to assault her new boyfriend, Gang Land has
learned.
The tapes include an audio secretly recorded by state police which captured Perna's brother — a made member of the Luchese crime family — instructing the recently inducted Perna on the fine points of mob etiquette such as how to address a fellow wiseguy.
The tapes will play at Manzo's long-delayed racketeering trial which begins Monday in Newark Federal Court. In one set of tapes, jurors will hear Manzo tell an employee that Perna was a "mobster" who got a free wedding celebration that was attended by more than 250 friends, relatives and mobsters at Manzo's deluxe Brownstone Banquet Hall in Paterson a month after the assault in the summer of 2015, the feds say.
Little Anthony Follows The Lead Of Carmine Pizza
A
month after their Genovese family partners in the "lucrative illegal
gambling operation" they ran for 10 years at the Gran Caffe Gelateria in
Lynbrook copped guilty pleas to resolve their racketeering charges, the
Bonanno family wiseguys in their joint venture have agreed to follow suit,
Gang Land has learned.
Judge OKs Ex-FBI Agent as Expert Witness, But Feds Decide Not to Use Him At Trial
Federal
prosecutors in New Jersey won judicial approval to use former FBI agent
Theodore Otto as an expert witness about the mob in their case against Tommy
Manzo — but soon thought better of it.
