This Week In Gang Land
Happy Landing For Gambino Skipper After Short Stretch Behind Bars
The FBI and Brooklyn federal prosecutors had two good reasons to arrest
Gambino wiseguy Andrew Campos at Kennedy Airport when he returned from Aruba
last month after a five-day vacation with his wife at the "Happy Island" in
the Caribbean Sea, Gang Land has learned.
They had the goods — photos of him at four meetings with mobsters — to charge Campos with four violations of supervised release (VOSRs.) And they were also angry that the "powerful Gambino capo" received permission to celebrate his 29th Anniversary on Aruba through lies he told the government and the court, according to the prosecutor in the case.
The alleged lies led to the capo's arrest when he stepped off Delta Flight DL612 from Aruba at about 7 p.m. on Sunday May 3, and an overnight stay at an airport holding center. And then his detention the next day when Campos was brought to Brooklyn Federal Court and ordered held without bail.
Inexplicably, however, the feds didn't seize the wiseguy's cell phone. And his lawyer used that info to argue convincingly that the feds had no probable cause that Campos had committ
Powerful Gambino Capo Under 'Low Intensity Supervision' By Probation Dept
The feds say Andrew Campos is a powerful Gambino capo who's been under
investigation for more than a year. But the U.S. Probation Department
assigned to make sure the mobster behaved himself once he got out of prison
decided he was a low-risk ex-con with no need for supervision by a dedicated
probation officer, Gang Land has learned.
'Bodyguard' In Storied Murder Of Carmine Galante Seeks Compassion, Freedom
Baldassare (Baldo) Amato, the Sicilian-born mobster suspected in the 1979
execution of cigar-chomping Bonanno gangster Carmine (Lilo) Galante at Joe
and Mary Italian Restaurant in Bushwick, but never charged in the storied
mob hit, is seeking an early release from his life sentence
for his conviction of two subsequent gangland-style slayings.
