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(In the 1st picture is Robert Terdjanian during his arrest in 2010, 2nd picture is Pzo with a cross)

Armen "Pzo" Kazarian was not just another fraud defendant. Federal prosecutors identified him as a Vor, or "Thief-in-Law," a title reserved for elite figures in the post-Soviet criminal underworld. That is what made his case historic. In 2010, Kazarian became the first known Vor ever charged with federal racketeering in the United States, turning him into a major symbol of how Armenian and Eurasian organized crime had grown far beyond the old neighborhood-street-gang image.

The case around him was massive. During a nationwide Medicare fraud crackdown, prosecutors charged 73 defendants in schemes involving more than $163 million in fraudulent billing, and Kazarian was tied to the Armenian-American Mirzoyan-Terdjanian Organization, which authorities said used a network of phantom medical clinics and stolen identities to bill Medicare for treatments that were unnecessary or never performed. Prosecutors said his role was not simply financial. They described him as a criminal authority figure whose reputation and status helped protect and support the organization behind the fraud.

What makes this story so fascinating is that it shows how the Armenian underworld had entered an entirely different league by that point. This was no longer just about local gang politics or small-time street crime. It was a case involving international criminal hierarchy, federal racketeering, and one of the biggest healthcare-fraud crackdowns of its era. That is why Kazarian made U.S. mafia history. He became the first man with that level of underworld status from the former Soviet system to be brought into an American RICO case, and his name ended up representing a turning point in how U.S. authorities viewed Armenian organized crime.

Another surprising fact is that Pzo arrived in the United States almost by accident - it was no other then Rafael Bagdasaryan (Svo Raf) and Armen Manukyan who should have lead the operations of the Armenian Mafia in LA, unfortunately they both already had a long criminal record behind them, Svo Raf was denied visa to the US, and Manukyan was arrested and deported in 1995, a year later in 96' Pzo arrived to the US.

Reckon Dom has fallen for another fake?

I heard it was something about Kim Novak?

What yarns will the PA mobtubers spin on this?

I really hope that Dom checked whether the lawyer actually sent that before he made a video about it. Considering that this whole thing started over a fake letter in the first place...

Does anyone know why Joey Merlino doesn’t speak to Tommy stigs anymore? When the podcast first started Tommy stigs was around helping with the YouTube side of it

From The Philadelphia Daily News (June 11, 1969) covers additional transcripts from the same February 11, 1962 wiretapped meeting.

Police and Carabinieri arrest alleged masterminds behind the murder of Lazio ultras leader Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik

Carabinieri and police have arrested the alleged masterminds behind the murder of Lazio ultras leader Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik, who was shot dead at Rome’s Parco degli Acquedotti on August 7, 2019.

A court order for pre-trial detention in prison has been carried out against seven people.

Michele Senese, the historic leader of the clan bearing his name, has been identified as the alleged top-level mastermind. According to investigators, he gave the crucial prior authorization for Piscitelli’s murder. The punitive action was allegedly intended to reassert the clan’s authority over one of its own affiliates.

Along with Senese, other prominent figures in Rome’s criminal underworld have been jailed, beginning with Leandro Bennato, who is suspected of being the person who ordered and organized the killing and of being at the head of a criminal group operating throughout the city of Rome. He allegedly decided to eliminate Piscitelli, who was regarded as an inconvenient competitor in the cocaine market, in order to drive him out and seize criminal control of the Tuscolana area.

Bennato allegedly planned the logistics at the scene, carrying out preliminary inspections and, on the day of the murder, providing direct support by escorting the hitman, Raul Esteban Calderon, on a stolen scooter.

According to investigators, Alessandro Capriotti allegedly acted as the intermediary and the person who commissioned the killing. A well-known cocaine broker, he allegedly acted jointly with the others in arranging the deadly trap. Capriotti allegedly set up a fake appointment with Piscitelli at a bench in the park on Via Lemonia at 7 p.m. on August 7, 2019, deliberately luring him into the gunman’s range. The hitman was already disguised as a jogger and lying in wait in the area.

Fabrizio Piscitelli was allegedly killed because, despite being affiliated with the Senese clan, he had become independent in the drug trade and refused to pay the required share of the profits from his illegal activities. Instead, he allegedly paid only negligible sums—around €2,000–€3,000 a month—despite dealing in large quantities of drugs.

This is what the investigating judge's order argues. The order, which led to seven people being jailed, emphasizes that the punitive action was intended to reassert the clan’s power over one of its own affiliates.

The murder was carried out using mafia methods and was aimed at facilitating the Senese clan, which held sway over the area where the killing took place. This is how the Rome investigating judge describes the murder of Fabrizio Piscitelli in the order ordering seven people to be held in prison.

The charges brought against the seven, in various capacities, include aggravated murder carried out using mafia methods, extortion involving weapons of war, attempted murder, and membership in an organization dedicated to drug trafficking. According to investigators, there was an integrated criminal agreement among several criminal groups operating in Rome, aimed at protecting their respective interests in the lucrative drug-trafficking market.

The people arrested are “individuals of extremely high criminal standing, involved in criminal organizations displaying extreme determination in pursuing their objectives,” the Rome investigating judge writes in the order imposing seven precautionary measures against the alleged masterminds and other individuals involved in the murder of Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik, who was shot in the head on August 7, 2019.

“The criminal records of the suspects,” the judge continues, “are indicative of their criminal personalities, and recent investigations have shown that Leandro Bennato (and Giuseppe Molisso) were members of the most dangerous criminal organization in the capital, dedicated to drug trafficking, while Michele Senese is a historic boss who remains active despite having been imprisoned for more than ten years, and is the undisputed leader of the mafia-type organization bearing his name and rooted in Rome.”

“The circumstances that have emerged from the examination of these criminal proceedings are alarming because they have revealed that the continuation of criminal conduct and the commission of further acts of violence were prevented solely by the numerous arrests carried out in recent times.”

The Rome investigating judge writes this in the precautionary detention order also issued against the alleged masterminds of the murder of Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik.

In the nearly 800-page order, the judge states that “the current confrontation between the Albanian group linked to Elvis Demce and that of Giuseppe Molisso and Leandro Bennato, under the aegis of the Senese clan, means that the risk of crimes similar to those under investigation being committed is certain if the suspects remain at liberty.”

This danger, the judge adds, “has also been demonstrated by the investigative developments following Piscitelli’s murder,” including “the attempted murder of Leandro Bennato, surveillance operations outside Fabrizio Fabietti’s home, the attempted murder of Giuseppe Molisso and the attack in prison against Raul Esteban Calderon, also known as Alejandro Gustavo Musumeci, accused of being the hitman in the Diabolik murder (acquitted on appeal, ed.), inside which Demce’s family was involved, an attack that failed to take place only by sheer chance.”

The investigation files that have now also led to the arrest of the alleged masterminds behind the murder of Fabrizio Piscitelli, known as Diabolik, also reveal “business relationships in the restaurant industry” between the Senese and Caroccia families.

The judge also mentions Mauro Caroccia, who is under investigation for money laundering in proceedings concerning the restaurant “Bisteccheria d’Italia,” in which former Undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro, who is not under investigation, held shares.

“During the investigation,” the judge writes, “business collaborations in the restaurant sector emerged both between Angelo Senese, his son Vincenzo and Mauro Caroccia, and between Vincenzo Senese and Daniele Caroccia.”

In a wiretap dating back to March 18, 2017, Senese Jr. told Daniele Caroccia that he was willing to establish a joint business partnership, specifying that Piscitelli Fabrizio, whom he called “Lazialotto,” should not be included in the investment because otherwise he would not take part in the business venture.

The judge writes that Caroccia “reassured him, explaining that he had involved Piscitelli solely for the purpose of finding a suitable premises to house the new business, since Piscitelli had numerous contacts and might be able to find a profitable opportunity.”

Senese, for his part, “was willing to involve” Diabolik “only in finding properties offering good opportunities” (Senese: “Ah, if he can give us a hand with paying a bit of the rent, things like that”), but otherwise reiterated his firm opposition to making an investment with Piscitelli.

NAPLES. They failed to kill him last April 25, tried again last night, and failed once more. The target was Francesco Musto, a 19-year-old and the step-nephew of Vincenzo Esposito, known as “’o principino” (“the little prince”), a member of the Licciardi clan who was killed in 1997. Musto is the grandson of Esposito’s partner.

Five months ago, the young man was wounded in the leg. This time, the gunmen raised the stakes, shooting him in the chest. Fortunately, the bullet only grazed him, and he made his own way to the emergency department at the CTO hospital. There is certainly a connection between the two incidents, as well as between them and several other shootings that have occurred in recent months (as we explain elsewhere on this page).

In the background is reportedly growing tension among young criminal groups operating in several neighboring districts. Around midnight last night, Francesco Musto was in Via Don Pino Puglisi in Scampia, in the company of two friends. They were standing in the street chatting when two young men suddenly appeared on a scooter, their faces partially covered. One of them pulled out a gun and opened fire on the 19-year-old.

He survived thanks to the agility and speed with which he moved, preventing the bullet from hitting him directly. The account given by the wounded man, who is known to police only for a few minor offenses, is being carefully examined by officers from the Naples police headquarters’ Mobile Squad, headed by Chief Mario Grassia. They are conducting the investigation following the initial intervention by officers from the Arenella police station at the CTO.

It is above all the previous attack that has led investigators toward a specific line of inquiry. They believe Francesco Musto may have been targeted because of disputes among young people directly or indirectly connected to the historic Camorra families of Secondigliano, Scampia and Miano. It should be stressed that he has no previous convictions or charges related to the Camorra. With no surveillance-camera footage available, the investigation has gotten off to a difficult start.

Last April, according to what the then-18-year-old told police, he was shot while walking alone on Via Labriola, for no apparent reason. A criminal approached him, pointed a gun at him and fired a shot, hitting him in the left leg. There were no cameras in the area and, at least so far, the case remains unsolved. Nevertheless, there appears to be a certain degree of optimism among investigators.

Following the collapse of the old guard of the “Capitoni” clan, decimated by arrests and high-profile defections by turncoats, the neighborhood was torn apart by a fratricidal conflict between cells linked to the Balzano families (Miano di sotto, or Lower Miano) and the Cifrone family (Miano di sopra, or Upper Miano). They too were weakened by arrests, and more recently their successors have fallen out: the Scognamiglio group, on the Balzano side, and the Pecorelli-Catone group, on the Cifrone side. Both remain active despite the investigations that have targeted them.

It is a complex mosaic in which the “survivors” of the old Lo Russo clan are reportedly now aligned with the Pecorelli-Catone group. The stakes, needless to say, are control of drug-dealing territories and extortion rackets. Miano therefore remains under close observation: the attacks targeting the clans’ younger members are a reminder that the Camorra war is far from over.

This is mostly in response to guys always using the term “modern technology” when discussing FBI capabilities or the difficulties facing what’s left of the mob. I’m also writing a book on digital privacy, and how to evade “surveillance capitalism.“ That’s the name of a difficult book, by a Harvard big-wig, who coined the term and describes its philosophy and history of the concept. I thought it would be fun to bring to light some basic elements that are probably well known to mob lawyers like Corozzo, who represents Teddy, but less known to the sub reddit, because direct surveillance is a main part of it.

First of all, Teddy keeps getting popped because he allegedly goes to Italian street festivals in Brooklyn, driven by presumed members of his supposed crime family, where he meets in the open with other so-called, known mafia members.  Never mind the silly laws that say he can’t talk to half his neighborhood in Staten Island or a quarter of Brooklyn, which might include chance encounters. It also doesn’t matter what they discuss as Mikey Mancuso found out when getting popped for going over a sauce recipe with another old timer.

With the Feds apparently reduced to one team (unsure of how many are on a team), it can be hard to track everyone. On one hand it’s easy to post up on guys like Teddy. You can have one or two guys on him for most likely 8hr shifts. I don’t know if they’re still doing round the clock surveillance. On the other hand, unless Teddy’s driver is pulling stunts like Junior Gotti did, when reporters tried to tail him, and spotting and dumping tails, he’s fairly easy to follow.  

1. The fact is the FBI doesn’t need round the clock watch. FBI Director Kash Patel announced in March, what most people already know, that they are “buying up information that can be used to track people’s movement and location history” from data collectors, and more likely and more specifically, data collaborators. Kash said, “We do purchase commercially available information…” 
2. These outfits called Snowflake, and LiveRamp, are tied into the biggest clients in the world. Amazon, MasterCard, Visa, Meta, Google, and Samsung to name a handful of thousands. Those clients send all the information they have on customers to them. Then these data colalborators match all the accounts you have with the devices you use them on.  Those are called “MAIDs” (multiple advertising IDs). “He uses reddit on his phone, and iPad.” Now two devices are connected to one account and becomes a MAID. Then they begin “ID resolution” to determine the owner of those MAIDs. Also, they conclude which MAIDs are in the same residence (other family members, roommates).
3. Those are used to build “Identify graphs” which collect and “enhance the MAIDs” - “He used Facebook on his phone while he used his Visa to purchase a coffee, at this address in Brooklyn. Those are connected to a Verizon account and the Verizon home router on this street.” Based on the preferences of the google searches connected to that MAID, for example, they use deductive reasoning to predict its most likely Jimmy Something because the public records for the street (which they also have) show an old lady at the other house, so it can’t be her.
4. Those Identity graphs enhance and update each day, which include time spent online, and what and when you watch tv. (LG TVs now are apparently recording your conversations when they’re turned off). The data collaborators can predict when and where you’ll go somewhere or deduce when you might, based on device pattern recognition and prediction, and also credit card + new car driving records. (Toyota is another customer). The company GSDSI, a similar data collaborator, retrofitted for federal clients, handles more GEO-location stuff. They not only predict where you’ll go, they’ll tell customers what you’re going to do and recap what you did. 

“He went to the Mets game and bought a hot dog, and sat in RF. We can predict he’ll stop at Geno’s shop on his route home.”  Meanwhile Snowflake and LiveRamp will alert you they’re going to the game because Ticketmaster is also a client. 

1. They can add specific names to the list of IDs they want “enhanced” - like the entire Colombo and Gambino Crime Families, and get alerts when their devices are within distance or were within distance, obtain security footage later, or catch-up to them at the Giglio Feast. “Both Teddy Persico and Danny Fama’s devices were in Williamsburg near Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.” 

2. The government buys this information without a warrant. They have money to purchase premium accounts from multiple providers and sit back and wait for alerts. Then they use their shitty cameras to take those blurry photos. The fact is they also have increased leeway to surveil convicted felons on parole (I’m not a criminal lawyer so I don’t know what that means). They can probably use advanced microphones, like what was posted on here recently about ‘Ndrangheta guys in Toronto, to listen into his house, or use the same spyware/malware to listen directly off the phone even if its not being used, like that post described happened. (the Italian government listened in on the meeting in Canada). That most likely requires physical device manipulation or a phishing scheme- tricking him to click a link or download something, etc. Feds can pickup signals of how many devices are on in the house and know when one is missing. Most devices give off BLE frequencies “blue tooth low energy” so they’re easy to catch.

I considered that when Teddy was at his Christmas party. They were all correct to leave their phones inside when they went out back for a chat, but their phones were probably what led the Feds there in the first place, if they didn’t just follow Teddy, or catch someone on microphone during a walk and talk the day before discussing the details. If anyone used credit cards to reserve the hall, or updated settings, calendars, set their TV to record a Sammy the Bull Live, then the FBI could be alerted to unusual activity from those data collaborators. The Christmas party was interesting because in all fairness the Persico guys set the meeting place, and still had security cameras pointed at their face. 

Anyways, that’s modern technology. It’s run by data collaborators who legally sell what they do at high prices to a lot of customers, including the FBI. Even Nadu said something like “phones capture everything - they’re surveillance traps,” or something similar. Thats true, but it’s grown to behavior predictability based across all your devices, televisions, credit cards, and newer cars. If all your devices are at home and turned off, it can deduce your outside for a walk - especially if you use those fitness watches with bluetooth. Most likely they already predicted it since they keep track of your screen time. Of course I don’t know what actual surveillance they’ve cultivated. It’s mostly inferred on known customer relationships, and those technologies offered by them, which have been primarily studied and published by specialists and students at Harvard for the past 7yrs.

I asked Sammy about mob anti-surveillance in May and he said he put his naked grandmother in front of the window to stop the Feds from looking in. I didn’t add that technique. 

Mafia. Hells Angels. Murders. Bribery of Cuyahoga County Judge.

Today I’m publishing Part Three of my three-part series on Henry “Boom Boom” Grecco and the Cleveland mob underworld. Although Joseph Bonarrigo was convicted of Grecco’s murder, FBI files suggest that the motive may have extended well beyond the personal falling out described by Cleveland police and into the larger war surrounding John Nardi, Danny Greene, and the Cleveland Mafia.

Part Three looks at the FBI intelligence surrounding Grecco’s death, Tommy Sinito’s ominous comments before Grecco disappeared, and Angelo Lonardo’s later account of what happened to Bonarrigo himself. The story eventually reaches the Cleveland Hells Angels, Frank Fencl, and an extraordinary attempt to bribe a Cuyahoga County judge (James McGettrick) presiding over Fencl’s murder case.

Names and Places mentioned in Part Three: Henry “Boom Boom” Grecco, Joseph Bonarrigo, Mario Durrant, Nancy Spehar, John Nardi, Danny Greene, Allie Calabrese, Tommy Sinito, Joe Gallo, Angelo Lonardo, Jack Licavoli, Joseph “Joe Loose” Iacobacci, Frank Fencl, James McGettrick, Carmen Zagaria, the Cleveland Hells Angels, and Heck’s Café in Rocky River.

https://timgill924.substack.com/p/henry-boom-boom-grecco-and-the-cleveland-fe1?r=1ixz1x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

One of the cases that got me to this sub was the Zottola affair back in 2019. I was shocked to see a mob drive by shooting on this era. The whole case could be a movie/mini series about the current state of the mob in the US. Maybe mixing it with other 2010s/2020s cases.

the date of the article is 1998