New Springville Boys
The New Springville Boys was an Italian-American recruitment gang or "farm team" for the American Mafia, specifically the Bonanno crime family. The gang frequently operated from the New Springville Mall in Staten Island.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York indicted members of the New Springville Boys which prosecutors alleged was a mob farm team for the Bonanno and Colombo crime families. The crew was charged with burglarizing over 30 night-deposit boxes at banks across the country, netting $240,000, committing push-in robberies, loan sharking and money laundering. They were also charged with hijacking a truckload of marijuana worth over $1 million, and selling drugs in their neighborhood. Members included leader Lee D'Avanzo, Ned Bilali, Robert Catanese, Randy (Randy The Jew) Gordon, Francis Costanzo, William "Big Billy" Fauci, Joseph "Fat Joe" Gambino, and Edward Shamah.[1]
Chris Paciello was once a member of The New Springville Boys.[2]
- ^ Archive, View Author; feed, Get author RSS (2001-12-07). "STATEN IS. MOB 'BOYS' CHARGED IN ROB SPREE". Retrieved 2024-06-19.
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