According to insiders, the FBI has been searching for human remains at two upstate New York horse farms in conjunction with ongoing federal investigations into the Gambino criminal family.
Reports from News 12 and an FBI representative indicate that federal agents arrived at the homes on Hampton Road in Goshen and Hamptonburgh Road in Campbell Hall on Tuesday and searched the property on Wednesday. The raid occurred at the two farms, located five miles apart in Orange County, after receiving a report that victims were buried there, which was verified by a law enforcement source.
Although no remains were discovered on Wednesday, the search will continue on Thursday.
According to News 12, Giovanni Di Lorenzo was the previous owner of both farms. Mr. Di Lorenzo shares a surname with one of the ten alleged mafiosos from the Gambino crime family who were indicted last week on charges they used violent tactics to take over the demolition and garbage hauling industries in the Big Apple.
The defendants are identified in the 16-count indictment as follows: 52-year-old Joseph “Joe Brooklyn” Lanni of Staten Island; 48-year-old Diego “Danny” Tantillo of Freehold, New Jersey; 55-year-old Robert Brooke of New York; 66-year-old Salvatore DiLorenzo of Oceanside, New York; 57-year-old Angelo “Fifi” Gradilone of Staten Island; 46-year-old Kyle Johnson of the Bronx; 46-year-old James LaForte of New York; 36-year-old Vincent “Vinny Slick” Minsquero of Staten Island; 46-year-old Vito “Vi” Rappa of East Brunswick; and 46-year-old Francesco “Uncle Ciccio” Vicari.
The group’s claimed attempts, beginning in late 2017, to demand money from an anonymous demolition firm and an unidentified waste carrying company, are the focus of a large portion of the indictment.
The defendants, who include “made men” and mob associates of the notorious Brooklyn crime syndicate, are accused of committing a number of heinous crimes, including threatening to sever a business owner’s limb with a knife, attacking a victim with a hammer so violently he was sent to the hospital, and attempting to burn down a restaurant from which they were expelled.
They may all spend 20 to 180 years behind bars for charges including racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation, fraud and embezzlement.
