For the second time in five months, the FBI and other law officials were seen investigating farms in New York, excavating for possibly buried graves as part of an ongoing investigation into the Gambino criminal family.
The same two Orange County properties involved in Nov. 2023—one on Hampton Road in Goshen and another at Campbell Hall Farm on Hamptonburgh Road—were searched for a possible “Gambino graveyard.”
Several pickup trucks and off-road vehicles were present while the FBI, New York State Police, NYPD, K-9 search teams, and the New York City medical examiner combed the expansive grounds on Tuesday. It’s still unknown if any bodies were found during the searches on Tuesday; earlier reports said no remains had been discovered during the searches in November.
According to authorities, the search appeared to be related to law enforcement activity after 10 individuals associated to the Gambino criminal family were taken into custody for allegedly forcing their way into demolition and waste carrying companies in New York City by using baseball bats and other forms of intimidation.
According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the men connected to the notorious Brooklyn crime syndicate were taken into custody and charged on a 16-count indictment that was unsealed in federal court. The charges include allegations of witness retaliation, extortion, union-related crimes “committed in an attempt to dominate the New York carting and demolition industries,” and racketeering conspiracy.
Federal prosecutors reported on November 8 that, in tandem with the activities of the FBI and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, Italian law enforcement had detained six mafia members in the European country.
