![]() ![]() While it’s been more than a decade, it looks like old Sallie is back to his old ways: committing crimes-and getting caught. That would be the 1996 armed bank robbery in Manalapan, NJ, which netted him $400,000, and an armored car heist in the same city later that year.ĭeMeo surrendered to police in 2001 and served 5 years in prison, released in 2006. ![]() Sallie DeMeo even made an appearance on “America’s Most Wanted” back in 2000, going on the lam from feds behind racketeering and bank robbery charges. Last year, the septuagenarian was arrested along with a dozen other Genovese associates for running an offshore gambling and loansharking ring. Those traditional schemes and offenses stretch back quite a ways for DeMeo. ![]() “Organized crime members are on notice that this Office and its law enforcement partners will hold them accountable for such economic crimes no less than for their traditional schemes and offenses,” he continued. “Today’s arrest reflects our continued commitment to prosecuting alleged members of the mafia with every tool available to us,” stated Executive Assistant United States Attorney William J. 13 Salvatore DeMeo (76), Brooklyn, NY NEW YORK (WABC) - Thirteen reputed members of the Genovese. He also moved a check for $355,944 through an unlicensed check-cashing company, receiving five smaller cashiers checks, which were redeemed for a free through a legitimate check-cashing establishment.Īll told, DeMeo cheated the federal government out of more than $365,000 in taxes. See more ideas about crime family, roy demeo, mobster. He attempted to conceal the deal by taking eight separate bank checks as payment for his shares in the two deals, then routing them through various businesses and means of cashing to keep them off the books.įirst, DeMeo signed two checks worth $1 million over to a plumbing company-on that he holds no interest in or has any apparent business connection to. In a statement from the Department of Justice, DeMeo’s crimes were explained in detail: after selling property in 20, the aging Brooklyn gangster failed to report more than $2 million in income to the IRS. Tax evasion-and getting caught for it-isn’t exactly new territory for La Cosa Nostra. A retired businessman, he has had a long interest in organized crime, and in particular the Sicilian and American Mafia. Old dogs aren’t ones to learn new tricks, and it looks like old mobsters are much the same-a “life of crime” apparently extends well into retirement age.Īlleged Geneovese enforcer Salvatore “Sallie” DeMeo, 77, was charged with tax evasion yesterday by the Eastern District Court of New York for attempting to hide $2 million dollars in capital gains from lucrative Downtown Brooklyn real estate deals. ![]() 2 min read Salvatore “Sallie” DeMeo after his 2016 arrest (Photo via NYPD).If you are interested in more stories and articles on the mob, check out Gangsters Inc.'s American Mafia section. hosted by David Amoruso and looks forward to continuing to attract and interest anyone fascinated by this absorbing subject.īelow are his mob stories. A hobby triggered by a book he read while studying at university "God Protect Me From My Friends" a biography of the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Guiliano, which started him off into collecting and creating a database of books, articles, reports and internet sources that now amounts to literally thousands of pages of detailed information on the people and events that have changed the face of international crime over the last eighty years.Īlthough living in New Zealand, and consequently somewhat removed from easy access to traditional research facilities, he has travelled the world extensively over the last thirty years, and still maintains this schedule, allowing him to keep up-to-date with events in North America and Europe.Ī contributor to the now defunct and he is now presenting his crime articles and short stories of fiction at Gangsters Inc. A retired businessman, he has had a long interest in organized crime, and in particular the Sicilian and American Mafia. Frank DeCicco (Novem April 13, 1986), also known as 'Frankie D' and 'Frankie Cheech', was an American mobster and eventual underboss for the Gambino crime family in New York City. ![]()
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