Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Judge to sentence alleged Mafia member, 3 others
MIAMI (AP) -- A judge is scheduled to sentence a purported member of the Gambino crime family and three others convicted of racketeering charges.
Jurors convicted Vincent Artuso, his son John Vincent Artuso, and Gregory Orr on all the charges they faced in October. The panel convicted Philip E. Forgione on racketeering and fraud charges, but acquitted him of more than a dozen individual money laundering charges.
The U.S. Attorney's office say the men conspired in the sale and leasing of four office buildings owned by ADT Security Services to defraud the company of at least $11 million over five years.
Prosecutors depicted Vincent Artuso as the leader of the South Florida crew of the Gambino crime family. The other men were depicted as associates but nonmembers.
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