A federal judge of NY sentenced this Wednesday to life imprisonment Anthony Zottolathe son of an associate of the Bonanno mafia clan, for orchestrating the execution of his septuagenarian father in 2018 to take over his million-dollar business.
Murder
Sylvester Zottolathe victim, was 71 when he was gunned down buying a drive-through coffee at a McDonald’s in The Bronx in 2018, after surviving several violent attacks over a year without knowing who was behind it.
“It was his own son, who was so determined to control the lucrative family real estate business that he hired a gang of hitmen to murder his father,” prosecutor Breon Peace of the Eastern District of New York explained in a press release.
Execution
According to local media, Sylvester Zottola he made a fortune running illegal gambling machines for the Bonanno clan and invested the money in numerous rental properties that were valued in the tens of millions of dollars when he died.
Your son Anthony45, hired a local Bloods gang leader, Bushawn Shelton, and along with other criminals, organized attacks on his father, including a home invasion in which he was beaten in the head, stabbed and slashed at the throat.
Anthony also wanted to kill his brother Salvatore, with whom he ran a maintenance company, and who survived an attack in which he was shot in the head and chest.
Judgment
In addition to ZottolaToday, the hitman who shot the father, 37-year-old Hymen Ross, was also sentenced to life imprisonment, the note indicates.
Shelton pleaded guilty to being hired as a hit man last year and is awaiting sentencing, and six of his henchmen have each been sentenced to an average of 20 years in prison. (With information from EFE)
