And federal judge of NY sentenced to life imprisonment Anthony Zottolathe son of a partner clan mobster of the Bonanno, for orchestrating the execution from his septuagenarian father in 2018 to take over his million-dollar business.
Sylvester Zottola, The victim was 71 when he was gunned down while buying a drive-through coffee at a McDonald’s in The Bronx in 2018, after surviving several violent attacks for a year without knowing who was behind it.
“It was his own son, who was so determined to control the lucrative business real estate family member who hired a gang of hit men to assassinate his father,” prosecutor Breon Peace, of the Eastern District of New York, explained in a press release.
According to local media, Sylvester Zottola made a fortune managing machines illegal gambling 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.
His son Anthony, 45, hired a leader from the gang Bloods local Bushawn Shelton and other criminals organized attacks on his father, including a home invasion in which he was beaten over the head, stabbed, and slashed across the throat.
Anthony also wanted to kill his brother Salvatorewith whom he ran a maintenance company, and who survived an attack in which he was shot in the head and chest.
In addition to ZottolaThe 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 sicario last year and awaits sentencing, and six of his henchmen have been sentenced to an average of 20 years of imprisonment. jail each.
With information from EFE
