Mob Killer: by Anthony M. DeStefano

Author:Anthony M. DeStefano [DeStefano, Anthony M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2011-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

Charles Carneglia and Kevin McMahon never came into contact while both were serving their time at Fort Dix. But it didn’t take long for McMahon to pick up on the anger Charles held toward him. When other prisoners would come over from the section of the institution where Charles was held, McMahon recalled that he heard them say how Charles was branding him as a “rat” and wanted to kill him.

With his world in shambles and having lost the camaraderie he once had with the Carneglia clan, McMahon saw how empty the Mob life had become. Around 2002, he thought about becoming a cooperating witness for the government. But even when some FBI agents came to visit him at Fort Dix with news he could be arrested in a Florida case, McMahon kept his own counsel and didn’t cooperate. The fact that the FBI came to interview him also stoked the Fort Dix rumor mill because several inmates saw McMahon go to the special facility where government officials met with prisoners.

The FBI officials who visited McMahon were in the process of building a criminal case against a Florida offshoot of the Gambino family led by a transplanted New York gangster by the name of Ronald “One Arm” Trucchio, so named because of a withered right arm he had as a result of a childhood accident. Trucchio, a Gambino captain, had already pleaded guilty to gambling charges in a New York State prosecution by Queens DA Richard Brown and was serving a sentence of up to three years when federal prosecutors in Tampa brought some bigger guns to bear. In August 2004, the Tampa grand jury charged Trucchio, Michael Malone, Steven Catalano, Pasquale Andriano, and Terry L. Scaglione with racketeering conspiracy.

There was also a sixth person charged in the Tampa case, the Albanian hothead from Queens, John Alite. It seems that when Alite split with Junior Gotti, he bounced around; prosecutors said that he carried out his own brand of extortion, home invasion robberies, and drug dealing in the Sunshine State. It was also in the Tampa area that Alite infiltrated a number of valet-parking businesses, which he sometimes used, along with a glass business and nightclub, to launder drug proceeds.

But when the FBI went to pick up Alite, he was nowhere to be found. Sensing trouble brewing, Alite packed up in March 2003 with his pretty Brazilian girlfriend he had been living with in Florida and took off to Brazil. Living overseas wouldn’t be a problem, since Alite had millions of dollars, so he said, to tide him over. Settling in the Copacabana section of Rio de Janeiro, Alite started teaching boxing lessons to keep busy. Some fugitives—like Ronnie Biggs, of the “Great London Train Robbery” fame—were able to live on the lam in Brazil for years. But in Alite’s case, homesick for the United States, and eager to stay in touch with his Mob cronies, he started taking foolish risks with his telephone calls and Internet links back home. For ten months, Alite used Internet cafés to make his connections with friends in New York.

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