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Heights man charged as mob leader
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Damiano Zummo accused of drug trafficking and money laundering BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A Roslyn Heights man was among four men charged last Wednesday with drug trafficking, loansharking and firearm offenses in connection with the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra. The U.S. attorney’s office for Eastern New York said the voice of Damiano Zummo, 44, is one of two heard in a secretly recorded induction ceremony for the Bonanno crime family in November 2015 in Canada. Zummo is accused of running a cocaine trafficking conspiracy with co-defendant Salvatore Russo, 45, of Bellmore, allegedly selling nearly a kilogram of cocaine for $38,000 in a Manhattan gelato shop on Sept. 14, as well as laundering approximately $250,000 with business checks issued to a fictitious consulting company that purported to bill the company for
consulting services, according to a news release. Zummo took a fee of approximately 10 percent for each money laundering transaction, the release said. “Today’s arrests send a powerful message that this Office and our law enforcement partners here and abroad are committed to dismantling organized crime groups wherever they are located — whether local or international in scope,” acting U.S. Attorney Bridget Rohde said in the release. “The recording of a secret induction ceremony is an extraordinary achievement for law enforcement and deals a significant blow to La Cosa Nostra.” Paul Semplice, 54, and Paul Ragusa, 46, both of Brooklyn, were also charged Wednesday in the case, according to the release. Semplice, an alleged member of the Gambino crime family, is charged with conducting a loansharking scheme in which he and Continued on Page 67
PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSLYN SCHOOL DISTRICT
East Hills School students enjoy their new computer lab, completed this summer as part of the district’s $41.3 million capital improvement plan.
My Father’s Place to bring rock back to Roslyn Michael “Eppy” Epstein, the original club owner, will return with new general manMy Father’s Place, a popu- ager Dan Kellachan to bring lar club in the 1970s and ’80s, bands on the rise in the nawill reopen in the spring of tional music scene back to the intimate North Shore club. 2018 inside the Roslyn Hotel.
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“I have built clubs for people, I’ve run clubs for people, I’ve done a lot of things in the music industry, but this will be the only club that I will actually call mine since we closed,” EpContinued on Page 67
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