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The Indictment unsealed today charges that theDecavalcante Family is an organized criminal group based in New Jersey that operates several crews in New York. The Indictment charges that the Decavalcante family engaged in a widespread pattern of racketeering including 16 separate acts of racketeering, such as murders and conspiracies to commit murder, extortion, loansharking, the operation of an illegal bookmaking network, and conspiracy to commit securities fraud. The defendants are also alleged to have engaged in their racketeering activities with members and associates of other New Yorkbased organized crime families.Of the 12 defendants charged in the indictment, 11 were arrested today and one is still being sought.The charges grew out of a threeyear investigation by the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York City Police Department, and the Department of Labor, Office of Labor Racketeering.MARY JO WHITE, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, BARRY W. MAWN, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the F8T, and New York City Police Commissioner BERNARD B. KERIK announced today the unsealing of a 12count Indictment filed in Manhattan federal court charging 12 defendants, including virtually the entire ruling hierarchy of the Decavalcante Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra, with wideranging racketeering and other charges relating to five murders, conspiracies to murder eight other

 

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