Gang Land’s Jerry Capeci writes,
The alleged mastermind behind a pair of spectacular New York City bank heists that netted $5 million in cash and jewelry and other family heirlooms is an old-school mob associate who learned his trade with one of Brooklyn’s most notorious Mafia crews.
Mr. Capeci writes, Michael Mazzara, a longtime Colombo associate who robbed banks with violent members of the Bath Avenue crew of gangsters headed by Bonanno family consigliere Anthony Spero in the 1990s, had become quite an expert about one of the mob’s oldest tricks of the trade by time he and two confederates were arrested by savvy members of a joint FBI-NYPD task force this week.
Mr. Capeci writes, Nabbed along with Mazzara, 44, was Anthony Mascuzzio, 36, whose own mob pedigree stems from his late namesake dad, a John Gotti pal who was gunned down in a Manhattan bar in 1988. Mascuzzio is also connected through marriage with the powerful Genovese crime family. Also arrested was a close Mazzara pal, Charles Kerrigan, 40.
