Feds Pull Out 45 Years Of Racketeering Crimes Against The Meldish Murder Five

Gang Land’s Jerry Capeci writes, 

The gangland-style slaying of former Purple Gang leader Michael Meldish took place in 2013 when his blood-splashed body was found behind the wheel of his girlfriend’s car in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx. But to convict five Luchese gangsters of that murder, the feds want to go back almost half a century in a bid to show the ties between Meldish and acting Luchese boss Matthew (Matty) Madonna, 83, who stands accused of ordering the killing.

Mr. Capeci writes,   In a 65-page filing, prosecutors asked White Plains Federal Court Judge Cathy Seibel to permit the dozen witnesses they have assembled – they include mobsters, a major builder, and several mob associates – to testify about crimes going back to when telephones still had rotary dials.

For starters, the feds want to detail Madonna’s sordid back pages when he was a major heroin dealer, leading to a narcotics trafficking conviction in 1976. Prosecutors also want to tell jurors that Steven (Stevie Wonder) Crea, the 71-year-old underboss who is also accused in the murder, earned $200,000 in “labor peace” payments from one general contractor in the 1980s, and that he took part in lucrative shakedowns involving multi-million dollar government renovation projects in the 1980s – the Holland Tunnel and the Lenox Avenue subway station.            Gang Land News