A former detective of New York who was moonlight by working for one Mafia -Family And helped to feed a mini-mob war on Long Island while trying to protect his gambling operations, it was convicted on Wednesday that he was lying against the FBI.
Hector Rosario, 51, a former detective for the police of Nassau County on Long Island, was also acquitted of the obstruction of justice, the top tax he had confronted. The verdict came after a seven -day trial in the Federal Court of Brooklyn.
“Hector Rosario gave more Looked at his pockets With Bonanno Family money and protecting his own interests, then his faithfulness to the law, “said Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly.” He has shameful the research work of his colleague detectives in danger by throwing a target and lying to federal agents while the walls kill him. “
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Hector Rosario, 51, a former detective for the Nassau County police on Long Island, was convicted on Wednesday for lying against the FBI. (Gregory P. Mango)
Federal Public Prosecutors said that Rosario Suggoned to focus Organized Crime Clans broke an unusual agreement to split the yield of a gambling owl from a gelatow shop, the New York Post reported.
The Bonannos and Genoveses, two of the five Mafia families of New York City, generally held to their separate atmospheres in the eighties and in the early 2000s, an old mob-researcher said.
Peace did not last long. Rosario even organized a fake police raid in a secret casino run by the Genoveses, said prosecutors.
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A former detective in New York Moonlighted by working for a Mafia family and helped feed a mini-Mob war on Long Island while trying to protect his gambling operations. (Howard Schnapp/NewDay RM)
American lawyer John Durham called Rosario, a 15-year-old Police -VeteranA “corrupt detective” who chose loyalty to the crowd “above the audience that he was sworn in to protect.”
He was interviewed by FBI agents in 2020 when they examined Bonanno and Genovese criminal activities in the suburbs to the east of New York City. He wrongly stated that he had no information about the Mafia or illegal gambling places, the authorities said.
Rosario was dismissed from the troops in 2022. He was one of the nine sued after the federal authorities had taken the gambling racket. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Rosario was dismissed from the troops in 2022. He was one of the nine sued after the federal authorities had taken the gambling racket.
His lawyers argued that the case was dependent on the unreliable witness From mobsters who are now working with officers of justice while they were confronted with their own criminal prosecution.
The other Mafia clans in New York are the Colombo, Gambino and Lucchese families.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
