Posted on 03/01/2007 1:38:45 AM PST by atomic conspiracy
96-Year-Old Gangster Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charges Wednesday, February 28, 2007
FORT LAUDERDALE — A 96-year-old gangster who oversaw robberies, money laundering, bank fraud and other crimes for one of the United States' largest Mafia families pleaded guilty Wednesday, but because of his age will likely be sentenced to house arrest.
Albert "The Old Man" Facchiano pleaded guilty to a Florida charge of racketeering conspiracy and a New York charge of conspiracy to tamper with a witness. From 1994 to 2006, Facchiano supervised associates of the Genovese crime family who committed robberies, money laundering, bank fraud and possessed stolen property, prosecutors said.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 30-years in prison and $500,000 in fines. But in his plea agreement, prosecutors recommended Facchiano serve house arrest.
Facchiano, who used a cane and needed a special headset to hear the proceedings, answered a series of questions from U.S. District Judge James Cohn.
Prosecutors, defense lawyers and Mafia experts have said they cannot remember someone his age facing crimes committed so recently.
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He's old enough to be the godfather of the Godfather.
'Chinky' Facchiano is still active and faces mob charges at age 96. It appears that Facchiano, also known as “The Old Man,” lived up to that Mafia credo, according to prosecutors.
Facchiano, born in 1910, has been a “made member” of the nation's largest and most powerful Mafia family for decades but was a low-level figure, rising no higher than soldier, according to the FBI.
He was a boy when Arnold Rothstein supposedly fixed the 1919 World Series. He was a young man during the Depression when he took his first arrest. He was entering middle age during La Cosa Nostra's go-go years in the 1940s and '50s, when the Mafia skimmed its share of America's postwar prosperity. And he was a senior citizen in the 1980s and '90s when John Gotti and other bosses were taken down by the FBI.
True. This guy would actually be a fair amount older than the fictitious Michael Corleone of Godfather fame, who was born around 1920 iirc.
"It was nothing personal...it was strictly business..."
The "Godgeezer".
When you're 96, the government makes you an offer you can't reuse. And no, that's not a typo.
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