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Leader And Members Of Mob Family Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder, Racketeering, And Other Crimes
justice.gov ^ | July 27, 2020 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York

Posted on 07/29/2020 1:03:17 PM PDT by ransomnote

Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MATTHEW MADONNA, the Acting Boss of the Luchese Family, CHRISTOPHER LONDONIO, a soldier in the Luchese Family, and TERRENCE CALDWELL, an associate of the Luchese Family, were sentenced today to life in prison following their conviction for the 2013 murder of Michael Meldish, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and other felonies.  A jury convicted MADONNA, LONDONIO, CALDWELL, and Steven L. Crea, the Underboss of the Luchese Family, on November 15, 2019, following a six-week trial before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel, who also imposed today’s sentences.  CREA will be sentenced at a later date.[1] 

Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said:  “Matty Madonna, Christopher Londonio, and Terrence Caldwell – respectively, the Acting Boss, a soldier, and an associate of the Luchese Family – were responsible for the execution-style murder of Michael Meldish seven years ago.  Madonna ordered it, Londonio set it up, and Caldwell pulled the trigger.  Now all three have been sentenced to serve the rest of their lives in federal prison.  Thanks to the outstanding investigative work of the FBI and NYPD, we continue our commitment to render La Cosa Nostra a thing of the past.”

According to the evidence presented at trial, and other court documents:

Until his arrest in this case, MADONNA was the Acting Boss of the Luchese Family of La Cosa Nostra, one of the “Five Families” that constitute the Mafia in the New York City area.  In 2013, MADONNA became displeased with Michael Meldish, a longtime organized crime associate who had refused to collect debts owed to MADONNA.  MADONNA ordered Meldish killed.  Acting under the orders of MADONNA and Crea, LONDONIO helped set up Meldish – a personal friend of LONDONIO’s – to be killed, and acted as the getaway driver for the murder.  CALDWELL carried out MADONNA’s and Crea’s orders to kill Meldish.  CALDWELL met Meldish and drove with him to a Bronx neighborhood to meet LONDONIO.  As Meldish got out of his car, CALDWELL shot him once in the head, killing him instantly.  CALDWELL then drove off with LONDONIO.  For their participation in the Meldish murder, MADONNA, LONDONIO, and CALDWELL were each convicted at trial of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, and use of a firearm in furtherance of murder in aid of racketeering.

In addition, MADONNA, 84, of the Bronx, New York, LONDONIO, 45, of Hartsdale, New York, and CALDWELL, 61, of New York, New York, were also convicted of racketeering conspiracy; CALDWELL was convicted of attempted murder in aid of racketeering and discharging a firearm in furtherance of attempted murder in aid of racketeering arising out of his May 29, 2013, ambush of a member of the rival Bonanno Family in Manhattan; and LONDONIO was convicted of conspiracy to distribute narcotics.

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Ms. Strauss praised the outstanding investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York City Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

The case is being handled by the Office’s White Plains Division.  Assistant United States Attorneys Hagan Scotten, Celia V. Cohen, and Alexandra N. Rothman, were in charge of the trial and sentencings.

 

[1] Like MADONNA, LONDONIO, and CALDWELL, Crea is subject to a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

Topic(s): 
Drug Trafficking
Firearms Offenses
Violent Crime
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Contact: 
Jim Margolin, Nicholas Biase (212) 637-2600


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: luchese; luchesefamily; mob; mobfamily

1 posted on 07/29/2020 1:03:17 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
Ms. Strauss praised the outstanding investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

But... didn't Q tell us that the FBI were the bad guys?

2 posted on 07/29/2020 1:06:17 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

Audrey Strauss (born 1947 or 1948) is an American attorney serving as the acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. As deputy U.S. Attorney, Strauss assumed the acting position on June 20, 2020, after the previous U.S. attorney, Geoffrey Berman, stepped down amid pressure from Attorney General William Barr.

Political affiliation is Democrat Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Strauss


3 posted on 07/29/2020 1:10:30 PM PDT by JungleGoat77 (.)
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To: ransomnote

Why isn’t RICO used against the Democrat Crime Family?


4 posted on 07/29/2020 1:11:58 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: ransomnote

Refusing to do your job is a good way to get clipped. It’s an insult


5 posted on 07/29/2020 1:13:25 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: JungleGoat77
Audrey Strauss (born 1947 or 1948)

He doesn't know when he was born?

Is he a product of a circus or a whorehouse or what?

6 posted on 07/29/2020 1:22:05 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: ransomnote

Fedgov arrests the little fish as they stay the big fish.


7 posted on 07/29/2020 1:56:04 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover

“Fedgov arrests the little fish as they stay the big fish.”

boss and underboss of the Luchese mafia family going to prison for life are hardly “little fish” ...


8 posted on 07/29/2020 2:22:32 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ransomnote
Leader And Members Of Mob Family Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder, Racketeering, And Other Crimes

George “Don Corleone” Soros?

9 posted on 07/29/2020 2:26:29 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: humblegunner
But... didn't Q tell us that the FBI were the bad guys?

They are. Just ask General Michael Flynn.

10 posted on 07/29/2020 2:30:26 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
But this article says they are good guys, busting bad guys.
Wouldn't they be kidnapping kids and cookin' 'em up
for Adrenochromes for the greater glory of Satan?

Man, this conspiritrash is so confusing.

11 posted on 07/29/2020 2:36:33 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: ransomnote

Glad they’re going after organized crime, but there are still two criminal groups that need to be done away with: the street gangs and the Democratic Party.


12 posted on 07/29/2020 4:14:46 PM PDT by Marauder ("I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just" -- Thomas Jefferson)
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