![]() Roy DeMeo loved to fix and built things himself and he always brings Alpert with him. “My dad bought and sold guns regularly and he was an educated collector” (Alpert DeMeo, 2002, p. He liked antiques, guns and pistols from the Civil War. He would have cars that no one in the neighborhood had. He usually talked about cars in the workshop or in the junkyard with Uncle Joe.” I liked to hang out in the workshop or yard with Dad and Uncle Joe, chatting about guy things like cars.”(Alpert DeMeo, 2002, p. He owned a car dealership down in the highway. He was a family person at home and around his family, and a mafia criminal outside that picture. Roy DeMeo was a character with two sides. He did all of that while keeping a good relationship with his family. He had killed people and made so many crimes. Roy started a car theft and drug trafficking business. Roy has grown to be one of the Castellano important assets. Roy started his criminal life with the mafia by being involved in loan sharking when he was just a teenager as an after school job. Roy was associated with criminals like Nino Gaggi and John Gotti. After the death of Carlo Gambino, Big Paul Castellano became the new godfather of the organization. An Italian mobster, who was a part of a criminal organization controlled by Carlo Gambino. Back to the Genovese crime family section on Gangsters Inc.The criminal father, Roy Albert DeMeo was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York.Much of the money is untraceable, prosecutors say.ĭeMeo was released on $2 million bond and faces 41 months behind bars if convicted. He put $1 million into the account of a plumbing business that was run by another Genovese family mobster. Hoping to hold on to as much cash as possible, he tried to hide it from the IRS by cutting up his proceeds into smaller portions and stuffing the money into other people’s accounts. He inherited two pieces property in Brooklyn from his father and sold off all his shares. Prosecutors claim he failed to report $2 million in capital gains and stiffed the government out of $367,000 in taxes. On October 12, DeMeo was charged with tax evasion. But authorities, apparently, weren’t quite done with the aging goodfella. ![]() A pretty sweet deal for such a longtime gangster. ![]() Read: Genovese mobsters charged with running off-shore gambling ringĪccording to the indictment, the illegal off-shore gambling operation was based in Costa Rica and was available online via The website delivered the mob crew millions of dollars’ worth of wagers.ĭeMeo pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 5 years of probation in September of this year.And on December 15, 2016, he was busted again, as he was caught up in what authorities have named “ Operation Shark Bait,” a long-term investigation into DeMeo’s Genovese family mob crew that ran lucrative illegal gambling and loansharking operations throughout New York. Running from the law will only get you so far and it was no different for DeMeo who was eventually convicted and sentenced to 57 months in federal prison.īut he wasn’t done with ‘the life.’ In 2002, he pleaded guilty to a bank stick-up and an armored car heist. ![]() Trying his best to stay out of prison, he went on the lam, and as a result he was featured on America’s Most Wanted. His thieving antics caught up to him in 1996, when he was charged with stealing $400,000 from a New Jersey bank. In the 1980s and 1990s, he ran a robbery crew in New York’s Genovese crime family of which he is a longtime member. As a former sanitation worker, DeMeo isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty and get the job done. You could call him a blue-collar kind of mobster. But these riches come at a price, one that the government insists he pay. In his late seventies, he is still scheming and making millions in the process. Brooklyn mobster Salvatore “Sallie” DeMeo (above, aging through his mugshots) is another great example that when it comes to the Mafia: You don’t retire.
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