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Reputed Colombo Mob Boss Among 14 Mobsters Cuffed in Racketeering, Extortion Bust

A number of high-ranking Colombo crime family members, including 87-year-old street boss Andrew "Mush" Russo and an 87-year-old underboss, 83-year-old Benjamin "Benji" Castellazo, were arrested early Tuesday by the NYPD and FBI in connection with a wide-ranging labor racketeering and extortion fraud scheme. The 19-count indictment unsealed later Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court charges a total of 14 defendants, including 10 members and associates of the Colombo crime family, with multiple schemes in a long-running effort to infiltrate and take control of a Queens-based labor union and its affiliated healthcare benefit program. They are also accused of conspiring to commit fraud in connection with workplace safety certifications. A Bonanno crime family solder has also been named in the case. Russo faces charges of racketeering, as does Castellazo and consigliere Ralph DiMatteo. Alleged Colombo crime family captains Theodore Perisco, Jr., Richard Ferrara and Vincent Ricciardo are charged with racketeering, along with solder Michael Uvino and associates Thomas Costa and Domenick Ricciardo. John Ragano of the Bonanno crime family is charged with loansharking, fraud and drug trafficking offenses, officials said. Twelve of the 14 defendants were arrested Tuesday in New York and New Jersey and are scheduled to be arraigned in Brooklyn federal court later in the day. A 13th defendant was arrested in North Carolina and will be arraigned there, while the 14th defendant, Dimatteo, remains at large. According to the indictment, top Colombo crime family members and alleged co-conspirators extorted the labor union management by threatening bodily harm to force decisions that benefitted the crime family. Since 2001, one of the captains and his cousin allegedly collected part of a senior labor union official's salary -- by threatening to harm both him and his family. Beginning in late 2019, the defendants allegedly broadened the extortion effort to force that official and others at the labor union and its affiliated health fund to select vendors for contracts who were associated with the Colombo family. The defendants allegedly sought to divert more than $10,000 a month from the health fund's assets to the administration of the Colombo family, prosecutors said. Among other examples, prosecutors say as recently as June 21 Ricciardo was recorded on the phone threatening to kill the labor union official if he didn't comply.