Gambino Crime Family Busted For Bronx Loan Sharking Scam: Feds

NEW YORK CITY — Feds busted accused crime boss Andrew Campos and 11 alleged Gambino mobsters on racketeering and loan sharking charges, prosecutors announced Thursday.

Campos, 50, and his La Cosa Nostra crew were cuffed Thursday morning and arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court later the same day, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

“[The Gambinos] still don’t get it," said U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue. "Handcuffs and a jail cell are waiting for criminals who threaten violence and commit fraud, money laundering and bribery."

Campos and three others allegedly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, kickbacks and laundered cash through a carpentry company called CWC Contracting Corp., prosecutors said.

Federal investigators said they heard one partner, Mark "Chippy" Kocaj, 49, saying the company did $50 million a year and another, Vincent Fiore, 57, adding, "There’s a beautiful in there."

"There’s things we can do with [Kocaj] there," Fiore allegedly said. "He whispers what he needs to whisper and we get things done.”

Fiore also threatened to knock the teeth out of someone who owed Campos at least $100,000 in March, said prosecutors.

“When you get punched in the face and your teeth get knocked out . . . you’re not going to laugh no more, okay?" Fiore allegedly said.

"At the end of the day, when you’re upside down, you deal with him."

This will not be the first time Campos and partner Richard Martino, 60, find themselves facing federal prison.

Campo and Martino were convicted of scheming their adult entertainment clientele in Brooklyn Federal Court in 2005, prosecutors said.

The twelve accused mobsters — who include Renato "Ronny" Barca, Jr., 32, George Campos, 72,James Ciaccia, 51, Benito "Benny" Dizenzo, 53, John "Smiley" Simonlacaj, 50, Frank "Bones" Tarul, 45, Michael "Perkins" Tarul, 43, and Adrial Lopez, 56, — face racketeering conspiracy, bribery and loansharking for "thuggish behavior" dating back to February 2013, said FBI representative William Sweeney.

“Everything from the usual thuggish behavior of beating people up, forcing people to take the fall for their crimes, all the way to defrauding the federal government,” said Sweeney.

"At some point, these crime families should realize we see what they're doing."