gateway and desantis connection

7/27/2019 Gateway and DeSantis Connection

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Since there’s a member of the DeSantis family attending the parole hearings of Leslie Van Houten asvictim’s next of kin (which he isn’t, I discovered) I decided to try to find out more about this familyand how they related to the LaBianca’s. It turns out that the DeSantis family had business relations withLeno LaBianca through the Gateway market. I also found information on the history of the GatewayMarket, which was originally set up by Leno LaBianca’s father Antonio.

I don’t oppose the presence of either DeSantis family members or Smaldino family members, but I doquestion the CDCR and the Board of Parole Hearings attitude, as they should have denied them theright to attend. You see, Angela and Louis Smaldino are niece and nephew of Leno LaBianca andaccording to the CDCR website they aren’t considered ‘next of kin’:

Attendance of Parole Hearings

The victim, or if the victim has died, the next of kin or immediate family members in the following

order of precedence may appear at the hearing:

•

Spouse (including registered domestic partners)• Children

• Parents

• Siblings

• Grandchildren

• Grandparents

Each victim, next of kin or immediate family member attending the hearing is allowed to beaccompanied by one support person who cannot participate in the hearing nor make comments. Up totwo persons in the categories listed above are entitled to appear, and with prior approval from theBoard, more may be allowed.

[…]

Obtaining Approval to Attend a Hearing

Victims, next of kin, or immediate family members wishing to attend the parole hearing should contactthe Board's Victim Services Coordinator at (916) 445-4072 at least two weeks prior to the hearing sothat specific information regarding attendance can be provided and gate clearance arranged.

Source: http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Victim_Services/victim_services.html

The BPH doesn’t mention nieces or nephews being allowed to attend parole hearings anywhere.So why is the Board of Parole Hearings violating their own rules?

But I digress.



History of Gateway

Leno’s (or Lino, as he was called) father Antonio owned two grocery businesses, Gateway RanchMarkets and 'State Wholesale Grocery Company'. The State Wholesale Grocery Company purchasedfood at wholesale prices and distributed it to a group of grocers.

In 1951, Leno was elected to the Board of Directors and was named Vice President of both GatewayMarkets and State Wholesale Grocery Company. The same year, LaBianca's father, Antonio, diedmaking Leno the President of both grocery companies. He then moved his family into the house onWaverly Drive.

Alice and Leno would officially divorce in 1955. After his divorce, Leno decided to sell off the business he inherited from his father and focus on the expansion of Gateway Markets. Leno had begunliving out his dream of breeding and racing thoroughbred horses and began distancing himself from thegrocery business.

The couple bought a home in Los Feliz that was previously owned by Walt Disney, but sold it in 1968.

The same year, Leno bought the Waverly Drive home he grew up in from his mother, and settled inwith Rosemary and her son, Frank Jr.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leno_LaBianca

Interesting:

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Carmine DeSantis and LawrenceDeMonte, both of Staten Island, New York, have agreed to settle Commission charges that theyengaged in insider trading in advance of IBM's takeover of Lotus Development Corporation. DeSantishas agreed to pay $16,101 in trading profits, $6,796 in prejudgment interest and a civil penalty of $16,101. DeMonte has agreed to pay $48,360 in trading profits, $20,864 in prejudgment interest and acivil penalty of $48,360. Both DeSantis and DeMonte also have consented to the entry of permanentinjunctions prohibiting future violations of Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 andRule 14e-3 thereunder. In consenting to the entry of the final judgment, DeSantis and DeMonte neither admitted nor denied the Commission´s allegations against them.

Source: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr16438.htm

Any relation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leno_LaBianca

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Tony DeSantis profile on website Sons of Italy - Pugliese Lodge

I was born in Glendale to the two most wonderful parents a boy could have, Peter and Emma DeSantis. I am the middle

child of two great brothers, John and Patrick.

I received my early schooling in Los Angeles at St. John's Military Academy. It was a boarding school education with a lot

of discipline and structure. At the time I probably thought it was a bit too strict but once again my parents were thinking of us and prepared us for the tough future of life. I went on to Loyola High School in L.A. to finish my formal education,

graduating in 1965.

Shortly after I married as a young man and was blessed with three spectacular children; Michelle, Steven and Vince, their

Mother and I raised them in the San Fernando Valley and later in the Santa Clarita Valley.

In 1987 on July 4th I married again, the woman of my dreams, Shar. She had two lovely daughters, Tina and Victoria, that

meshed in age with my three perfectly. We lived in the Palmdale/Lancaster area for a couple of years and in 1989 moved

back to the SCV, where we still reside.

Our five children have awarded us with thirteen unbelievably super grandchildren ranging in age from 21 years to 15months; Derek, Brandon, Justin, Torey, Ty, Alyssa, Cassidy, Camryn, Mandi, Isabella, Jake, Mikaela and Banyan.

I've been in the Retail Grocery Industry my whole working career. First with the family business, Gateway Markets,

starting as most do as a box boy and working my way to manager. In 1975 the business was sold* and I went to work

for Lucky Stores and once again worked my way up to store manager. In 1993 I was promoted to the position of

District Human Resources Manager. In 1999 Lucky merged with Albertsons and I am now the Area Associate Relations

Manager for 61 stores located from North East L.A. to Paso Robles, across to Tulare and all the miles in between. It is very

interesting and rewarding work to deal with all the personnel issues that the markets' create.

As for the Sons of Italy, I feel I've been a member my whole life, probably because my folks were extremely involved in

Pugliese since the early 1950's. The times I've spent at weddings, dances, parties, picnics and other doings have had a hugeimpact on my life and the life of my children. What a terrific support system and great memories.

In 2002/2003 when my parents passed on, it not only left a large void in my life, but it made me want to reattach more with

the Italian heritage I was so proud of and the Pugliese Lodge was the way for me to accomplish this. After all my maternal

grandfather, Anthony La Bianca had been a founding father and charter member of this lodge in the early 1900's**

and my parents lived it daily for the better part of 50 years, so it came naturally.

This year I took the office of Treasurer so I could help to keep the Lodge moving along for the next generation. With thehelp of all the really dedicated officers, uncles, aunts, brothers, sister-in-law and now a son very much involved, Who couldsay No? WHAT ABOUT YOU!

Source: http://www.soipugliese1375.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=37

*The LaBianca family has always claimed the business went bankrupt and blamed it on the MansonFamily killing Leno. That’s not really the same thing, is it?

**See the “History of the Grand Lodge of California story on the next page for more info on this.

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History of the Grand Lodge of California

The Order Sons of Italy in America was founded in the State of California on September 22, 1922. As if tosignify that as a center from which the Order would spread its roots over the entire State, its birth was inFresno, geographical center of California and important seat of one of the richest agricultural zones of our

Nation, enriched by the sacrifices, work and genius of Italians.

There existed in that locality the "Columbus Nest O.O.O.", consisting almost entirely of our nationality. ToAlfonso Cubicciotti goes the credit for initiating the movement to organize the Order Sons of Italy in Americain our State. Born in Italy, he immigrated to America where he saw in the organization of people of our ethnicbackground the only path for progress.

After arriving in California in 1919, and after getting settled in his new home, he set to work to organizeseveral lodges of the Order Sons of Italy in America. The Supreme Lodge nominated him as Supreme Deputyfor the West, and asked him to call a meeting of those who were interested in this project in the San JoaquinValley.

Thus on September 22, 1922, the First Lodge in California was instituted - a Lodge, which took its name from

the Great Admiral: "Loggia Cristoforo Colombo" No. 1149, now called "Colombo Stella."

[…]

The Grand Venerables who followed Bertoglio are: Attilio Raeta, Alfonzo Zirpoli, Daniel A. D'Amico (1961-

1963), Bruno S. Giuffrida (1963-1967), Peter J. DeSantis (1967-1971), Joseph H. Billeci (1971-1975),

Joseph Simile (1975-1979), Peter C. Tubiolo (1979-1983), Lawrence Romanazzi (1983-1985), J.Augustus

Accurso (1985-1987), Chris Lotito (1987-1989), Frank J. De Santis (1989-1991), Victor L. Federigi

(1991-1993), Ralph Agnello (1993-1995), Arturo Ibleto (1995-1997), Carl Serra (1997-1999), John Tedesco(1999-2001). Under their leadership the Grand Lodge of California has continued to grow, meeting thedemands and the needs not only of its members but also of the Italian-Americans outside our Order. TheLodges continue to grow:

[…]

Source: http://www.sonsofitalyca.org/history.html



An application has been filed by Richard Calissi to register the mark

GOODFELLAS and design shown below for services which were

subsequently identified by amendment as “entertainment services,

namely, live performances by a musical group.”

Registration has been opposed by the Order Sons of Italy in America

under Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act. As grounds for opposition,

opposer alleges that since its founding in 1905, it has provided

fraternal assistance, moral support and entertainment services to its

Italo-American members through approximately 2700 lodges in the

United States and Canada; that at many of the lodges, live

entertainment is provided; that the Commission for Social Justice

(CSJ) is a separate corporate entity of opposer which works to

eradicate bias, bigotry and prejudice against Italo-American

citizens; that opposer, through the CSJ, has worked to eliminate the

use of the terms “Mafia”, “Cosa Nostra”, and “Goodfellas” inreference to Italo-Americans; that “Goodfellas” is a code word used

by organized criminals to refer to each other; that a synonym for

“goodfellas” is “mafioso” which refers to members of the “Mafia”,

also known as “Cosa Nostra”; that the term “Goodfellas” became

generally known throughout the United States and Canada for its

criminal meaning when the movie of the same name was released in

1990; that opposer and the CSJ object to use of the term “Goodfellas”

beyond its meaning and description of a small group of organized

criminals both in Italy and America; that “Goodfellas” is a word

detested by most law-abiding Italians and Italian Americans, and to

call an honest Italian or Italian American “goodfellas”, i.e.,

members of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra, is considered a grave insultthat disparages the character and damages the reputation of the

individual by labeling him or her a criminal; and that the mark

“GOODFELLAS” and design, when used in connection with the identified

services, disparages the members of opposer, and brings opposer as an

institution into contempt or disrepute.

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News article with mention of Sons of Italy as base of operations for mob activity:

Turncoat Turns ‘Mob Justice' Into Federal Justice

By JERRY CAPECI | September 13, 2007

An imprisoned Colombo capo, John "Sonny" Franzese, should be beaming with pride right about now — assuming news has reached him about how three of his upand-coming mob underlings allegedlytook speedy and fierce action last week when two shotguntoting, masked bandits robbed their high-stakes card game on Long Island.

The next day, the angry trio are alleged to have armed themselves with handguns and confronted twocard players they suspected of being involved in the brazen stickup. Mob justice was said to beimmediately applied — the "inside men" were allegedly pistolwhipped and told that the triggers of therevolvers placed in their mouths would be pulled if they didn't give up the names of their cohorts.

"Do you want to walk out of here alive or do you not want to walk out of here alive?" the allegedgunwaving leader of the hoods, reputed capo Michael Uvino, is charged with having threatened.

"Throughout the assault," assistant U.S. attorneys Deborah Mayer, Paige Petersen, and ElizabethGeddes said in court papers filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn yesterday, "the victims repeatedlyscreamed in pain and begged for their lives. One victim pleaded, ‘Please, please. I'll do anything youwant.' The other begged, "Please don't kill me.' As the victims pleaded throughout the assault, thedefendants repeatedly told them to ‘shut the f— up.' "

That's the good news for Franzese, a legendary 90-year-old Long Island wiseguy. The bad news is thata drug dealer his cohorts had befriended more than a year ago turned out to be an FBI informer and,while working for the FBI, he tape-recorded the entire episode, leading to the arrest and jailing of thethree rough and ready reputed gangsters three days later.

If that's not bad enough, Sonny, who's now in an Ohio federal prison after his fifth parole violationstemming from a conviction in a 1950s bank robbery conspiracy, is apparently responsible for thewhole mess.

Sources say Franzese vouched for the turncoat, and was himself tape-recorded several times by thewired-up snitch, who was whisked off the streets following the arrests last Saturday of Mr. Uvino, 42,and associates Brian Dono, 37, and Philip Costanza, 43. All are currently detained without bail.

Franzese is not named in an arrest complaint by FBI agent Vincent D'Agostino that lays out thecharges. But sources say Sonny is the "made member of the Colombo family" whom the informer recorded 13 months ago stating that Mr. Uvino, 42, had been elevated to capo.

Eight days ago, the informer learned about the robbery at Mr. Uvino's "base of operations," the

Sons of Italy social club on Route 111 in Hauppauge, L.I., the complaint says. Later that day, hewitnessed the beatings at a club on Wellwood Avenue in Lindenhurst, L.I., where the robbery took place, according to the complaint.

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A bitter irony for Franzese, sources say, is that the cooperating witness in the complaint, identified onlyas "CW-1," is part of the same investigation in which Sonny's youngest son, John Jr., also wore a wireand tape-recorded his father in conversations that led to Sonny's parole violation arrest in May.

As Gang Land disclosed then, knowledgeable sources say Franzese Jr. tape recorded discussions with

his father in the summer of last year and was relocated last September under the federal WitnessProtection Program.

Sources say this most recent betrayal by a 40-something hoodlum who, according to the complaint, pleaded guilty to drug dealing in hopes of winning leniency and being "relocated for his security," will be more troubling for Sonny, emotionally as well as pragmatically, than his son's disloyalty.

His son, a drug and alcohol abuser whose tip to the FBI led to his father's fourth parole violation in2001, was not trusted by Sonny — let alone his mob associates — and wasn't terribly effective in hisinformer role, sources said. The snitch, however, was someone everyone trusted.

"This guy was very close to Sonny, and Sonny treated him like a real son," one source said, noting thatthe turncoat "was in the life" and also had "earned some respect" with wiseguys and mob associatesfrom the way he handled himself.

On September 5, the complaint says, CW-1 learned that the Wellwood Avenue card game inLindenhurst had been robbed the night before when he reported to Mr. Uvino's social club inHauppauge. He then accompanied Messrs. Bono and Costanza to find and tell the two they suspectedof being inside men in the holdup to go to the Wellwood Avenue club, where all the card players weregoing to be questioned about the robbery, the complaint says.

When the two gamblers arrived, they were greeted by very pointed accusations about the robbery from

Mr. Uvino and his henchmen, who brandished, pointed, and used semi-automatic pistols and revolversto ultimately get the answers they wanted, the complaint says.

Mr. Dono, a burly 6-footer who had been present during the robbery, was particularly incensed duringthe "questioning," the complaint says. "Several times during the assault" he told the two gamblers thathe knew they had stated that Mr. Dono "had acted like a ‘bitch' during the robbery," the complaint says.

"Who's the bitch now! Get on the floor," he said at one point, before putting a revolver into onegambler's mouth and smashing the other in the head with it, according to the complaint.

"You think we're stupid? You think we got where we are from being f—ing stupid like you?" asked

Costanza, the complaint says.

The complaint is silent about the final outcome of the ugly confrontation, but Gang Land managed tosmoke out a few details.

It turns out, sources said, that Messrs. Uvino, Dono, and Costanza were smart enough to deduce thatthe card players were behind the stickup. The trio also had what it took to get the terrified card playersto give up the robbery team, and allowed the battered and bruised duo to walk out of the club alive, thesources added.



But before Uvino & Company could take any follow-up action, the feds moved quickly to close downtheir long-running investigation, and teams of agents on the FBI's Colombo family squad fanned out toarrest the three suspects on racketeering and assault charges.

The prosecutors declined to comment about the status of the unidentified card players, or the robberysuspects who triggered the ire and quick reaction of their mob holdup victims.

A LONGTIME INFORMER GETS REWARD With tears rolling down his ample cheeks, Peter "FatPete" Chiodo, a slightly slimmed down turncoat mob capo, was sentenced to probation Tuesday inreturn for his help in sending two Mafia bosses and 20 others to prison for murders and other crimes.

Chiodo, 66, who became a cooperating witness in 1991 after surviving a rubout attempt ordered by hisLuchese leaders, got a free ride despite his admitted involvement in five mob hits during his life of crime.

Judge Raymond Dearie, who presided over several trials at which Chiodo testified in U.S. DistrictCourt in Brooklyn, said he wasn't happy giving him probation, but did so after weighing the important

assistance that Chiodo had given the government in the past 16 years.

Shortly after Chiodo began to cooperate, his sister was shot and wounded in front of her Brooklynhome. Eight years ago, at the sentencing of a mobster convicted of her attempted murder, Judge Deariesaid the shooting of the totally innocent woman placed on the American Mafia "a black, indelible mark that will never be washed away."

This column and other news of organized crime will be available today at ganglandnews.com.

Source: http://www.nysun.com/article/62533

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