Mobster Ruggiero: Threats, NBA Scheme & Wiretaps

Angelo Ruggiero Jr., Gambino family, faces charges for witness intimidation. His father's loose talk led to federal probe. He is allegedly involved in an NBA-related gambling scheme using players like Chauncey Billups.

The senior Ruggiero was a close friend famous Gambino employer John Gotti and ended up an unsuspecting stool pigeon in the feds’ 1980s probe right into the crowd family when he was caught on wiretaps classically babbling incriminating dust.

“Eventually, while together with the witness in their cell, the accused made his hand into the shape of a weapon, directed it at the witness’s head, and stated, altogether and substance: ‘you know just how we take care of rats, we get individual and up-close,'” court papers state.

The scoundrels purportedly made use of NBA Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups (left), the head instructor of the Portland Trail Blazers, and former NBA player Damon Jones, 49, to work as “court card” to attract money players to the rigged big-money video games. Gotten by NYPost

Ruggiero’s Threatening History

Marutollo kept in mind that Ruggiero, when incarcerated in a previous situation, had actually intimidated to kill a witness. “He made his hand in the shape of a weapon and claimed, ‘You understand exactly how we care for rats up close and individual,” the judge said of the boy of notorious late mobster Angelo Ruggiero Sr., whose motor-mouthed honking made him the label “Phony Quack.”

Ruggiero’s attorney, James Frocarro, argued that his customer ought to be out on bail because every one of the other claimed mobsters implicated in the NBA plan were permitted out and that they, also, have been implicated of having committed severe offenses.

Angelo Ruggiero Jr. is a made male in the Gambino household, with a mobbed-up rap sheet that includes a conviction for threatening to eliminate a witness while still behind bars, the feds described in a court declaring recently.

NBA Stars Lured High-Stakes Gamblers

The criminals apparently utilized NBA Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups (left), the head train of the Portland Path Blazers, and previous NBA gamer Damon Jones, 49, to act as “face cards” to bring in high-stakes gamblers to the rigged big-money games. Gotten by NYPost