Frank Scollo

Federal Judge Throws Out RICO Suit; Questions Remain

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 01:00

The leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association might not have uncorked any champagne at their Lower Manhattan headquarters, but it’s unlikely they had seen happier times.  On November 1, U.S. District Judge I. Leo Glasser announced his dismissal of the Justice Department’s civil racketeering suit against them.  In a 109-page decision, Judge Glasser stated that the government’s complaint failed to “sufficiently specify” its rationale for applying the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to the alleged crimes.  He wrote:  “This court will not abet the government’s effort to stretch the concept of a racketeering enterprise beyond all recognition in order to bring various otherwise disinterested parties within its scope, even for the worthwhile purpose of combating the influence of organized crime on the waterfront.” 

NYC Union Pres. Plead Guilty, Testifies to Mob Control of Union

Submitted by David Kendrick on Mon, 02/03/2003 - 01:00

Frank "the little guy" Scollo testified on Jan. 28 that he collected payments for "labor peace," and enforced the rule of the Gambino organized crime family over ILA Local 1814 in Brooklyn and Staten Island. He testified in the trial of six members and associates of the Gambino organization, including Gambino boss Peter Gotti and Gambino captain Anthony "Sonny" Ciccone.

Scollo was indicted, along with Gotti and Ciccone, on June 3 of last year for racketeering, extortion, wire-fraud, loan-sharking, illegal gambling, money laundering, witness tampering and other related crimes. In Nov., he pled guilty to extortion and agreed to cooperate with the U.S. Attny's. Ofc. for the E. Dist. of NY.

Scollo testified that as Local 1814 pres., he answered to Ciccone, even though he knew that under a decree in a civil racketeering case, the frmr. union official was not supposed to deal with labor-mgmt. issues. Among the services Scollo performed for Ciccone, starting in 1997, was the collection of payments for "labor peace" from Carmine Ragguci, who owned a Staten Island port company, which Scollo them gave to Ciccone. The payments of around $9,000 came every few months.

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