8 Face Racketeering Counts Linked to Drugs
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NEW YORK — Eight people were charged Thursday with racketeering in a $70,000-a-week drug-dealing operation on Staten Island, prosecutors said.
Gregory Scarpa Jr., identified as a leader in the Colombo crime family, and seven others face racketeering charges involving at least two counts of murder, extortion, dealing in cocaine and marijuana and witness intimidation, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney said.
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