Saturday, April 7, 2018
LAWYERS 4 JUMAANE Fundraiser On April 10
ATTORNEYS 4 JUMAANE
FUNDRAISER on Tuesday!
If you would like to attend,
RSVP at Jumaane4NY@gmail.com
"IT'S TIME! LET'S GO!
Eric Adams 2021 - Proud to Pay Women MORE
A recent study by the NYC Public Advocate Letitia James documented one of the proudest accomplishments of my borough presidency. Not only has my office led the city in pay equity, we actually pay women 14 percent MORE than men. It's time to pay talented employees what they deserve everywhere!
BCEQ 2018 Membership Meeting & Environmental Conference
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 from 4 - 7 pm
Manhattan College Leo Engineering
3825 Corlear Ave, Kingsbridge Bronx.
one block from the Broadway #1 238th Street stop.
Environmental Conference on the:
Harlem River Watershed Plan,
Van Cortlandt Park Lake on a Diet,
Clean Water - Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Pruitt,
Protecting Parkland - BCEQ v. NYC Pier 5 lawsuit,
DEP Plans to clean the Harlem River, and Learn Up
Refreshments. Please Register for food.
Bronx Council for Environmental Quality www.bceq.org
Bronx Chamber of Commerce - Promote Your Business @ April 18, 2018 Gala
EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION!
News 12, BronxNet, Bronx Times Reporter and other media will be covering The Bronx Version of the Academy Awards
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 5:30-10:30 pm
Marina del Rey Caterers, Bronx NY
Marina del Rey Caterers, Bronx NY
RSVP before April 4, 2018 for ticket discounts, sponsorship opportunities
"First Come First Served"!
Bronx Business Awards 2018 Gala
Honorees:
The Perez Family, Mastermind, Ltd.; Developer of the Year
Gino's Pastry Shop; Made in the Bronx Award of the Year
Bronx Community College; Institutional Member of the Year
Third Avenue BID; Non-Profit of the Year
D & J Ambulette Services, Inc.; Health Provider of the Year
E.A.T. w/ Culinary Professionals, Inc.;
M/WBE Company of the Year
Portion of the 2018 Gala Proceeds to benefit
Special Olympics New York
Key Note Speaker
Rob Walsh, Former Commissioner of NYC Dept. Small Business Services
Mistress Of Ceremonies
Jacqueline Catona Wayans
TV Host & Producer, "Don't Give Up and Win"
To make reservations, advertise in the Gala Journal, and/or be a Sponsor to the 2018 Gala Celebration. Call Phil Cardone 718-828-3900 or e-mail Phil@BronxChamber.org
I look forward to seeing you at the excellent networking event!
Nunzio Del Greco
President and CEO
Bronx Chamber of Commerce
President and CEO
Bronx Chamber of Commerce
"Network For Business Success"
1200 Waters Place, Suite 106
Bronx, NY 10461
718-828-3900
Nunzio@bronxchamber.org
1200 Waters Place, Suite 106
Bronx, NY 10461
718-828-3900
Nunzio@bronxchamber.org
"You never know where your next big deal is going to come from"!
Rep. Engel Calls for the Resignation or Firing of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
Congressman Eliot L. Engel, a top member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement calling for the resignation or firing of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt:
“It is long past time for Scott Pruitt to resign or be terminated from his post as Administrator of the EPA.
“When Mr. Pruitt was nominated, I called him a ‘dangerous and unacceptable choice to lead the EPA’ because his past actions had shown an unyielding disdain for science, a deep disregard for our environment, and a general antipathy for the Agency he was tapped to run.
“Since then, he has shown the consistent contempt for the environment that I expected, but perhaps even worse, he has abused the public trust and trampled on the ethical guidelines that are designed to ensure that the Government’s business is conducted with impartiality and integrity.
“The person appointed to run the EPA should be someone who cares about protecting the health and safety of people all across the country, not someone who wages war on clean air and clean water and puts our climate in peril. Nothing less than the future of our children is at stake.
“It is time for Mr. Pruitt to go.”
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Luchese Crime Family Soldier and Organized Crime Associate Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Illegally Distribute Oxycodone
Defendants Threatened a Brooklyn Doctor and Obtained Fraudulent Prescriptions for More Than 230,000 Oxycodone Pills
Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Anthony Grado, a member of the Luchese organized crime family, and Lawrence Tranese, an organized crime associate, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. The proceeding was before United States Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara.
Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner, New York City Police Department (NYPD), announced the guilty pleas.
“Luchese family member Grado imperiled our community, threatening a doctor to force him to write prescriptions for oxycodone and then trafficking in the addictive drugs,” stated United States Attorney Donoghue. “Violent threats to a doctor by Mafia defendants, combined with their trafficking of oxycodone pills, posed an especially serious danger to our community. As demonstrated by today’s guilty pleas, this Office together with our law enforcement partners will be relentless in the prosecution of organized crime and those who contribute to the opioid epidemic.”
“Organized crime groups and other criminal entities are seizing on the outbreak of addiction plaguing our country to make money,” stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Sweeney. “It shouldn’t be a shock that members of the Luchese crime family used violence to force a member of the medical community to further their criminal enterprise. The FBI Joint Organized Crime Task Force is committed to aggressively pursuing these groups to stop them from further contributing to the deadly opioid epidemic affecting our country.”
According to court documents and statements at the plea proceedings, Grado and Tranese conspired with others to distribute oxycodone that they obtained through fraudulent prescriptions written on a Brooklyn-based doctor’s prescription pad. Grado, a Luchese family member, together with Tranese and their co-conspirators provided the doctor with the names of people for whom the doctor should write prescriptions. The doctor then wrote prescriptions in those names for medications containing oxycodone, usually without conducting any examination. Grado, Tranese and their co-conspirators filled the prescriptions and sold the pills. At other times, Grado held the doctor’s prescription pads himself and either had the doctor write the fraudulent prescriptions at his direction, or completed the prescriptions and later advised the doctor of the details.
Members of the conspiracy used violence and threats of violence to seize control of the doctor’s prescription pads. For example, in one recorded conversation, Grado told the doctor that he would make the doctor write “a thousand scripts a day and [expletive] feed you to the [expletive] lions” if the doctor wrote prescriptions without Grado’s approval. In the same conversation, Grado also told the doctor that if the doctor’s newly ordered prescription pads “go in anybody’s hands,” besides Grado’s, “I’ll put a bullet right in your head.” During the course of the conspiracy, Grado also ordered one of his associates to stab the doctor, and the associate carried out the order. Finally, Grado called upon a higher-ranking member of the Luchese crime family to attend a “sit down,” or meeting, to resolve issues related to the pill distribution scheme.
When sentenced, the defendants each face up to 20 years in prison, as well as forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million.
The Defendants:
ANTHONY GRADO
Age: 54
Monroe Township, New Jersey
LAWRENCE TRANESE
Age: 55
Brooklyn, New York