Long Island federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged six people with operating what officials called a massive illegal “birth tourism” scheme in which dozens of pregnant Turkish women paid up to $10,000 to give birth in Suffolk County so that their children would have U.S. citizenship.

They were rounded up in a bust said to be “a major disruption of La Costra Nostra’s activities on Long Island”. John “Johnny Boy” Ambrosio, Frank “Frankie Boy” Salerno, and Anthony Saladino will spend several years in prison for their crimes.

Indictment Included Predicate Acts of Drug Trafficking, Loan Sharking, Gambling and Obstruction of Justice

An undercover operation that netted dozens of arrests Tuesday on illegal dumping charges centered on a dirt broker who offered residents clean fill and instead arranged for debris and solid waste to be placed on their properties.

John “Johnny Boy” Ambrosio Supervised Loansharking and Illegal Gambling Operations in Nassau and Suffolk Counties

Defendants Charged with Drug Trafficking, Loansharking, Gambling and Obstruction Offenses

Throughout most of 2007, day and night, the Suffolk County district attorney’s Government Corruption Bureau eavesdropped on a politically connected attorney’s wiretapped phone.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that NICHOLAS MOTTA and DOMINIC MOTTA were sentenced today in White Plains federal court to prison terms of 15 months, and 12 months and one day, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to obtain

A cross-country cocaine pipeline dried up after 44 pounds of the powder bound for Amityville were seized in California, leading to the indictment of 20 people who acted as drug couriers and distributors, Suffolk and federal officials said yesterday.