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.

The men were arrested after a long-term joint investigation led by the FBI. Investigators found that mob captain Ambrosio and several other Gambino family mobsters engaged in illegal gambling, loansharking, drug trafficking, and obstruction of justice. Bonanno family gangster Salerno routinely collected payments from extortionate loans and gambling-related debts, often at the direction of Ambrosio.