Charlie the Hat Back Behind Bars

DeCavalcante Wiseguy Charles "Charlie the Hat" Stango, currently age 81, is back in prison after being indicted for filing a false lien against the AUSA and his own lawyer from his 2015 case, as well as aiding and abetting. 

(Charles "Charlie the Hat" Stango)

The elderly mobster will spend the next 12 months at FCI Texarkana after filing a false lien against the AUSA, claiming that the AUSA owed him $10,000,000 for failing to respond to Stango's lawsuit, in which, Stango alleges that there was a conspiracy between the AUSA and his own defense lawyer to have him convicted on the charges he faced in 2015. 

At the time, Stango, a Captain in the organization, was the target of an undercover FBI investigation known as Operation Charlie Horse. He had just been released from a nine-year prison stint and was on his way to move up within the Family. Unbeknownst to him, his new protégé was undercover officer Giovanni Rocco, AKA Giovanni Gatto.
(L-R: Giovanni Rocco, Dutch Alpin, Charles Stango)

As the investigation progressed, tensions grew between two rival factions within the Family: one supporting the sitting Boss, John Riggi, and the other backing Charlie Majuri, who was positioning himself to take over after Riggi's passing. At the forefront of these rising tensions was an up-and-coming mobster named Luigi 'the Dog' Oliveri. Oliveri was improperly inducted by Riggi and others in the Family refused to recognize him, but that didn’t stop him from letting it go to his head. The situation came to a head after an event at the Ribera Club, where Joseph 'Tin Ear' Sclafani, a long-time respected captain, made a comment about Oliveri's weight. Oliveri's temper got the best of him, and he responded with disrespectful remarks toward Tin Ear.
(Luigi "the Dog" Oliveri)

 After Oliveri's outburst, Stango called Rocco to his home in Las Vegas and revealed something that would ultimately bring the investigation to a halt: Rocco must kill Oliveri. 

Following this, the clock began ticking, Rocco and his colleagues had to wrap the case up while collecting as much evidence as they could while Rocco stalled Stango on the murder contract. Then on March 12, 2015, Charlie Stango and 9 other members and Associates of the DeCavalcante Family were arrested on charges ranging from drug trafficking, trafficking contraband cigarettes, promoting prostitution, and murder conspiracy.

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