John Zancocchio
John "Porky" Zancocchio (born November 27, 1957)
Biography
Born in
Over time, Zancocchio built a major bookmaking operation that grossed $280 million a year at its high point. His operation served many influential and wealthy gamblers, including
In 2002, Zancocchio and Lana were charged with income tax evasion for the years 1995 to 2000. The two pleaded guilty and Zancocchio received 71 months in prison and a $300,000 fine. Lana faced a 16-month sentence, but her attorney negotiated a house arrest deal so that she could take care of their three young children. Lana told an author writing a book on mob women that,
... after the split with her husband, she was forced to admit the possibility that John married her only to get closer to her father. 'I have to face it that I was used, that he really didn't love me. In plain English, if that's how he feels, fuck him.'[2]
Zancocchio served his sentence at the Devens Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts and was released from prison on August 29, 2008.[3]
In February 2018, he went back to prison.[4] He was held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York on racketeering charges. Zancocchio was released from prison on July 31, 2018,[3] and was acquitted of racketeering and conspiracy charges on March 13, 2019. At the time, he was a resident of Staten Island.[5]
References
- ISBN 978-1463628772.
- ^ "It's not easy, being married to the mob", The Telegraph, August 31, 2004.
- ^ a b Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator
- ^ "Bonanno family consigliere John Zancocchio sent back to prison", About the Mafia, February 24, 2018.
- ^ "The Bonanno Family: After Claiming Ethnic Profiling, 2 Accused of Being Mobsters Are Acquitted", The New York Times, March 13, 2019.
