Sal's Shoe Repair in Merrick, New York, was doing more than fixing heels and worn soles.
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The Genovese organized crime family operated an illegal gambling operation out of the shop, generating "substantial revenue," which was then laundered through cash transfers, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said. Federal prosecutors say La Nazionale Soccer Club in Queens, N.Y., was actually a front for a gambling operation run by organized crime.Salvatore Rubino, 58, known as "Sal the Shoemaker," was among those arrested, prosecutors said.
Beginning in May 2012, the Genovese and Bonanno families jointly operated a lucrative illegal gambling operation in Lynbrook, New York, called the Gran Caffe. The profits earned through this and other gambling locations generated substantial revenue, which was then laundered through cash transfers to the defendants and through "kicking up" to the crime families' leaders, the indictment said.
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