Ny mobster escapes federal custody

With less than a year before he would likely be released, Dominic Taddeo did not return to a halfway house in Florida earlier this week, officials said.

“If you look back, he thinks big,” said Mr. Jenkins, recalling that Mr. Taddeo’s arrest on gun charges in the late 1980s was related to what federal prosecutors thought was a plot to break a Colombian drug lord out of an Illinois prison. In Western New York, that meant Buffalo, where the federal and local authorities battled the Magaddino crime family for decades. Those murders and attempts resulted in racketeering convictions, and a lengthy prison sentence.

Dominic Taddeo, a hit man from a Rochester-area crime family, escaped on March 28, according to the Bureau of Prisons website.

Dominic Taddeo, 64, pleaded guilty in 1992 to killing three men in 1980s mob wars for Rochester, New York, crime family.

“The Rico charges involve the murder of three individuals, attempted murder of two more individuals, and conspiracy to murder a fifth person.” A New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons. The 64-year-old had been imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being transferred to a residential halfway house, also in Florida, in February.

Dominic Taddeo, who killed three people and failed in two other attempted homicides, has escaped from federal custody.

Remembering the April 1993 murder attempt, Marotta said in a conversation caught on undercover tape, "A gorgeous (expletive) summer's coming up. Taddeo was contracted to kill Marotta, a popular mob figure. "It was really incredible (he survived)." Records show that Taddeo went to an approved medical appointment on March 28 and did not return. I'll play one-handed.' " "The RICO charges involve the murder of three individuals, attempted murder of two more individuals, and conspiracy to murder a fifth person," Geraci wrote.