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Who is Anthony Zottola ( Convicted of plotting mob-associate dad Sylvester’s murder ) Wiki, Bio, Age, Crime, Arrest, Incident Details, Investigations and More Facts

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The son of murdered New York mob associate Sylvester "Sally Daz" Zottola was convicted on Wednesday of murdering his father and attempting to assault his brother.

A federal jury in Brooklyn has returned guilty verdicts for Anthony Zottola and one of his co-defendants di Lui, gunman Himen Ross, in the 2018 murder in a McDonald's alley in the Bronx. A third co-defendant, accused getaway driver Alfred Lopez, was cleared of all charges. Prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York uncovered, in a trial lasting more than a month, a detailed conspiracy between Anthony and Bloods gang leader Bushawn Shelton to carry out a series of attacks on his father and his brother di Lui, Salvatore Zotola. Anthony Zottola convicted of plotting mob-associate dad's murder https://t.co/TPU34dfOIt pic.twitter.com/ukspGOj8LO — New York Post (@nypost) October 19, 2022 In more than 1,000 text messages entered into evidence by prosecutors, Anthony and Shelton – who pleaded guilty before trial – spoke in coded form about the attempted murders. Under orders from Anthony to kill his father, Shelton hired Ross and Lopez to complete the job after another hitman tried - and failed - to take out Sylvester and Salvatore at least six times, accused the prosecutors. In the minutes after Ross managed to shoot Sylvester at a McDonald's drive-thru in the Bronx on Oct. 4, 2018, Anthony joked about the murder in a series of texts to Shelton, the prosecutors charged in their opening statement. "Can we celebrate today or tomorrow," Shelton wrote to young Zottola after the hit. "Tomorrow. It's my little man's birthday. I'm taking him to his favorite place McDonald's. Then to the movies. LOL like I'm eating that stuff," Anthony replied. The Bloods member replied that the day was like "Anthony's birthday," Assistant U.S. Attorney Devon Lash said. Anthony allegedly ordered the coup to take over his father's $45 million real estate empire in the county, prosecutors charged. To prove the conspiracy, prosecutors called a parade of witnesses during the case, including Salvatore, who testified under immunity, and a cooperating witness, who told the jury he was hired by Shelton to investigate plots against Anthony's brother and father to be executed.

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On the witness stand, hired gunman Ron Cabey described at least six failed attempts to bring down Salvatore and Sylvester, a suspected ally of the Bonanno and Lucchese crime families. In an attempt, Cabey approached Sylvester on the street near one of the aging gangster's properties in the Bronx and fled after the real estate boss pulled out a gun and shot him. Cabey was arrested later that day at a Manhattan taxi depot after getting out of a car he was in that was being chased by NYPD officers. Anthony's lawyers have sought to portray the elder Zottola as a Bronx underworld figure who could have been shot for his ties to organized crime. In his closing argument, Anthony's attorney, Henry Mazurek, told jurors the stunt could have been the work of Bronx Albanian mobsters trying to claim a piece of the illegal slot machine racket that Sylvester ran. "Sylvester Zottola knew all his life that one day he could come home and sleep," Mazurek told jurors, adding that other mobsters saw an opportunity to make money playing with the angled bat. "The thugs smell the money and go after it," he said. Read the full article