for racketeering. May 17 – Camorra crime boss Paulo Di Lauro was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on charges of mafia association, extortion and drug smuggling. May 18 – A three-day forum on identity theft and fraud, including mob turncoat Michael Franzese as a guest speaker, was launched for police in the Gold Country Casino, Butte County, California. May 22 – Two NYPD officers, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who worked as mob hitmen for Lucchese crime family underboss, Anthony Casso, were sentenced for their roles in the murder of several men between 1986 and 1990; Eppolito for life plus 100 years, Caracappa for life plus 80 years. May 26 – Sicilian mafia turncoat Francesco Marino Mannoia was awarded €1 million to start a legitimate business. May 28 – Rita Borsellino, antimafia politician and sister of late antimafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino, lost to Salvatore Cuffaro, incumbent president and alleged mafia associate, in the 2006 Regional Election of Sicily. May 31 – Joseph Vito Mastronardo and John V. Mastronardo were charged with bookmaking and criminal conspiracy. June June 5 – Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa sentenced to life imprisonment but had the verdict postponed until June 23. June 6 – Gambino crime family captain Gregory DePalma convicted of racketeering. June 7 – Transcripts of recordings of mobster Frank Calabrese, Sr. by his mobster-turned-government-witness son Frank Calabrese, Jr. released. June 7 – Buffalo crime family associate Leonard Mordino and 10 others arrested in a cocaine ring. June 9 – Sicilian criminal Domenico Farina murdered in Catania. June 9 – Matthew Ianniello indicted in Connecticut for collecting $500,000 from a corrupt trash collector. June 10 – The alleged boss of the Messina based Tortoriciani clan Francesco Cannizzo had property worth €1.2 million confiscated. June 12 – Sicilian mobster Salvatore Lupo arrested in Catania by the piazza Dante Unit Carabinieri. June 12 – New Jersey mobster Stefano Vitabile sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering the murder of one time boss John D'Amato. D'Amato was a homosexual, an offence punishable by death. In court the killer, Anthony Capo explained "Nobody's gonna respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business,". June 16 – Gambino crime family associate and "Corporation" crime family leader Alex Rudaj sentenced to 27 years for racketeering and extortion. June 16 – The French leader in organized crime Jacky Imbert, "Mad Jacky", was sentenced to