According to court filings, members of the Genovese and Bonanno organized crime families operated a number of illegal gambling operations in New York City and Long Island. Beginning in at least May 2012, the Genovese and Bonanno families jointly operated a lucrative illegal gambling operation in a café located in the Nassau County town of Lynbrook, prosecutors alleged.

The Genovese crime family also operated illegal gambling locations at a shoe repair site, an Italian social club and a soccer club. The profits from these locations were allegedly laundered through cash transfers to the accused and to the crime families’ leaders.

Additionally, the alleged acting captain in the Genovese crime family was also charged with operating an illegal online gambling scheme in which sports bets were placed on “PGWLines" -- a website he used to allegedly extort an individual who lost several thousand dollars in bets. Prosecutors alleged that in an October 2019, he instructed another individual to relay a new message to a delinquent debtor: “Tell him I’m going to put him under the f------g bridge.”